A room is not a policy PDF. These are the honest terms behind hiring a space here — what your gathering might need, the one question that ends more evenings than any other, and how the money works. Answered with the actual hardware and the actual maths, not a shrug.
Pick what you actually do. Each host answers these against their own room — this is the platform’s general stance, so you know what to ask before you book.
A “not possible” is not a failing. Saying no clearly to four things earns more bookings than saying yes vaguely to everything and having one evening go wrong.
The question that ends more gatherings than any other — answered with the actual hardware rather than a policy.
Not possible in most rooms, and the reason is the lease rather than a judgement. Where it is legal — Brazil, and some Dutch and Portuguese contexts — a venue must state the licence it holds, and the platform asks for it. Where it is not, we do not list it, and we will remove it. This is a line we hold clearly so that no facilitator, and no room, finds out the hard way.
A room can be hired two ways: flat hire (you pay for the room, you keep the door) or a split (the venue takes a share of ticket sales instead of a fee). Try it against a real evening — the platform keeps 9% of what a facilitator is paid either way.
Flat hire asks a teacher with no audience yet to gamble €135 on a Tuesday. Most will not, and the room stays empty — which is worse for the venue than 30% of a small evening. A split shares the risk so the room gets used.
30% of nothing is nothing, and a venue cannot run on that. A free evening must be booked as flat hire, or as an agreed donation of the room — never as a split that quietly pays the venue zero. The platform blocks that combination rather than letting it surprise someone.