Sign up your club

Anyone can start a club or series on Stagewerk without a sales call. The Stagewerk team approves each new organisation before it can publish events, open entries or take payments. Until then you can set everything up.

Sanctioning bodies are not set up this way. The Stagewerk team creates those, so use the contact form.

Sign up

1. Open "Sign up your club" from the Get involved page, or from the link under the registration form.
2. Create an account, or sign in. Confirm your email address from the link we send you.
3. Set up a second step for signing in: an authenticator app or a passkey. Organisers can see other people's personal details, so this is required. You come back to the sign-up page when it is done.
4. Fill in "Organisation name", whether you are a club or a series, a "Web address name" (lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens), your state, a contact email and, if you have one, your ABN. You can add the ABN later.
5. Choose "Create my organisation". You are the owner.

While you wait for approval

A banner at the top of the console says your organisation is waiting for approval. In the meantime you can:

• create events and set up their classes, fees, itinerary and documents, all as drafts;
• start connecting your Stripe account under payments, so you are ready to be paid;
• read the help guides.

You cannot publish an event, open entries or take payments until the team approves you. The buttons for those steps refuse with a message saying why. We email the organisation's owners when the decision is made. If the answer is no, the email gives the reason and you can reply to talk it through.

Your first event

Stagewerk charges a platform fee on each entry payment, plus paid add-ons. One event of your organisation, the one you choose, takes entries without the platform fee.

1. Open the event you want and choose "Use my free event here". Only an owner or treasurer sees it.
2. You can move the choice to another event until an entrant starts paying for the chosen event. After that it is fixed, even if the checkout is never finished, because a started payment can still complete without the fee.
3. If you cancel the chosen event before any entrant has started paying, you get the choice back.

Until you choose, every event pays the usual fee. Choose before entries open so every payment is priced correctly. The event's finance page says when the fee was waived.

Next steps

Follow Getting started as an organiser, starting from Set up an event.

https://develop.stagewerk.com/help