₹0 for a full house

On the night your show sells out, your ticketing platform has its best night too. Every seat you filled with your own posters, your own WhatsApp groups and your own artists' fans pays it a cut. The fuller the hall, the bigger the cheque you write to a company that mostly watched.

We think that's backwards. So on en3, a full house costs you nothing.

The deal, in one line

en3 charges ₹5 a ticket, plus GST on that ₹5. Never a percentage of your ticket price. And when your show sells out a verified venue, our fee for that show is ₹0.

Not a discount. Not a coupon. Zero.

What a full house usually costs you

Say a platform takes 10% of each ticket, plus 18% GST on its cut. Here is what three ordinary sold-out nights at ₹500 a ticket cost on that platform, on en3, and on en3 when you sell out:

Every platform's fee above includes 18% GST. Payment gateway charges (what your buyers' banks and UPI apps cost) apply the same way everywhere, so we've left them out of all three columns. Want your own numbers? Work out what you keep.

Play a 300-seat hall twelve times a year at those prices and a 10% cut adds up to over ₹2,00,000. That's a year of rent for some rehearsal spaces, or a fourth artist on every bill.

Why would a business charge nothing on its best night?

Because a full house is your work. You booked the artists, you built the audience, you spent weeks telling people. A platform that takes more as you succeed is charging rent on your effort.

We'd rather be paid for what we actually do: the page, the checkout, the passes, the door, the counter, the settlement. On the nights that are mostly you, we step back. And honestly, a packed room where every guest walks in on an en3 pass is better advertising than anything we could buy.

The rules, out in the open

"Free" with fine print is how trust dies, so here is all of it:

• The venue's capacity is verified. We confirm the real number of seats or the licensed capacity with you before the show goes on sale. Selling out a hall means selling out the real hall.

• At least 95% of that capacity is sold. A handful of seats left for a last-minute guest or two won't cost you the waiver.

• At least 80% of sold tickets are checked in at the door. This is what makes it a real full house and not a pile of tickets bought to hit a number. The door count comes from your own check-in, so you can see it live.

• It's worked out per show. Sell out Saturday and not Friday? Saturday is ₹0 and Friday is ₹5 a ticket.

• Gateway charges still apply. Those are the banks' and payment networks', not ours, and we pass them on at cost.

• It's for ticketed shows. Reserves, safaris and stays have their own pricing.

When a show qualifies, it shows up in your settlement: the line for en3's fee reads ₹0, and you're paid the rest the day after the show.

"What's the catch?"

Do you make it back some other way?

No. There's no percentage hidden in a "convenience fee", no setup fee, no subscription. If you choose to pass our ₹5 on to buyers, you can, but that's your call and it's shown to them plainly.

So how does en3 make money?

From the ₹5 on every show that doesn't sell out, which is most shows, for most organisers, most of the time. We think that's a fair trade: we earn when we're useful and step aside when you're unstoppable.

Who owns my buyers' details?

You do. Your buyers book on your own page, in your colours, and their details are yours to export whenever you like. We don't list your show next to anyone else's, and we don't sell your audience to the next promoter.

Bring us the show you think will sell out

If you run concerts, theatre, comedy or anything with a door and a crowd, we'll set up your page in your own style and send it to you to approve before anything goes live. Then go fill the room.

₹5 a ticket. ₹0 for a full house.