Host Terms

1. Becoming a Host

Hosting is by application and approval, not by right. A member must submit a one-time host application stating the space class they plan to host in, event experience where relevant, and a safety plan, and must be approved in the staff host queue before creating an event. Space classes and venue certification are governed by Section 9. ECLIPSE may approve, condition, defer, or decline a host application in its discretion, and may revoke host status for violations, safety concerns, or repeated guest complaints that are substantiated on the record.

Hosts must be 21 or older, hold a verified ECLIPSE account in good standing, comply with all laws that apply to their event, venue, and locality, and carry any permits, licenses, or permissions the event requires. A founding fee waiver, where one is active, may waive a listing fee, but it never waives application, review, safety, or verification requirements.

Hosts are independent organizers, not employees or agents of ECLIPSE, unless an event is expressly labeled as an official ECLIPSE event. Hosts are responsible for their listings, pricing, venue, staffing, guest communications inside ECLIPSE, door operations, and the conduct of their event team.

2. Listing Fees

Listing fees are charged per event listing, at the rates in effect when the listing is submitted, unless a founding-period or other waiver shown in the host tools applies to that listing. The current listing fees are $20 for a venue host event and $50 for a home host event.

A listing fee is earned when a listing is accepted for publication after any required review, and it is not a ticket deposit. An unpublished draft carries no listing fee. If ECLIPSE removes a listing in error, or a listing never publishes because of a platform failure, the listing fee for that listing will be refunded or credited. If a host withdraws or an event is cancelled or removed because of host fault, a rule violation, or a materially inaccurate listing, the listing fee is not refunded.

Classification follows the space used for the event, as Section 9 states. Venue host means an event held at a venue the host owns or operates and that is certified to the host account under Section 9. Rented space means an event held at a space the host rents for the occasion, such as a hall, a hotel space, or a short-term rental home, verified per event under Section 9, and rented space listings carry the venue listing fee unless the host tools show otherwise. Home host means an event held at a private residence the host lives in or controls on an ongoing basis, including the host home.

Listing fees are separate from the platform service fee on tickets in Section 4. Both amounts, and any waiver, are shown in the host tools before a listing is submitted for review, so a host should not submit a listing they do not intend to run at the stated fees.

3. Home Host Requirements

Home hosting carries additional gates because guests are invited into a private residence. The gates in this section are a summary of the home host requirements in the host application. Every gate must be met, and meeting one gate does not excuse another.

Home host gates summary. A home host must have been a member for at least 60 days, must have attended at least one ECLIPSE event as a guest before hosting at home, and must hold at least two vouches from members in good standing under the vouch rules in the host tools. A home event is capped at 25 guests, and that capacity cap is enforced by the ticketing system even if the residence could hold more people. The host must complete the required Institute module titled Hosting Safely at Home before a home listing can publish, and completion must be current where the module requires renewal.

The home address is hidden until ticket purchase and is revealed only after purchase, to ticket holders for that event, through the event record. The address may not appear in a public listing, a profile, a photo, or a message to a non-ticket holder. Every home event requires mandatory human review by ECLIPSE staff before publication, even for a host with established standing, a prior approved home event, or a fee waiver. No home listing publishes on automated approval alone.

A home host safety plan must cover arrival and departure, neighbor and parking considerations, photography prohibition enforcement, a sober and reachable event contact, a plan for a guest who becomes incapacitated or uncomfortable, and secure storage for guests belongings and for any areas of the home that are off limits. Staff may require changes to a safety plan before approving a listing.

4. Ticket Pricing and Platform Service Fee

Hosts set ticket prices and, where the tools allow, ticket tiers, add-ons, and capacity by tier, subject to review for accuracy, legality, and compliance with the prohibition on selling sexual access. Tier names and contents are screened under the same solicitation rules that apply to profiles and messages, and a tier may not be structured to sell paid companionship or sexual activity.

The platform service fee on tickets is default 10 percent of the ticket price, unless a different rate is clearly shown in the host agreement or host tools for that event before publication. The service fee is charged to the guest as part of checkout or deducted as shown at checkout, in the manner disclosed to the guest before payment, and its refund treatment follows the fault rules in the Refund Policy. The fee rate that applies to an event is the rate in effect and shown when the listing is published, and it will not be changed retroactively for tickets already sold.

Hosts may not collect ticket money outside ECLIPSE checkout for an ECLIPSE-listed event, direct guests to pay at the door to evade the service fee or refund rules, or add undisclosed charges at entry. A ticket is valid only as recorded in the ECLIPSE ticket record.

5. Payouts and Payout Statuses

Ticket proceeds collected by ECLIPSE, less the platform service fee, listing fees or other amounts the host owes under these Terms, refunds and chargeback debits allocated to the host, and any required tax or legal withholding, form the host payout for an event. Payouts are made to the payout method the host has verified in the host tools, on the schedule shown there after a payout becomes releasable under Section 6.

Every payout or ticket fund balance carries one of four statuses in the host and admin records, and hosts can see the current status in the host tools. HELD means the funds are collected but are not yet releasable, because the event has not closed or the dispute window has not run, or because a specific hold described in these Terms applies. SETTLING means the event has closed, the dispute window has run or been resolved, and the payout is in the processing stage with our payment provider, with final amount calculation underway. RELEASED means the payout has been sent to the host verified payout method, subject only to bank or provider posting time. HELD FOR DISPUTE means some or all of the funds are held beyond the normal window because a guest dispute, refund review, chargeback, fraud review, or legal process affects that event, and only the amount reasonably related to the matter in dispute is held under this status where a partial release is possible.

A status is a record of where funds stand. It is not a guarantee of a final amount, which may change if a fault refund, a chargeback, or a correction allocated to the host is recorded before release.

6. Holds, Event Closure, and Dispute Window

The host holds funds until event closure plus the dispute window. In operational terms, ECLIPSE holds ticket funds on the host behalf, in HELD status, from purchase until the event has closed in our systems and the dispute window after closure has run. No payout for an event is released before that point, even if tickets sold out early or the host has hosted successfully before.

Event closure means the event end time has passed, check-in and attendance records have been submitted or the submission deadline has passed, the host has reported any incidents, cancellations, or entry refusals that affect refunds, and no incomplete door record prevents staff from deciding routine claims. The dispute window is the period after closure shown in the host tools for that event type, during which guests may raise attendance, fault, or delivery claims and payment disputes may first arrive. Staff may shorten a window for a routine event with a clean record, or extend it where a dispute, incident report, or chargeback notice is pending.

During a hold, a host may not represent held funds as available cash, promise them to a venue or vendor as already paid by ECLIPSE, or demand early release as a condition of running the event. If an event does not occur, funds do not release to the host except for amounts the Refund Policy and a staff fault decision expressly allocate to the host, and guest refunds are processed first from the held funds.

7. Cancellations, Fault, and Guest Refunds

If a host cancels, materially changes, or fails to deliver an event as sold, the host is at fault under the Refund Policy. Guests are refunded everything including the service fee, and the fee portion is charged to the host, deducted from held funds, a payout balance, future payouts, or invoiced where no balance is available. Hosts should cancel only through the event tools, as early as possible, with a truthful reason recorded, so guest refunds are triggered correctly.

If the platform is at fault, guests receive a full refund and ECLIPSE absorbs the fee, as stated in the Refund Policy. The host is not charged the fee portion for a platform fault, and held funds for that event are adjusted so the host is paid only for tickets that were validly delivered, if any.

If a guest changes plans inside the refund window, the guest ticket principal is refunded in full and the service fee is retained, as disclosed to the guest before payment. The retained fee is not paid to the host as ticket proceeds. A guest who attended is never refunded, regardless of check-in state, and the host payout for an attended ticket is not reduced on the ground that a scan was missed, subject to a staff finding that the event as delivered was materially different from the event as sold.

Hosts must keep accurate door and incident records and submit them promptly. A host who fails to keep records, marks attendance inaccurately, or refuses entry without a basis in stated event rules or safety bears the risk that a disputed claim will be decided against the host on the available record.

8. Chargebacks and Host Responsibilities

Chargeback allocation. Event chargebacks debit the host. If a payment network debits ECLIPSE for a ticket chargeback allocated to an event, the debited amount, plus any non-recoverable network fee that the host tools disclose, is deducted from that event held funds or payout, from future payouts, or invoiced to the host, because ticket proceeds for that event were held for the host and the host controlled delivery of the event.

Platform-error and subscription chargebacks are the platform responsibility. A chargeback caused by a platform checkout or billing error, and any chargeback on a subscription or other non-event purchase, does not debit a host, even if the same member also bought a ticket. Allocation follows the transaction that was charged back, not the member overall account.

Verified-attended ticket chargebacks are held for staff review. If a ticket chargeback arrives and our records indicate the guest was verified as having attended, the related funds are placed or kept in HELD FOR DISPUTE status and staff review the attendance record, door record, communications, and the chargeback reason before final allocation. A verified attendance record is strong evidence that the ticket was delivered, and ECLIPSE will present it in the chargeback response. Staff review does not guarantee that a payment network will rule in favor of delivery, and if the network finally debits the amount despite verified attendance, staff will state in the event record whether the final debit is allocated to the host, absorbed by the platform, or shared, based on whether the host kept the required door records and delivered the event as sold.

Hosts must respond promptly to staff requests for records in a dispute or chargeback, keep their payout and tax information current, never use an event to facilitate prostitution, trafficking, or any unlawful activity, and comply with incident reporting duties in the host tools. Repeated chargebacks, refund fault findings, or safety incidents may result in higher holds, listing limits, loss of host status, or closure, proportionate to the record.

9. Space Classification, Venue Certification, and Rented Spaces

Classification follows the space. Every event is classified by the space it is actually held in: a venue the host owns or operates, the host home, or a space the host rents for the occasion. A host history, reputation, or preference does not change the classification of a space. A successful home or short-term rental host is an experienced home or rented space host, and is never a venue host by history alone.

Venue certification. A venue is certified to a host account once, after three staff checks all pass: a public footprint check (a listing, site, or social presence operating under the venue name), a control demonstration (a post from the venue's own account naming the host or the event, or an email from the venue's own domain), and one document tying the host to the venue address (a business registration, a lease, or a utility bill in the business name). Certification attaches to the account only when all three checks pass, and ECLIPSE may withdraw certification if the host stops controlling the venue. A listing, a link, or the existence of a venue does not by itself certify that a host controls it.

Home experience portability. Door-verified history, meaning events attended as a guest with a door check-in and events hosted with checked-in guests, together with active vouches, can satisfy the time-based home host gates in Section 3, because that history is what those gates exist to prove. Staff still review and decide every home application, and history never waives verification of the space for a current event.

Rented spaces. A rented space is verified per event. Before a rented space listing can be submitted, the host must provide the booking confirmation reference for the space, in the host's name, for the event date. Every rented space event is reviewed by ECLIPSE staff before it becomes visible, at every host standing level, and the street address stays neighborhood-only until a guest buys a ticket. By listing a rented space, the host confirms that the space's own rules, and any lease, rental agreement, or platform terms that govern it, allow the gathering. Some spaces prohibit parties outright; Airbnb, for example, prohibits parties in its rentals, and a space that breaks its own rules can be shut down mid-event. A host who lists a space whose rules prohibit the event bears the fault consequences in Section 7 if the event is shut down, moved, or materially changed for that reason.

Misclassification. Door and check-in records show where an event actually ran. If those records show that an event listed under a certified venue ran at a different space, or that an event ran in a class other than the one it was listed under, ECLIPSE will reclassify the event and the host track to the correct class and record a standing strike against the host. A standing strike may reduce the host standing tier or suspend hosting, proportionate to the record, and the reclassification and strike are recorded in the event and host records. This consequence is stated here in advance and applies whether the misclassification was deliberate or careless.