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Liberapay

Role

Recurring-donations-only rail on the family-wide /support page. Sits in the donations grid alongside GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee. Liberapay is donation-only by design — no products, no perks, no tiers — which makes it the cleanest fit for "I just want to give the maintainer a few euros a week" without any expectation of return.

Free tier

Card / subscription required?

NO. Free-tier sign-up is email + payout method (Stripe Express Connect, PayPal, or SEPA bank transfer for EU). No payment method requested from us.

Methods exposed to the donor

Card (Stripe), PayPal. SEPA direct debit for EU donors. Donor sets the recurrence schedule themselves; the payment is consent-based per-transaction (the donor's processor authorises each charge, Liberapay never stores card-on-file on our side).

Alternatives

Swap cost

Low — single button on /support; deep-link is https://liberapay.com/<handle>/donate. No webhook integration required for the donation itself (Liberapay handles delivery + receipts).

Why this is our pick

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