Donations do not arrive
People ask this as
- the donation never showed up in the app
- donations are not counted towards the goal
- a donation is missing from the stream totals
- nothing comes in from DonationAlerts
Most often the service was simply never finished being set up — the module is off, the token was never entered, or DonatePay's own switch is off. Check that first: see the "Monetization" guide, section "Setting up a service".
What to check
- Does it say "Sign-in required"? Sign in again on that service's page. DonationAlerts needs this more often than the others: the service gives out access that simply expires and cannot be renewed in the background.
- Is the platform ticked in the consumer's own filter? Fundraising, Statistics, Alerts, the auction, Scenarios, the AI agent and the voice-over each have a "count donations from" list. A platform unticked there is skipped silently — the donation arrives but that one feature ignores it.
The donation is missing from the stream totals
Statistics records donations even outside a broadcast. A donation that arrived while no session was running is stored, just not attached to that stream.
DonationAlerts also imports past history once and rechecks it periodically; if that import was interrupted it retries on the next start, and Statistics → Rebuild donation history forces it.