Commission & Payouts Pro

Pro - The commission ledger and payouts require Eventonomy Pro.

When you run a multi-organizer site, Eventonomy Pro can take a platform commission on every paid order and track each organizer's net earnings, so you always know who is owed what. This is a Model A ledger: it records the money precisely, and the actual payout moves out-of-band (bank transfer, PayPal, etc.).

What You Will Learn

• How to set your platform commission rate
• How commission and organizer net are booked on each order
• Where organizers see their earnings
• How to record a payout
• What happens when an order is refunded after the organizer was already paid

Setting the Commission Rate

Go to Eventonomy → Settings → Money → Payments and set Platform commission (Pro) as a percentage (for example, 10). This rate applies to every paid order booked from that point forward.

How Earnings Are Booked

Every time an order becomes paid, Eventonomy books one ledger entry:

• Gross - the order total.
• Platform commission - gross × rate%.
• Organizer net - gross − commission.

For example, a $2,500 order at a 10% rate books gross $2,500 / commission $250 / net $2,250. Booking is idempotent - a re-fired payment event never double-counts - and an order that is later refunded or cancelled reverses its entry.

Where Organizers See Their Earnings

On the frontend Manage Attendees → Sales panel for an event, the organizer sees Your net earnings and Platform commission alongside Revenue, Paid orders, and Attendees - no wp-admin access required. See Attendees & Orders.

Recording a Payout

Payouts are recorded with WP-CLI. Marking an organizer paid flips their booked earnings to paid and stamps the payout time:

wp eventonomy-pro payout <organizer_id>

The command reports the organizer's booked net, how much was paid out, and any refund debt applied (see below). The money itself moves through your own bank/PayPal transfer - Eventonomy records that it happened.

Refunds After a Payout

If an order is refunded after its organizer has already been paid out, the organizer has money in hand for a sale that no longer stands. Eventonomy does not silently drop it: the net amount is recorded as a debt and automatically netted against that organizer's next payout (oldest debt first, with partial settlement and any remainder carried forward).

So the next wp eventonomy-pro payout run pays out the organizer's new booked net minus any outstanding refund debt, and reports exactly what was applied and what remains. A refund of an unpaid (still-booked) earning simply reverses cleanly with no debt.

What's Next?

Review how refunds reverse an order.

Refunds & Cancellations →