Krewebacchus, in the manner of all newly-introduced systems, prompts a steady stream of questions. The most-asked are catalogued below, grouped by category. The index up top links to each one; everything not covered here can be raised through the support routes at the bottom.
The Krewe’s purpose-built membership system — the procedural backbone for memberships, dues payment, subkrewe affiliation, captain tooling, and (eventually) parade-day wristband logistics. Reachable at krewebacchus.org; the full procedural entry lives at Krewebacchus.
Engage navigation systems and head to krewebacchus.org. The entire system lives there.
A primary, personal address that the member actually checks. The email is the unique identifier inside Krewebacchus and ties the account to all subsequent membership data, subkrewe affiliations, and future features. Shared addresses, subkrewe-internal mailboxes, and placeholders set up in 2014 for some forgotten reason are all strongly discouraged — they tend to create the kind of data confusion that ends in late-night support tickets.
Krewebacchus does not import legacy memberships. Every member, however long-serving, creates a fresh account at krewebacchus.org using the email address the Krewe has on file for them.
Annual dues are $100. Members willing to enlist early are issued one of three early-bird discounts — $42, $62, or $82 — each of which closes once a certain number of memberships have been claimed across the entire Krewe (not within individual subkrewes). The full schedule and the live tier status are on the Become a ChewbacchanALIEN entry; Krewebacchus is where the dues themselves change hands.
Most actions inside Krewebacchus — subkrewe affiliation, add-on purchases (Chewbacchanal VIP, contraption parking) — require core annual dues to be paid and confirmed first. The order is not negotiable; the system holds it firmly.
Negative, Ghostrider. Every adult member must create their own Krewebacchus account at krewebacchus.org and purchase their own dues from it. The Krewe is interested in who is rolling, not just how many.
Children under 18 are an exception — they’re added as child members under an adult guardian’s account, and the guardian pays for them. Captains have additional bulk-purchase tooling; see the captain bulk-buy entry under Captains.
Affirmative not. Members under 18 should not have their own accounts. They are added as “Child Members” under an adult guardian’s profile, and the guardian purchases their dues from there.
The Krewe doesn’t offer refunds on dues. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dues are technically a charitable donation, and the money funds the Krewe’s year-round programme — parties, fundraisers, member events, the Chewbacchanal, the parade itself — along with the long tail of weird, wonderful expenses that keep all of it running. If something prevents a member from making any one event this year, the donation still helps keep the Krewe rolling.
Memberships aren’t transferable — not sold, not gifted, not passed along to a friend or family member. The city requires the Krewe to know exactly who is marching for permit and safety reasons, and the check-in system is built around verified identities.
Children’s memberships are registered to specific younglings and can’t be swapped between children or accounts. The same identity-tracking and city safety requirements apply; for younglings, the bar is, if anything, slightly higher. If plans change, reach out and the Overlords will see what they can figure out together.
Slightly. Stripe charges 3% of the order total + $0.30 per transaction. The percentage scales with the order regardless — splitting versus combining doesn’t move that part — but the $0.30 is applied per transaction. Splitting one purchase into two therefore costs $0.60 in fixed fees instead of $0.30. The numbers are small, but on the margins, combining purchases where convenient is the cheaper option.
Create an account at krewebacchus.org using the email address the Krewe has on file. The system identifies Lifetime Members automatically based on that email and waives annual dues. If the system fails to recognise the status — account created, but no Lifetime indicator — email krewebacchus@chewbacchus.org for manual reconciliation.
Lifetime Members are still eligible to purchase add-ons through their account — Chewbacchanal VIP, child memberships, contraption parking — should they wish.
Inside Krewebacchus, browse or search the subkrewe directory, find the subkrewe of choice, and follow the prompts. The next step depends on the subkrewe’s admission policy — either join immediately or submit a request for the captain to review. The four policies are summarised in the next entry.
Krewebacchus supports four:
The catalogue of subkrewes lives at Subkrewes.
Each subkrewe’s profile in Krewebacchus advertises its policy explicitly. The same information is rendered visually on the public Subkrewes entry as a small coloured pip on each card.
The request goes directly to the subkrewe captain(s) inside Krewebacchus. They review the application — with referral, where applicable — and either approve or decline through the system. Notification arrives via Krewebacchus once a decision is made. Captains, the Guide observes, are busy beings; patience is appreciated.
Yes. Subkrewes that rolled in 2025 — the parade immediately before Krewebacchus launched — were imported into the system and pre-approved for the following year. Captains of those subkrewes still need to claim and update their profile (see the captain entry under Captains).
Yes — affiliation is possible regardless of activation status. The experience is, however, smoother once the captain has claimed and activated the subkrewe; until then, the captain can’t see the incoming roster. Members who notice their captain hasn’t activated yet are encouraged to gently nudge them.
Log into Krewebacchus, locate the subkrewe in the directory, claim it, update its profile (description, admission policy, captain roster, contact details), and indicate whether the subkrewe plans to roll this year. This activates the subkrewe and unlocks the captain’s access to the member roster.
A subkrewe is considered fully active — with full roster visibility for the captain — once at least one registered captain has both paid annual dues and claimed the profile.
Captain dues for a brand-new subkrewe are deferred while the subkrewe is pending Overlord approval — charging dues for a subkrewe that might be denied is not, in the Krewe’s view, sporting. Once approval is granted, captain dues become payable and the subkrewe opens for member affiliation.
Captains register the subkrewe with the “We are a band” option during sign-up and wait for approval like any other subkrewe. Bands are exempt from dues; their captains do not pay, and band members affiliated through a band subkrewe also fall under the dues exemption (full member affiliation for bands is being rolled out and is not yet enabled in all cases). Direct member sign-up to band subkrewes is currently disabled by default, since band membership tends to be more fluid than other subkrewes; captains who wish to enable open enrollment for their band may do so once the feature is available.
Captains may pre-approve members in bulk by uploading a list of email addresses; matching applicants are admitted automatically when they request to join.
Inside the captain dashboard in Krewebacchus there is a section for managing member applications. It surfaces incoming requests, applicant details (and referrals, where applicable), and offers approve/decline controls.
As a regular member, no — the Krewe needs a name attached to every membership, which isn’t possible when one person buys a stack of them. (Whoever pays is, in the end, immaterial; reimbursing or gifting the cost privately is fine. The constraint is only that each membership ends up under the name of the person actually rolling.)
Captains, however, do have a bulk-purchase tool. The captain buys multiple memberships in one go and receives codes to distribute; each member still creates their own Krewebacchus account, but once they do they can redeem the captain’s code in lieu of paying dues themselves.
The video below walks captains through the process:
Yes. Red Shirts register through Krewebacchus the same way every other member does — an account at krewebacchus.org, with the Red Shirt option selected in place of dues. The recruitment-side context — who Red Shirts are, what they do, the perks — lives at Red Shirt Rebellion.
Stripe payment receipts are not the wristband-pickup credential. Each member’s unique QR code is visible in Beacon 42 (the Krewe’s parade-day companion app) and inside their Krewebacchus account — that QR code is what’s presented at designated pickup locations on parade day.
Yes — with their QR codes. Multiple QR codes can be shown from one phone. Subkrewe captains have the additional ability to pick up wristbands for any officially-affiliated member of their subkrewe whose dues are paid, using only the captain’s own QR code.
Several routes are available: