Tournr–Donating

I’ve had some people ask if they can donate to Tournr, which was super kind and I thank you very much for it! Obviously it’d be great to get some help paying the bills, and Tournr does have bills – servers, databases etc.

To that end, I’ve added donating to Tournr! From the off this should be clear – it is a donation – you don’t have to do it, you get the same features for free as you do if you donate. The only side benefit you get to donating is a badge on your competition so that people know you’re supporting Tournr, and that warm feeling of doing good :)

How do you donate?

Only organisers can donate, and it’s a case of donating a percent of the fee you’re charging. If you’re running the competition for free – then you can’t donate.

To donate, you first have to edit your payment details for your competition.

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Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see the donating to Tournr section:

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By default this is unchecked and set at 0%. You can choose whatever % you want to go with. Once saved, you should see a badge to let the world know you are a donator:

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Which also pops up on the list of tournaments:

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When a competitor goes to pay, you will see the ‘donator’ information banner:

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And when paying a competitor will see:

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Badges

You can get one of the following badges for donating:

Bronze, for donations less than 0.5%

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Silver, for donations of 1% or less

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and Gold for donations larger than 1%

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What do I need to know?

There are some things you should be aware of.

Refunds

Because of the way payments happen, to refund a competitor you who has paid the donation, you either need to add the donation to their payment (which will cost you) or let me know and I will also refund the payment. Example: You will receive a payment of £9.90 (for example) so to fully refund a competitor you would need to refund £10, thereby costing you 10p, or email me and I will refund the 10p as well (thereby costing you nothing, but adding another step Sad smile)

Limits

Tournr will only take donations that are above the minimum transaction limits of PayPal, so for GBP – that’s 1p, for USD that’s 2 cents – you can see the limits on PayPal itself here.

More Information

You can read more about it on the Tournr help page (https://www.tournr.com/Help/Donating)

Obviously please email me if you have any questions at all!

New Feature: Calendar

Tournr has always been developed according to what people ask for – so if you ask for something – generally you’ll get it!

To that end someone asked if we could get a calendar into Tournr – to put things other than just competitions. Well – now you can!

Calendars are based around Organisations – so first you need an organisation, luckily – I have one!

https://tournr.com/organisation/tournr

On there, you’ll now see a link to ‘our calendar’:

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Off we go…

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Oh dear. No events :(

Let’s add one!

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You get the usual form to fill in for an event, you can set the date and the Name, location etc:

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and you can set the type of event:

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If the event you’re adding is on Tournr, you can skip all this and select the check box at the top:

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Then you enter the ID of the competition:

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So for example, I’ve added ‘406’ – which is the Shoreline Handicap Surf Classic competition, this is then added to the calendar like this:

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And if you click on it you get taken to:

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You can then add it to you calendar:

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Which will go into your preferred calendar option!