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5% platform fee on the free plan (tips, memberships, and product sales); $5/mo Gold
membership removes the platform fee; standard Stripe/PayPal processing applies on top (1) ·
Free, no ads, no paid tiers. Run by the Signal Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit
funded by grants and donations; by charter it cannot be acquired. (1) ·
Self-hosted is free (single user/accountant); Cloud-hosted plans $12-218/mo (1)
End-to-end encrypted 1:1 and group messaging, plus voice/video calls, built on
the audited Signal Protocol (Double Ratchet + X3DH). ~40M monthly users. Registration
requires a phone number; usernames (added 2024) let you start chats without sharing it. (1) ·
Low-friction tip jar and membership platform for one-off support or recurring
monthly patronage. No nonprofit registration or business entity is required to sign up. (1) ·
Self-hostable double-entry accounting: invoicing, online payments, expense tracking,
multi-currency, unlimited bank/cash accounts. The free self-hosted tier is limited to one
user and one accountant -- fine for a single bookkeeper, not for a team that needs
shared access. (1)
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Even the self-hosted install requires an API key that calls home to
Akaunting's servers to validate your license tier -- worth knowing if full data
sovereignty (no external dependency at all) is a hard requirement, since this isn't
quite that despite being open source. (1) ·
Registration: no nonprofit status or business registration required -- sign up
and start collecting tips/memberships as an individual or org account. (1)
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