Manage everything your theatre group does, in one place

Give your members a login, and most of this stops being your job.

Nobody has to sign in — the register works either way. But every member who does is one fewer person to ring, remind or chase.

Members mostly use their account while they’re in something — a production, an audition, a renewal. That’s the point: it’s there when it saves you a phone call, and quiet when it doesn’t.

Free to run your group.

We only earn if you sell something — and never on the money your members give you.

• No card to start
• No contract, no notice period
• Everything exports to a spreadsheet

How to get started.

Three steps, and the longest of them is deciding what to call your group’s address.

1. Step 1

   Create your account

   Your own login, with your email address. One account covers every group you are involved with — you never need a second one for a second society.

2. Step 2

   Register your group

   Its name, where it plays, and your own address on the site. You are its owner, and nothing is public until you say so.

3. Step 3

   Invite everyone else

   The committee first, with each of them given only the parts of it they need, then optionally your members. Anyone you invite who already has a login just joins.

Questions committees actually ask.

Including the awkward one about Stripe, which is better read here than discovered on a Sunday afternoon.

• Is it really free?

  Yes. No subscription, no paid tier, and no trial that ends. We take 0.25% of whatever a group takes by card, capped at $4.50, and nothing at all on a payment under $5. Money that never goes through a card — cash at the door, a bank transfer — costs nothing, so a group that takes no card payments never pays us anything.

• No, seriously, why is it free?

  Because we have sat on amateur theatre committees for decades, and spent all of it wanting one place to do this instead of six — the spreadsheet, the Facebook group and the shoebox of receipts. It is the thing we always wanted to buy and could never find, so we built it. It isn't charity, though, and we would rather say so than leave you wondering when the bill arrives: the quarter of a per cent on sales is what pays for it. A group that never sells anything through us costs us almost nothing to run, which is exactly why we can afford not to charge them — and we would far rather a thousand groups used it than fifty paid a subscription for it.

• Do I have to run everything in RedCurtain?

  No. The parts don't depend on each other, so take as much or as little as suits you. Some groups will want nothing but the members register, which is a perfectly good reason to be here; others run their committee and their books through it and leave productions alone; some use the lot. You can start with one and add another next season. Auditions are the clearest case — if you already take bookings somewhere else, put that address in and your auditions still appear on our public board, so you get one more way for people to find them while the booking goes exactly where it always went.

• Do we need a Stripe account?

  Only to take money. Stripe is who actually moves it — a card payment goes to your group's own Stripe account and into your group's bank account, and we never hold it. Setting one up wants an ABN, a bank account and ID from one committee member, and it is the fiddliest hour in the whole thing. Worth knowing before you start rather than halfway through.

• Who owns our data, and can we get it out?

  You do. Every list exports to a spreadsheet, nothing is held back behind a plan, and if you leave you leave with your register, your books and your ticket sales.

• What happens if we stop using it?

  You stop. There is nothing to cancel and no notice period. Closing a group down properly is a deliberate thing with a checklist, because a group holds every member's history of performing with it — so it is never something that happens by accident or by going quiet.

• Do members need their own accounts?

  No. The register works whether or not a single member ever signs in, and the committee can do everything on their behalf. Every member who does sign in is one fewer person to ring, which is why we make it easy rather than compulsory.

• Can more than one of us work on it at once?

  Yes, and you can each be given a different job. The treasurer sees the books, the secretary the minutes, the production team the cast list. What each person can do is enforced underneath rather than by hiding a button, so a permission you haven't been given isn't one you can stumble into.

• Is it Australian?

  Yes. Built and hosted in Australia, dates written the right way round, and money in dollars with GST where it belongs.

• How long does setting up take?

  An afternoon for your group, your members and your next production. Nothing is published until you say so, so you can put the lot in and look at it before anybody outside the committee sees a thing.

• How secure is our information?

  It lives in a Postgres database in Sydney, backed up daily, served by an app that also runs in Sydney. What matters more than where it sits is what decides who may read it: every table in the database has row-level security, and the database itself works out what you are allowed to see on every single query. A page you have no business seeing returns nothing at all, rather than trusting the screen to hide it — buttons are not permissions here, and it is the rule the whole thing is built on. We never see your password; signing in is handled by Supabase and we are only told whether it worked. We never see a card number either, because payments go through Stripe and straight into your group's own account.