Marquee holds every permit a premises needs, from every agency that issues one, as a dated history — and will not open the day’s sheet on a date any of them was not current.
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The problem
The ordinances that license adult premises are municipal, and strict in a procedural way that punishes disorganisation rather than wrongdoing. A premises permit, a fire and occupancy permit, a health permit, and a personal permit for every manager on the floor — each on its own term, from its own agency, with its own lead time. The date everybody watches is the expiry. The date that matters is weeks earlier, and it is printed nowhere on the permit.
Houston wants the renewal for the enterprise permit filed at least twenty calendar days before it expires. The permit is annual, so that deadline comes round every year whether anybody remembers it or not.
Houston Permitting Center →Allen County, Indiana asks for the renewal ninety days out, and says what happens if it is later: the current licence expires on schedule anyway. File late and you are not late. You are unlicensed.
Allen County Art. 30, § 8-30-1-7 →In Texas, violating a city or county regulation adopted under the state’s licensing chapter for these premises is a Class A misdemeanor — for the regulation, not only for the permit.
Tex. Local Gov’t Code § 243.010 →It is current on a date only if the renewal that carried it there was filed inside its own lead time, every condition attached to it was met by its own date, and nothing written against it was still open past its cure date. Marquee asks that question as of the date on the day sheet — never as of today — and if the answer is no, the day does not open. The reason is written on the door. There is no override.
How it works
Terms, each with the date the renewal was filed and the date it was issued. There is no box for “filed on time” — the program works that out from the dates, so a late filing is recorded as late because it was, and covers nothing until it is issued.
Every renewal sorted by its filing deadline, not its expiry. A licence with seventy-five days left and a deadline that passed last fortnight is the one on the top of the list, in red, because it is the one that closes you.
A button that says an inspector is at the door. It picks the agency and walks the floor with you — sightlines, the station, the permit on the wall, the lights — then writes up what they would write up, including the things in the file that nothing on the floor can fix.
What it will never do
A permit calendar has no business holding anything a breach would want, so this one holds nothing of the kind. It knows when things are due and who issues them. It does not know what happens inside.
Pricing
Because the thing you must never be discouraged from doing is writing down one more permit, one more condition, or one more manager.
One premises that wants the dates kept, and nothing enforced.
One premises, everything.
Up to four premises under one operator.
Flat fee per premises, billed monthly. Never a percentage of anything. Your bank statement says Marquee 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
Depends entirely on when you filed it. A renewal filed inside the lead time generally keeps you covered while it is decided — that is what filing on time buys.
A renewal filed after the deadline is a different object. In Allen County, for one, the ordinance says a late application does not affect the expiration of the current licence. Marquee records the filing date, works out which kind you have, and if it is the second kind it tells you plainly that nothing covers the gap until the new permit is issued.
It stops the day sheet opening. For a date on which a required permit was not current, or the manager named held no current permit of their own, the day will not open in the program, and the reasons are written on the screen.
It does not lock a door in the building. What it does is make sure that nobody can record a trading day as if it were licensed when it was not — and that the person about to try finds out before an inspector does.
Because an override is a button somebody presses at five o’clock on a Friday, and the inspector who walks in at nine does not care who pressed it.
If the record is wrong, fix the record and the day opens by itself. If the record is right, the program is telling you something you need to hear on a weekday.
No, and it does not pretend to. The lead times, lighting minimum and conditions are what you type in from your own ordinance and your own permits, and the screen says so.
What it does is hold you to them, every day, as of the right date — which is the part that goes wrong. Not legal advice; a calendar that argues with you.
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.
Two premises. One is refused today, with the reasons on the door — and would have opened twenty-five days ago, because the question is always about a date. The other opens, with a warning on it that nothing on the face of its licence would ever give you.