Sponsors now supports Polar and Buy Me a Coffee as funding platform options. Check out our documentation to learn more about funding files.
Sponsoring multiple projects for multiple months just got easier. You can set up sponsorships for your dependencies in a CSV, review and edit the recurring sponsorships, and checkout in one transaction.
Read the documentation for details or go to Sponsors Explore to get started. Let us know what you think.
Opt-in and opt-out options enhanced to easily subscribe or unsubscribe from sponsorship related notifications.
Head to the settings page of your Sponsors profile to update your email preferences.
Invoiced sponsors can now opt to pay for new sponsorships in full, the prorated amount or delay payment until your next billing cycle date.
Learn more about schedule sponsorships.
GitHub Sponsors is now available in 35 new regions! You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in any of the following regions:
- Albania
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Armenia
- Bahrain
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Cambodia
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Macao SAR China
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Panama
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sri Lanka
- St. Lucia
- Tanzania
- Uzbekistan and Vietnam
You can sponsor projects from wherever GitHub does business and join the Sponsors waitlist if we’re not yet in your region.
Self-serve enterprise accounts can now grant member organizations permission to create sponsorships. Sponsorships created by a member organization will charge the enterprise account's credit card on file.
Learn more about granting permissions.
As an organization, you can request invoices for projects you sponsor right from your account.
Already being invoiced for your sponsorships? Top off your balance by requesting a new invoice from the invoice section of your sponsors dashboard.
Learn more about paying for GitHub Sponsors by invoice.
Choosing who to sponsor and sponsoring many of your dependencies is now a lot easier! Starting today you can export your list of sponsorable dependencies from the Sponsors Explore page, this gives you a great starting point when making your GitHub Sponsors selections. Once you've made those selections you can upload them in a CSV, review and edit the one-time sponsorships, and checkout in one transaction.
Read the documentation for details or go to Sponsors Explore and get started. Let us know what you think.
Starting Monday, 20th February, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will be processed through a new account. If you're sponsoring through GitHub Sponsors, you will start receiving two receipts for your GitHub payments as we migrate users over to the new Sponsors account. One of these receipts will be for your GitHub Sponsors payments and one will be for any payments you make for other GitHub services.
Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor. As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using PayPal.
If you are sponsoring anyone on GitHub using PayPal, please update your GitHub payment method to pay by credit or debit card.
Starting today you'll see a project or a user's past sponsorships (either one-time, or recurring) displayed on their Sponsors profile in addition to the current sponsorships, which have always been displayed. This gives a better picture of the all-time sponsorship activity – let us know what you think in our feedback discussion!
As previously mentioned, starting today, all Sponsors profiles will have custom amounts enabled by default. This means if you have a GitHub Sponsors profile, people can sponsor you for a dollar amount they choose, rather than just the amounts you published. This will simplify setting up Sponsors profiles as well as make it easier for users to make sponsorships.
For maintainers who did not have custom amounts previously enabled, and therefore had no minimum, we set a minimum based on their lowest tier value. If you prefer to change your minimum custom amount, you can do so via the Sponsors dashboard. Learn more about managing sponsorship tiers.
Today, we're adding support for users to create a GitHub Sponsors profile and choose to receive sponsorship payouts via a fiscal host. This will give maintainers more flexibility and choice in how they receive funding. This has already been possible for organizations creating a GitHub Sponsors profile, and that remains unchanged. Users and organizations can still choose to use a Stripe Connect account instead of a fiscal host if they prefer. Learn more about signing up for a GitHub Sponsors profile using a fiscal host.
In order to streamline sponsoring maintainers, we're changing the custom amount settings for GitHub Sponsors. Starting October 3rd, 2022, all Sponsors profiles will have custom amounts enabled by default.
- On that date, if you haven't enabled custom amounts previously, we will set your minimum custom amount to either your lowest published monthly tier or your lowest published one-time tier, whichever is higher. If you wish to change the minimum, you can enable custom amounts on your Sponsors dashboard (if not already enabled), and then set it to your preferred minimum.
- If you set a minimum custom amount before October 3, 2022, it will remain unchanged.
