Promoter Agreement

This is the agreement between you and SLIST when you join the promoter program. It replaces every earlier version, including the one that used to say it wasn't binding. It is binding. That is the point — a promise you can't enforce isn't worth much to you.

We're offering it because we think you're good at this and because we'd rather grow with people than at them. The warmth is real. So is the contract.

Version 2026-08-13.

Who this is between

SLIST — SLIST.NET LLC, a New York limited liability company. Mailing address: 418 Broadway, Ste N, Albany, NY 12207. Reach a human at [email protected].

You — the promoter. Your legal name and mailing address are the ones you gave us at intake, and the ones Stripe verified when you connected your payout account. If they change, tell us, because that's where anything we owe you goes.

Who can join

Anyone with a SLIST account. DJs, residents, staff, artists booked on an upcoming lineup — all of you are welcome. If you can bring people, you can be a promoter.

Being booked on a lineup doesn't cost you anything here. You can be paid as an artist for an event and earn promoter commission on the same event.

What you do

You promote SLIST. Concretely, that means:

• Bringing people to SLIST events through your share link or your code.
• Posting SLIST events on your social channels. You're encouraged to, not required to, and never where it conflicts with your own commitments.
• Posting SLIST audio and video releases, on the same footing.
• Introducing SLIST to labels, collectives, promoters, and venues worth working with. If an introduction turns into something real, we'll agree what it's worth at the time. There's no standing rate for it, and nothing here obliges you to make one.

You set your own hours, choose your own methods, and use your own accounts and audience. Nobody at SLIST assigns you a schedule.

What we do

• Give you a code, share links, and a dashboard that shows your sales and what you're owed as it happens.
• Pay you on the schedule below, without you having to ask.
• Never accept an engagement on your behalf without your prior approval.
• Put you on the guest list once you've earned it — see below.
• List you on the public promoter leaderboard at slist.net/promoters if you want to be there. It's off by default. You turn it on yourself in your dashboard, and you can turn it back off. Being in the program is private unless you choose otherwise.

Guest list. One free ticket per event, for you, once you've made your first sale. You can also earn it for a specific event before your first sale by bringing traffic to it — roughly 60 clicks on your share links for that event does it. Ask and it's yours; we'd rather you were in the room.

What you earn

15% of the ticket price on every sale attributed to you, calculated on what the buyer actually paid, before taxes and before platform fees.

The people you bring get 10% off at checkout when they use your code. That discount comes off before your commission is worked out, so your 15% is 15% of the discounted price, not the list price. On a $40 ticket: the buyer pays $36, you earn $5.40.

Both numbers are subject to change. If either one changes, you'll hear about it before it takes effect, and never in the middle of an event you're already promoting. The section on changing this agreement says exactly how that works.

How we know a sale is yours

Two things can credit a sale to you, and both are tied to one specific event.

Your share link. When someone opens your link for an event, that event is yours for the next 30 days. It's tied to that event and nothing else — if two SLIST events are on sale at the same time, your link for one of them can never take sales from the other. Within a single event the first link wins: if someone opens your link and later another promoter's for the same event, you keep it.

Your code at checkout. If the buyer types your code, that beats any link, including someone else's. It's also the only thing that gives them their 10% off, so it's worth asking people to use it.

Either way you're paid the same. The code is simply the stronger claim, and the one that saves your buyer money.

Clicks on your links also count toward the guest list above.

You don't have to submit anything, ever. There is no timesheet and no invoice. Our own attribution records are the list of what you did, they're generated automatically as sales happen, and you can see them on your promoter dashboard in real time.

When you get paid

Seven days after an event ends, your commission for that event becomes payable, and we transfer it to your connected Stripe Express account. The seven days exist because refunds and chargebacks reverse commission, and holding briefly is fairer to you than clawing money back after you've been paid.

Once it's payable, moving it is your call. Stripe deposits to your bank on its normal rolling schedule, usually about two business days, at no cost to you. If you want it sooner, Stripe Express offers an instant payout to a debit card for a fee Stripe charges you — currently 1.5% of the amount, minimum fifty cents. That's optional, it's Stripe's fee and not ours, and we don't take any part of it.

There's no minimum. If you earned three dollars, we send three dollars.

Stripe Express also handles your bank connection and your tax paperwork. You'll need to complete Stripe's identity verification before we can send you anything — that's their requirement and ours.

Refunds and chargebacks

SLIST doesn't refund tickets except in extraordinary circumstances. If a refund does happen, the commission on that ticket reverses with it. Chargebacks reverse commission automatically. If we see a pattern of them on your code, we may pause your account while we look into it, and we'll tell you why.

Fraud

Buying tickets with your own code, asking friends to route purchases through you for tickets they were buying anyway, running fake accounts — all of it forfeits commission and can end your account.

We're not pedantic about edge cases. We are pedantic about patterns.

You're an independent contractor

You're an independent contractor, not a SLIST employee, and this agreement doesn't create a partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship.

That means you're responsible for your own taxes, including self-employment tax. SLIST doesn't withhold anything. You're free to work with other promoters, collectives, labels, and brands, including ones that compete with us. You control how, when, and where you do this work, and you provide your own equipment and accounts.

What each of us can do

You can seek out and keep any other agency, partnership, or representation for your own career. Nothing here is exclusive.

We can work with other promoters, collectives, and partners. We can publicize that we work with you, and we can use your name, likeness, and work in SLIST promotion and publicity at no cost to you. That comes with joining the program. If you want it narrower than that, tell us in writing and we'll agree something narrower.

Leaving

Email [email protected] any time, no notice required. Your code stops attributing new sales. Everything you already earned stays payable and we still send it on the normal schedule.

We can end this too, and if we do for any reason other than the fraud above, the same holds — what you earned is still yours.

Retaliation

We won't retaliate against you for asking to be paid, for asking about this agreement, or for exercising any right you have under New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act.

Changing this agreement

We may update these terms with 30 days' notice by email to every active promoter, posted publicly here with a new version number on the same day the notice goes out.

New terms apply only to events announced after the effective date. If an event was already announced when a change lands, that event finishes under the old terms — so a rate change can never reach an event you're already out there promoting, no matter when the sale comes in.

If you don't want the new terms, leave before the effective date and everything you've earned still gets paid.

Re-negotiation is welcome at any time. If something here stops feeling fair, say so — we'd much rather rewrite a clause than lose you over it.

If something goes wrong

Tell us first, in writing, and give us 30 days to fix it. Most of what goes wrong here is a bug or a bookkeeping error and we'd rather just fix it.

This agreement is governed by New York law.

Every version of this page is public

Every revision of this agreement is published at its revision history. When you signed up, we recorded which version you accepted, so you can always find the exact words you agreed to — including the ones that have since changed.