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Discussion on: Announcing the Grant For The Web Hackathon on DEV

 
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☞ Desigan Chinniah ☜

I'm taking the below directly from @sharafian — and it's likely best that he expand...

Web Monetization doesn't allow for the requesting of specific amounts. Discrete or 'retail' payments like that are better served by a traditional checkout flow or the Web Payments API.

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Joe Pea

Interesting. So how do you know if it is worth disabling ads for someone if your business relies on ads, for example? What if they donate only 1 cent. Maybe that won't outweigh the benefit of keeping the ads. There must be a way to track amounts. and therefore, a way to list those amounts somewhere on the website for users to set as their goal, which would equate to requesting specific amounts but in a different way.

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☞ Desigan Chinniah ☜

There are some interesting privacy related challenges here. Unless users/members explicitly opt-in of course. @sharafian likely has thoughts and ideas here.

On the member side, @wobsoriano has been working on a separate extension (they opt-in by explicitly installing something) for members showing them their spend. It's a work-in-progress for the hackathon and he is writing about it.