For the sites which are hosted on Discourse, would it be possible to add a way for people to help pay for the hosting fees directly? So rather than someone giving the money to administrators on the hosted site and then the site administrators paying Discourse, could someone instead give the money directly on Discourse to be a credit into the account for the site? Sometimes sites cannot support themselves directly through ads or whatever and they may ask the members for financial help. Rather than all the sites having to manage those financial headaches themselves, they could just ask their members to go to Discourse and make a contribution to their hosting fund on Discourse.
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That would be turning Discourse (CDCK) into a sort of financial broker/distribution service. That’s not something I think Discourse would be keen on doing. It could make them responsible for thousands (or more) of financial transactions. Some along the line of PayPal would be better suited for this. Handling financial transactions on this scale would be a large and separate business endeavor for Discourse.
- Site owner creates a PayPal account;
- Site owner puts a donation link on their forum.
- Members who wish to donate click on the link, and
- PayPal takes it from there.
The only thing remaining is having the details of auto-renewal setup between Discourse and your financial institution (bank, credit/debit card, etc.).
PayPal is already set up to do these financial transactions. This would distract Discourse from its core idea of making the software even better than it already is - especially when there are “Card Declined” issues. It’s like asking Discourse to duplicate PayPal’s purpose (or any other similar money exchange site). 
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Have you seen, Discourse Subscriptions plugin? Pretty sure that can also do one-time charging of “products.”
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Hey @filmore 
As Craig said the Discourse subscription plugin is what you are looking for in your case. There is a new campaign feature which allows you to ask your community for help.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-subscriptions/pull/67
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I would guess that you’d need to be on an enterprise plan to get that to happen. 
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Another alternative is to make a patreon and link that.
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I second patreon.
The plug-in is very good and provides an incentive for people to donate. I like how it directly integrates into discourse.
You can provide full transparency to your community (which was important to me).
What made me hesitant at first was that it promotes a monthly subscription model rather than one off donations. I doubted my self that people would be prepared to regularly donate.
I was wrong. Using patreon helped make my site sustainable long term. Especially as it grew and costs escalated.
People are happy to donate for support knowing it is a community (important word), that there are no adverts, and increasingly important knowing we are not like Facebook and don’t harvest people’s data.
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Even with seeing plugs for Patreon on some YouTube videos, I always seem to forget about that. 
I may even consider that for my forum.
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Nope – it’s available on Business.
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大家好，
我一直在研究一个用例，我使用二维码让用户进行捐赠。这对我的受众来说很有效，因为我在欧盟，大多数银行都支持 SEPA 标准。
您可以在此处创建二维码：https://epc-qr.eu/。它生成的 URL 是动态的，您可以根据需要进行调整。它会生成二维码图像，然后 Markdown 会将生成的图片文件导入您的资源。我喜欢这个过程，因为它比保留 URL 更不容易被篡改。
还有其他提供商，但我喜欢这个“官方”提供商，因为它会添加交易参考、账号、受益人和金额到代码中，这样人们就可以在他们的手机应用程序中检查它是否与二维码上的数据匹配（提供一定程度的欺诈保护）。顺便说一句，您也可以删除这些信息。
我写了一篇很棒的文章，说明生活中美好的事物是免费的，但维护网站不是。然后概述了成本性质，并向大家提供选择，根据您的承受能力以及您认为获得的价值，捐赠 5、10 或 20 欧元。我已注明捐赠者将成为“会员”，他们的头像会闪耀，并可以决定任何盈余应投资于何处（我不是为了盈利）。例如，将其捐赠给某个慈善机构或资助某个插件等。
应该花些时间看看它的效果，但我到目前为止喜欢它，因为它：
- 免费
- 健壮且易于解释
- 易于实现，无需插件
- 您可以通过银行应用程序收到通知
我不喜欢的地方：
- 仅适用于欧盟/SEPA 受众。尽管这是我人群的 99%。当然，人们可以直接汇款，如果他们取得联系。不知道是否有类似的基于二维码的系统在全球范围内适用？
- 一个改进是使其更具交互性。我曾想过使用组合框来输入捐赠金额，也许添加捐赠者/捐赠者的数据等。如果我们能使用简单的 HTML 或帖子中的嵌入代码来实现这一点，那将是最好的。为其他人构建插件也是可能的，但我有点喜欢这种简单的方法。
其他人是否以类似的方式处理过？
Koen
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无论您的托管服务提供商是谁，总的来说，为 Discourse 创收是一个_非常_好的主意。
这可能不会让你发财，但它确实意味着几件事：
- 如果您运气好，您将能够支付托管费用。
- 您可以通过支持开发人员创建插件或为现有插件添加您希望存在的功能来为生态系统经济做出贡献。
为此，我使用了：
PayPal 捐款按钮
… 在我的一个网站上已经有一段时间了。（因此，我同意 @JimPas 的观点）
它曾经吸引了很多捐款，偶尔还有一些令人大开眼界的捐款！
我注意到，我参与社区的程度越深（而不仅仅是提供技术支持），我得到的捐款就越多。可见性是关键。否则，人们会像对待任何在线免费社交媒体一样对待它……而不是像由关键个人管理（并付费！）的社交媒体。
哦，是的，他们收取的费用简直是犯罪……
联盟链接
这些可以带来少量经常性收入，但并非总是大获成功。不过，我偶尔也会在这些方面取得一些大成功。这确实可能取决于您网站的主题。如果您支持汽车爱好者并发布一些合适的联盟链接，这可能是一个不错的收入来源……
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