We're always looking for ways to bring premium upgrades to our customers without making them front the money themselves. That was the thinking behind our new Community Chest. The Community Chest is a place where forum members can go to donate towards that forum. 80% of the money donated to your forum will be added to your Community Chest. The remaining 20% goes towards covering the expenses involved (ie. payment processing and development). Money donated can be used for all available upgrades (ad-removal, copyright-removal, attach space, domain names, etc) with the exception of advanced hosting. You can config your Community Chest's message and purchase upgrades from the "Community Chest" link in your admin panel.

We hope this enables your members to directly support your community and allow you to purchase additional upgrades for them. This has been enabled on all forums' footers by default and can also be accessed at yourforum.freeforums.org/chest.php.

So get emailing, posting, PMing, whatever it takes to rally your members!

-FreeForums.org Team

Wow, in the past 12 hours this system has enabled over 35 forums to purchase upgrades from donated money. We consider this a huge success and will be making some key additions over the next few days to help you get the most out of this new feature.

I would also like to remind users that, like all mods on FreeForums.org, this can be disabled via the Mod Center.

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