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Buy Me a Coffee - A simple, meaningful way to fund your creativity.

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help creators receive support from their audience in a friendly way 🎉

😻Set up a page in 2 minutes

💰Accept donations via Paypal, Card & Apple/Android Pay

🎁Reward your supporters

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Maker
BuyMeACoffee.com co-founder here 👋 BMC is a friendly way for creators (bloggers, artists, developers) to receive donations from their audience. Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: We have seen the platform used in ways we never imagined. One such is called LittleHandsBigHearts, a small group of people passionate about helping those less fortunate than ourselves on the Island of Bali ️❤️: . They raised $250 within 2 weeks! 🎉 (we're waiving any platform fee for all charities). FEATURES: - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations. – Multiple payout options: Paypal and Stripe (direct bank transfer). – One-click payment for supporters. – Showcase your goals and comments left by other supporters. – Beautiful (and customizable) 'Buy me a coffee' button to embed on websites + Wordpress plugin with widgets and stats (). – Domain name 😉They say the domain speaks for itself. – In the pipeline: Wix and Weebly plugin, more payment options (Bitcoin, Apple Pay, Android Pay), referral program and much more. BONUS FEATURE: A fully-caffeinated team hailing from 3 different parts of the world (London, Kerala, and SF), working round-the-clock to improve the platform and bring new features 😺 UPDATE: Thanks for the amazing response, PH community! 😻 🙏 We are waiving the 5% platform fee for PH users for LIFETIME! 🎉 We'd also love to be your first supporter. Tweet () or reply here with your beautiful ‘Buy Me A Coffee’ link (takes less than a minute to set up) to claim it.
This looks great and is waaaay better than slapping a Paypal button, I agree. But isn’t Stripe limited to few countries?
Maker
Thanks! You're right, Stripe is only available in 25 countries right now (). Creators from other countries can select Paypal for payout. In fact, 75% of our users prefer Paypal :)
Perfect :) I will definitely try it for my new project.
I have chosen paypal but the user can still only pay by credit card?
Hi there! I love the simplicity of the service, I signed up immediately.
It's like an About.me for donations. Cool idea. I imagine an embeddable version of this could be useful for creators to host on their blog, website, etc. How are people using it so far, ?
Maker
Thanks ! People are using it in ways we never imagined. One such is called LittleHandsBigHearts, a small group of people passionate about helping those less fortunate than ourselves on the Island of Bali ️❤️: . They raised $250 within 2 weeks 🎉 We're waiving any platform fee for all charities. Embeddable buttons – users can generate one from their dashboard (HTML or Image) or use the official WP plugin.
haven't had luck with the WP Plugin. Got a header error on one site and I figured it was a conflict with the theme, so I tried it on another but just get a blank screen on that one when I try to connect my account.
Maker
Sorry for the trouble, Don. We are aware of the occasional plugin conflicts. Pushing an update first thing tomorrow to fix this. Meanwhile, please generate the button from your BuyMeACoffee dashboard. UPDATE: We've just pushed an update after crushing all those bugs:
Nice, I've been looking for a platform like this for my '5 ideas everyday' journey
Maker
Whoa, that's one of the neatest-looking Buy Me A Coffee pages we've come across. Let us know when you plan to share with your audience, we'd love to promote it on our social media (, ). Waived your platform fee and bought the first coffee – welcome to BMC 🎉
Aww you guys :D
Page is finished now, so feel free to share with your community :)
Maker
Hey Joseph, I have people saying they can only pay with credit card even though I selected PayPal? Can someone look into this issue for me. I've missed out on a couple of coffees :(
Wow, this tool — and the domain name — is such a great idea! Now we can just implement this instead of doing it with crappy Javascript and PayPal API. It's beautifully executed and well designed. Congrats to the makers! :) Here is my profile: 🎉 PS: I found some bugs with emojis (they disappear when the page refresh) ; and more social/currencies options would be much appreciated! ^^
Maker
Thanks, Julien; your comment made our day! 🎉 Emoji appearance issues – we introduced emojis just this week and might have some loose ends that we have to take a look. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're on it. 💯
can I second more currency options? It would be great to list mine in £ as I'm in the UK. But also be cool if people can switch between £3/$3/€3.
Maker
Thanks for the suggestion, David. It was deliberate not to offer multiple currency support. We believe having a unified payment flow will go a long way in improving conversions. Higher conversions = happy creators :) However, we're currently looking into paying creators in their currencies, which will solve half the problem (+ a lot more payment options like Apple Pay, Android Pay, Bitcoin, etc.)
Oh, I agree! Showing multiple choices to end users would make for a bad UX. I was thinking it would be cool if I could choose which currency my page is displayed in as part of the configuration. I'm assuming that most of my traffic will come from the UK and could be put off thinking that they will be charged a conversion fee by their bank (which may or may not be the case, but people will make snap judgements based on what they see). I'll see what happens with the dollar sign there :-)
This is brilliant. Almost like a 'Patreon lite'
Maker
Haha, we should use that in our copy. We often see creators using BuyMeACoffee alongside Patreon to fulfill the one-time donation needs.
Smart use... maybe we should do that with ()
Maker
Awesome! 🎉 I had a quick look at your Patreon. Hope you have similar success with BuyMeACoffee :) BTW BuyMeACoffee.com/horizon is available 👌 P.S platform fee associated with your account has been waived; and glad to be the first one to contribute.
How do we grab that url for our account?
Ah wonderful, I don't really like making full commitments with Patreon and this seems like an ideal solution.
Maker
Thanks, Thibault! You just stated our USP :) We've also noticed many creators using their BuyMeACoffee link alongside Patreon. I think it's a decent idea to provide fans with an option of quick one-time payment, since many do not like the idea of going through the long process of signing up and paying monthly.
do you also offer unlocks for donations? Or is that too Patreon-y
Maker
It's a bit Patreon-y, but we offer customizable 'thank you messages' that creators often use to reward supporters. Will that do the trick? It's pretty straightforward to set up, but you might want to mention the rewards on your page.
Great idea! 🎉 😉 Support me on BuyMeACoffee: #BuyMeACoffee Button is live on the site and its working!
Maker
Wow! Looks excellent, Dario 🙌 We just waived your platform fee, and glad to be your first supporter. Suggestion: White button might look better on your blog. You can customize it from your dashboard:
This is great. Love the simplicity of it : )
Maker
Thanks, Craig. We've tried to keep it minimal from day 1. "Design is how it works" – Jobs.
Awesome product. I just signed up. Super easy to do the setting and get the page done! Here is my profile:
Maker
Thanks, it's good to hear that from a designer :) P.S platform fee associated with your account has been waived; and I'm glad to be the first one to contribute.
Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I would like to suggest you a small feature if you could add an option to choose some button label, that would be awesome! Why? I think some people like me want a severe font like Helvetica, not too script like that, and to match with the website text font.
Maker
That's a good suggestion. We'll think of ways to support multiple fonts without cluttering the UI. Thanks for sharing! We're always a tweet away if you think of any other feedbacks –
I already follow you on Twitter. By the way, I just add the button at the sidebar on my site, you can take a look:
Maker
Nice work, 🆒 Totally inspired our designers to start working on more creative widgets. Cheers!
Wow, totally mind-blown by the design. Very clean
Maker
Thanks Hashif! Our designer be like:
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