Platform
Money, stated in public
Business Model
The platform earns only where it adds real value, caps every fee, and keeps the civic layer free forever. With payments not yet live, €0 is charged through the platform today.
What members keep
Every route is benchmarked against what comparable platforms take. The calculator below mirrors these exact terms.
| Route | Terms | Elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted Experiences & Activities | Free under €300 of monthly bookings, then 6% capped at €60/month — hosts keep at least 94%. | Comparable marketplaces commonly take 15–20% from experience hosts. |
| Stays & Rooms | 8% per stay capped at €40 — hosts keep at least 92%. | Large stay platforms commonly take 14–16% in combined fees. |
| Group Travel & Circuits | 5% per departure capped at €100 — organisers keep at least 95%. | Group-tour marketplaces commonly take 10–20%. |
| Gatherings, Events & Ateliers | Free events are always free to run. Paid tickets: 4% capped at €30/event. | Ticketing platforms commonly take 5–10% plus fixed fees. |
| Culture Formats (screenings, concerts, courses) | 4% capped at €30/session, and always free for associations under Loi 1901. | Cultural booking platforms commonly take 8–15%. |
What You Keep — calculator
Pick a route and a gross monthly figure; the platform's published formula does the rest.
On €500.00 gross: platform fee €12.00 — you keep €488.00 (97.6%). Payments are not yet live: today the platform charges €0 and hosts settle directly.
How the platform itself earns
- Memberships. Free / Soutien €5 per month / Organisation €29 per month — identical features at every tier; paying is support, not access. The civic layer is free at every tier, forever.
- Collectivité licences. Communes and public bodies license the governance suite (consultations, needs map, restitutions, dashboards) under public procurement — the platform never charges residents for civic participation.
- Tourism partnerships. Destination organisations co-finance destination content and group-experience programming under published, labelled agreements.
- Verification at cost. Optional identity and host verification billed at cost — trust is not a profit centre.
- Aggregate insight, never individuals. Anonymised, aggregate participation research licensed to public institutions under the Civic Data Commons charter — individual data is never sold, to anyone.
- No advertising. The platform carries no third-party advertising. Attention is for the room you are in.
Three principles, in code
Never a fee on public money or civic participation. No advertising, ever. No individual data sold, to anyone — aggregate insight only, under the Civic Data Commons charter.
How LaSocialOffline connects this
Everything on the platform feeds everything else: experiences fill Cercles, Cercles carry campaigns, campaigns reach authorities, authorities publish programs, and programs fund the next experience.