Support scriptbin
scriptbin is freely available for everyone, at no charge. Features are added and made available to everyone. There are no ads, no tracking and no focus on capturing attention or goading addiction the way many social media platforms do. scriptbin is built to make it easy for writers of scripts to host them, for readers of scripts to read them easily, and for everyone's time and privacy to be respected.
If you use scriptbin, if you think it works well and makes your life easier, and if it is an option for you, I would appreciate a donation. Donations are voluntary and do not render any additional features, rights, services or benefits. (But you may experience warm, fuzzy feelings of knowing you supported something that you enjoy.)
The vast majority of people using scriptbin do not donate and that is absolutely fine; also, of course many people who donate do so once or now and then and not on an ongoing recurring basis: again, definitely more than appreciated and completely fine. scriptbin is not a money-making venture and will always be about providing a service to the community. You are still welcome to use the site fully, you will still have access to all scriptbin features and I will still gladly answer questions and listen to feedback.
Thanks for using scriptbin.
Patreon is a membership service, for ongoing support — I wish to contribute but only with a one-time donation! How can I do that?
There are two ways.
Option A: There are donations set up in the Shop part of scriptbin's Patreon. Each product is just an image, telling you thanks for making the donation by buying it. (Sadly, since products are meant for unique works instead of donations, I think you can only "buy" each donation once. But if you only want to donate one time, that should be fine.)
💵 Donate via the scriptbin Patreon's shop
Option B: Sign up for the scriptbin Patreon at the tier that matches how much you want to donate, then wait a few days, then cancel the membership. (Please be careful near the end of the month so that it does not accidentally charge you once when you join and then again at the beginning of the new month. And please remember, if you wish to only donate once, to go back and cancel and not leave it running. If you wish to keep contributing, that's fine too, but I don't want anything you didn't want to give!)
💵 Donate via joining the scriptbin Patreon
Does anything in these donations go to writers?
Does donating mean I can record scripts and host those recordings behind paywalls/on Patreon, etc?
...and similar questions
Scripts are not "scriptbin scripts" and writers are not "scriptbin writers" — there are sites that work like that for audios, but scriptbin is not that kind of platform. This page is about donating to cover the cost of the ongoing maintenance and hosting of this site and otherwise support its development, not to pay out money to the writers and scripts hosted on it.
To support your favorite writer with a donation, to commission work or to find out what you are allowed to do or not do with their scripts, please see the instructions in the writer's scripts or separate page that they may link from their writer's profile or in other places.
As always, if you have any questions about a writer or their scripts, contact them directly.
Monthly cost
The support will primarily be used to cover the monthly cost of scriptbin's hosting and related expenses. In the spirit of transparency, these will be listed month by month, along with the amount received after Patreon/processing cuts.
| Month | Expenses | Support received | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| As charged | $ equiv. | After fees | % of expenses | 👥 | ||
| February 2023 | $12 + €38 | $52.35 | $33.56 | 64 % | 8 | |
| March 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.32 | $65.87 | 124 % | 15 | |
| April 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.73 | $64.50 | 120 % | 16 | |
| May 2023 | $12 + €38 | $52.60 | $73.48 | 140 % | 14 | |
| June 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.29 | $69.68 | 131 % | 16 | |
| July 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.89 | $64.43 | 120 % | 14 | |
| August 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.30 | $66.08 | 124 % | 15 | |
| September 2023 | $12 + €38 | $52.26 | $63.52 | 122 % | 14 | |
| October 2023 | $12 + €38 | $52.35 | $81.60 | 156 % | 14 | |
| November 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.54 | $60.11 | 112 % | 13 | |
| December 2023 | $12 + €38 | $53.99 | $65.02 | 120 % | 13 | |
| January 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.18 | $60.42 | 114 % | 13 | |
| February 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.14 | $57.87 | 109 % | 12 | |
| March 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.08 | $51.12 | 96 % | 11 | |
| April 2024 | $12 + €38 | $52.71 | $53.61 | 102 % | 12 | |
| May 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.24 | $48.57 | 91 % | 11 | |
| June 2024 | $12 + €38 | $52.68 | $60.06 | 114 % | 13 | |
| July 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.15 | $57.22 | 108 % | 13 | |
| August 2024 | $12 + €38 | $54.13 | $64.18 | 119 % | 15 | |
| September 2024 | $12 + €38 | $54.54 | $57.05 | 105 % | 14 | |
| October 2024 | $12 + €38 | $53.35 | $63.06 | 118 % | 15 | |
| November 2024 | $12 + €38 | $52.14 | $58.84 | 113 % | 15 | |
| December 2024 | $22 + €70.3 | $95.03 | $84.68 | 89 % | 21 | |
| January 2025 | $22 + €75.3 | $100.26 | $74.46 | 74 % | 19 | |
| February 2025 | $22 + €75.3 | $100.39 | $214.61 | 214 % | 17 | |
| March 2025 | $22 + €75.3 | $103.23 | $71.25 | 69 % | 16 | |
| April 2025 | $22 + €75.3 | ongoing | ongoing | |||
Note about December 2024, January 2025 and February 2025: There was a server move that involved overlapping use of both a new and old server during parts of December and into January, and additional resources were necessary during the migration. The stable amount going forward will be adjusted as resources and backups are removed/used less and the cost settles down in February.
The expenses involve multiple currencies so the $ equivalent changes with exchange rate and is not known. It is determined at the end of each month, when the support received is also updated.
The "% of expenses" column highlights how much the support received after fees either exceeds or falls short of the expenses.
The 👥 column shows how many supporters are active at the end of each month. Since supporters can come and go during the month, this is not always equal to the number of individual contributions made during the month.