As a proactive use (and with misgivings of causing offense to Mark) I'd recommend an effort to quantify and total 'Likes'. My usage as a non-email group owner and member of many, is to create (other

Hi All, I've reduced the fee on donations from 20% to 5%, which includes all credit card fees. Thanks, Mark

I agree. When I saw our reminder earlier in the week I thought 'why does it say all that'. It is not an improvement, sorry. Dave http://davesergeant.com

The addition of: "Upcoming Event: " to event reminder Subject lines is excess verbiage, which along with the: [Group Email Address tag] Event Name, Day, Date and Times, and the hashtag

Changes to the site this week: BUGFIX: Slack authentication was broken for groups that had subdomains. CHANGE: Temporarily disabled new Google Drive authentication, because Google changed things on

Sounds complicated. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

If all your incoming donations would just be going back into Groups.io to support your premium membership, maybe there should be a special option for that that doesn't take out the 20%. Mark just

Hello, I've added a new 'Monday Start' checkbox to the user account Preferences page as well as to the Default Sub Settings page. Thanks, Mark

I've read through the comments and I have my own thoughts about how this will affect me and my groups. I have two groups that I moved over from Y! and took Premium over two years ago. I continue to

I don't think any of my groups are likely to use a donations service, but I think about it like this: every service is paid for in some way. Free Google services are paid for by scanning searches and

That would be a better model, since GoFundMe, like the situation here, applies to donations. That's closer to Mark's 20%. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

Is it amazing if Mark wants to help fund this service using Stripe (never heard of that before his post) many of us enjoy for free? And, compared to any of the 3 list services and 1 majordomo

In any event, it's not an issue for us. Our Primary donor input is through Paypal and our shopping cart and we try to make all charitable money sharks available to anyone who wants to use them no

Hey, maybe it was a typo and was supposed to be 2%, not 20%?-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human

Stripe itself is also 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. https://stripe.com/pricing -- Gerald

PayPal takes 2.9% + 30 cents for normal stuff. for nonprofits it's 2.2% + 30 cents. this would be the charges for normal customers Amt$PayPal Stripe CutNet cutnet20.361.64 0.401.6050.454.56

It sounded steep to me at first, until I realized that (presumably?) most of the donations will probably be very small amounts. So, like, Paypal takes much less than 20%, but presumably from

Isn't that a little steep? Or is it just me? Duane

Changes to the site this week: CHANGE: For events added by email, we consider events up to one year from now (the previous limit was 30 days). BUGFIX: Fixed the name of the subgroup in the activity

Hi All, I have just rolled out the ability for premium groups to request donations from their members. There's a new Donations tab under the Admin sidebar menu, where youcan create and manage