Christopher Mahan wrote:
I personally see an advantage to showing each individual transaction by day, so that if someone wanted to make sure that their $21.00 transaction on then 17th was counted and didn't "fall through the cracks", they could verify it.
Exactly! People like feedback.
Also, it will also show the donation amounts, so that people who would normally not consider donating because their donation might seem to little might be encouraged to see donations of $1 or $2 (it only takes a few thousand of those to add up to some big money)
As a matter of fact there were hundreds of donations below US$10. Many of those were just a dollar or two. However, the per transaction PayPal cost is relatively high for such small amounts (up to 40 cents for a single dollar donation in some cases).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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