Door deal vs guarantee

A guarantee is a set fee for the night. The room can be full or empty; the contract still names that number. On a BandTally gig, choose deal type guarantee and enter the fee in the guarantee field. The amount that drives the split is the payment you record when it arrives, by Zelle, Venmo, check, or cash.

A deposit on the sheet is not extra income. It is money you already received. Recording it twice inflates the split.

A straight door deal has no floor. The band is paid a percentage of the door, and the contract does not promise a guarantee underneath. On the gig, choose deal type door deal and store the contract percentage in Door %. BandTally keeps that percentage as a record of the deal. It does not count tickets or turn a door report into the check.

Use the net door figure from the settlement sheet. Comps, promoter holds, and credit-card fees often sit under the gross ticket number. If the sheet shows a net door figure, that net is what belongs on the gig — not gross tickets. Record that payment as income when it hits the band’s account.

A vs deal pays the greater of two amounts: the guarantee, or the band’s share of the door. It does not pay both. Contracts write it as a dollar amount versus a door percentage. Compare the two figures, keep the larger one, and record that payment.

BandTally does not choose the winner. The gig can still store the guarantee and the Door % so the contract sits on the date. The income you record is the amount that landed. On the gig settlement calculator, put that one amount in Guarantee and leave Door / extra at zero. Those two fields are added. Adding the guarantee offer and the door split would describe a different contract.

Guarantee plus a percentage does add. The band receives the guarantee and also a percentage of the door. On the gig, the deal type is guarantee plus percentage. Store the guarantee and the Door %, then record the payment that arrived, the same way you record any other night: Zelle, Venmo, check, or cash.

The gig has no field for a threshold, such as a percentage that starts only after the guarantee is covered. Do that math from the settlement sheet, then record the result. On the calculator, put the guarantee in Guarantee and the extra door money in Door / extra. The tool adds them first, then takes the agent cut on that sum.

Example numbers, labeled so they can be typed into the calculator. The contract is a $800.00 guarantee versus 70% of the door. The example door, after comps and card fees, is $2,000.00. 70% of that door is $1,400.00. The greater of $800.00 and $1,400.00 is $1,400.00. The venue pays $1,400.00. The $800.00 is not added on top.

Example inputs for the calculator: Guarantee $1,400.00, Door / extra $0.00, Expenses $85.00, Agent cut 10%, Merch (net) $0.00, People splitting 3.

The tool adds guarantee and door to a performance gross of $1,400.00. The agent cut is 10% of that gross, $140.00. Expenses do not reduce the percentage. Merch is added after the cut; this example uses $0.00. The amount to split is $1,400.00 minus $85.00 minus $140.00 plus $0.00, which is $1,175.00.

Equal Pay divides $1,175.00 by 3 people. The even base is $391.66, and 2 cents are left. Those cents go to the first members, one cent each, so the shares are $391.67, $391.67, and $391.66. They add back to $1,175.00. The calculator’s line labeled Each member’s share shows the first of those, $391.67.

If this contract had been guarantee plus a percentage, the extra door money would go in Door / extra and the tool would add it to the guarantee before the agent cut. Do not enter a vs deal that way. The vs deal has already chosen one number: $1,400.00.

The sheet is the venue’s account of the night: tickets or door, comps, deductions, and the net paid to the band. Circle the net amount paid to the band — after venue deductions, before your agent. Sound, backline, and hospitality the band ate are gig expenses when the band paid them. The booking agent’s commission rarely appears on the sheet. It still comes out of the band’s number before the split.

How to read a venue settlement maps those lines onto a BandTally gig: deal type, guarantee, Door %, the payment, the expenses, and the agent’s rate.