Host Terms

Any player can start hosting, in Earnings accounts or when they first set a seat price, and then run open plays that charge a price per seat. Players pay through OpenCourt, seats are confirmed the moment the payment settles, and OpenCourt pays you out. Or you collect the payments yourself, as section 2 says. These terms add to the Terms of Service and the Refund Policy, and apply every time you publish a paid session.

• You set a price per seat. Players see your price. At checkout they also pay OpenCourt's service fee, a percentage of your price shown as its own line, and the payment processing fee for their method.
• You receive your full price for every paid seat. OpenCourt keeps the service fee and the processing fee. There is no commission on your price.
• Each paid seat adds your price to your balance. You can request your balance once every 24 hours from Sent earnings, on your Earnings page under Money. OpenCourt reviews each request and sends it to the earnings account you picked for Host in Earnings accounts. If you don't request, your balance goes out with the scheduled send, twice a week on Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday's send covers what was paid up to 5 PM the Friday before, and Friday's up to 5 PM the Wednesday before. You can choose weekly, every Friday, or monthly, the first Friday of the month, in Earnings accounts.
• You can instead have players pay you directly, with your own account or QR. Then the money for that session never passes through OpenCourt. OpenCourt does not hold it, send it, refund it or pass it on with Pasalo, and no service fee or processing fee is charged on it. A player who pays you sends a photo of the receipt and their seat shows as paid at once. You check each receipt against your account, and you mark a seat not paid when the money isn't there. You keep your account details correct and you answer for every payment players send you.

• A paid seat is final for the player. Players can't ask for a refund. A player who cannot make it passes the seat on with Pasalo, and you keep your price.
• Only you or OpenCourt can refund a paid seat. When you cancel a session or remove a paid player, each player gets their seat price back at once. The same amount comes off your balance, so the next earnings we send you are that much smaller. The service fee and the processing fee the player paid to join aren't refunded.
• In a session players pay you directly, you refund them yourself. If you cancel the session or remove a player who paid you, you give their money back to them directly. OpenCourt can't refund it for you.
• OpenCourt may refund a seat when a player reports a problem with your session, for example you did not show up. The seat price comes off your balance in the same way, and you are told why.
• Paid Tournament entries follow the same rules. Each paid entry adds your price to your balance, which you request the same way. A paid entry is final for the team. When you cancel a tournament or remove a paid team before the draw, each team gets its entry price back at once and it comes off your balance.
• If OpenCourt cancels a session or tournament, because of you (for example, you do not show up) or for a reason of its own, each paid player is refunded their seat or entry price at once and it comes off your balance, since the session did not happen. If your balance is below zero, it is taken from your next sales before any earnings are sent to you.
• Whoever refunds (you or OpenCourt) chooses where it goes: back to the payment method the player used, or as OpenCourt credits. OpenCourt handles them.

• You have the right to use the court or venue you name, for the hours you publish. At a partner court you hold a booking for those hours; elsewhere you have the venue's permission.
• You run the session as published: format, level, capacity, start and end.
• You treat players fairly and keep the session safe. Awards and removals are yours to make; abuse is not.
• Your earnings account belongs to you and the details on your profile are accurate.

OpenCourt may suspend a host for repeated no-shows, misleading listings, unsafe sessions or unpaid obligations. A suspended host cannot publish paid sessions; what the ledger already owes them is still sent to them.

Write to help@opencourt.ph for anything about a session, your earnings or these terms.