Event sponsorship and funding
Promoters pay artist fees, production and security months before the first euro comes in. Two ways to ease that: sponsor matching, already available, and event funding, still being explored.
Where each piece stands
Sponsor matching is available: we show it to you in the demo. Event funding does not exist: no product, no price, no date. Leave your email and we will tell you here if funding ever gets built.
The problem
Promoters are the ones fronting the cash
Between signing the artist and selling the first ticket there are months of costs coming straight out of your pocket.
Artist fees paid upfront
The artist takes a deposit on signing and the rest before walking on stage. It is usually the biggest outlay, and it lands before you have sold a thing.
Production and build
Stage, sound, lighting, barriers and crew are booked weeks in advance, almost always with payment upfront.
Security, insurance and permits
Safety plan, public liability insurance and council fees. Without them there is no event, and they are paid before doors open.
Marketing before any sales
The campaign that fills the venue is paid for while box office revenue is still zero.
Available today
What Futura Tickets already does with your money
This is not a promise: it is how payouts work today, in production.
You get paid before the event
We settle weekly or monthly before the event takes place, not after. Monthly on Starter, weekly on Pro, custom on Enterprise.
A fee per ticket sold
It depends on the plan and the event, and is presented in a demo.
Cashless settled in under 48 hours
Bar spend is settled to the promoter in less than 48 hours.
When promoters get paid, by platform
Payout timings compared. Every other platform pays out after the event.
| Platform | Payout timing |
|---|---|
| Futura Tickets | Weekly or monthly, before the event |
| Ticketmaster | 7-14 days after the event |
| See Tickets | 7-14 days after |
| Eventbrite | 5 days after |
| Dice | 1 day after |
| Fever | Variable |
Source: the comparison published on our blog. Each platform's timing can vary depending on the specific contract.
The real status
Where each piece stands
Sponsor matching is already available. Funding is still an idea.
Sponsor matching — available
An engine that matches your event's real data (audience, territory, capacity, category) against a catalogue of brands and proposes the ones that fit, with the reason and with age-related legal restrictions already resolved. It is available today and we show it to you in the demo.
Event funding — being explored
Fronting part of the production cost before sales open and paying it back from box office revenue. That needs financial partners and a risk model we do not have yet. There is no implementation and no commitment to build it.
What each status means
“Available” means you can use it today. “Being explored” means we measure demand before building; if we decide not to, we will say so here.
Where the product actually stands
So it is clear what you can use today and what you cannot. No small print.
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Ticketing and ticket sales | Live |
| Access control | Live |
| Official resale | Live |
| Real-time analytics | Live |
| Cashless | Live |
| POS | Live |
| Super Fan | Live |
| Sponsor matching | Live |
| Event funding | Validating |
Matching available — funding being explored
Hear about funding first
If funding ever gets built, we will announce it right here. Sponsor matching is already available: ask for it in the demo. Not a marketing newsletter.
In the meantime
What you can do today is get paid before the event with the platform that is already in production.