Who can do what
Three roles, two shared objects. What each side owns, what it may do, and — just as important — what it may never do.
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Operator
The licensed betting brand. Pays to find out who is selling.
Has
- Licence profile many
Verified licences decide what it is even shown - Credit balance one
Prepaid reveal credits, valid twelve months - Reveals many
A permanent, timestamped record of every identity it unlocked - Exclusivity locks many
Twenty-one-day holds won on direct listings - Bids many
Append-only, and binding the moment they land - Watchlist many
Its only way of signalling what it wants - Deals many
Always as the buying side
Can
- Browse the listings its licences allow
- Watch a listing and get change alerts
- Buy a credit pack
- Reveal a listing — one credit, identity unlocked
- Bid on an auction it has already revealed
- Send offers and counters in the deal room
- Sign the contract and fund escrow
- Confirm activation, which releases the payout
Never
- Create or edit a listing — the marketplace is supply-side only
- Set a reserve or award an auction
- See another bidder's identity, at any point
- Reveal a direct listing another operator has locked
Property
The club, league or venue with inventory to sell. Free until it sells.
Has
- Listings many
Its own inventory, anonymous until someone pays to look - Auction one per auction listing
Reserve, deadline, minimum increment, soft close - Awards many
Each one carries a written rationale that is kept - Activation proof many
The evidence that unlocks its own payout - Deals many
Always as the selling side - Payout account one
Receives the deal value minus the success fee
Can
- Create and price a listing, free
- Request auction mode in the wizard
- Set the reserve, the deadline, and whether the reserve is visible
- Award any compliant bid — not only the highest — or decline them all
- Send offers and counters in the deal room
- Sign the contract
- Upload activation proof once the sponsorship runs
- Receive the payout, success fee already deducted
Never
- Browse another property's listings
- Buy credits or reveal anyone
- Place a bid, including on its own auction
- Approve its own listing, or switch on its own auction
Admin — SMH
Operates the marketplace. Split into three roles from day one, because retrofitting that is painful.
Reviewer
The 48-hour queue and the auction gate
Compliance
The versioned jurisdiction rulebook
Superadmin
Escrow overrides and admin accounts
Has
- Compliance rules many versions
Jurisdiction by asset by category, append-only - Review queue live
Every listing before it reaches the market - Bypass alerts many
Enforcement cases built from the reveal and bid logs - Audit log everything
Every state transition on the platform, exportable as evidence - Platform analytics all accounts
The only role that sees the whole funnel
Can
- Approve or reject a listing, within 48 hours
- Switch auction mode on — judged on watchlist interest and eligible operators
- Verify an operator's licences
- Publish a new version of the rules
- Approve a rare bid withdrawal, on the record
- Step into a flagged or disputed deal
- Open an enforcement case from the logs
- Override escrow — superadmin, and only with a second approval
Never
- Place a bid — under any circumstance, on any auction
- Move escrow alone — two approvals, always
- Edit a rule in place — every change is a new version
- Sit in a deal room that has not been flagged
The three handoffs
Every role boundary on the platform is one of these. If a feature does not fit one, it probably belongs to nobody.
Listing goes to review
The property submits; SMH checks ownership, data and anonymity, then decides whether it may run as an auction.
The reveal
One credit turns an anonymous listing into two named parties in a private room. This is the whole business model, and it is irreversible.
Activation closes the loop
The property delivers and uploads proof; the operator confirms it. Only then does escrow release, minus 5–7%.
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