SHWDWNManaging an event / 2.10
Auto-pay fighters
Every combat event has an auto-pay fighters setting. It controls whether SHWDWN holds and pays out fighter shares of ticket sales, or whether all post-fee money flows to you and you pay fighters directly. Set it at event creation, change it any time while the event is in draft, locked once you publish.
The two states
Auto-pay on (default, recommended)
- Fighters with SHWDWN accounts have their share of attributed ticket sales held by us.
- When the event completes, you review each fighter's payout on the Payouts tab and approve it. SHWDWN transfers the money to their Stripe account.
- Quick-add fighters (fighters you've added to the card who don't have a SHWDWN account) can appear on the public fight card but can't have ticket sales attributed to them. Only real-account fighters show in the buyer's Supporting selector.
If your fighters are signed up to SHWDWN, this is the path you want. See Setting up fighter payouts for per-fighter rate configuration.
Auto-pay off
Use this when your fighters aren't on the platform — amateur cards, internal company events, charity bouts, anything where it's not practical to ask every fighter to sign up to SHWDWN.
- Only quick-add fighters can be on the fight card. Fighters with SHWDWN accounts can't be added to an auto-pay-off event. If you need a real-account fighter on the card, switch auto-pay back on while the event is still in draft.
- Quick-add fighters are first-class for ticket attribution: they appear in the buyer's Supporting selector, and you can generate unique attribution links for them from the Fight Card tab.
- SHWDWN doesn't hold any fighter share. All post-fee money flows to you at checkout.
- You're responsible for paying every fighter directly, off-platform, in whatever way you've agreed with them.
The platform still tracks attribution — your dashboard shows which fighter each ticket was attributed to and how much they sold, so you can use those numbers when settling up off-platform.
Where to find it
- At event creation: it's a step in the creation flow. Default is on.
- On a draft event: head to the Fight Card tab of your event editor. The toggle sits at the top.
The toggle is locked the moment you publish your event. There's no unpublish flow — once locked, locked. If you think you might need auto-pay off, set it before publishing.
What buyers see
Nothing. The toggle is invisible to ticket buyers — checkout, the confirmation page, and the public event page all look identical regardless of how it's set.
What fighters see
Quick-add fighters don't have a SHWDWN account, so there's nothing for them to see in-app — the fight card lists their name publicly, and that's it. If a quick-add fighter later claims a SHWDWN account, the bout shows up in their portal labelled as promoter-paid. See Promoter-paid events for the fighter-side view.
Common questions
- Can I change my mind after publishing?
- No. The setting is locked at publish. Treat the choice as one-way.
- Can I have some fighters auto-paid and others paid off-platform on the same event?
- No. The setting is all-or-nothing per event. Every fighter on the card is on the same side of it.
- Do refunds still work on auto-pay-off events?
- Yes. On a refund, Stripe pulls the transferred amount back from your connected account before refunding the buyer. You'll see the pull in your Stripe activity feed.
- Can SHWDWN see how much I paid each fighter?
- No. Off-platform payments are your business — we only track attribution (ticket counts and gross sale amounts), not what you actually paid.
Important: SHWDWN isn't a party to off-platform payments. If you turn auto-pay off, get any payment terms in writing with your fighters before the event — we can't mediate disputes about money that never went through the platform.