Open your home. Change someone’s night.
Hosts are the heart of the welcome. Use this guide to create a thoughtful, listening-first HouseShow in your own space.
You are creating the welcome
A host opens more than a door. You provide accurate capacity, access, parking, house rules, a ready performance area, artist coordination, and the details that help guests feel at home. HouseShow provides marketplace infrastructure, specific-show ticketing, verification workflows, guest-list tools, revenue-share infrastructure, standards, and support.
The home should keep its personality. Standards make thoughtful hospitality repeatable without making every HouseShow look the same.
The ten HouseShow standards
Shared economics
Host share of ticket revenue
Ticket revenue is 70% Artist / 18% Host / 12% HouseShow.
Host share of food and non-alcoholic beverages
The remaining 12% goes to HouseShow. Artist merchandise is never host F&B revenue.
The host timeline
Home, food, and lodging
Keep sightlines, walkways, exits, power, seating, temperature, ventilation, restrooms, water, lighting, parking, and neighbor consideration in view. Welcome the artist personally with water, orientation, prep space, and soundcheck.
HouseShow is designed and promoted as non-alcoholic. Food should be simple, low-mess, quiet, clearly described, easy to replenish, and labeled for relevant allergens and dietary choices. Hosts remain responsible for applicable food-handling, sales, permitting, and tax requirements.
Artist lodging is optional, never guaranteed, and agreed directly. Clarify sleeping area, bathroom, parking, pets, smoking, quiet hours, meals, transportation, and dates.
Safety is shared
HouseShow provides no insurance coverage. Discuss paid gatherings with your insurer, review exclusions, consider event or umbrella coverage, and check HOA, lease, and local rules. Listed insurance providers are research options, not endorsements. Confirm terms and eligibility directly with each provider.
Keep exits clear, lighting working, alarms where required, a suitable fire extinguisher, first-aid supplies, emergency contacts, a weather plan, and safe electrical setup ready.
Sound, neighbors, and local permits
10:00 PM is the most common cutoff time required by local sound ordinances. Hosts must confirm with their local permitting agencies for any outdoor performance to ensure compliance with local sound ordinances and required permitting.
Creating a HouseShow listing does not grant permission to use a property for a ticketed event or commercial activity. Confirm the rules that apply to the address, the event, and anything you offer guests before publishing or hosting.
- Zoning and land use. Ask the city or county planning agency whether paid gatherings, commercial activity, or amplified sound fit the property and whether an approval applies.
- HOA or lease rules. Review written restrictions and obtain permission from the owner or association when your property rules require it.
- Business and event permissions. Ask the agencies serving the address about current business registration, event, occupancy, or other permissions that may apply.
- Food and drinks. For paid food or non-alcoholic beverages, confirm applicable handling, labeling, health, seller, and inspection requirements. HouseShow permits non-alcoholic offerings only.
- Taxes. Determine whether registrations, collection, filings, or remittance apply to your activity. HouseShow may process amounts entered through its tools, but does not determine your tax obligations or provide tax advice.
- Sound and neighbors. Check local noise rules, outdoor performance requirements, quiet hours, and neighbor communication with the appropriate agency.
Palm Springs and Riverside County are examples of places where city and county requirements may differ or change. Use those names as a reminder to confirm current information directly, not as a verified checklist or substitute for agency guidance.
HouseShow does not provide legal or tax advice and does not verify permits or approve a property. When you are unsure, contact the relevant agency or a qualified professional before listing.
Refunds and merchandise
For discretionary ticket and event food or non-alcoholic beverage refund and cancellation decisions, HouseShow uses a two-of-three principle among the Artist, Host, and HouseShow. Two of the three parties must agree to the shared decision.
Artist merchandise refunds are controlled by the artist. Official HouseShow merchandise refunds are controlled by HouseShow.
Current Terms and transaction-specific instructions control.
If something goes wrong
Put safety first and call emergency services when appropriate. Calmly de-escalate, make the area safe, and document details after everyone is stable. Then contact HouseShow support and follow the applicable refund or cancellation process. Do not promise a refund before the current policy is reviewed.
After-show checklist
Thank the artist and guests, review payouts and orders, collect approved media, check the space and neighbors, document issues, and write down one improvement for next time.
Sample house rules
“Please arrive through the marked entrance, park only in the spaces listed in your ticket, keep walkways and exits clear, respect private areas, ask before photographing people or belongings, keep phones quiet during the set, and follow the host’s closing time. This is a non-alcoholic experience.”
Read the complete Host Experience Guide
Download the official Standards & Guide V1.0 for the full operating reference.
Download the Host Guide