When paid tickets and livestreaming turn on

Opening an account is free, and a free in-person event can go live at once. You can also build your event page and set your ticket prices before anything else is done.

• Paid tickets: buyers cannot pay for them yet.
• Livestreaming: no stream is created for your events yet, so there is no stream key to copy.

Verified means Stripe has checked your organization and reported that your Stripe account can take payments. No one at AVP.Live has to approve you. Stripe's check is the one that counts.

1. On your dashboard, find the “Payouts” box and press “Connect with Stripe”.
2. Fill in Stripe's form. If you stop partway, come back to the same box and press “Finish setup”.
3. Watch the box. When Stripe has verified your organization, it shows “Active”.

Only an admin or owner of your organization can connect Stripe. Until Stripe reports back, the box keeps showing “Finish setup”, even after you have sent Stripe everything it asked for. How long verification takes is up to Stripe.

• In the “Payouts” box, a message says that paid tickets and livestreaming turn on once Stripe has verified your organization.
• On your event page, once tickets are open for sale, buyers see your prices with a notice that online ticket sales are not open for this organizer yet. Free tickets do not go through Stripe, so buyers can still get them.
• In the “Live stream” box on an event, pressing “Enable livestream” shows a message that livestreaming turns on once Stripe has verified your organization.

As soon as Stripe reports that your Stripe account can take payments, buyers can pay for your paid tickets and the “Payouts” box shows “Active”. The organization's owners are also emailed to say paid tickets and livestreaming are on, but that email is a courtesy, so the “Payouts” box is the place to check. To set up the stream for an event you published before you were verified, press “Edit” beside it and use “Enable livestream” in the “Live stream” box.

• Connect Stripe and get paid
• What Stripe asks for when you connect
• If your event will not go live