Host Fee & Payment Schedule

The booking fee is charged to your Guest on top of your price; the commission (Starter only) is charged to you. Subscription prices for Host+, Studio, and Enterprise are shown on the Pricing page and are charged separately with GST. Studio and Host+ carry the same per-booking charges; Studio differs on Platform features, not on price.

Free bookings. A Service priced at ₹0 attracts no booking fee, no commission, no payment processing charge, and no TDS or TCS.

Minimum price. A paid Service must be priced at ₹100 or more on the Starter, Host+, and Studio Plans. Below that, the flat ₹10 booking fee would be too large a share of the price to be fair to your Guest. Free (₹0) Services remain available on every Plan, and the Supreme Plan has no minimum price.

Payments are collected through our payment gateway. The actual gateway charge on the transaction is borne by you and is deducted from your payout. The charge varies by the method your Guest uses (UPI, card, net banking, wallet); we pass through what the gateway actually charges, not a marked-up rate.

As an e-commerce operator, we are required by law to deduct and deposit two amounts from the sale value of your Service, against your PAN:

• TDS — 1% under section 194-O of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
• TCS — 1% under section 52 of the CGST Act, 2017.

Neither is a charge by Book A Sloth and neither is retained by us. Both are deposited to your credit against your PAN and are claimable in your income-tax and GST returns respectively. A valid PAN is mandatory before you can accept paid bookings (194-O requires it).

Your Guest pays your listed price plus a flat ₹10 booking fee and 18% GST on that ₹10 (₹1.80). The booking fee is the same regardless of your Plan, so your Guest pays the same amount whichever Plan you are on. Commission, where it applies, is taken from your side, not added to the Guest’s price.

The commission is inclusive of GST — the 5% already contains the 18% GST on our commission service. We issue you a commission tax invoice for it so you can claim input credit if you are GST-registered.

GST on your own service (your price) is your responsibility, not ours — we do not charge GST on your price. The examples below use a payment-gateway charge of ~2% for illustration; your actual charge depends on the payment method.

5.1 Host+ or Studio (no commission)

5.2 Starter (5% commission)

The Guest Price is identical in both examples — moving to a paid Plan does not make you more expensive to your Guest, it increases what you keep. TDS and TCS are not charges by us; they are deposited to your PAN and claimable in your returns.

• Payout statement. For each paid Booking, your dashboard records your price and the amounts deducted (commission, gateway charge, TDS, TCS). It is not a tax invoice and carries no GST — it is your record of what you earned and what was deducted.
• Commission tax invoice. Where commission applies, we issue you a tax invoice from Book A Sloth for the commission (with GST), so you may claim input credit if registered.
• Your own invoice. The sale of your Service is your sale to your Guest. If you are GST-registered, you are responsible for issuing your own tax invoice for your price and for accounting for GST on it. If you are not registered, no GST arises on your price.
• PAN. A valid PAN is required before you can accept paid bookings. TDS and TCS are deposited to the government against your PAN; your TDS/TCS totals for any period are shown on your dashboard, and the credit reflects in your Form 26AS and on the GST portal.

Your payout is transferred to your Razorpay Linked Account through Razorpay Route. The transfer is created when your Guest pays and is held until after the Service (currently the scheduled end plus about 24 hours), then released — when the Booking is marked complete or automatically at the end of the hold. If the Booking is cancelled, undelivered, or disputed, the held transfer may be reversed. See clause 7 of the Host Services Agreement.

• Complete KYC first. Payouts require an activated Razorpay Linked Account (set up from your KYC). Until it is active, amounts due are held to your credit and paid once it is activated — nothing is lost.
• Minimum ₹100 for a payout you request; amounts below ₹1 accrue to your credit.
• We may defer payment while a complaint, refund, chargeback, or verification is open, or while your KYC, PAN, or bank details are incomplete. See clause 7.4 of the Agreement.
• A valid PAN is required before you can accept paid bookings.
• Raise any query on a statement within 30 days. After that it is treated as accepted.

Under clause 9 of the Agreement we may deduct from amounts payable to you:

• refunds and credits given to a Guest for a Booking you supplied or failed to supply;
• chargebacks and payment reversals, and the fees a bank or the payment gateway charges us for them;
• the payment-processing and transfer-reversal cost we incur on a cancellation, refund, or dispute attributable to you;
• input tax credit denied or reversed because of your GST filing, with interest and penalty;
• tax, interest, or penalty demanded from us in respect of payments to you;
• subscription and Plan fees, and any other sum you owe us;
• overpayments and amounts paid in error;
• liquidated damages for off-platform dealing under clause 15.3.

• You cancel or do not attend. The Guest is refunded in full, including the booking fee. No payout is payable to you, and clause 12.3 applies.
• Guest cancels in the refundable window. The Guest is refunded your price. The booking fee and payment processing charge are not refunded. No payout is payable to you.
• Guest cancels late or does not attend. Handled under the Refund & Cancellation Policy. Where the Booking is treated as non-refundable, your payout remains payable.

We may amend this Schedule on 30 days’ notice by email or in-Platform notification. Amended charges apply only to Bookings confirmed after the notice period ends. The charges applicable to a Booking are fixed and recorded when that Booking is confirmed. If you do not accept an amendment you may terminate under clause 19.1 of the Agreement before it takes effect.

Email [email protected] or call +91 8637758344. For anything tax-related that affects your own returns, please take your own professional advice — we can explain what we charge and what we deduct, but we cannot advise you on your tax position.

Timewheel Internet Private Limited (CIN: U62012OD2026PTC052654 | GSTIN: 21AAMCT8270C1ZF)