How SceneF makes money
When you tap Tickets you go to the theater’s or its ticketer’s own box office. No ticket link pays SceneF anything today: no affiliate program is live, and every link goes to the vendor unwrapped. If that changes, this line changes with it — the programs are named on /status in the same deploy that wraps the first link, and what appears on the board, and where, is never for sale either way.
What the money cannot reach
The board is built before any payout is known. A screening appears because a theater is showing it and the showtime survived verification; it is ordered by time and distance and what you asked for. No commission moves a house up, adds a screening, or keeps one off. A theater that pays nothing — today, every one of them — is listed exactly like one that does, in the same row, in the same typeface, with the same check.
The same goes for verification. A house whose links earn a commission — none do today — is checked on the same schedule, graded by the same rings, and its misses are published in the same record as everyone else’s. The verification pages are at /accuracy and /status, and they publish failures as readily as passes.
Who pays, and for what
Commissions would be paid through affiliate networks, and each one is named here and on /status as it goes live. None is live today, so no ticket link carries a network’s identifier. Nothing about you rides along with a ticket link — not an email address you gave us for alerts, not a name — and /privacy lists everything the site keeps.
No ticket link pays anything at all today. A theater’s own box office is preferred wherever the theater sells its own tickets, and those links earn SceneF nothing — the ticketer only appears where the house has no bookable page of its own.
Why say it here
Because a listing you cannot trust is worth less than no listing, and the fastest way to lose that is to be paid quietly. A commission, when there is one, will be small and disclosed next to the links themselves, and it will be the only money SceneF takes: no advertising, no sponsored rows, no fee from readers, and nothing from theaters for being listed or for being listed higher.
Questions about any of this go to info@scenef.com.