Become a Friend of Debt Free Fanatics

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What is a Friend of Debt Free Fanatics?

Friends of Debt Free Fanatics are members who have helped support our operation by making a donation to our operating fund.

What's it take to become a Friend of Debt Free Fanatics?

For as little as $10 you will be flagged as a "Friend of DFF" for 3 months. One time, quarterly, and annual donation options arealso available, in amounts of $10, $20, $50, and $100.

What do I get for being a Friend of Debt Free Fanatics?

Friends of Debt Free Fanatics get the following perks:

- The ability to display their love for Debt Free Fanatics in the form of a custom user title under their avatar

- Access to the Friends of DFF private sub forum, where you and your fellow DFF Friends can feel smug together!

- Access to new features as well as improved functions and higher limits on their use of the site
- - Increased limit on Private Messages (9,999 vs. 1,000) (for the really really spammy)
- - Ability to send PM to 50 users at once (instead of 5)
- - Automatic thread refreshing never expires (5 minute limit is the norm)

- And of course, a sense of contributing to the community!

How do I donate?

Go to the Paid Subscriptions page and follow the instructions.

All payments go through PayPal but you do not need a PayPal account unless you want to schedule a recurring payment.

If you schedule a recurring payment and later wish to cancel ,you must do this through PayPal's managed subscriptions section. DFF cannot cancel your payment for you.
Ok, I donated. What do I get for it?
Contributors will be able to choose to be identified as a "Friend of DFF" on the Permission Groups screen in their settings. You will have the option to be identified as your usual title (based on post count) or as a "Friend of DFF". (Sorry, at this time you can't show both.)

What does it cost to run Debt Free Fanatics?

Our costs have gone up some since the last time I posted this information, but not by much. Our main expense, the website itself, is now roughly $50/month. Other expenses are annual and average around $15/month. So we don't need a LOT of people to help chip in, really, we don't!

Our annual expense list includes Domain Name Registration, SSL certification (for security), and registration on Google Play and the Apple Store to publish our mobile apps.

We also occasionally experience one time costs for enhancements to the system, such as buying the donation system itself. Wherever possible, we try to buy lifetime support options, because long term those are the most cost effective.

What do you do with the extra money?

Our goal is to have at least a years worth of operating expenses in reserve, all the time.
Money in excess of the reserve may be used to buy enhancements to DFF.

What if I can't (or just don't want to) become a Friend of DFF?

Nothing. All the access you have today, you'll keep. Anything new, you won't get. Our worst case scenario is that one day we run out of money and have to downgrade to a cheaper plan which won't let us run at the capacity level you all are used to. (Think "Service Limit Exceeded" messages from our former web service provider...)


How can I see the status of the funds?

Our treasurer, GertieMcFuzz the professional accountant, will publish a quarterly summary of income and outgo. This will be accessible to all members.