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.
Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see the donating to Tournr section:
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:
Which also pops up on the list of tournaments:
When a competitor goes to pay, you will see the ‘donator’ information banner:
And when paying a competitor will see:
Badges
You can get one of the following badges for donating:
Bronze, for donations less than 0.5%
Silver, for donations of 1% or less
and Gold for donations larger than 1%
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 
)
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!