In the past we did not set up a donations facility, as we had enough funds for our limited needs. Now, however, we are employing a full time developer, in addition to several other ongoing costs, such as typing the texts in several languages. So we have set this up to guarantee our future stability.
The work behind the scenes has been mainly done by Deepika, who has set up the SuttaCentral Development Trust. Details are on our Donations page.
The facility has been set up using the secure modern payment system, Stripe.
If you think SuttaCentral is amazing, now you can help us make it even better.
One little point of consideration: might it be worth specifying which dollar contributions are to be made in? Coming from the UK myself, the question did arise āis it USD or AUD?ā I presume it is AUD, but in this funky, āglobalizedā world one can never be too sure.
Yeah it really should, Iām surprised I omitted that detail. It now says āAUDā everywhere it should. As only about 1/4 our users are Australian and the largest user group is from the USA, it should definitely be spelled out that it is AUD.
I was just looking at the donation site. I read on the bottom that there are handling fees and conversion fee for donating in international currency. I donāt mind paying for handling fee but would there be a way to not to pay for the conversion since itās really a donation for non-profit? I usually use paypal and I donāt get charged conversion fees when I give monetary dana to Dhammasara. Just wanted to know if the option was available here. Iād rather add the conversion fee as dana.
We use Stripe for payments, which offers a lot of advantages, but it doesnāt have a non-profit discount. They say theyāre looking at introducing one, though, so weāll keep our eye out.
I do not know what the problem is. Please check that there is no problem on your side. If not, we can confirm whether the payment has been registered with our account or not, but beyond that youāll have to contact Stripe, who handle the payments.
Just found out earlier it was a fraud prevention process by my bank. Because it was an international transaction, they wanted to make sure it was authorized and wanted further confirmation by me. The donation should go through
Would such donations be of interest to the SuttaCentral team?
I suppose it might be too time-consuming for the team dealing with donations to collect and convert BATs into fiatā¦ but in case you are interested you might want to register as a publisher with them and see what comes out of it.
To be honest, I still did not make my mind on this project and would welcome views from anyone who looked into itā¦
(At least, their icon/symbol should please all our Sinhalese friends )