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My hackerspace community needs self-hosted donations services. It should show how much money is donated and anyone can make a account for recurrent donating.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If it involves debit/credit card transactions then you start rinning into the PCI-DSS regulations, so unless you're willing to take payments in crypto doing it yourself gets problematic. Even cryto would be nearly impossible since by its nature those are a more push trasaction where a recurring transfer would generally be a pull from the payee to the paypor.

That's not to say it's impossible, after all e-commerce is a thing, but any kind of stored payment transaction puts you in a whole new world of liability and makes you much more of a direct target for thieves than just a passive 'send money here' style donation page would.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A payment gateway is not really something you can self-host, but there is https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/fosspay

Otherwise look into Liberapay and Opencollective for donation collecting services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, we can't use Stripe. So we are going to code it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fosspay is a bit abandoned. Maybe you could look into forking it and adding non-Stripe options?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As an addition to the comment by @[email protected], here are two services commonly used by open source projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberapay works well, I donate to a few projects using it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another vote for liberapay! It gives you options to show how much is being donated and gives the user options to be anonymous still.