For clubs and adult event promoters selling tickets online

The ticket says $60. The checkout says $72.50.

Billing records each ticket listing’s base price and every fee, the total the page shows and how big it is, and a dated capture of the checkout — and will not approve a listing while the total leaves out a mandatory fee, is smaller than another price on the page, or a tax is left out of the total without being disclosed.

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The problem

The fee was added at the last step.

The federal rule on unfair or deceptive fees covers live-event tickets. A business offering a ticket must show the total price, with every mandatory fee in it, more prominently than any other price, and disclose any fee it leaves out of the total before the buyer pays. A listing that leads with the base price and adds the service fee at checkout is exactly what the rule was written for.

Total first

the total price must be disclosed more prominently than any other pricing information.

16 CFR 464.2 →

Tickets

live-event tickets are among the goods and services the rule covers.

16 CFR 464.1 →

Before payment

any fee left out of the total must be disclosed, with what it is for and how much, before the buyer consents to pay.

16 CFR 464.2 →

Will not approve a listing that hides the price.

Not a reminder. Approve the listing refuses, with the reason named, while the total shown is not the base price plus every mandatory fee, the total is smaller on the page than another price, a fee left out of the total is not a government charge or shipping or was not disclosed before payment, or there is no recent capture of the checkout. An approved listing is frozen. There is no override.

How it works

Price, fees, capture

Record the listing

The event, where it is sold, and the base ticket price.

Add every fee

Service, facility and processing fees, taxes and shipping — and what the page shows as the total, and how big.

Capture and approve

Capture the event page and the checkout, dated, and approve the listing when the whole price comes first.

What it will never do

It checks your listing. It does not read your ticketing platform.

Billing uses the prices, fees and captures you give it.

No platform connection.Nothing is fetched. You record what the page shows and keep the capture.

It sets no prices.Your fees are your business. Billing checks how they are shown.

It is not legal advice.It is the checklist and the proof.

It never touches a ticket sale.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per promoter

Less than one ticket’s fees a month.

Most promoters

Promoter

$9/month

One business selling tickets.

Every listing and its fees
Approve gate, no override
Dated captures

Venue group

$24/month

Several rooms or brands.

Everything in Promoter
A register per brand
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Monthly subscription. Your bank statement says Billing Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Can we still charge a service fee?

Yes. It has to be in the total price, and the total has to come first.

What may be left out of the total?

Government charges and shipping, disclosed with what they are for and how much before the buyer pays. Billing treats everything else as mandatory.

Why measure the size of the text?

Because the rule is about prominence. Recording the size of the total and of the largest other price makes it a check, not an opinion.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the check you run before an on-sale, and the proof you keep after.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

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The showcase was approved with its $44.50 total shown first. The fight-night seat leads with $60 in big type and shows $64 when its fees come to $72.50. The New Year early bird leaves its tax out without saying so, and its capture is from the summer.

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