Fee and Payout Disclosure
Version: owner-approved-2026-10-10-v19
Effective date: October 10, 2026
Status: OWNER-APPROVED 2026-10-10; attorney review waived by owner
This disclosure supplements the Marketplace Customer Terms, Marketplace Booking Terms, and Vendor Agreement. The exact itemization shown at checkout or acceptance controls a particular Booking.
1. Customer amounts
A Customer may be charged:
- the Vendor's service/package price;
- travel, quantities, selected options, or add-ons;
- applicable taxes; and
- any later net increase the Customer separately accepts through a supported Booking-change or reschedule flow.
For a new Booking under the v3 fee schedule, the Customer Vendor Lineup marketplace fee is zero. The Vendor Lineup share is paid by the Vendor at the Starter or Pro rate below, regardless of how the Customer found the Vendor — a direct storefront visit, a Trackable marketing link, a QR code, a social or referral source, or an existing-client relationship. Founding enrollment and Cottage Bakery order type do not waive that v3 share. Marketing or referral source remains a reporting fact only; it does not change the fee, refund, payout, or Booking protection. Existing accepted Bookings keep their recorded fee schedule and financial snapshot, including historical fees where applicable.
An existing Vendor with accepted zero-platform-fee terms continues to pay no Vendor Lineup share on eligible new Bookings governed by those terms until that Vendor affirmatively accepts the approved v19 version and its v3 fee schedule is activated for that Vendor. Global v3 activation for others and a separate subscription change do not impose the v3 share on that Vendor.
A deposit Booking charges the disclosed deposit first and schedules the disclosed balance. A full-payment Booking charges the full disclosed amount. No hidden recurring charge is created by a Booking.
2. Vendor plans and platform Booking fees
For each new Booking under the v3 fee schedule, the Vendor Lineup share is 5% of the Vendor Booking subtotal on Starter or 2.5% on Pro. Listing does not accept new online Bookings or payments. The Platform charges no separate Customer Vendor Lineup Booking or service fee under v3. The Vendor Booking subtotal includes booked services/packages, required travel, options, add-ons, and accepted later additions after Vendor-funded discounts; it excludes transaction tax, refundable security/damage deposits, voluntary gratuities, and any historical Customer marketplace fee. The Booking records its originating plan, rate in basis points, and calculated Vendor share before a payment is created. A later plan change does not change that Booking's rate.
Existing accepted Bookings, changes, refunds, disputes, and reversals continue to use their stored fee schedule, accepted terms, and financial snapshot. Historical Basic, Pro, Founding, or other accepted program rates are neither converted to zero nor recalculated because a later catalog or plan takes effect.
For new Bookings by an existing Vendor who has not accepted v19, the Vendor's existing accepted zero-platform-fee schedule continues to apply while the Booking remains eligible under that schedule. Acceptance of subscription billing relief is separate from acceptance of new Booking fees. A v3 Booking is created only under the applicable activated v3 schedule after affirmative v19 acceptance; neither path rewrites an earlier Booking.
There is no new Founding reduced-fee period for a Vendor entering under this version. An older accepted Founding term or other program record remains intact for the record it governs; it does not reduce or waive the share on a new Booking bound to the v3 schedule.
The Platform offers Listing at $10 per month or $100 per year, Starter with no base-plan subscription charge, and Pro at $25 per month or $250 per year. Free Starter has no base Stripe subscription, base Price, required payment card, or annual base-plan charge. It is not a trial and does not waive separately disclosed Booking or processor fees. No new activation under this version receives a trial or free paid-plan month. For a new paid monthly activation, the first invoice is the exact prorated amount from activation through the next first calendar day, followed by the full monthly amount on each first. For a new paid annual activation, the full annual amount is due at activation and renews at that amount on each activation anniversary unless a later approved price change applies. The phrase “2 months free” compares the Listing or Pro annual price with twelve monthly payments; it is not a trial, deferred charge, free-service period, additional term, or 14-month subscription.
For an eligible new v3 Listing or Pro purchase, MONTHLY75 may reduce the first matching monthly base-plan charge by 75%, and ANNUAL50 may reduce the first matching annual base-plan charge by 50%, only when the verified promotion is redeemed before 2026-10-19 04:00:00 UTC and applies to that plan's Stripe product. Each is a one-time base-plan discount; it does not discount add-ons, taxes, processor costs, historical balances, a different cadence or plan, or renewals. Neither applies to free Starter. FOUNDER3 is unavailable for new v3 admissions, while historical discounts and invoices retain their accepted treatment. Before separate paid recurring-billing consent, the Owner is shown the selected plan and cadence, amount due now, base and add-on lines and quantities, any applied promotion reduction, recurring amount and interval, next renewal date, automatic-renewal status, cancellation method, and effective date. The Owner must affirmatively consent after reviewing those terms; a saved payment method alone is not consent. Listing or Pro billing begins only after the required payment and subscription state are verified. Free Starter's trusted grant requires accepted applicable terms but no card, base subscription, or recurring-billing consent.
Listing includes no active Trackable-link/QR slots, Starter includes 1, and Pro includes 3. An Owner on paid Listing or Pro may purchase any nonnegative number of additional active slots for $5 per slot per month or $60 per slot per year on the same subscription cadence after reviewing the quoted price. For a new paid monthly activation, the first add-on charge is prorated with the base plan through the next first, and full recurring add-on charges follow each first. For a new paid annual activation, the full annual add-on charge is due at activation and renews on the base-plan anniversary. On an active paid subscription, an increase requires a separately quoted exact prorated charge due immediately; added capacity becomes usable only after that invoice is paid and the subscription is verified. A reduction is recorded for the next base-plan renewal, preserves capacity already paid for until then, and is refused if too many links remain active. A quantity change does not create an unconfirmed slot grant.
Free Starter's included slot needs no card or base subscription. The Owner may separately opt into additional slots at $5 per slot per month through an add-on-only subscription after reviewing and affirmatively consenting to the quantity, exact immediate prorated charge through the next first calendar day, full monthly renewal on each first, and cancellation method. No paid extra capacity is granted until payment and subscription state are verified. Failed or ended add-on payment affects only unpaid extra slots, not free Starter or its included slot. New free-Starter extras are monthly only. A transition of existing annual prepaid extras must preserve their verified paid quantity and service period until a separately reviewed migration reconciles them; no paid value is silently deleted or charged twice. Reduction or cancellation takes effect on the disclosed date while already-paid capacity is preserved through its paid term, subject to accepted plan and add-on terms.
A subscription already in a valid free month when this version takes effect retains its exact promised trial end, existing exit terms, and released add-on timing. It is not shortened, extended, restarted, or retroactively charged. A supported tier or cadence change during that existing trial keeps the fixed end; any destination paid-plan charge requires the Owner's separate review and acceptance and verification before paid access begins. An already accepted exit to Listing or Unpublish remains effective at the fixed end before the first paid base-plan charge. No new activation, reactivation, plan change, publication action, or cadence change creates or repeats a free paid-plan month.
A paid monthly Listing-to-Pro upgrade may use verified unused net Listing and same-cadence add-on value only from actual paid source invoice lines and only on the identified target invoice. A Listing-to-free-Starter change stops Listing billing at the confirmed effective date under the accepted term; there is no Starter base invoice to discount. A free Starter-to-Pro change starts one separately accepted paid subscription at the confirmed price and cadence, with Pro access only after required payment verification. A legacy paid Starter-to-Pro upgrade requires the Owner to confirm exact proration and payment before Pro access begins. Uncertain, refunded, disputed, stale, or mismatched evidence leaves the current paid plan authoritative and creates no paid entitlement.
A legacy annual paid Starter-to-Pro upgrade during a paid annual term may take effect immediately only after the Owner confirms Stripe's exact prorated charge and that invoice is verified paid. The current annual anniversary and verified paid annual value are preserved, and Pro entitlements begin only after that proof. An ordinary paid annual downgrade, change to Listing or free Starter, or Unpublish takes effect at the paid annual term end, with no midterm prorated refund or credit promised except as applicable law requires. A separately reviewed migration to v3 is addressed below.
A monthly subscription renews on the first calendar day of each month until changed or canceled through the supported flow. An annual subscription renews automatically at the disclosed annual rate on the first anniversary of the paid annual activation date and each annual anniversary thereafter unless changed or canceled. A cadence-only change from monthly to the same annual plan takes effect at the next monthly renewal, with no interim proration or credit. A direct change from an active or already-scheduled annual plan to monthly is not available. A fresh monthly activation may be requested only after the annual paid term has fully ended and the Vendor workspace is unpublished; it receives no new free month or repeated introductory promotion.
A legacy paid Listing remains at its accepted Price until separately changed; the v3 Listing Price remains $100 annually. A paid Starter subscription transitioned to free Starter under a reviewed migration receives a refund of verified unused paid time against the original payment, capped at the net amount actually paid for that term; a $0 or unpaid period creates no cash refund. A Pro reduction to $250 annually or $25 monthly receives the exact previewed and verified provider credit treatment, not an automatic cash refund. The current paid term, cadence, monthly anchor or annual anniversary, add-ons, valid discounts, and accepted notices must be reconciled before any change. A legacy trial keeps its fixed end and must not silently create a paid charge at that end. A missing, disputed, suspended, unpaid, or unverified record remains unchanged until reviewed. A new price listing does not itself change an existing subscription.
For a Listing-to-paid target trial that began before this version takes effect, the existing Listing plan and paid add-on quantity remain authoritative through their paid term under the accepted prior terms. Only verified unused net value from actual paid Listing and same-cadence add-on invoice lines may be applied to the identified target invoice, never to a general balance. If the Owner exits back to Listing or chooses Unpublish, the released fixed-end outcome remains in effect. No private promotion or free month repeats, and uncertainty leaves Listing unchanged until resolved.
The Owner of an active paid monthly plan may request a Pro-to-free-Starter change, a change to Listing where supported, or Unpublish through the supported Platform method. These monthly paid-plan downgrades and exits take effect on the first monthly renewal date at least 30 days after the confirmed request where the accepted agreement's notice rule applies. An annual downgrade, change to Listing or free Starter, or Unpublish takes effect at the current paid annual term end; no 30-day annual cancellation deadline applies. Before confirmation, the Platform shows the recurring price, cadence, amount due, renewal interval and date, cancellation method, downgrade effect, and effective date. Until the effective date, the existing plan and features continue unless the Owner unpublishes or the Platform restricts the account for safety, legal, payment, payout, or enforcement reasons. At the confirmed Pro-to-Starter effective date, the Pro base charge ends and free Starter's limits apply. A monthly Listing cancellation schedules Unpublish for the current monthly paid term end. Existing confirmed Bookings are not canceled by the plan request.
If this draft is later approved and published, its changed prices, free access, Booking fees, contact access, trial treatment, subscription cadence, cancellation, downgrade, retention, and related plan rules apply prospectively to a Vendor only after that Vendor affirmatively accepts the approved version and the applicable new-Booking fee schedule is activated for that Vendor. Until affirmative v19 acceptance, an existing Vendor's accepted zero-platform-fee terms continue to govern eligible new Bookings; a global selector change or subscription migration does not by itself impose the v3 share. A cancellation, downgrade, renewal, trial end, or effective date already accepted or scheduled under an earlier version is not retroactively extended or otherwise changed. Each v3 Booking keeps its recorded originating plan, fee basis points, Customer fee of zero, and calculated Vendor share through changes, refunds, disputes, and reversals. Existing accepted Booking terms and historical financial records remain governed by the version and durable records accepted for them.
For historical Bookings that carry a percentage Vendor Lineup share or Customer marketplace fee, the recorded fee base remains the Vendor booking subtotal: booked services/packages, required travel, options, add-ons, and accepted later additions, after Vendor-funded discounts. It excludes transaction tax, refundable security/damage deposits, voluntary gratuities, and any historical Customer marketplace fee. Historical fee calculations and caps follow each Booking's accepted snapshot; the successor fee schedule does not recalculate them.
3. Stripe processing and Connect allocation
For an eligible new v3 Booking payment, Stripe processes a direct charge for the Vendor's connected account. The Vendor is the merchant for that card transaction and bears the actual card-processing cost charged on the total card payment, including applicable tax. The Customer pays no separate Vendor Lineup Booking fee. The Stripe application-fee amount allocates the collected Vendor Lineup share and any collected transaction-tax cents retained by the Platform under the existing direct-charge tax contract; the tax allocation is not labeled Platform revenue. The application-fee amount for a deposit and later balance allocates the one stored Booking share across those charges without collecting that share twice; rounding remainders are assigned deterministically so the installments add to the stored total. Processor-owned costs, dispute fees, and chargebacks remain separate. Listing has no new Booking payment or payout flow and does not need Connect readiness merely to publish its profile. Free Starter may publish without Connect readiness but cannot take a paid Booking until its direct-charge account is eligible.
The Platform records the actual processor cost reported by Stripe. The Platform does not promise a percentage estimate, a particular processor cost, a payout date, or a payout amount. Stripe's configured account responsibilities, risk controls, and terms govern eligible connected-account losses and negative balances.
Existing accepted Bookings and legacy destination charges keep the payment owner, allocation, refunds, and records that applied when they were created.
The Platform does not guarantee Stripe approval, processing cost, settlement timing, or payout availability. A processor's displayed status controls whether an external money movement succeeded; a Platform request alone is not a completed charge, refund, transfer, reversal, or payout.
4. Changes, cancellations, and refunds
A supported Booking change or reschedule displays the revised gross amount, fees, tax, promotion allocation, and resulting charge or refund before acceptance. The original terms remain effective until the adjustment completes.
For Customer cancellation, the accepted cancellation policy determines the ordinary Customer refund at the event-local time. Vendor cancellation requires cancellation of uncaptured future amounts and refund of amounts collected for unperformed service, subject to lawful dispute and processor constraints. A Vendor may grant additional Customer relief through the supported flow.
The Customer's refund entitlement does not change. For a direct charge, a supported Customer refund is charged against the charge-owning Vendor connected account. The Platform returns the refundable portion of the v3 Vendor Lineup application-fee share in proportion to the refunded charge amount, together with any refundable tax allocation, through Stripe's supported process and records the result; rounding is reconciled against the original stored charge and prior refunds. A processor may not return the original processing cost; that nonreturned cost remains the Vendor's liability. A refund remains pending until the processor confirms the required movement; a Platform request alone is not a completed refund. Existing destination-charge refunds retain their recorded transfer-reversal treatment.
5. Disputes, chargebacks, and recovery
If a Customer disputes a charge or a processor reverses funds, the Platform may submit transaction evidence; pause or offset Vendor payouts; reverse transfers; allocate processor dispute fees; and recover amounts attributable to the Vendor, Customer, or Platform under the accepted Booking and applicable law.
The Vendor is responsible for losses arising from its nonperformance, misrepresentation, policy breach, or transaction evidence. M2 AI, LLC is responsible for a shortfall caused solely by its own pricing, allocation, or processing error to the extent required by the governing agreement and law. Neither party is charged for an amount that the durable records do not support.
6. Vendor payout timing and holds
Stripe controls the availability, risk review, payout schedule, restrictions, and negative-balance treatment for an eligible direct-charge connected account. Payout dates and amounts are not guaranteed. Any Platform pause or offset must remain tied to a supported processor, legal, pending-refund, cancellation, dispute, chargeback, fraud, security, verification, negative-balance, or account-enforcement reason and is not escrow.
The Vendor can review available payment/payout records through supported account tools. Those records are operational summaries; Stripe and the underlying immutable ledger control if a display differs.
7. Taxes
The Platform may calculate, collect, and remit transaction tax where M2 AI, LLC determines it is required to do so. The Customer is responsible for tax properly charged to the Booking. Each Vendor remains responsible for its registrations, permits, income, franchise, payroll, and any transaction tax not legally collected and remitted by the Platform.
No tax estimate, code, invoice, or Platform statement is tax advice or a representation that a particular Vendor or service is exempt. M2 AI, LLC and Vendors will provide tax information reasonably required by law or a processor.
8. Corrections and records
The Platform may correct an obvious calculation, duplicate, processor mismatch, or ledger error and will preserve the material transaction evidence. A correction will not increase a Customer's obligation without the Customer's separate acceptance or another lawful basis. Questions should be sent to hello@vendorlineup.com with the Booking number, but not complete card or bank details.
Cross-references: Marketplace Customer Terms · Marketplace Booking Terms · Vendor Agreement