Venue partner guide
What setting up actually involves.
About ten minutes to sign up, then verification, then requests. This page is the practical side of joining the roster — the sequence, what we check and why, and what separates an offer that wins from one that gets skipped.
The sequence
After you register, in order.
Confirm your email
Immediate
A confirmation note arrives the moment you finish signing up. Click the link inside it. If it hasn't appeared, check your spam folder or use the resend control on the verification page.
Yours to do
Complete your profile
About ten minutes
A description of the space running at least 50 characters, at least three photos, your seated capacity, your starting price, your legal business name, and the signed Platform Agreement. That list is the whole bar.
Yours to do
Verification clears itself
The moment the last field lands
There is no queue and no reviewer to wait on — the moment your profile meets the bar above, your account verifies itself and matched requests start appearing in your dashboard. Our team still reviews venues after the fact and will reach out if something needs correcting. Setup you finished before your area opened is kept as it was.
Automatic
Read requests, answer the ones that fit
Ongoing
Each request carries the date, guest count, budget, setting, and must-haves before you decide whether to answer. There is no quota and no penalty for passing.
Your call
Verification
Four things we check, and why.
Couples are handing us one of the largest days of their lives. Every venue on the roster clears the same four checks before a single request reaches it — which is precisely what makes the badge next to your name worth carrying.
Business registration
Your legal business name and EIN, confirmed against public records.
Liability insurance
Active cover, at the level any event venue already carries.
The venue itself
A physical address and a real, operating event space — which is what keeps invented listings off the roster.
Profile accuracy
Capacity, pricing, amenities, and venue type read against how the room actually operates.
What you pay for
One rate, and this is what it buys.
Nothing is owed until a couple books and pays. Stripe processing is inside the commission rate rather than billed alongside it, so the percentage you agree to is the whole platform cut.
- Couple acquisition — advertising, search, and partnerships
- Payment processing and escrow through Stripe Connect
- Fit scoring, market benchmarks, and bid coaching
- Platform infrastructure and a team that answers
- Fraud prevention and dispute resolution
- Booking contracts and e-signature
Writing an offer
What separates the offers couples shortlist.
Every offer arrives on the same rows, next to two or three others. These are the four things that decide which one gets read twice.
Itemise what's included
“Catering included” tells a couple nothing. Menu options, service style, and the per-person figure tell them everything — and score higher for completeness.
Answer what they actually asked for
Read the request properly. If they want a ceremony lawn and you have one, name it. Offers that address the brief outrank generic packages.
Bundle value, hold your price
Your rate card stays whole. Extended hours, an upgraded bar, vendor credits — the value you already hold is what wins the date.
Answer early
Couples begin reading and shortlisting as soon as the first offers land. Being in that first read is worth more than a polished late entry.
Questions
Short answers on fees, timing, and payouts.
Nothing to register, list, browse, or bid. You pay commission only after a couple books and pays through Bidwell. Lose the bid? Still $0.
Something not covered? Ask us directly.
Apply
Ten minutes now. Requests from there.
Set up your room, clear verification, and start reading requests from couples with a date, a guest count, and a number already stated.
No listing fee · Commission only when an event books