LavishMade

Hosting live stream events

The journey in one glance

  1. Create the event (title, time, ticket price & sale mode).
  2. Connect Stripe if you sell paid tickets—until charges are enabled, buyers cannot check out.
  3. Set up broadcast: in the editor, turn on your live stream, then copy RTMP URL and stream key into OBS or Larix.
  4. Share your public event page; start encoding when you are ready to go live.
  5. Monitor from Edit live event while you are live; viewers watch on the same public page.

LavishMade live stream events let you sell tickets (or offer free streams) and broadcast with professional tools. Your audience gets one stable public event page to buy tickets and watch; you manage everything from Your live events and Edit live event.

Access: Live hosting is turned on per account. If you do not see Create live event, contact support and ask for Live PPV creator access.

1. Open your creator hub

Go to Your live events (creator live events hub). You will see:

  • Live now — shows you are actively broadcasting (we detect your encoder feed).
  • Up next — future showtimes, soonest first.
  • Past events — ended or past showtimes.

Each row shows a status (Draft, Scheduled, Live now, Ended), your price and ticket mode, a short next step, and links for View public page, Edit, and Broadcast setup (jump straight to live stream setup in the editor).

2. Create a new event

  1. Click Create live event.
  2. Enter a title and scheduled date and time (this is when you plan to go live).
  3. Set ticket price:
    • Paid ticket — you must have Stripe Connect completed and charges enabled in Publishing settings.
    • Free ($0) — allowed only if your account has an active yearly Live platform subscription (the product will tell you if you need to subscribe).
  4. Choose ticket sale mode:
    • Pre-sale — buyers can purchase before you start broadcasting.
    • Buy when live — sales open only while your stream is actually live (good for drop-style shows).
  5. Save. You’ll land on the public event page; use Edit event details there (or open the show from Your live events) anytime.

3. Stripe Connect (paid tickets only)

If your ticket price is above $0, card checkout runs on your connected Stripe account.

  1. Open Publishing settings.
  2. Complete Stripe Connect until the product shows that you can accept charges.
  3. Return to Your live events — if anything is still blocking checkout, the hub shows a clear banner and per-event hints.

Deep dive: Stripe setup walkthrough.

4. Broadcast setup (encoder & RTMP)

LavishMade provisions ingest and playback for you behind the scenes. You never paste RTMP secrets on the public page—only in your encoder.

  1. Open Edit live event for your show (from the hub or the event page).
  2. Scroll to Live stream setup — or use Broadcast setup from the hub row to jump here.
  3. If streaming is not enabled yet, click Set up live stream and wait for success (if it fails, retry; nothing sensitive is stored until setup succeeds).
  4. When connected, use Reveal RTMP URL and stream key and copy values into your software:
    • OBS, Larix, or any RTMP encoder — server URL + stream key as instructed on the reveal screen.
  5. Keep the stream key private. Share only the public event page link with your audience.

Recommended order: finish ticket price and schedule in Edit, then do broadcast setup, then share the public link. The hub copy follows the same idea: stream first mentally, settings second.

5. Share the public page

Every event has a stable URL (shown in the editor). That page is where buyers complete checkout and where viewers watch. Post it to your newsletter, socials, or profile—same link before, during, and after small edits to title or time.

6. Going live and monitoring

  1. When you are ready, start streaming from your encoder. The hub moves the event to Live now when the feed is active.
  2. Keep Edit live event open in another tab for live status and viewer count (when shown).
  3. Use View public page from the hub to sanity-check the audience experience.

7. After the show

When the broadcast ends, the event moves to Past events in your hub. You can still Edit details for your records or plan the next show.

Status labels on your hub

  • Draft — showtime is still in the future and streaming isn’t fully set up yet; finish Broadcast setup.
  • Scheduled — your stream endpoint is ready; reveal keys when you are ready to configure the encoder.
  • Live now — the platform sees an active broadcast.
  • Ended — the showtime has passed or the stream has ended from the viewer’s perspective.

If something blocks you

  • “Stripe Connect required” — finish Connect in Publishing settings; paid checkout stays off until charges work.
  • Cannot set $0 — you likely need the yearly Live platform plan; the form explains next steps.
  • Stream setup failed — retry from Live stream setup on the edit page; contact support if it keeps failing.
  • No Create live event — ask support to enable Live PPV creator tools for your account.

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