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Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform [[Patreon]], but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications, for example Patreon collects [[Value-added tax|VAT]] on all payments made from inside the [[European Union]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-does-VAT-work-on-Patreon-|title=How does VAT work on Patreon?|date=2018-03-25}}</ref> whereas Liberapay does not<ref>[https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/973554555140104192 Tweet from Liberapay about VAT], 2018-03-13.</ref>.
Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform [[Patreon]], but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications, for example Patreon collects [[Value-added tax|VAT]] on all payments made from inside the [[European Union]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-does-VAT-work-on-Patreon-|title=How does VAT work on Patreon?|date=2018-03-25}}</ref> whereas Liberapay does not<ref>[https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/973554555140104192 Tweet from Liberapay about VAT], 2018-03-13.</ref>.

Liberapay uses both Cloudflare and Amazon Cloud. <ref>[https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article418/peppercarrot-is-now-on-liberapay comment on blog post on https://www.peppercarrot.com about Liberapay], 15 november 2017.</ref>.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 12:51, 18 November 2018

Liberapay
Type of site
Crowdfunding platform
Available in10+ languages[1]
URLliberapay.com
LaunchedFebruary 3, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-02-03)
Written inPython

Liberapay is "a non-profit organization founded in 2015 in France"[2][3] providing a platform to donate money to teams, organizations and individuals. The service does not charge a fee on donations aside from that required by its payment processors, instead financing its own activity through donations handled by the service itself in the same way as donations to third-parties are handled.[2]

Liberapay began as a European fork of the now-defunct US-based platform Gratipay.com, which had undergone changes after facing legal issues.[4] Initially Liberapay's only currency was the euro, but support for the US dollar was added after Gratipay announced that it would shut down.[5]

Notable projects on Liberapay include Archive.is[6], Mastodon[7], Pepper&Carrot[8] and Matrix[9][10].

Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform Patreon, but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications, for example Patreon collects VAT on all payments made from inside the European Union[11] whereas Liberapay does not[12].

References

  1. ^ Liberapay's translations on Weblate. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  2. ^ a b "Introduction - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Après un an d'activité, Liberapay veut être l'alternative libre pour les dons récurrents" [A year after its launch, Liberapay wants to be the open source alternative for recurrent donations] (in French). 2017-04-13. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "Gratipay, Liberapay - Open source tipping apps struggle". P2P Foundation. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  5. ^ "Liberapay now supports US dollars". 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-02-09.
  6. ^ "archiveis - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "Mastodon now has a team on Liberapay". 2017-06-07.
  8. ^ "Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay". 2017-07-13.
  9. ^ "A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!". 2017-07-07.
  10. ^ "Matrixdotorg - Liberapay". 2017-09-16.
  11. ^ "How does VAT work on Patreon?". 2018-03-25.
  12. ^ Tweet from Liberapay about VAT, 2018-03-13.
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