Seller payouts · The Friday rhythm
When do you get paid? Every Friday, like clockwork.
Sell across the week, get paid Friday. One payout covers every game sold in the prior cycle — PayPal or wire, your choice, sent and confirmed by a real person. The one exception: major one-off events settle the Friday after the event takes place.
The short answer: sellers are paid every Friday for tickets sold — one payout covering every game that sold in the prior cycle, sent by PayPal or wire, your choice. The one exception: major one-off events (Super Bowl, Masters, Final Four, World Series and similar) are paid on the Friday after the event takes place.
When you hand someone your tickets to sell, the money question is the whole ballgame — and it deserves the same straight answer as everything else we do. After nearly 20 years and 100,000+ tickets sold across 150+ teams, our payout system has stayed deliberately simple: a fixed weekly payday, one clean exception for major events, two payment methods, and a real person behind every send. Here’s exactly how it works, what “paid” means down to the dollar, and why the majors run on their own clock.
The Friday rhythm: sell all week, get paid Friday
However your week goes — one game sells or seven do — the result is the same: everything that sold in the prior cycle lands in one payout, every Friday. You don’t invoice anyone. You don’t chase anyone. You don’t log into a portal to “request a disbursement” and wait for a processing window. Tickets sell, Friday comes, you get paid, and the cycle resets. Sellers who’ve consigned anything, anywhere, know how rare a fixed payday is in this business — the usual answer to “when do I get paid?” is some version of “eventually.” Ours is a day of the week.
The rhythm matters most for season ticket holders, because a season doesn’t sell all at once — it sells game by game across months, some dates early and some in the final two weeks before tip-off. (That spread is normal; we wrote an honest guide to how fast tickets actually sell if you want the mechanics.) A weekly payday turns that trickle into a rhythm you can actually plan around: sales become Fridays, all season long, starting as early as your selling window opens.
The payout cycle — every sale flows to a Friday
Why major events settle the Friday after the event
Major one-off events — the Super Bowl, the Masters, the Final Four, the World Series and their peers — are the one place the calendar shifts: those sales are paid on the Friday after the event takes place, not the Friday after the sale. There’s nothing mysterious about it. This is how high-value one-off inventory settles across the industry: the event has to actually happen and entry has to clear before funds are released, because these are the highest-stakes transactions in the ticket world and everyone in the chain — the buyer, the seller, and us in the middle — is protected by settling after the gates close. We’d rather tell you the real date up front than promise a faster one and invent excuses later. So if your Super Bowl seats sell in January for a February game, the money arrives the Friday after the game is played — on time, in full, at the majors’ 15% commission rate.
PayPal or wire — your choice
Payouts go out by PayPal or bank wire — whichever you prefer. Tell us once when you start and we use it every Friday after that; if you ever want to switch, say the word. Both methods arrive as cleared funds, not store credit, not a balance inside somebody’s app, and not a check in the mail. It’s your money, delivered the way you asked for it.
What “paid” actually means, down to the dollar
Your payout is your sale price minus only the commission we agreed on — nothing else. In plain numbers:
- 20% standard commission — charged only when tickets sell. A game that sells for $500 pays you $400 on Friday.
- 15% on major events — the Super Bowl, Masters, Final Four, World Series and similar. A $10,000 sale pays you $8,500 the Friday after the event.
- First sale commission-free for new season ticket holders on regular-season inventory — your first payout is 100% of the sale price, so you see the whole process with nothing skimmed.
- No listing fees, no monthly fees, no payout fees — nothing is withheld beyond the agreed commission, and games that don’t sell cost you nothing at all.
That’s the entire math. If you want to estimate what the numbers could look like for your seats before anything is listed, our guide to what your season tickets are worth walks through how to read your own schedule the way a broker does.
A real person runs every payout
Every Friday payout is prepared, sent, and confirmed by a real member of our team — not fired off by a script into the void. You get confirmation when the money goes out, and if anything about a payout ever looks off to you, you ask a person and a person answers. That’s a deliberate choice, not a limitation: money leaving our hands for yours is exactly the step we refuse to automate away. It’s the same philosophy that runs through everything else in our process — hand-priced listings, a named broker on your account, and no anonymous system between you and your money.
Free market read
Ready to turn your schedule into Fridays? Tell us the team, the section, and the games — we’ll tell you what they’re likely to bring.
Get a free market read →A real broker replies within one business day — usually a lot sooner. First regular-season sale is commission-free for new season ticket holders. Paid every Friday.
Frequently asked questions
When do I get paid after my tickets sell?
Every Friday. All regular sales from the prior cycle are combined into one payout and sent by PayPal or wire, whichever you chose — no invoicing, no payout requests, no waiting on a processing queue. The one exception is major one-off events like the Super Bowl, Masters, Final Four, or World Series, which are paid on the Friday after the event takes place. Either way, the date is fixed and you know it in advance.
How do payouts work for the Super Bowl, Masters, and other majors?
Major one-off events are paid on the Friday after the event takes place — even if the tickets sold weeks or months earlier. This is standard settlement practice for high-value one-off inventory across the industry: the event has to happen and entry has to clear before funds release, which protects the buyer, the seller, and everyone in between on the biggest transactions in the ticket world. Majors also carry our reduced 15% commission instead of the standard 20%.
How do you send the money?
PayPal or bank wire — your choice. You tell us your preference when you start, and every Friday payout after that arrives the same way, as cleared funds rather than credit or an in-app balance. A real member of our team sends and confirms each payout, so you know when the money went out and exactly what it covered. If you ever want to switch methods, just tell us.
Are there any fees besides the commission?
No. Your payout is your sale price minus only the agreed commission — 20% standard, 15% on major events — and the commission exists only when tickets actually sell. There are no listing fees, no monthly fees, no payout or processing fees, and nothing withheld beyond that one number. New season ticket holders get their first sale commission-free on regular-season inventory, which means the first payout is 100% of the sale price.
Do I get paid if my tickets don’t sell?
There’s no payout without a sale — but there’s nothing to pay, either. This is consignment: if a game doesn’t sell, you owe no fee of any kind and the tickets remain yours to use or transfer. And unsold games are a normal part of a season, not a failure — some dates sell within days and others in the final two weeks before the game. Our honest guide to how fast tickets sell explains why both outcomes are business as usual.
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