Ghost CMS News: One-time payments & collecting sales tax

Tips & donations

Ghost publications connected to Stripe can now accept one-time payments in the form of tips and donations. To enable this, go to Settings > Growth > Tips and donations.

You can set a suggested donation amount and get a unique link that can be shared anywhere.

Tips and donations can be made by both members and non-members, and each time someone makes a payment, you’ll receive an email notification.

Collecting sales tax

Ghost now allows you to handle sales tax, VAT, and GST with the new Stripe Tax integration (currently in beta). This is applied automatically during checkout for new paid subscriptions, tips, and donations.

Stripe Tax, a paid add-on for Stripe, helps you manage tax obligations by tracking where taxes need to be collected, calculating the correct amount, and providing the necessary reports for filing tax returns.

Once enabled, new paid members going through Stripe Checkout will see an additional field for their address. If they’re in a region where you’re registered to collect tax, it will be calculated at the appropriate rate and added to the total.

Other Ghost CMS improvements

Here are some additional bug fixes and improvements introduced in recent versions of Ghost:

• ✨ Improved email analytics job system (v5.90.0)
• ✨ Enhanced publishing flow (v5.91.0)
• ✨ Added one-time payments for Tips & Donations (v5.92.0)
• 🎨 Wrapped missing i18n strings in the Portal (v5.94.2)
• ✨ Added i18n support to search, preparing it for translator use (v5.95.0)
• ✨ Introduced content_api_key helper (v5.96.0)
• ✨ Added unsubscribe_url to member API responses (v5.97.0)