Tip Jar With A Vengeance · 11:12pm Aug 19th, 2014
Thanks to the help of ToixStory, I think this tip jar business may be sorted out. I'm crossing my fingers right now, but hopefully this button will work:
For those who missed it, here's the part of the original blog post that doesn't contain any hair-pulling frustration, though there is a rather ironic mention of the process being easy -- which it is, if you know that you're supposed to click the "Email" tab after PayPal generates a button for you:
So, after giving it some thought, I still haven't actually come to a satisfactory conclusion about Patreon. However, setting up a PayPal tip jar is so damn easy that I figure I can do that while I make up my mind -- indeed, I might just leave it on my author page even if I do decide to set up a Patreon account, simply so those who only want to make a one-time donation have a relatively simple means of doing so.
Anyway, you can click on the button if you wish to chip in. Any amount is appreciated, though the appreciation increases dramatically if the donation is large enough to cover PayPal's processing fees (I think it's somewhere around $0.25 before there's anything left over to go into my PayPal account).
Works for me! Though I, unfortunately, have nothing to give, which is why I knew how to set up a tip jar in the first place.