Changelog

All notable changes to Generous.nz are recorded here, grouped by version. Every deployed build has a version number, a git tag, and an entry below.

Versioning scheme

Versions follow MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:

0.x — pre-launch. Minor bumps mark a completed build phase or major feature set; patches are bug fixes on the current build.
1.0.0 — first public launch.
1.x+ — post-launch: minor = new features, patch = fixes, major = breaking changes or significant re-architecture.

Each version is tagged in git (v0.2.0) and the current version is kept in package.json. See docs/version-control.md for how to cut a release.

A fully live fundraiser with fees owing now sees the amount on the go-live checklist too, not just on their dashboard.

A bounced or failed card-reminder email can no longer interrupt the platform-fee billing run.

The platform fee card is no longer a go-live requirement. A connected payout account is all that's needed now, so an approved fundraiser is live and earning from day one. The fee card is only needed once fees are actually due — in practice, once the fee-free allowance is used up — and the checklist and dashboard banner now say exactly that.
Fees can no longer be lost while there's no card. A fee that falls due with no card on file is recorded as a draft invoice instead of being skipped, the fee-free allowance is consumed as normal, and every draft is billed automatically the moment a card is added. (Previously the weekly job only looked back seven days, so cardless weeks were never billed.)
The card reminder now fires only when there's something owing, and states how much — no more nudging fundraisers who don't owe a cent.
Surfaced the amount owing: a platform fees owing panel on the fundraiser dashboard (with the card prompt when relevant) and a fees owing column on Admin → Fundraisers showing whether a card is on file.

Nothing here pauses a fundraiser's page — the escalation step was left out deliberately. Reminders are capped at one per billing period per campaign.
Referral rewards now qualify as soon as the payout account is connected and a campaign is live, since the card is no longer part of "setup complete".

Printable playbook (PDF). The Tools for success page now offers a four-page A4 PDF — the five quick wins, the full playbook, the six costliest mistakes and the Day 1 / first week / ongoing checklist — for clubs, schools and committees to print and hand out. Linked from the page and the checklist heading, generated on demand at /api/tools-for-success/pdf.
Live quick wins inside the campaign form. As a fundraiser fills the form in, a small panel ticks off the things that reliably change how much a page raises — a specific title, a story with detail (with a live word count), a cover photo, numbers in the story, a goal you can explain and peer-to-peer pages — with a one-line nudge for anything still missing. Nothing blocks saving.
First-week tip emails. New campaigns get four short emails over their first week (days 1, 3, 5 and 7), each with a single action: message ten people, add a photo and post your first update, give people something to buy, then name the gap at halfway. Sent by the daily job, one per campaign per run, recorded in the campaign so it can never double-send, and skipped for paused or deleted accounts.

The tip sequence applies to campaigns that go live from today onwards. Campaigns that were already running when it shipped are not emailed, and the first tip arrives on the day a campaign is published.

Tools for success (/tools-for-success): a fundraiser playbook covering the five things that do the most work, then the details — writing a story people act on, goals you can explain, photos, making giving effortless, selling items instead of only asking, turning supporters into fundraisers with peer-to-peer pages, bringing local businesses in, sharing that actually travels, keeping momentum with updates, and finishing a campaign properly. Includes the six costliest mistakes, a day-one / first-week / ongoing checklist, and what the platform handles behind the scenes.
Linked from the site footer ("Fundraiser tips"), the help centre, the getting-started page and the sitemap.

Donors can now stop (and restart) a recurring donation themselves. My purchases has a Recurring donations section listing monthly gifts with the campaign, amount and start date, and a Cancel button. Cancelling ends the gift at the end of the current period — nothing is clawed back from the fundraiser — and it can be resumed until then. The update goes to Stripe on the fundraiser's own account, and every change is written to the audit log.

Help centre expanded where it was thin: Managing a recurring donation (new), Peer-to-peer supporter pages (how they're switched on, teams, leaderboard, where donations count, what stays on the main campaign), Storefront and branding (branding options, what supporters see, custom domain, approved campaigns only), Campaign builder, and a new business article Fee credits and referral free sales (free-sales allowance, $200 referral rewards, credit applied before the card, and how a signup code interacts with the offer).

Help centre audit. Went through every article against how the site actually behaves now. Fixed: a garbled sentence in "Understanding platform fees"; "Discount codes" rewritten as "Discount and coupon codes" (group codes vs coupons, the fee-free credit never expiring, and the current sign-up offer); "Campaign types" and "Campaign settings" no longer claim the type can be changed after creation; "Closing or archiving a campaign" now distinguishes holiday mode from archiving and points at account deletion; "Reviews" says where they appear (products and businesses, not the fundraiser page); "Terms and policies" names the operating company; "My purchases" points at the dashboard menu; and the two moderation articles now describe the real pipeline (auto-reject banned items, auto-approve low-risk, humans for the rest, order screening before payment).
New article: "Buying items and vouchers from a fundraiser" — what the Shop to support section is, who the seller is, gifting a voucher, delivery zones and where orders land.

Help centre article "Who's behind Generous.nz" with the operating company details (Web Studio Ltd, Christchurch, registered 15 August 2002, company number 1232732, NZBN 9429036370351) and a link to the Companies Office record, plus a note that the company runs the platform but never holds fundraiser funds.
The Legal page now states who operates the platform, with the same registration details and a link through to the help article. Help articles can also be deep-linked now (/help?q=…) so a link can open the centre already filtered to the right article.