Hosting a room that people love eventually raises a practical question: what happens to the money guests send during a screening? The answer on Multiplex is intentionally boring, in the best way. There's one split, one schedule, and no separate systems to learn depending on how the money arrived.
The three ways money moves
Guests can support a host in a few different ways. Tips can land at any point during a live screening — a direct show of support with no strings attached. On Studio, hosts can additionally sell tickets to premiere events, turning a special screening into an actual event with a door charge. And Beams, Multiplex's virtual currency, let guests send real value mid-screening that shows up in chat in real time. Different triggers, same destination: all three feed into the same earnings a host sees land in their account.
The split, at a glance
Hosts keep 90% of both tips and ticketed premiere sales. Multiplex takes 10% off the top, flat, with no hidden fees layered on beyond that — the cut exists to keep the projector running, not to nickel-and-dime a host's earnings with surprise deductions. Beams work slightly differently in structure, since every Beam pays a flat rate to the host regardless of the bundle a guest bought, but the earnings still flow into the same account, on the same schedule, as everything else.
From the room to your account
The path is short. A guest tips or buys in during a screening. Multiplex takes its 10% cut immediately, with nothing hidden or deferred. Whatever's left is the host's, and it lands in their account every Friday — a fixed weekly schedule with no minimum balance to clear first and no manual request to file. A host running one screening a month and a host running four a week both get paid on the same rhythm.
10% off the top, flat, no hidden fees, to keep the projector running.
Why one schedule matters
It would be easy to build separate payout tracks for tips, ticket sales, and Beams — different products, different launch dates, different teams building them. Multiplex deliberately didn't. A host shouldn't need a spreadsheet to reconcile three income streams with three different payout calendars. One weekly deposit, one number to check, is worth more to a working host than a slightly faster payout on any single stream would be.
No minimum balance to clear
Some platforms hold earnings back until they cross a minimum threshold, which can leave a smaller host waiting months for their first payout. Multiplex doesn't do that. Whatever a host earned that week, however small, goes out the following Friday — there's no floor to hit first and no balance sitting in limbo while it grows toward some arbitrary number. A host with one modest tip and a host with hundreds of dollars in Beams both get paid on the same Friday, for exactly what they earned.
What this means in practice
If you're deciding whether hosting is worth the effort, the honest answer is that the money follows the room, not the other way around. A room people actually want to be in generates tips and Beams on its own; a room built purely to extract them tends to feel like exactly that, and audiences notice. Get the room right, and the Friday payout takes care of itself.