You can now add custom parameters to your sponsorship URL in order to see what links your sponsors are coming to you from. Learn more about formatting your custom URLs and how to export the metadata in the documentation.
On Saturday November 13, 2021 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM PST, GitHub’s billing systems will undergo scheduled maintenance.
During this time period, certain payment functionalities will be unavailable including:
- Adding a new payment method or updating existing payment methods
- Signing up for a new paid GitHub account
- Upgrading existing account to a new paid GitHub plan
- Paying invoices
- Making new Marketplace purchases
- Adding new sponsorships or changing tiers of existing sponsorships
Thank you for your patience as we work to improve our systems.
Organizations can now join GitHub Sponsors using a personal bank account, in addition to using a business bank account or a fiscal host.
Learn more about setting up GitHub Sponsors for your organization.
You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account and tax residence in Bulgaria, Romania or any of the other regions where Sponsors is available.
Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist. You’ll also receive tips, updates, and news about availability in new countries, including your own.
Companies can now invest in open source with GitHub Sponsors!
- We’re launching GitHub Sponsors for companies in beta on December 8 (Tuesday) at Universe.
- Self-service (payment via credit card or PayPal) orgs can sign up right away. During the beta, companies with invoiced accounts are not yet supported but can join a waitlist for updates.
- Companies will be charged a 10% fee after the beta. We’re waiving the fee during the beta to thank early adopters for getting the program jump-started. After the beta, we will charge sponsors a 10% fee on top of the sponsorship amount to cover our operational costs.
- We’ve added more discoverability with an improved Explore page.
You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Cyprus or any of the other 34 regions where Sponsors is generally available.
Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist. You’ll also receive news about general availability in new countries, including your own.
You can now sign up for Sponsors if you have a bank account in Malta or any of the other regions where Sponsors is available.
Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist. You’ll also receive tips, updates, and news about availability in new countries, including your own.
As a sponsored developer or organization, you can now select the public repositories to showcase on your GitHub Sponsors profile.
Previously, your pinned repositories were displayed on your sponsorship profile. Now, with this change, you can customize which repositories are displayed.
As a sponsored developer or organization, you can now set funding goals and share them with your sponsors.
You can set goals for the amount of money you’d like to be sponsored for each month, or for the number of active sponsors you’d like to have. You can also share the success with your community when you hit your goals.
You can sign up now if you have a bank account in the Czech Republic or any of the other 32 regions where Sponsors is out of beta.
Not in a supported region? Get on the waitlist to join the beta in your region. You’ll also receive news about general availability in new regions, including your own.
As a sponsored developer or organization, you can now export a list of your sponsorship transactions with a single click from the Your Sponsors tab on your dashboard.
We’ll export each sponsor’s name, email, sponsorship start date, and details about their transactions with you in CSV or JSON format.
You can sign up now if you have a bank account in Mexico or any of the other 31 countries where Sponsors is out of beta.
Not in a supported country? Get on the waitlist to join the beta in your country. You’ll also receive news about general availability in new countries, including your own.
As a sponsored developer or organization, you can create webhooks to notify your own endpoints when events related to your GitHub Sponsors listing occur. For example, a webhook can notify you when you receive a new sponsorship.
You can specify the URL where you’d like to send the POST requests and also specify which data format you’d like to receive.
GitHub Sponsors is now available in beta for projects to receive sponsorship as a team. If you’re part of an open source project with a corporate or non-profit entity and bank account, you can sign up for the waitlist today.