Many devs don't have recurring income. It'd be good if i was able to simply say "10% of every invoice I send gets sent to gittip for me to distribute amongst the projects I used to generate the work in this invoice."

Freshbooks Integration?

Ticketed with comments: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/196

There is a way to cancel later right? I mean, even if you intend to give every week... eventually there will come a time where a person will need to stop doing that. We've all fell on hard times at one point or another and forced to make cut backs. Unfortunately, that often means being less "charitable".

If you can't turn off a recurring donation, then that just upped the giver's commitment level from "chicken" to "pig".

If you can turn off a recurring donation, then at least there is a work around for much shorter runs, like... 1 week. :)

You can set individual gifts to zero. They're collected together on your profile page:

https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html

You can also turn off gifts entirely without actually forgetting them by deleting your credit card:

https://www.gittip.com/credit-card.html

Is that satisfactory?

Thanks. So it seems that if a person wanted to just give once, there is a series of steps involved that would allow them to do that in a roundabout way. Maybe that is using Gittip in a way not intended, but it would satisfy the OP's need of a one time gift option.

Correct. Thanks for pointing that out.

thanks for the answer! what is the point of forcing anonymity per-donation?

gittip is more like a recurring research grant than a traditional salary. if i'm not dictating the work i'm paying for, i think it makes sense to know who, as a maintainer, your supporters are.

The idea is for gifts to be no-strings-attached. Not knowing who exactly your donors are means you're more free to pursue your own vision rather than someone else's. The idea is that you're being productive on your own terms, and "society" is rewarding you for your productivity.