> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tbignite.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tickblaze Manager overview

> A tour of Tickblaze Manager, its main areas, what is live today, and how responsibility splits between your firm and Tickblaze.

**Tickblaze Manager** is the administrative platform partner firms use to run a proprietary trading firm on Tickblaze Ignite - from onboarding traders to configuring challenges, managing accounts, and enforcing risk.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Tickblaze Ignite is multi-tenant. Every firm operates in its own scoped tenant, but the platform's core rules - identity, entitlements (Per-user authorization to receive market data from a specific exchange (CBOT, CME, COMEX, NYMEX, or Nasdaq), at level L1, L2, or both.), drawdown calculation (How the loss threshold that fails an account is computed - static, trailing, or end-of-day.), and the audit trail - are enforced consistently by Tickblaze.

![Tickblaze Manager layout](https://mintcdn.com/tbignite/OlHmB8MlUnxshCJj/images/overview/platform-layout.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=OlHmB8MlUnxshCJj\&q=85\&s=0becd2cbee4433d28617cce4e441c1c4)

The Tickblaze Manager sidebar - the three areas you work across: Tickblaze Manager, Proptech Configuration, and User Configuration.

## What you manage here

> [card] Users
>
> Trader identity, entitlements, KYC (Know Your Customer - the identity checks a trader completes with your firm's verification provider.), and trading status.

> [card] Accounts
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> Balances, positions, order history, and account state.

> [card] Challenges & symbols
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> Evaluation products, phase rules, and the instrument catalog.

> [card] Risk & compliance
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> Resets, day wipes (Removing every trade from one specific trading day, along with its effect on the account's balance and performance figures.), and bulk edits.

## How the platform is organized

Tickblaze Manager groups its work into a few areas, and this guide mirrors them:

| Area | What it covers |
| - | - |
| **Tickblaze Manager** | Day-to-day operations - Users, Accounts, Risk Operations, Entitlements. |
| **Proptech Configuration** | Product setup - Challenges, Phases, Symbols. |
| **User Configuration** | User roles, groups, and access. |

## What's available today

Every partner firm runs on the same **core platform** - **Tickblaze Manager**, **Proptech Configuration**, and **User Configuration**. That is the live operating set this guide covers, and every firm has it.

Tickblaze Ignite is also a broader **intelligence system** - adding payouts and withdrawals, compliance and behavioral intelligence, competitions, rewards, and trader dashboards. **That layer is being built now and rolls out over time** - it is not a set of modules you can switch on request today.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Features that are not live yet are marked **Coming soon** wherever they appear in this guide, so you always know what is available now versus what is on the way. See [Coming soon](https://tbignite.mintlify.site/coming-soon.md) for the main ones - it is a summary, not an exhaustive list, and more is in development than appears there.

## How accounts are created

**Accounts are not created in Tickblaze Manager.** Your firm creates them through the **Tickblaze API**, normally from your own checkout once a trader buys a challenge. What you configure in this guide supplies the *rules*; the API call supplies the *trader* and the phase to start them on.

Request and response details live in the **[API reference](https://tickblaze.mintlify.app/)**, and your Tickblaze contact walks your developers through it during onboarding.

Once an account exists it appears in [Accounts](https://tbignite.mintlify.site/accounts.md), and everything in this guide applies to it from that point on.

> [!NOTE]
>
> This is the one part of the flow that needs development work on your side. Everything else in this guide is done through the interface.

## Firm-side vs Tickblaze-side

Some behavior you control; some Tickblaze enforces for consistency across all firms.

| Area | Your firm | Tickblaze |
| - | - | - |
| **Creating accounts** | Calls the API, usually from your checkout | Provides the API and issues the account |
| **Pricing and checkout** | Yours to run | - |
| **KYC and payment providers** | You choose them | - |
| **Support workflows** | You define them | - |
| **Market-data entitlements** | You decide which each user gets | Runs the entitlement system itself |
| **The exchange relationship** | - | Holds it and settles with the exchanges directly; your firm settles with Tickblaze |
| **Pro / Non-Pro classification** | - | Enforced, and shared across every Tickblaze firm |
| **Drawdown rules** | You set the values on each phase | Calculates and enforces them identically for every firm |
| **Account states** | - | A fixed set, and which state may follow which |
| **The audit trail** | - | Recorded by Tickblaze |

## Next steps

> [card] [Glossary](https://tbignite.mintlify.site/glossary.md)
>
> Get familiar with the core vocabulary.

> [card] [Status definitions](https://tbignite.mintlify.site/status-definitions.md)
>
> Learn what each state means before you operate.


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