Open Door — referral program

Know the people who run the night?

Introduce an organizer you personally know to Festro. If they join and run a real paid event, you get paid — a floor of C$200 per organizer plus 10% of the platform fees Festro collects from them for 12 months. You make one warm intro; we do all the selling.

Step 1

Claim the intro

Tell us which organizer you know — someone with a real public event history. We check the claim against our pipeline and confirm within 2 business days. First confirmed claim wins.

Step 2

Make the intro

Within 14 days, connect us live — a group chat, a thread, or in person — with someone authorized at the organizer. That's your whole job: you never pitch, quote prices, or sign anything. We take every conversation from there.

Step 3

Get paid

When your organizer completes their first qualifying paid event, your floor starts paying and your 12-month fee share begins. Payouts go out by Interac e-transfer.

The deal — every condition, up front

C$200 floor per organizer

Paid in two parts: C$100 after your organizer's first qualifying paid event (at least C$500 in ticket sales from 25+ different buyers, and the event actually happened), and C$100 after their second qualifying event or C$7,500 in cumulative ticket sales within 6 months. Each part is held 60 days against refunds, then paid out with your next quarterly Interac e-transfer once your balance clears C$50.

10% of collected fees, 12 months

You earn 10% of the platform fees Festro actually collects from your organizer's ticket sales for 12 months from their first qualifying event, capped at C$1,000 per organizer. Refunded or charged-back orders drop out of the base. Balances pay out quarterly by Interac e-transfer once you're over C$50.

Only one referrer is ever credited per organizer — first confirmed claim wins, and every floor tranche and fee-share payment on that organizer goes to them alone. No payouts on organizers you own or help operate, on self-referrals, or on organizers already in our pipeline (we tell you at the claim step). Every entry is held 60 days against refunds and can be voided if an event unwinds or a claim turns out not to be real. Fees over C$500 per year are reported on a T4A. This is a single-level program: nobody earns anything for recruiting other referrers.

What that adds up to

One intro, capped at C$1,200.

1 organizer

up to C$1,200

A maximum, not a forecast: the C$200 floor (C$100 after a qualifying paid event — C$500+ in ticket sales from 25+ distinct buyers, event actually held — plus C$100 after a second qualifying event or C$7,500 cumulative within 6 months) plus 10% of the platform fees Festro actually collects for 12 months from that first event, capped separately at C$1,000 — C$1,200 all-in.

3 organizers

up to C$3,600

A maximum, not a forecast: each organizer must independently clear both floor milestones (C$500+ in sales from 25+ distinct buyers and the event actually held, then a second qualifying event or C$7,500 cumulative within 6 months) and earn 10% of the platform fees Festro actually collects for 12 months from its first event, capped separately at C$1,000 — C$1,200 each, so three qualifying organizers total C$3,600.

Payout timing

Quarterly, by Interac

Entries are held 60 days against refunds, then pay out quarterly by Interac e-transfer once your balance passes C$50. A smaller balance rolls forward to the next quarter.

These are maximums, not typical results — the program is new, so we have no typical earnings figure to report. Each organizer must independently meet the qualifying-event rules above, every entry is held 60 days against refunds, and only one referrer is ever credited per organizer — first confirmed claim wins. Single-level, always: nobody earns anything for recruiting other referrers.

Start with who you already know

You probably already know an organizer.

This program pays for warm intros, not cold outreach. Walk through your own scene:

The collective that books you — or whose nights you never miss.
Promoters and DJs you share bills, group chats, or afters with.
Venue bookers and managers who know you by name.
Festival, label, or student crews who ticket their own events.
The person who books the room, makes the flyer, and runs the guest list — even if “organizer” isn't their title.

The one rule that holds everywhere: claim only people you personally know, and let us do all the selling. Our first message to them names you — no bulk DMs, no pitching on Festro's behalf.