Scout Agreement

This is the agreement you will accept when signups open. Nothing here is live yet and there is nothing to sign. You can read what the program is alongside it.

Version 2026-09-16. You accept a specific version, and we keep a record of which one and when. If we change these terms we will ask you to read and accept the new version before your next payout.

Who we are

Vessa is operated by Vessa Technologies LLC, a Texas limited liability company. In this agreement “we”, “us” and “Vessa” mean Vessa Technologies LLC, and “you” means the Scout accepting it.

The short version

You introduce promoters to Vessa. When one of them sells tickets, you and Vessa split what Vessa makes on those tickets, evenly, for 6 months. You are not our employee, you cannot speak for us, and you must say that you earn a referral every time you post about us.

1. Who can be a Scout

By accepting this you represent that you are 18 or over and a resident of the United States. We pay through Stripe, which verifies your identity and collects your tax details; an account we cannot verify cannot be paid. We report what we pay you on Form 1099-NEC where the law requires it, and we may withhold where you have not given us a valid taxpayer identification number.

2. You are an independent contractor

You are not an employee, partner, agent or joint venturer of Vessa. This agreement does not create an employment relationship of any kind, and nothing in it entitles you to wages, benefits, insurance, expenses, or anything else an employee would receive.

You decide when you work, how you work, and how much. Nobody at Vessa directs your hours or your methods. You are responsible for your own taxes on anything we pay you.

This is not exclusive. You are free to promote anything else, including other ticketing platforms, and to work for anyone else. You use your own phone, accounts and equipment and pay your own expenses. There is no training you have to take, no quota, and no minimum activity. We provide no benefits of any kind.

You have no authority to bind us. You cannot sign anything on our behalf, agree pricing, promise a feature, settle a dispute, or make any commitment that Vessa would be expected to honour. If you do, it is not binding on us and we may terminate you for it.

3. What we pay you

Level one. When a promoter you referred settles an event, you earn half of what Vessa keeps on each ticket that event sold and kept. What Vessa keeps on a ticket is our service fee on it, less what the card cost us to process.

Card processing is a formula, not a bill. We calculate it as 2.9% of the amount the guest was charged for that ticket, plus 30 cents. We use that figure whatever the card actually cost us, so you can check any line on your statement with a calculator rather than taking our word for it.

A worked example, at a $20 ticket. The guest pays $21.95. Our fee is $1.95. Card processing is 2.9% of $21.95 plus 30 cents, which is $0.94. What we keep is $1.01. Your half is $0.51. If the promoter chose to absorb our fee rather than add it on, the guest pays $20, processing is $0.88, we keep $1.07 and your half is $0.54.

Per ticket, not per night. We work each ticket out on its own, round it to the nearest cent, and add them up. We never apply a percentage to a night’s total.

An event is settled when it has ended and we have finalised its sales, refunds and our fee, which happens within 24 hours of its end time. Your earning on it is calculated then.

Level two. If you referred another Scout, you earn 20% of what that Scout earns on promoters they refer. We pay that on top. It is never deducted from their share, and they are not charged anything for it.

There is no third level. You do not earn anything on Scouts recruited by Scouts you recruited, and there is no arrangement under which you ever will.

Never less than zero. Your earning on any single ticket is never below zero. If what we keep on a ticket is nothing, or less than nothing, you earn nothing on that ticket. You never owe us money because of it.

Three things that mean no earning on a ticket. A refund, because our fee goes back to the guest and the card still cost us its cut. A chargeback we lose, for the same reason. And a fee we waived, because there is nothing of ours left to share. In each case that ticket earns you nothing and costs you nothing.

What the share is taken of. Vessa’s own margin only. Never the promoter’s ticket revenue, and never anything the guest pays on top of it. We exclude comped tickets and orders under an unresolved chargeback.

How long. 6 months, starting at the referred promoter’s first settled event that took money, not the day they signed up. After that you stop earning on that promoter.

When it becomes payable. 30 days after the event settles. A guest can dispute a charge months after a party, so commission waits long enough that most of what is coming back already has. Paying immediately and then carrying you negative would be worse for both of us.

When it is paid. By the 5th of each month, for everything payable at that point, once your balance is at least $25. Below that it carries forward to the next month rather than being forfeited. We pay by transfer to the Stripe account you connect; Stripe handles tax reporting for that account.

The minimum never traps anything. Whatever you are owed is paid in full, ignoring the $25 minimum, as soon as any of these is true: every promoter you referred has run out of their 6 months so nothing more can accrue; 90 days pass with nothing new accruing; you ask us from your dashboard, which you can do once every 30 days; your account is closed; or we end the program. Transfers to your account cost neither of us anything, so there is no reason to hold a small amount once it has stopped growing.

Nothing you have earned ever expires, and none of it ever comes back to us. There is no date after which an unpaid balance stops being yours. If we cannot reach you to send it, it stays recorded as yours and is handled under the unclaimed property law that applies, which is the state’s process and not ours.

Your first payout waits on approval. We approve each Scout account once, by hand, before any money is sent. Earnings accrue while you wait.

Commission counts from the night your payout setup is complete. You earn on an event when it settles, and only if your Stripe payout account is connected and verified at that moment. If it is not, that event does not earn you anything and nothing is owed to you for it. Completing your setup later starts you earning from then on; it does not reach back and it does not unlock events that already settled. So do it before you start sending people, because there is no way for us to put it right afterwards.

Your dashboard shows this plainly. Until your setup is complete it says your referrals are not earning; it does not show you a balance, because there is not one.

Your deal is recorded on your account when you sign up. That means all of it: your share, what your share is a percentage of, your level two share, and how many months each referral earns for. For a promoter you have already referred, none of those ever change. We can change what applies to promoters you refer in future, with 30 days’ notice by email; a change never applies to a referral recorded before it took effect.

The first-night fee waiver is not yours. Vessa gives a new promoter their first night’s service fee back, up to $300. That is a benefit to the promoter. We keep nothing on the fee we give back, so there is nothing to share and you earn nothing on that night. Your 6 months still start there, and you earn from their next night on.

4. Referrals that do not count

• Yourself. A promoter account that is you, or that shares your login, email address, phone number, Stripe account or bank account, earns nothing. We check this when the account is created and again every time an event settles.
• Somebody already with us. A promoter who already had a Vessa account is not a referral, however the new page was created. We check this when an event settles, against every promoter that existed before the referral was recorded, on the same identities as self-referral. A referral that fails either check is voided with a note rather than quietly dropped, so you can ask us about it.
• First recorded wins. If two Scouts claim the same promoter, the referral recorded first is the one that counts. There is no split.
• Anything fraudulent. Fake promoters, fake events, wash sales, or tickets bought to generate commission. We void those earnings and may terminate you.
• Anything obtained by breaking section 6. A referral you got by mass texting, bulk messaging, bots, bought or scraped lists, undisclosed posts, earnings claims, false statements about other platforms, or by holding yourself out as Vessa never counts. It is void from the start and nothing is earned on it, whatever the promoter goes on to sell.

5. Refunds, chargebacks and corrections

Our fee is refunded when a ticket is, so the commission on it goes with it. If a refund or a lost chargeback lands after an event settled, we write a correcting line on your next statement rather than changing what we already told you that you earned.

Corrections can take a month’s balance to zero or below. We will not invoice you for a negative balance that comes from ordinary refunds and chargebacks, and we never take money out of your bank account; it simply carries against future earnings. The exception is money already paid to you on referrals that turn out to be fraudulent or obtained in breach of this agreement. That is repayable on demand.

6. How you may and may not promote Vessa

Disclose, every time, and early. Every post, caption, story, video or message about Vessa must say that you earn a referral. Use this wording: “I’m a Vessa Scout. I earn if you sign up as a promoter or as a Scout.” In a video, say it in the first few seconds and keep it on screen as text for the whole video. In a caption alone, or in your bio, is not enough. On TikTok also turn on the promotional content setting; it is required in addition to the words, not instead of them.

No earnings claims. Do not state or imply what you earn, what another Scout earns, or what anybody could earn. The only figures you may quote are the ones published on our Scouts page. The words rich, passive income and quit your job, and any promise of a specific income, are not permitted in any post about Vessa. If you quote one of our published figures in a video or a post, it must also carry this line: “Example math from Vessa’s published fee after card processing, not typical results. Most Scouts earn nothing.”

No claims beyond our published pages. Everything you say about what Vessa charges, when it pays, or what it does must be on vessatickets.com/why. Do not invent features, timelines or comparisons.

No spam and no automation. No bulk messaging, no bots, no purchased contact lists, no scraped lists, no unsolicited email campaigns. One follow-up to somebody who did not reply is fine; a third is not.

No mass texting. No cold SMS to anybody who has not opted in to hear from you. Direct messages and phone calls to people you know are fine; a text blast is not, and it is the one that carries legal consequences of its own.

No paid ads on the Vessa name. Do not run Google, TikTok, Meta or any other advertising using the word “Vessa” without our written permission.

Nothing false about anyone else. Do not say anything about Posh, Eventbrite or any other platform that you cannot show is true, and do not run them down. Link vessatickets.com/why instead; that page is the one we keep accurate. A false claim about a competitor made by you lands on us, and we will terminate you for it.

Do not hold yourself out as Vessa. You may say you are a Vessa Scout. You may not say you work for Vessa, use our name in an account handle, or present yourself as our staff, our support, or a representative who can make decisions.

Our name. We give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to use the names “Vessa” and “Vessa Scout” and the materials in your Scout kit, only to promote Vessa under this agreement. It ends when this agreement does. It does not let you register anything, put our name in a handle or a domain, or make a logo of your own out of ours.

We can ask for a post to come down. If something you have published breaks any of the rules above, we may require you to remove or correct it, and we may terminate you for it. We are not asking for approval over what you post generally, only over posts that describe Vessa.

You must follow the law and the rules of whatever platform you are posting on, including the FTC’s endorsement guidance, which is where the disclosure requirement above comes from.

7. Nobody pays to take part

There is no fee to become a Scout and there never will be. You are not required to buy anything, hold inventory, or meet a quota. You earn nothing for recruiting a person, only from real tickets sold to real guests by promoters you referred.

8. Ending it

Either of us can end this at any time. You can stop whenever you like. We can end it with notice by email to the address on your account, effective when sent.

If we end it without cause, promoters you had already referred keep earning for you through the rest of their 6 months, on the normal schedule, and everything you have earned is paid on the normal schedule. You just cannot add new referrals.

If we end it for cause, meaning fraud, spam, undisclosed posts, earnings claims, false statements about other platforms, self-referral, or holding yourself out as Vessa, then you stop earning on all of your referrals from that date, earnings connected to the conduct are forfeited, and earnings you legitimately made before that date are still paid on the normal schedule.

Earned means an event settled while you were entitled to earn on it. Nothing is earned on events that settle after a termination for cause.

9. Changes, and ending the program

We can change the rates for Scouts who join after the change, and the rates that apply to promoters you refer in future, with 30 days’ notice by email. A rate change never applies to a referral recorded before it took effect: a promoter you have already referred keeps the rate recorded on that referral for the rest of their window. If we change this agreement we will ask you to accept the new version before your next payout.

We may change or end the Scout program entirely, with 30 days’ notice. If we do, anything you have already earned is still paid to you on the normal schedule. Nothing you have earned is forfeited because the program stopped.

10. Things that cover everything else

Our records are the record. What we have recorded about referrals, events, tickets, refunds, disputes and payments is what we pay from. If you think a statement is wrong, tell us within 60 days of the statement date and we will look into it and correct it if it is. After 60 days a statement is final.

We can fix mistakes. If we overpay you, underpay you, or miscalculate anything, we correct it on your next statement. An error does not create a right to keep the error. If we owe you, we pay it. If you owe us, it comes off future earnings and we never take it from your bank account.

We can hold a payment while we look into something. If we reasonably believe a referral, an event, or your conduct breaks these terms or the law, or looks like fraud, we may hold the affected earnings until we have looked into it. We will tell you we are holding it and why, and we will release it or void it within 60 days.

Getting around these terms does not work. Any arrangement whose purpose or effect is to earn under this program in a way these terms do not allow, whether through another person, another account, another business, or any other route, earns nothing, and we may treat it as a breach.

We can set off. Anything you owe us under this agreement may be deducted from anything we owe you under it.

You did not rely on anything outside this agreement. In deciding to become a Scout you relied only on what this agreement and the Scouts page say, not on anything anyone else told you, including another Scout, and not on any estimate of what you might earn.

You follow the law. Everything in section 6 is in addition to your obligation to comply with every law and every platform rule that applies to what you do, whether or not we named it.

Things outside our control. We are not responsible for a delay or failure caused by something outside our reasonable control, including a payment processor, a bank, a network, a platform, or a government action. Earnings are not lost because of a delay; they are paid when the cause clears.

We can assign this; you cannot. We may transfer this agreement to a successor of our business. You may not transfer it or any right under it to anyone.

Not enforcing something is not giving it up. If we let something go once, we can still enforce it later.

What survives. Sections about payments already earned, corrections, holds, set-off, confidentiality, your compliance representation, the indemnity, and these catch-all provisions continue after this agreement ends, for as long as they have work to do.

How to read this. Headings are for navigation only. “Including” means including without limitation. If two clauses seem to conflict, the more specific one governs.

Everything not granted is kept. Nothing in this agreement gives you any right, licence or interest we did not expressly grant, including in the Vessa name, marks, software, data or promoter relationships.

11. The legal bits

We make no promise about how much you will earn, or that you will earn anything at all. The Scout program is provided as is.

You promise that everything you do under this agreement complies with the law and the rules of the platforms you use, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, the FTC’s Endorsement Guides and state consumer protection law, and that nothing you say about Vessa or anyone else is false or misleading. You will cover us for any claim, fine or cost, including reasonable attorney’s fees, that comes from your breaking that promise or this agreement.

Our total liability to you is limited to the commission we owe you and have not yet paid. Neither of us is liable to the other for lost profits or any indirect or consequential loss.

Your statements. If you think a statement is wrong, tell us within 60 days of it being issued. After that it is final. We keep the records that show how your earnings were calculated and will show you yours on request.

What you see about promoters. Your dashboard shows you the promoters you referred and their events. That information is confidential. Use it only to support your referrals, and do not share, sell or publish it. What we show you, and what we deliberately do not, is set out in our privacy policy.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without its conflict-of-laws rules. Before either of us starts a formal dispute, we send the other a written notice describing the problem and what would fix it, and we talk in good faith for 60 days. Notice to us goes to legal@vessatickets.com with “Dispute notice” in the subject. Notice to you goes to the email on your account.

IF THAT DOES NOT RESOLVE IT, YOU AND VESSA AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR FROM YOUR USE OF VESSA, INCLUDING WHETHER THIS SECTION APPLIES, WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION UNDER THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT, ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION UNDER ITS COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES, BY ONE ARBITRATOR, IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, OR BY VIDEO, OR ON THE PAPERS. YOU GIVE UP THE RIGHT TO A JUDGE OR JURY. EITHER OF US MAY INSTEAD BRING AN INDIVIDUAL CLAIM IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT, AND EITHER OF US MAY ASK A COURT FOR AN INJUNCTION TO STOP MISUSE OF OUR NAME, OUR MARKS OR THE PLATFORM. YOU AND VESSA EACH AGREE TO BRING CLAIMS ONLY IN YOUR OWN NAME AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, AND THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE CLAIMS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE. IF THIS CLASS WAIVER IS FOUND UNENFORCEABLE FOR A PARTICULAR CLAIM, THAT CLAIM GOES TO THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND NOT TO ARBITRATION.

IF FOR ANY REASON THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT ABOVE IS HELD NOT TO APPLY, YOU AND VESSA EACH KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY, AND ANY SUCH DISPUTE WILL BE TRIED TO A JUDGE SITTING WITHOUT A JURY IN THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS.

This section survives the end of this agreement. A change to it applies only to referrals recorded after the change.

If any part of this is unenforceable, the rest still stands. This is the whole agreement between you and Vessa Technologies LLC about the Scout program. You may not assign it; we may assign it to a successor of our business. Notices to you go to the email on your account and count as delivered when sent; notices to us go to scouts@vessatickets.com. You agree to do this electronically. Sections 3 to 5, 8 and 10 survive the end of this agreement.