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Checkout & Fees

Payment processing: 2.99% + $0.31. Every payment method that matters. Built-in bot protection. The price shown to the buyer is the price they pay, no surprise fees at the last screen.

Fee Structure

Here's the full breakdown for a $32.00 ticket on BandPass vs. comparable platforms:

Ticketmaster
Eventbrite
AXS
BandPass
Face value
$32.00
$32.00
$32.00
$32.00
Fee added
$8.00
$2.56
Not published
$1.27 processing
Order fee
varies
varies
Not published
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Buyer pays
$40+
$34.56+
Not published
$33.27
Venue receives
~$24.00
~$28.80
Not published
$32.00

Payment Methods

Card is live today, with Apple Pay and Google Pay offered automatically at checkout when the buyer's device supports them. Link and Klarna are on too: Link for buyers who have saved a payment method with it, Klarna when the buyer and the order are eligible. The rails below marked “Coming soon” are on the roadmap but not yet enabled at checkout.

Card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover)Available
Apple PayAvailable · iOS + Mac Safari
Google PayAvailable · Android + Chrome
Cash App PayComing soon
Klarna · Pay in 4Available · when eligible
AffirmComing soon
Afterpay / ClearpayComing soon
Link (Stripe)Available
PayPalComing soon
Crypto (USDC, BTC, ETH)Coming soon

More Ways to Pay

Offering more ways to pay tends to lift conversion. As we enable each rail above, it turns on for every show automatically — with no extra fees to you for additional methods.

Anti-Bot Protection

Every checkout runs through real, in-code protections:

  1. Automated bot detection — checkout, ticket transfer, and resale requests on the web are checked for automated traffic; detections are logged, not blocked.
  2. Rate limiting — per-IP limits on checkout (10 per minute) and sign-ups (5 per hour per IP, 3 per day per account) stop velocity attacks.
  3. Per-buyer ticket cap — a configurable maximum per buyer per show (default 8), counted from orders the buyer can prove are theirs: their account when signed in, their browser's checkout session when not. It stops casual over-buying rather than a determined buyer.
  4. Disposable-email blocking — throwaway email domains are rejected at sign-up.

Face-Value Resale — Coming Soon

Resale is not switched on yet. When it is, fans who can't attend will be able to resell their tickets only at face value, only through the platform: the new buyer pays face value, and the original seller receives platform credit for it (minus our resale fee), not a card refund.

Fast Checkout

Checkout runs on our own page, with Stripe's embedded payment form — buyers select tickets, pay, and receive their ticket by email in a single flow. Saved payment methods via Link speed it up for repeat buyers.