What we are building
What is finished, what is being worked on, and what we would like to do but have not started. No dates on the last one, because a date we invent is a promise we break.
Where this is going
Giving should be free, simple, and possible from anywhere, and arrive anywhere too, including the places where there is no way to receive a donation at all today. Somebody with a phone and a reason should be able to ask, and somebody who wants to help should be able to, whatever country either of them is standing in.
Everything below is a step towards that. The short lists are the honest part: it is a long way off, and we would rather say where we have actually got to.
Done
Live on the site now.- Start a fund in two minutes, and share one link
- Card and bank payments, with the money paid out the next working day
- Monthly giving, which a donor can stop themselves at any time
- Raising for somebody else, paid into their own account
- Funds for verified charities
- Updates, thank-yous, and a line for everything the money paid for
- A printable poster with a code people can scan
Next
Being worked on.- Kenya and Ivory Coast are the next two countries. Kenya is already described in the code, and goes live the day payouts do
- Mobile money at the checkout, not only cards
- More countries across West and East Africa, once those two are live
- A mobile app
- A help centre, so the common questions have somewhere to live
- Reporting a fund from the fund itself, in one press
- Measuring which pages people give up on, so we can fix them
Something missing?
The things on this list came from people who told us. Tell us yours.