For Hosts

SlotVail

You don’t have to stand in front of the camera for 24 hours.

This is not a storefront of goods. It is a place to pass scarce seats, hours, and expertise through live heat. Format, how charity is shown, who may speak in chat, and a clock that keeps running when you go offline—each control on the listing screen exists for hosts.

Add the host role Start with the date

Why host here

Tools for experiences you will not give to just anyone

Listing on SlotVail is more than a price. How many seats, at what heat, for whom. What happens to cards that lose. Whether chat is a free square or guarded with coins. If you raise charity, whether the ratio sits on screen. The listing form (experience detail) lets you choose those decisions one by one.

One account per person. Register as a participant first, then add the host role on the same ID. Go Live and hosting stay locked until identity verification (Stripe Identity) and payout setup (Connect) are done. Pick a format after that.

Sales formats

Four sales formats. That is the core

Buy-now, reserve, uniform price, and second-chance raffle are options, not formats. Choose the core first, then add switches. Only winners (or raffle winners) are charged. Losing authorizations are released. Emails go, as a rule, only to people who should receive them.

One seat

Single Premium

A one-seat auction. The highest bidder, or whoever pays the buy-now price you set, wins. Losing authorizations are released. Charge and email go only to the winner. Use it when a scarce seat should go to one person.

Starting bid sets the first step.
Buy now (optional) closes the seat at that amount even mid-auction—so you can pass it at peak heat without waiting.
Reserve (optional, hidden) is the floor of the experience. If the final high bid never reaches it, the listing fails and every authorization is released. Bidders never see the number.

The benefit is focus. One seat concentrates price and story. You can decide “this night goes to this person.” A reserve keeps you from cheapening the room. Buy now lets a serious guest lock it without delay. Both work because there is only one seat.

Tiers

Tiered VIP

Stack premium VIP and general seats inside one total. Only winners of each seat are charged and emailed; losing cards are released. Chef’s table and floor, 1:1 and group mentorship—nights where seats mean different things.

Add VIP tiers. Split count, price, reserve, and perks per row.
What remains is general. Optional reserve there too. Unmet seats can fail while others still close.
Individual bids pay what each person bid. Uniform price aligns everyone to the lowest winning general bid (Dutch-style).
Second-chance raffle (optional) draws extra winners from general losers—so heat is not thrown away when filling seats.

The benefit is not being trapped in one price band. Serious guests and people who simply want to be in the room can share one auction. Uniform price softens “I paid more than the person beside me.” Second chance keeps a loss from being the end. Tiers let perk copy stay honest.

Raffle

Premium Raffle

Seats move by entries and a draw, not a bid pile. Authorizations are taken per entry at join time. Only winners are charged and emailed; losers are released. Use it when you do not want a price war, but you still want a card to prove intent.

Set amount per entry and total winners first.
Perks go to every winner. Extra entries buy odds, not a bidding arms race.

The benefit is that the highest number is not the only justice. Popular experiences look like a wealth contest; a raffle mixes heat and luck. Authorizations cut ghost entries. Losers leave with a release only. Fairness stays visible; seat count stays yours.

Free · 0% platform fee

Free Charity

Entry is free. Platform fee is 0%. The ¥100 authorization at raffle join is released for everyone after the draw. Email goes to winners only. Charity is locked on, and a public donation ratio is required. There is no destination picker. You donate yourself at the ratio you published. The Platform does not auto-transfer to charities.

Eligibility: a regular (non–free-charity) auction in the last three months. Free Charity itself does not count toward that cadence.
Slot caps open in stages by cumulative winners (QR completed on experience day). Once a stage is reached, it stays.
The format is meant to open goodwill at scale, so capacity grows with hosts who already have a track record.

The benefit is putting the meaning of the night first, without a price wall. After trust is built on the paid formats, free seats can serve community and a donation pledge at once. 0% fee is there so the numbers do not get in the way of that pledge.

Charity

Charity is a switch. The ratio sits on screen

On the three paid formats, charity is optional. You enable it on the listing and choose a ratio from 10% to 100%. The live page shows a partial or full donation, so bidders can read the pledge before they bid.

After the platform fee you receive 90% of the win (card processing fees are borne by the Platform). Then you donate. There is no UNICEF auto-split and no destination picker. The Platform does not perform goodness on your behalf. You publish a ratio, then you keep it. That is why the number cannot be inflated. A pledge that cannot be inflated is what makes live comments serious.

Why you donate yourself

Auto-transfer erases the host’s face. A SlotVail night starts in your name. Charity should end in the same name. For viewers, goodwill is not décor; it is the sequel to the win. For you, the ratio is a sentence you can speak. Ten percent or one hundred, the number on screen becomes what that night’s guests expect.

Live, without living in the lens

Auctions last up to seven days. You are allowed to sleep

A common myth: live auction means you never leave the stream. On SlotVail, it does not. The auction window is at most seven days. In that window you do not have to stand in front of the camera for 24 hours.

Turn the live stream off and the system, countdown, and chat keep moving. Offline, the page shows the thumbnail you set and the next time you plan to be live. Bidders do not think the listing died because you went to sleep. While the clock runs, the seat is alive.

What still runs offline

Timer, authorizations, coin chat

The auction starts the moment you press start. Countdowns fire on the bidder side together. Then you can go back to the kitchen, prep a recording, or put a child to bed—the deadline still moves. If chat is coin-based, the cost of noise stays high while you are away.

Come back at the peak. Explain a perk, tonight’s cooking, where to meet after the win. Live is not “always on camera.” It is “on camera when heat needs a voice.” Abusing start/stop to break fairness can be limited. Going offline to live your life is part of the design.

The benefit, plainly: you can open a seven-day market without stopping your work. Viewers can join whenever the timer is running, not only when your face is on. You spend camera time on the quality of the experience.

Comment permissions

Comment permission is the rule of the room

“Comment permissions & chat” on the listing is not decoration. Who may put words on your night, and at what cost. Get this wrong and even a perfect format gets a ruined room.

When you want conversation

Registered users comment free (Super Chat optional)

Ordinary comments from registered emails are free. Super Chat (coins) is for when someone wants to stand out. First listings, experiences that need explanation, mentorship that should catch questions. You lower the door and let comments fill in what is happening live.

Super Chat proceeds use the cheapest pack rate (1,500 coins = ¥25,200), then 90% to you (card processing fees borne by the Platform). Even with free comments, a high-heat line can still rise with coins.

Recommended

Pay-per-comment

Ordinary comments cost 1 coin each. Super Chat uses the amount chosen. Spam and abuse get more expensive, so the remaining words get denser. Chat itself can become revenue. Guidelines still freeze abuse even when paid—this mode simply raises the cost of drive-by floods from the start.

Chat still lives while you are offline. Free mode lets noise pile up in those hours. Coin mode is more likely to leave comments worth reading when you return. Quiet armor for a seven-day auction.

Super Chat works in both modes. The difference is the cost of silence. Free buys volume; coins buy density and comment sales. Single Premium often wants coin tension. Free Charity often wants a warmer free room. Match the room.

The date

Set the night on your calendar

The experience date is not capped at 30 days. Any day on or after auction end is allowed—two months out, a year out—so the listing matches when you can actually host. Win amounts stay in Stripe escrow until that day, then pay out after mutual check-in.

The date is public at listing. Bidders put a card down because they can see when they will meet you. It cannot be changed after a win. Winners who cannot attend use Resale. Showing up on the date you published is the quality bar.

The visible upside

A far-off date can be the product.

A seasonal festival, a once-a-year studio opening, the week you return from abroad. Sell the seat in the live heat; keep the experience on the real day. Not a “someday” booking—a dated promise.

Nearer dates still convert harder

Closer nights often make bids more serious.

A seat next month and a seat next year do not weigh the same on a card. Near dates keep live afterglow. Far dates need the day itself (blossom, harvest, homecoming) as the reason. Either way, hiding the date is not the product.

Say the date live. “When this ends, we meet in this seat on this day.” Bidders hear a promise before inconvenience. Only people whose calendars fit remain.
Escrow holds the far date. Capture at win, keep funds until the day. You no longer compress the night into 30 days because an authorization would expire.
Few seats stay few. Single Premium still limits space. The date is the time limit you choose.
Far dates need denser copy. Write perks and place on the listing so tonight’s words still match the day.

Host craft

The date is where the story lands

A seven-day auction, a clock that runs offline, a room guarded with coins, a public donation ratio—all of it lands at the table on the date you set. What a SlotVail host sells is not stock. It is that landing.

Start

Two preparations. Format comes after

Add the host role to the same account you registered as a participant. Finish identity and Connect on the dashboard, then Go Live on the listing screen unlocks. Success stories are a record of afterglow. The referral program is a path to invite hosts you trust. Guidelines and the terms are the rulebook for the room.

You don’t have to stream tonight. You can still set the seat.

Choose a format, decide whether charity is public, pick the key for comments, and place the experience date on your calendar. Camera only when it is needed. Leave the rest to the clock.

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