Studio cut vs your net
How a session's gross price becomes "studio keeps X, you keep Y" — commission splits, fixed rent or flat-rate arrangements, and guest fees.
The same three words show up across your Accounting tab, your Stats, and Money Settlement: gross, studio cut, and net. This page explains how a session's full price turns into "the studio keeps this much, you keep that much."
Gross, studio cut, net
- Gross — the full price of the session, before anything is taken out.
- Studio cut — the studio's share, set by your arrangement with them.
- Net — what you keep after the studio's cut.
Commission arrangements
On a commission split, the studio's cut is a percentage of each session's price. A €100 session at a 30% commission means a €30 studio cut and €70 net for you. The percentage is whatever you and the studio agreed. An independent practitioner with no studio has no cut — your net is the whole price.
Rent, flat-rate and training arrangements
Some practitioners don't pay a percentage at all. Instead they pay the studio a fixed amount — chair rental (per day, week, or month), a flat rate, or a training fee. With these, your net is the full session price, and you owe the studio that fixed amount separately. Those fixed payments are handled in Payments, not taken out of each session.
Guest fees
A visiting artist either pays the host studio a percentage of their sessions (a settlement, like commission) or a flat guest fee (a fixed payment). See Guest-spot money.
If you're the studio
Read from your side, your commission income is the total of your cut across your team's completed sessions, while rent, flat-rate, training and guest fees are separate fixed income. Your Accounting tab lists these; the actual hand-over of commission money happens in Money Settlement.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is the commission percentage set?
The studio sets each team member's arrangement in Team → Arrangements. Until it's set, the booking's settlement is paused — see Arrangement not set.
- Does the studio take a cut of my chair rental too?
No. Rent and flat-rate arrangements are a fixed amount you pay the studio; the studio doesn't also take a percentage of those sessions.
See this in action
- Payments - rent, flat-rate, training and guest feesThe Payments mode of Money Settlement, where artists confirm the fixed amounts they pay the studio, and a studio confirms its recurring staff expenses.
- Your Accounting tab - income, expenses, and what you keepWhat the practitioner Accounting tab shows - completed-session income, kept deposits, manual income, your expenses, and the summary that breaks gross into studio cut and your net.
- Your studio Accounting tabWhat the studio Accounting tab shows - a completed-income ledger by category and team member, with settlement of what's still owed living in Money Settlement.
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