flattr gets a cut of 10% of all incoming donations to an author. Also payout does not start before you earned 10 Euro.
The fact with the monthly donation is very bad published, also in the interview, maybe because the policy changed over time.
You pay once any amount you like (say 20 Euro) and then you must decide a minimum monthly flattr money of 2 Euro (or more) to spend monthly. if you do not flattr anything this month the 2 Euro will go to charity, else your monthly money will be divided equally between all the authors you flattered.
The cool thing is you can flattr as much as you like each month and you can until the end of the month decide how big you monthly fee (for this month!) shall be...but it must be 2 Euro at minimum.
This is not clearly stated even in the flattr faq and i was very happy as i understood it... the idea of having to decide an monthly fee that get subtracted from my credit card or bank account was uncomfortable for me but that is not so. You pay once and spend this money over (amount / 2) months, or faster if you decide to spend more of your money at some months. Ideally, you will earning more money from flattr than what you spend; in this case you will never have to transfer money to flattr and can instead transfer money from flattr to your bank account :-)
But i must say that even spending money on flattr is fun. It may be only a fractoin of a cent for the author, but it is nice to flattr someone. And it is nice to be flattered.
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flattr gets a cut of 10% of all incoming donations to an author. Also payout does not start before you earned 10 Euro.
The fact with the monthly donation is very bad published, also in the interview, maybe because the policy changed over time.
You pay once any amount you like (say 20 Euro) and then you must decide a minimum monthly flattr money of 2 Euro (or more) to spend monthly. if you do not flattr anything this month the 2 Euro will go to charity, else your monthly money will be divided equally between all the authors you flattered.
The cool thing is you can flattr as much as you like each month and you can until the end of the month decide how big you monthly fee (for this month!) shall be...but it must be 2 Euro at minimum.
This is not clearly stated even in the flattr faq and i was very happy as i understood it... the idea of having to decide an monthly fee that get subtracted from my credit card or bank account was uncomfortable for me but that is not so. You pay once and spend this money over (amount / 2) months, or faster if you decide to spend more of your money at some months. Ideally, you will earning more money from flattr than what you spend; in this case you will never have to transfer money to flattr and can instead transfer money from flattr to your bank account :-)
But i must say that even spending money on flattr is fun. It may be only a fractoin of a cent for the author, but it is nice to flattr someone. And it is nice to be flattered.