Sponsor hledger

Building and supporting good software and documentation is very costly; hledger comes from many thousands of skilled person-hours, sustained over 15+ years. Your support is invaluable and greatly appreciated! Is it the right time for you to help ? Consider:

  • Has this project been helpful to you or your organisation ?

  • Have you achieved enough financial success to be able to donate a little (or a lot) ?

  • Would you like to cultivate the psychological and spiritual benefits of giving back / paying forward ?

  • Would you like hledger to be around for a long time ? To remain actively supported ? To improve faster ?

  • Would you like to support our core mission ? Which is:

    To help more people achieve financial literacy, discipline and freedom, and to help grow a shared global culture of accountability and sustainability.
    (See also: FAQ)

How to sponsor

It's easy, even if not yet as efficient as we'd like. When choosing a donation method, you may want to check the fees (below). The hledger project is not a registered charity, so your donations may not be tax-deductible. The CFO (Simon) pays US and state income tax on all donations in addition to the fees.

These donations help support Simon, allowing me to do more hledger work. Thank you! You can also offer me bounties or consulting gigs.

  • github
  • liberapay
  • paypal

You can find their names at CREDITS, check their website or Github profile, and offer donations, bounties or paid work.

These donations are public and managed by the hledger CFO (Simon), with input from the hledger team and community. So far, project funds have been used for project expenses, regression bounties, and one social good donation.

  • liberapay
  • opencollective
  • issue bounty
    Post a bounty pledge on an open issue. When resolved, pay the claimant directly (honour system).
  • opencollective bounty
    Make a one-time donation via Open Collective, describing the bounty. When resolved, the claimant submits a payment request for approval by the CFO (see our regression bounty process).

Fees

Donation platforms:

Github

  • If donating from a personal account
    • Charges no fees.
  • If donating from an organization account
    • Charges 3% platform fee.
    • Charges 3% payment processing fee if paying via credit card.

Liberapay

  • Charges no platform fee, other than voluntary donations to their project (they are non-profit).
  • Charges payment processor fees (Paypal or Stripe, see below).

Open Collective

  • Open Source Collective (fiscal host) charges 10% of contributions (and 15% of this goes to Open Collective).
  • Open Collective may solicit a voluntary tip from contributions.
  • Open Collective charges payment processor fees on contributions if paying with PayPal, Stripe, or Wise, see below.
  • Expense payouts have no fees.

Payment processors:

Paypal

  • 0% to 3.5% + some fixed amount, depending on whether you're paying in the same country, there's a currency conversion, etc. Liberapay says: "the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5% for the payments processed by PayPal."

Stripe

  • 2.9% + 0.30 USD.

Wise

  • Unclear.

Our fiscal host on Open Collective currently is Open Source Collective, "a non-profit umbrella organisation providing financial and legal infrastructure for thousands of open source projects". So their fee is at least a sort of donation to support other free/open-source software.

Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors for their support. They include: