Live Event Total Price Disclosure Register

PROBLEM: The FTC's Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees (16 CFR Part 464), effective 12 May 2025, requires businesses selling live-event tickets to disclose the total price — including all mandatory fees — clearly, conspicuously and more prominently than any other pricing information, and prohibits misrepresenting any fee's nature, purpose, amount or refundability. The rule followed years of enforcement in which ticket buyers were shown a low advertised price and only learned the true cost at the end of checkout. Compliance still depends on each seller's own pricing screens, with no shared record of what was displayed.

SOLUTION: An IBM Cloud Ideas compliance register that stores, for each live-event offer, the advertised price, the total price as first displayed, every mandatory fee with its stated purpose and amount, and the final amount of payment, automatically flagging offers where the total price was not the most prominent price or where a fee's stated purpose does not match its amount.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — FTC Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees, 16 CFR Part 464, effective 12 May 2025, covering live-event tickets; total-price disclosure must be clear, conspicuous and more prominent than any other price (Federal Register, 10 Jan 2025).