Event Pros- Should You Charge Travel Fees?
June 30, 2026
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Transcript
If you drive to your gigs and you're not charging for travel, you're quietly losing money on every booking. So, here's what event pros actually charge. The most common setup, by a wide margin, a dollar a mile with the first 25 miles free. And we know we make the booking software thousands of event pros run their business on. So, we can see exactly what they charge across more than 2,000 travel zones. Here's the part that surprised us. The old device says bill one way. Of the pros charging per mile, about two and three actually bill round trip and about four and 10 don't charge for travel at all. You don't have to match the default. Just make it a choice, not an accident. Follow the real numbers behind the event business. Check out Check Cherry at the link below.