Where the money goes
You decide afterwards, and you pay the charity directly.
- Their charity receives
- paid to them directly, on their own page, by you
- 100%
- Worthly keeps
- not a policy. The money never reaches us to be kept
- 0%
Worthly deducts nothing, because Worthly holds nothing. You pay the charity on their page and their receipt comes from them.
The part that feels strange.
You decide the amount afterwards, and zero is a real answer. No screen here sets a default, a minimum or a suggested figure: the moment one did, this would stop being a gift and start being a price.
- 01
You decide the amount
BuiltOnce the session is over, not before. No default, no minimum, no suggested figure. Zero closes it the same way any other number does.
- 02
You pay them, not us
BuiltTheir charity is named on their profile before you book, and you give on that charity's own page. Nothing is pooled here and nothing passes through a Worthly account.
- 03
Worthly takes nothing
BuiltNot a commission we have chosen to waive. There is no point in the path where a euro is ours to take.
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Their receipt is the record
BuiltIt comes from the charity, in their name. That is the only receipt a tax office was ever likely to recognise.
Their own payment processor charges them a fee on the donation, exactly as it would if you had found their donate page without us. Worthly deducts nothing from it, because Worthly never holds it.
After the session
Paying, step by step.
- 01
You pick an amount. Any amount, including nothing, and nobody suggests a figure.
- 02
You pay the charity on their own donate page. The money goes straight from you to them, never through Worthly, so the receipt has your name on it and comes from them.
- 03
We give you a short code to put in the payment message. It is the only thing that lets the charity tell your payment apart from everybody else's.
- 04
The public total moves when the charity says the money arrived. Not when you say you paid it, and not when we say anything.
One session, start to finish
Worked exampleWhat happens when you book a session with a copywriter.
A worked example. Nothing here is recorded, €40 is an illustration rather than a suggestion, and the real total on the ledger is zero.
Public total
- 01You book half an hour with a copywriter, because your pricing page is not working.Public total after this: €0
- 02She rewrites it with you, live, in the half hour. That is the whole session, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.Public total after this: €0
- 03Afterwards you decide it was worth €40. Nobody suggested that number, there was no minimum, and nothing was owed.The half hour is a gift rather than a price, so what you decide is a donation and not a bill.Public total after this: €0
- 04You open the donate page of the charity she named and give €40, quoting the reference. Your card goes to them.Not to Worthly. The money never passes through us, so there is nothing here to take a cut from.Public total after this: €0
- 05Their receipt arrives, from them, in your name, carrying your reference. You forward it, or the charity ticks the payment off on their own page.Until one of those happens the payment is only your word, and your word does not move a public number.Public total after this: €0
- 06The public total goes up by €40.It moved because the charity's own paperwork says so, not because anybody here typed a number in.Public total after this: €40
The mechanism, in full
- The five states a contribution moves through
- Decided, handed off, reported, evidenced, confirmed. The public total counts the last two only, so a giver saying they paid never moves it, and a row that stops at reported stays visibly short of arrived for as long as that is all there is.
- The reference, and why it has a check character
- It looks like WRTHLY-8F3KA: five symbols drawn from an alphabet with no I, L, O or U, and a sixth computed from the other five. Mistype one symbol and the code fails rather than quietly matching somebody else's payment, which is the worst thing this system could do. Every single-symbol slip is caught. Two adjacent symbols swapped are caught 96.6% of the time, and that shortfall is written down rather than rounded up.
- Why the donate link can only ever be the charity's own
- The link is built from the page the charity itself published, and it is opened only when its host matches that domain. Anything else stored against a charity is discarded rather than followed, because “Worthly sent me here” is what a giver thinks while typing card details.
- The three doors, and what each one checks
- The charity confirms it. They sign in to their own page on this site with a link sent to the address they registered, and click once against the payment. Their word is the strongest thing the ledger prints, because they are the only party who can say money arrived.
- A receipt forwarded to receipts@in.worthly.org. Every reference-shaped string in the mail is checked, including inside a quoted reply, and anything failing its check character is dropped rather than passed along as a maybe. Forwarding our own mail back to us clears nothing.
- A photograph of the receipt. The amount, the currency and the organisation all have to match the contribution, and a reading the model is not confident about does not clear it. The image is never written to storage.
- Why the gap is published
- Reported and arrived are shown as two different numbers on the ledger, and the space between them is the cost of a route where nobody here holds the money. If money can go missing quietly, a charity should be able to see that before it agrees to be named here.
- Where Worthly appears in the sum
- Nowhere. Your payment goes from your card to the charity's own account, and the only party in between is their payment processor, which charges them what it would have charged if you had found their donate page yourself. Worthly is not on the route at all.
Named up front
Who is actually receiving this.
Each professional picks one and it is printed on their profile before you book, so you know the destination before you commit the half hour.
- Botrstvo
Named by someone on Worthly. Not a partner, not affiliated, and nothing here was written or approved by the charity.
One charity, because one professional has signed on so far. The list grows with the roster, not before it. Nothing raised yet. The first session has not happened.
If you work at one of these charities
Confirming costs you one click.
There is no integration to build, no account to open, no fee, and nothing of yours for us to hold, because the money never comes through us. You sign in with a link sent to your own address, and click once against a payment to say it arrived. That click is the only thing the public ledger accepts as arrived, and it is also how you have your name taken off if you would rather not be here at all.
The charity side- Pay before
- You give to the charity of the person you name, on that charity's own page, that day. The money is theirs from that moment. A dar coin is the record that it happened, not credit held for you here: there is no Worthly balance to draw down, nothing to cash out and nothing for us to refund, because none of it was ever ours. Spending coins on a session later marks that session as already paid for, because it was.
- Pay after
- Book, sit the session, then decide what it was worth. This is the road that works today.
Both roads end at a charity, and neither passes through us. Nobody holds a coin yet, and one question is still open before anybody can: what a coin means when the charity never confirms the donation behind it. That gets written into the terms before the first coin exists, not after.
The questions a sceptical person asks.
Including the ones where the honest answer is not flattering.
- 01What stops you taking a cut later?
The route does. You pay the charity on the charity's own page, so there is no moment where the money sits somewhere we could take a cut from. Worthly is one person and a domain, not a foundation with a board, so the route has to be what keeps this true rather than a policy.
Taking a cut would mean rebuilding payments to route through us first. That is a visible change to how you pay, not a percentage quietly edited in a config file, and it would appear on this page before it appeared in the product.
- 02Who pays for Worthly, then?
The founder does, personally. A domain, hosting, and unpaid evenings.
If running it ever needs real money, that will be funded separately and written up here. What you decide after a session still goes straight to the charity.
- 03How do I know the money arrived?
Because you are the one who sent it, and the receipt comes from the charity rather than from us. There is no step in the middle where you have to believe a stranger.
The public ledger is the other half. It counts an amount only once there is something behind it that we did not write ourselves: a receipt from the charity's own system, or the charity signing in and saying so. What has only been reported is shown as only reported.
- 04Can I pay the charity directly instead?
That is the only way it works. We do not collect anything: you give on the charity's own page, and where their form accepts it, the amount you decided is already in the box when it opens.
It stays true if you ignore our link entirely and go to their site yourself. Tell us if you do, so the hour is recorded as given.
- 05Is this tax deductible?
That depends entirely on the charity and where you pay tax, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What we can say is that you are a direct donor to them, with their receipt in your name. That is the position most likely to be recognised, and it is the only position this site can put you in.
- 06What if I pay nothing?
Then you pay nothing. We send one short line saying it is closed, nothing after that, and you can book again.
Zero is a real option, and nothing in the product treats it as a lesser one.
The ledger is public.
Including the rows still sitting at zero, which is most of them.