PRATST TERMS & CONDITIONS

Last updated: October 2026

1. Introduction

1.1 PRATST (registration number 2026/254332/07) ("PRATST", "we", "us", "our") operates the website at pratst.com (the "Site").

1.2 The Site sells two things:

• fixed-price, prepaid production bundles (Pratst Single, Polish, and Capture); and
• licences to PRATST instrumentals (beats), bought on their own or added to a bundle at checkout.

1.3 A beat purchase is only a licence to that beat. It does not open a TrackCard, book a mobile recording, or book a mix. Recording and mix and master are sold only inside a bundle. The earlier flow of buying a beat and then starting a separate studio or engineer booking on that beat is no longer offered.

1.4 These terms apply if you use the Site as an Artist (including someone who buys a beat or a bundle, or redeems a gift) or as a Network Partner (an independent contractor who fulfils mobile recording or mix and master work). Network Partners are not employees of PRATST.

1.5 By using the Site, creating an account, or paying at checkout, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

1.6 Nothing in these terms takes away a right you have under the Consumer Protection Act or the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act where that right cannot legally be waived.

2. Definitions

2.1 In these terms:

• Artist means a person who buys a beat licence or a bundle, or who redeems a gift code.
• Bundle means a Pratst Single, Polish, or Capture package, including any beat licence added at checkout.
• Network Partner means an independent contractor onboarded to fulfil a mobile recording session or a mix and master.
• TrackCard means the project page that opens when a bundle is activated. It is the place where that bundle’s steps are completed.
• Wallet means the balance on the Site that a Network Partner can withdraw. For a bundle already paid when this refund rule was published, it is also where an unmatched recording refund is credited.

2.2 Prices are in South African rand. The price you pay is the price shown at checkout. If a price in these terms differs from checkout, checkout applies.

2.3 A “business day” excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and South African public holidays. The mix review window in clause 8 is 72 consecutive hours, including weekends and public holidays.

3. Accounts

3.1 You must be 18 or older, and able to contract under South African law, to buy on the Site or to register as a Network Partner. You are responsible for activity under your login.

3.2 We may refuse, suspend, or close an account that is used for fraud, abuse of a partner or an artist, or a breach of these terms.

4. Bundles

4.1 These are the bundles, at the prices published in October 2026 before any optional beat licence:

• Pratst Single (R2,250). A 2-hour mobile recording at a location you choose, then a professional mix and master. You may bring your own beat or add a PRATST beat licence at checkout.
• Polish (R1,000). Mix and master only. You upload the files. There is no recording session.
• Capture (R1,250). A 2-hour mobile recording only. You keep the raw vocal files. There is no mix and master stage.

4.2 The mobile recording price includes a R250 callout. That callout is not charged again by distance.

4.3 A bundle is paid in full at checkout through PayFast. We do not take a deposit or a later balance for the bundle itself. The only later charge is overtime under clause 7.6.

4.4 After payment, a bundle you bought for yourself can be activated on your profile. Clicking Activate starts the service for that bundle. Activation opens one TrackCard for that song. The steps on the TrackCard follow the bundle you bought. Polish does not include recording. Capture does not include a mix.

4.5 If a recording session is part of the bundle, engineers who cover your address are invited to claim the slot. The first to accept is assigned. You do not pick an engineer from a directory, and you do not book a fixed studio on the Site.

5. Beat licences

5.1 Beats on the Site are owned by PRATST. A purchase is a licence, or in the case of an Exclusive licence an assignment, of that beat on the terms of the tier you pay for. Third parties do not sell beats on the Site. The licence fee belongs to PRATST.

5.2 You may buy a licence on the beat’s page, or add one tier to a bundle at checkout. The tier you pay for is the tier you receive.

5.3 Basic licence (R99). Non-exclusive and non-transferable. You receive the master .wav. You may use it for creative projects, social media, live performance, and personal use. You may not release it commercially, monetise it on streaming services, distribute it, or use it on radio. The beat stays on sale for other people. Producer credit is not required.

5.4 Premium licence (R599). Non-exclusive and non-transferable. You receive the master .wav and the stems. You may release it commercially, monetise streams, distribute it worldwide, and perform it live, without a limit on the number of releases. The beat stays on sale for other people. Because other artists may licence the same beat, a distributor or content-identification system may flag it. Producer credit is not required.

5.5 Exclusive licence (R1,499). PRATST assigns to you its copyright in that beat, as embodied in the files delivered, and removes the beat from the store so it is not offered to anyone else. You receive the master .wav and the stems. You may release it commercially without limit, including synchronisation for film, television, and games. Producer credit is not required. This is not a government copyright registration. South Africa does not run a copyright registration office.

5.6 A beat download is a supply of digital content. Do not buy a tier you do not need and then expect to swap it. If a download fails, contact support@pratst.com and we will reissue the file you paid for.

6. Gifts

6.1 A bundle can be bought as a gift. The buyer receives a redemption code. When that code is redeemed, the bundle and the TrackCard belong to the profile that redeemed it. The buyer cannot steer the project after redemption.

6.2 A code that has not been redeemed can be queried with support@pratst.com. A redeemed code cannot be reclaimed by the buyer.

7. Mobile recording

7.1 This clause applies to Pratst Single and Capture only.

7.2 The session is 2 hours at the address you submit. You must give a location that engineers can reach, a contact number the assigned engineer may use, and a safe indoor space to work. You are responsible for access to the premises, including gates, parking, and permission to be there.

7.3 The engineer brings a working recording setup, including a microphone, interface, laptop, cables, and headphones, and records the session. Comfort effects in the headphones during tracking are for performance. They must not be printed onto the files you receive.

7.4 The files you receive are a .zip of clean raw .wav vocal stems, plus session notes for a later mix where the bundle includes one. Those recordings belong to you. The engineer may not keep them back, delete them to force another payment, or ask you to pay off the Site for the session the bundle already covers.

7.5 The engineer’s pay for the session is R400 per hour (R800 for the 2 hours), plus the R250 callout. That amount is credited to the engineer’s Wallet when the vocal files are uploaded. Overtime you pay under clause 7.6 is credited to the engineer’s Wallet when that payment is completed.

7.6 Time past 2 hours is overtime at R400 per hour. The engineer may choose to bill it. If it is billed, you pay that amount on the TrackCard before the vocal files are released and, on a Pratst Single, before the mix starts.

7.7 Clicking Activate starts the service. After activation there is no change-of-mind refund of the session or the callout. A confirmed time is reserved for you. If you need to move or cancel it, email support@pratst.com. We may treat a cancellation inside 24 hours of the start, or a no-show, as use of the session.

8. Mix and master

8.1 This clause applies to Pratst Single and Polish only.

8.2 The mix uses the notes on the TrackCard, any reference files you upload, and, where there was a PRATST recording, the session notes from that session. You should send every change you want for a round in one request.

8.3 The first mix opens a 72-hour review on your TrackCard. In that time you either approve the mix or request a revision and describe the changes. A revision request pauses the clock. The clock starts again for 72 hours when the updated mix is delivered.

8.4 You have 3 revision requests in total. The first delivery is not a revision. When the mix that follows your third revision request is delivered, the track is complete immediately. There is no further revision request and no new 72-hour review.

8.5 If you do not approve or request a revision before a 72-hour window ends, the track completes automatically. Completion, whether you approved, the window ran out, or the final revision was delivered, releases the mix fee to the engineer and leaves the files available for you to download.

8.6 The engineer’s pay for the mix is R500, released when the track completes under clause 8.5.

8.7 The engineer must deliver a .zip of the project and a .wav of the finished track. Monitoring effects from a recording session must not be baked into stems that were meant to stay dry.

9. Payment and escrow

9.1 Checkout is processed by PayFast. We do not store your card number. PayFast’s own terms apply to the payment transaction.

9.2 Bundle money is held by PRATST until the milestone for that portion is reached. Beat licence fees are PRATST’s on payment. The difference between a bundle’s price and the partner amounts in clauses 7.5 and 8.6 is PRATST’s fee for the platform, escrow, and project workflow. Partners are not paid a percentage commission on top of those amounts.

9.3 A Network Partner may withdraw a cleared Wallet balance of at least R400 to the South African bank account on their profile. There is no withdrawal fee at the date of these terms. Any future fee will be shown before the withdrawal is confirmed. Partners are responsible for their own tax.

10. Refunds

10.1 Clicking Activate starts the service for that bundle. After activation, changing your mind is not a refund. A beat file that has been downloaded is supplied on the same basis. Where the Consumer Protection Act or the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act gives you a right that cannot be waived, that right still applies. Once the service has started with your consent, the seven-day online cooling-off period no longer applies to that bundle.

10.2 A bundle that was already paid when this refund rule was published keeps the earlier rule. Until a recording engineer accepts the session, the recording portion (the session amount and the callout) may be credited to the Artist’s Wallet. A bundle paid after that publication does not have that refund.

10.3 If files are unusable because they are corrupt, empty, or not the session you paid for, contact support@pratst.com and we will have them re-delivered or re-recorded. That is a replacement of the file. If the law requires a refund because the service was not supplied, that refund is handled through support@pratst.com. Completing a mix under clause 8.5 is the end of the revision process. It is not, by itself, a promise of a cash refund.

11. Intellectual property and your uploads

11.1 The Site, the TrackCard, the brand, and PRATST’s beats (until an Exclusive licence is bought) belong to PRATST. You may not copy the Site, scrape it, or resell access to it.

11.2 You own your lyrics, your vocal performance, and, once an Exclusive licence is paid, the beat covered by that licence. You own the raw session files delivered under clause 7. On payment of the mix, the mix engineer assigns to you their copyright in the mix and master delivered for that TrackCard.

11.3 You give PRATST a licence to host, transmit, and back up the files you and the engineer upload, for as long as needed to run the TrackCard, deliver the files, and keep a record of the job.

11.4 You promise that anything you upload, including a beat you bring yourself, is yours or is cleared for the use you are making of it. You are responsible for claims that come from your vocals, lyrics, or a beat that did not come from a PRATST licence.

12. Network Partners

12.1 Partners give accurate identity and banking details, keep them up to date, and do the job described in clauses 7 and 8.

12.2 A partner may not ask an Artist to pay off the Site for work the bundle already covers, and may not take a PRATST booking and then bill that Artist privately for the same session or mix. We may close the account if that happens. Pay already credited for a finished milestone is still payable. Pay for work that was not done is not.

12.3 A partner may still record and mix for clients who did not come through a PRATST booking. That does not allow the conduct in clause 12.4.

12.4 Non-solicitation and platform protection. A partner is strictly prohibited from using a PRATST booking contact or session entry to pull that specific Artist off the platform for private recording deals, direct mix bookings, or off-site pricing arrangements. Network Partners agree that they will not copy, mimic, or launch a competing mobile recording marketplace or dedicated TrackCard workflow clone within South Africa during their tenure and for 24 months following account closure.

13. Sessions and liability

13.1 The engineer at a session is an independent contractor. PRATST vets partners before they join. PRATST does not employ them and is not in the room.

13.2 You and the engineer must keep the session lawful and safe. Do not ask anyone to do anything illegal or dangerous.

13.3 To the extent South African law allows, PRATST is not liable for a partner’s personal misconduct, for a delay caused by traffic or access to your premises, or for loss of profits from a release date you missed. We do not exclude liability for gross negligence, or for injury or death, where the law does not allow that exclusion.

13.4 Where a cap is allowed, PRATST’s total liability arising out of one bundle or one beat purchase is limited to the amount you paid PRATST for that bundle or that beat.

14. Changes, disputes, and contact

14.1 We may update these terms. The date at the top will change. If a change reduces a refund right or a review window you already have on a paid bundle, we will email the account address at least 30 days before it applies to that bundle. The version in force at checkout applies to that purchase, except where a change is required by law.

14.2 These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa. Disputes may be brought in the Magistrate’s Court if the claim falls within that court’s jurisdiction, and otherwise in the High Court of South Africa.

14.3 Project help and legal notices: support@pratst.com.

14.4 A project that was already opened under an older booking flow stays on the TrackCard for that project. New purchases are only bundles and beat licences under these terms.