Donations

[PanBiker]

The donate feature for the site is not working at the moment. PayPal are having one or two technical issues which are not helping fixing the problem. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

[Stanley]

Do we need a top-up at the moment?

[PanBiker]

Solvent at the moment Stanley until the next quarter comes out.

[Stanley]

[PanBiker]

For Information, the donation issue has been fixed and the button is fully functional again.

[Tizer]

Thanks for that Ian. My finance director will have a go at paying tomorrow. (We had tried to pop in some money via Paypal recently but it didn't work - Ian came to the rescue!)

[Stanley]

I shall try it out as well Ian.....

[Stanley]

Lovely, that took less them 30 seconds....

[Gloria]

I’ve tried to donate with my credit card, it took all the details said please wait, and the circle just kept going round and round, has it taken my donation?

[PanBiker]

Unfortunately not Gloria, when did you try to donate? If it was before lunchtime yesterday it was still bust! I fixed it yesterday afternoon and there have been three successful donations, last one a 03.03am this morning.

[Gloria]

A couple of minutes ago.

[Gloria]

I’ll try again.

[Gloria]

Still the same and this is what I’m getting, and nothing happens.

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[Gloria]

Tried another card and it’s still the same, I give up.

[Stanley]

Sorry to hear you're having problems Gloria. You'll have to do it the old fashioned way, send Ian a cheque!
(I still post a cheque once a month to pay my credit card off.... )

[Tizer]

Mrs Tiz has just successfully made a donation. We hadn't been able to do it about a week ago and Ian tried and got the same whirling icon symbol. Then yesterday he said it was working again and I said we'd do it today. I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble Gloria, it might be due to today's worldwide outage caused by Crowdstrike and especially hitting Microsoft products, as Stanley suggested.

[PanBiker]

Gloria's problem came down to cached settings in the browser, hanging on to broken code I reckon. She's happy now she has been successful.

Thanks to everyone who has donated recently.

[Gloria]

Yes Ian, thanks to your advice Gloria is happy now job sorted.

[Stanley]

Nice....

[PanBiker]

I received an email from IONOS this morning advising that our last invoice payment was declined by PayPal due to insufficient funds!

I have checked of course and can confirm that we currently only have a balance of £40.08 in our account.

The IONOS invoice is for £64.80 hence the refusal. It does not specify the details of the invoice which I will have to check but I assume it will be a quarterly payment and other bits and bobs.

I have to jump through some alternative payment option hoops to keep our account live. Failure to maintain our dues can lead to loss of domain hosting etc..

I will of course submit a finance report in due course which I think is due around now anyway. My apologies for taking my eye of the ball so to say.

[PanBiker]

It does not specify the details of the invoice which I will have to check but I assume it will be a quarterly payment and other bits and bobs.

I have checked and the invoice is for our Quarterly payment alone. The monthly charges have increased by £2 from £16 to £18 per month + VAT

[Gloria]

Thrown some money in the pot.

[Stanley]

Ditto, don't be too hard on yourself Ian!

[PanBiker]

Thanks for the feedback and donations, crept up on me that one! I have paid the outstanding balance so the wolves, (Aunt Helga) are at bay for the time being, (wolves do get a bad press though).

[Tizer]

Thanks for the warning, Mrs Tiz has made a donation from us. She saw it before me!