Introduction

If you want to support BakaBT you can make a donation. We will accept only as much money as we need. If the server bill has been paid for this month (and perhaps a few months ahead) donations will close until another payment has been made.

We have had problems in the past with a black-box donation system so we now have a fully transparent donation system. When you make a donation, PayPal will 'call' our site and it will automatically verify the donation. When the donation has been completed it will show up immediately on the donation chart.

Benefits

If you donate you will get:

• Donator status () if you donate € 3 or more (excluding the PayPal fee)
• 10 GB upload credit for each euro you donate, decimals allowed.

Make a donation

¹ PayPal may require a fee for sending the money, usually BakaBT will pay the fee, this means your actual donation will be slightly less: PayPal Fee Calculator
² PayPal may require a fee for conversion between currencies.
³ The server bill is paid in Euro, hence donations are in Euro.

Anonymous donation

When donating anonymously you will not receive any form of credit for donating (else it wouldn't be anonymous). Your donation will be listed as 'anonymous donation X amount'. We seperate two cases:

1. Fully anonymous: you are not logged in so we don't know who you are.
2. Partially anonymous: you are logged in but checked 'Anonymous donation'.

The difference between these two is that with a 'partially anonymous' donation we know who you are so you will still receive status updates when PayPal pushes them to us. This can be useful for a variety of reasons.
When the donation is completed the donation will made anonymous in our logs, so you will get the benefit of status information about your donation while keeping anonimity.
If for any reason the donation does not reach the 'completed' state you will need to contact Jarudin to remove the donation in the log.

Notification

I'm getting a lot of requests from people to tell me when donations are open again. The notification system will take care of this.

If donations are open notifications will be sent out. You will need to sign up again if you want to get notified the next time donations are open.

Currently we are in the lucky position that donations close very quickly, it's a bit scary even.
If you look at the donation chart you can roughly guess when I will be paying another server bill (every month).