Event sponsorship and funding
Promoters pay artist fees, production and security months before the first euro comes in. We are exploring two ways to ease that: connecting you with sponsors, and funding part of the event.
This is not available today
It is not a product: you cannot buy it, there is no price and there is no launch date. This page exists to measure whether the interest is real before we build anything. Leave your email and we will let you know as soon as it is available.
Promoters are the ones fronting the cash
Between signing the artist and selling the first ticket there are months of costs coming straight out of your pocket.
Artist fees paid upfront
The artist takes a deposit on signing and the rest before walking on stage. It is usually the biggest outlay, and it lands before you have sold a thing.
Production and build
Stage, sound, lighting, barriers and crew are booked weeks in advance, almost always with payment upfront.
Security, insurance and permits
Safety plan, public liability insurance and council fees. Without them there is no event, and they are paid before doors open.
Marketing before any sales
The campaign that fills the venue is paid for while box office revenue is still zero.
What Futura Tickets already does with your money
This is not a promise: it is how payouts work today, in production.
You get paid before the event
We settle weekly or monthly before the event takes place, not after. Monthly on Starter, weekly on Pro, custom on Enterprise.
A fee per ticket sold
It depends on the plan. No setup fee and no monthly fee: you only pay when you sell.
Cashless settled in under 48 hours
Bar spend is settled to the promoter in less than 48 hours. Cashless is in beta.
When promoters get paid, by platform
Payout timings compared. Every other platform pays out after the event.
| Platform | Payout timing |
|---|---|
| Futura Tickets | Weekly or monthly, before the event |
| Ticketmaster | 7-14 days after the event |
| See Tickets | 7-14 days after |
| Eventbrite | 5 days after |
| Dice | 1 day after |
| Fever | Variable |
Source: the comparison published on our blog. Each platform's timing can vary depending on the specific contract.
What we are exploring
Two ideas, neither of them built. No code, no roadmap, no launch date.
Sponsor introductions
Connecting promoters with brands that want to be at their event, using the audience data your box office already generates: buyer profile, city and sales channel. Today those introductions happen by hand, through personal contacts.
Event funding
Fronting part of the production cost before sales open and paying it back from box office revenue. That needs financial partners and a risk model we do not have yet.
What “exploring” means
That we are talking to promoters and measuring demand. There is no implementation and no commitment to build it. If we decide not to, we will say so here.
Where the product actually stands
So it is clear what you can use today and what you cannot. No small print.
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Ticketing and ticket sales | Live |
| Access control | Live |
| Official resale | Live |
| Real-time analytics | Live |
| Cashless | Beta |
| POS | Beta |
| Super Fan | On the roadmap |
| Sponsorship and funding | Validating |
Join the waitlist
If we build this, the people on this list hear about it first. That is all it is: not a marketing newsletter.
In the meantime
What you can do today is get paid before the event with the platform that is already in production.