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Host Terms for Paid Entry

Last updated 2026-10-17

These terms apply in addition to the Terms of Use when you charge for entry to your event on Party. You accept them before you set up payouts. Version 2026-10-17.

Who is who

Party is operated by Leo Heinz Sommerhalder (sole proprietor), Schaerhusweg 7, 4852 Rothrist, Switzerland. When you charge for entry, you are the seller of the tickets and the organiser of your event: buyers conclude their contract for entry with you. Party provides the technology, shows your offer and arranges the payment through Stripe.

Who may sell

• You must be at least 18 and sell in your own name, in one of the countries offered in the app — the countries where Stripe can pay hosts out for Party: most of Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico and Thailand. It is chosen once, with the country of your bank account and ID.
• Your Stripe account is the seller of record for your sales. Depending on your country, buyers’ card statements and receipts may show the name, city, address or telephone number you give Stripe.
• You are responsible for the taxes, permits and rules of your country and of the place of your event. Party may ask for the information that tax or platform-reporting rules require it to collect from sellers.
• One payout account per person. Companies and associations cannot onboard as such yet; they sell through a natural person who is responsible for the sale.

How you sell: privately or as a business

• Before your first sale you declare whether you sell as a private person or as a business (regularly, or with the aim of making money: a company, a sole trader, a club, a promoter). Keep this declaration accurate.
• Buyers are told before they buy who sells and whether privately or as a business. A business seller gives a name, a postal address, a telephone number and an email address, which Party shows to buyers.
• Business sellers have the duties of a trader towards consumers, including the information they owe, and their prices include any VAT that is due.
• Your name or business name appears on Stripe’s payment page and may appear on buyers’ card statements.

Payments through Stripe

Payment processing services for hosts on Party are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement (stripe.com/connect-account/legal), which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (collectively, the “Stripe Services Agreement”). By agreeing to these terms or continuing to operate as a host on Party, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as the same may be modified by Stripe from time to time. As a condition of Party enabling payment processing services through Stripe, you agree to provide Party accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorise Party to share it and transaction information related to your use of the payment processing services provided by Stripe.

Stripe verifies your identity and holds your bank details; Party never sees them. Stripe’s privacy policy: stripe.com/privacy.

Your event

• Hold the event as described, at the time and place stated.
• Follow the law: permits, alcohol and youth-protection rules, music licences, capacity, safety and age limits, and check age and identity at the door where the law or your event requires it.
• Taxes on your ticket income are yours.

Fees

Party keeps the fee shown in the app before you set a price (currently 5 % of the ticket price plus a fixed amount per ticket). It includes Stripe’s card fees; nothing else is deducted. Guests pay exactly the price you set. A change of fees applies only to events created at least 15 days after we announce it.

Payouts

• Stripe pays your share (the ticket price minus Party’s fee) to your bank account on the schedule shown under Payouts.
• Party may hold payouts while a refund, a dispute or an investigation of a breach of these terms is open, and tells you why.

Refunds

• If you cancel the event, every buyer is refunded in full automatically, and Party returns its fee.
• If you postpone the event or change it substantially (date, place, nature), buyers may ask for a full refund, and you refund them.
• If the event does not take place as described, Party may refund buyers on your behalf.
• You can refund single orders yourself under Manage › Ticket sales.
• A refund takes your share back from your Stripe balance.

Disputes, chargebacks and negative balances

• You bear refunds and card disputes (chargebacks) for your sales, including Stripe’s dispute fee, unless the dispute arose from Party’s own fault.
• Party answers disputes with the evidence it has; you help with the evidence you have (for example that the buyer was admitted).
• Party may take back amounts it has covered for you from your Stripe balance or from future payouts, and may claim any remainder from you.

Restriction and termination

• Party may restrict or end your paid-entry access for illegal content, a breach of these terms or of the Community Guidelines, fraud risk, or a requirement of Stripe.
• We tell you what we decided and why, at the latest when the restriction takes effect. Except in serious or repeated cases or where the law requires otherwise, we give 30 days’ notice before we end your paid-entry access.
• You may ask us to review a decision at support@partyapp.io.

How events are ordered

Events hosted on Party are listed before events from other sources; within that, by distance and start time. Nobody pays for a better position, and Party’s own events get no preference.

Data

• For your events you see your buyers’ names, the number of tickets, their status and check-ins. You may use this only to run your event, and you are responsible for it as a controller.
• Party keeps records of sales for as long as accounting and tax law requires (in Switzerland, 10 years).

Liability

Party is not the organiser of your event and is not liable for it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under the applicable law.

Changes, law and contact

• We announce changes to these terms at least 15 days before they apply; you can stop selling before then. A new version must be accepted before your next payout setup.
• Swiss law applies; mandatory rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.
• Questions and complaints: support@partyapp.io.