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What Platypus does
Platypus sells tickets for small theatre venues. You get public event pages on platypus.tickets under your own venue address (/t/{your-slug}/), an admin for running them, and checkout that pays into your own Stripe account — Platypus never holds your money.
Your admin
Sign in at https://platypus.tickets/t/{your-slug}/auth/login with your admin email. Forgot the password? The reset link on that page emails you a new one. The dashboard shows what's coming up and what needs doing; everything else hangs off the sidebar:
| Area | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Events | Create and manage events — dates, description, images, and ticket types. Setting up an event |
| Tickets | Sales tallies per event, issuing tickets yourself (including comps), printable door sheets, PDF re-downloads |
| Venues | Your directory of performance venues, used when scheduling multi-date events |
| Mailing list | Subscribers, tags, campaigns, and a member benefit (discount) for your list |
| Payments | Connect your Stripe account so checkout works. Stripe payments setup |
| Settings | Organisation details, Site Domain (for embeds), contact details, mail provider, appearance |
| Account & Billing | Your Platypus subscription. Subscription & billing |
Your public pages
Visitors see your events at https://platypus.tickets/t/{your-slug}/events — a listing of everything published, each with its own detail page and (once Stripe is connected) a Buy tickets button. The listing and per-event cards are built to be embedded in your own website, so ticket sales live where your audience already is.
The two prerequisites for selling
- Connect Stripe — checkout is hidden until your Stripe keys are saved and verified. Five minutes: Stripe payments setup.
- An event with published tickets — at least one ticket type with capacity, on a published event: Setting up an event.
Your Platypus subscription bills your platform access — it is deliberately not a switch on ticket sales.
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This guide is young. Topics we know it still needs are listed honestly at Planned topics rather than padded out with half-written pages.