Booking credits and settlement (club owner)
As club owner or admin, you care about the club’s Credits wallet, paid member (or shared-audience) offerings, and what offer owners earn when sessions settle. This page embeds Hub Booking Policy behaviour. If anything conflicts, follow the live policies:
TBD: Club → Credits wallet <../images/indepth-club-booking-credits.png>
Club perspective
| Role | What happens |
|---|---|
| Offer owner (club offerings you publish) | The offer owner side earns offering credits (net) when a paid session settles |
| Bookers (members or shared audiences) | They spend booking credits at settlement—often from a club-held booking credits wallet members can use or contribute to |
Use Club → Credits when your role allows. SMS / alerting credits are separate—see SMS credits vs booking credits.
Two types of balances
| Balance | Used for |
|---|---|
| Booking credits | What bookers spend when paid sessions settle |
| Offering credits | What offer owners earn (net) after settlement |
Before members can book paid offerings (policy)
- A booker needs a positive booking credit balance to create a paid booking.
- Zero or negative balance blocks creating a paid booking until credits are added.
- Bookers can purchase booking credits; positive offering credits can convert to booking credits where enabled.
Stock the club wallet before you turn on paid internal or shared-audience rates.
Private vs public rates (policy)
- Private club offerings (members, share groups, other clubs): no minimum rate floor; may be free or paid.
- Public Marketplace offerings: Hub enforces a minimum hourly-equivalent rate (see Booking Policy).
When money moves: settlement (policy)
Settlement reconciles a booking session—not full payment at the moment of Book.
When a session is settled:
- The booker is charged booking credits.
- The offer owner is credited offering credits (net after platform commission; see Booking Policy).
- Settlement currently supports USD only.
- Charge math uses the scheduled window (and overrun rules), with quarter-hour snapping as published in the policy.
Free ($0) offerings still settle with a zero charge.
TBD: Club Book → Operate → Settle flow <../images/indepth-club-settlement-flow.png>
Ending sessions and disabled offers (policy highlights)
- Ending an active session triggers settlement; for that path the booker is charged for the full originally booked window while the station is released (Booking Policy §8).
- If you disable an offer mid-session, control ends and settlement charges only through disable time (prorated).
- If you disable before a window starts, that window settles at zero booker charge when it ends.
- Deleting an offer removes its bookings and tears down active control for those bookings.
Verify edge cases on the live Booking Policy.
Payouts
Offer owners are settled by the iShareRadio team on net offering credits, per policy.