Tips & donations - Ghost Changelog

[Ghost]

Subscriptions give your members a way to support your work with a consistent, recurring cadence — but what if someone wants to send you a one-off payment to support your work?

While it’s always been possible to take one-time payments in Ghost, it hasn't been easy. In fact, from chatting with publishers, we discovered no fewer than nine (9!) different methods for doing so.

So, we decided to add support for tips and donations natively in Ghost to make this a whole lot easier.

Starting today, any Ghost publication with an active Stripe connection can have a dedicated payment link that allows your audience to send you a one-time payment.

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    </figure><p>Find it under <strong>Settings → Growth → Tips &amp; Donations.</strong> </p><p>You’ll be able to set a suggested amount for people to tip, and use your payment link anywhere across your Ghost site; like in buttons, headers, email CTAs, or anywhere else that comes to mind.</p><p>Tips &amp; donations can be made by members and non-members alike, and any time someone makes a payment, you'll receive an email notification to let you know.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://ghost.org/changelog/content/images/2024/09/Ghost-tips-donations-3-1.png" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1537" srcset="https://ghost.org/changelog/content/images/size/w600/2024/09/Ghost-tips-donations-3-1.png 600w, https://ghost.org/changelog/content/images/size/w1000/2024/09/Ghost-tips-donations-3-1.png 1000w, https://ghost.org/changelog/content/images/size/w1600/2024/09/Ghost-tips-donations-3-1.png 1600w, https://ghost.org/changelog/content/images/2024/09/Ghost-tips-donations-3-1.png 2000w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><hr><p><a href="https://ghost.org/pricing/"><strong>Ghost(Pro)</strong></a> users can log in and start enjoying all of this right away! If you're a developer, self-hosting Ghost, you'll need to <a href="https://ghost.org/docs/update/">update</a> to the latest version to get access to everything that's new.</p><p>If there are ways you think this feature could be more valuable based on the way you use Ghost, we’d like to hear it —&nbsp;<a href="mailto:feedback@ghost.org">feedback@ghost.org</a>.</p>

[Enrique_Flouret]

That’s awesome!.. for those who live in countries supported by Stripe.

[rhandrow]

Nice one!

I hate to be that guy but a 15 sec video clip in 2836 × 2160 resolution clocking at 42,4 MB isn’t very cash money of you (to stay in donation lingo).

[visualdynamics]

A tip option natively integrated into Ghost now is nice. However, I would also love to have the ability to sell access to individual articles for a flat fee per article in addition to a subscription option. Having both a subscription option and a purchase per article option would be awesome! The conversion rate would be much higher with the two options available and offers greater flexibility for readers. Is the ability to sell access to individual articles for a flat fee per article within the Ghost roadmap for future implementation?