ReDonate, a system for voluntary recurring donations (also works with Bitcoin!)

[joepie91]

Hi all,

I'll just copy-paste a part of the announcement post I wrote, as I thought it might be relevant to users here:

I’m happy to announce the launch of ReDonate, the only 100% voluntary recurring donations service.

ReDonate allows you to receive monthly donations from fans or users, without locking them in to a subscription, and without any automatic charges whatsoever! There are no restrictions on what payment processors or payment methods you can support, either.

So, how does it work?

When you subscribe to a ReDonate campaign, you indicate how much you wish to donate to the campaign per month. Every month, you will receive an e-mail reminding you of your pledge, including donation links for various payment methods that let you donate straight away. None of your accounts are ever automatically charged, you are completely in charge of whether you wish to keep donating or not!

You can unsubscribe from a ReDonate campaign at any time, for any reason, without any kind of penalty. Just click the unsubscribe link in any of the e-mails we send you, confirm your unsubscription, and you’re done! No more “whoops, forgot to cancel” moments.

Continued here: http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/announcing-redonate-recurring-contributions-done-right/

The actual site can be found here: http://redonate.net/

ReDonate also lets you add a Bitcoin address as payment method, and if there's demand for it I'll also look into integrating various Bitcoin payment processors

- Sven

[CIYAM]

I would also recommend *not* requiring you to *unsubscribe* (as sometimes such things don't even work or nag you further).

Why not simply automatically unsubscribe someone after they fail to donate 2 or 3 times (with the last contact reminding them how to re-subscribe)?

[joepie91]

I would also recommend *not* requiring you to *unsubscribe* (as sometimes such things don't even work or nag you further).

Why not simply automatically unsubscribe someone after they fail to donate 2 or 3 times (with the last contact reminding them how to re-subscribe)?

Because someone might want to skip a few months for whatever reason, without stopping the reminders. It would make no sense to try and 'predict' what someone wants, I'd rather let them choose for themselves