Buy Me is a consumer product built for bloggers, creators, and independent developers.

Yes — there is a free tier, with paid plans for advanced use.

What platforms does Buy Me run on?

Buy Me runs on the web and embeddable surfaces. It can also be self-hosted.

Is Buy Me still active?

Unverified. Buy Me has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What are alternatives to Buy Me?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Buy Me a Coffee, Donate Me, and Buy Button for WooCommerce.

Buy Me is developed by Buy Me a Coffee.

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Buy Me

Name: Buy Me
Author: Buy Me a Coffee

wordpress.orgBusiness & Operations

The Buy Me a Coffee WordPress plugin makes it simple to add donation buttons and widgets to any site. Visitors can make one-time donations or become paid supporters with recurring memberships and extras without leaving the page. It connects to a Buy Me a Coffee account linked to Stripe or a bank account, providing a fast and friendly way for creators to receive support.

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Overview

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Buy Me is a Business & Operations project. It focuses on accepting donations, recurring memberships, and supporter payments directly from a website or blog without complex setup. It is built as a consumer product for bloggers, creators, and independent developers. A free plan is available. Buy Me is available on the web and embeddable surfaces, and it can be self-hosted.

Behind Buy Me is Buy Me a Coffee, and it first shipped in 2017. Key capabilities include donation buttons, membership support, and on-site widget payments.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Donation buttons
Membership support
On-site widget payments
Recurring payments
Stripe integration

Built with & integrations

Runs on

BrowserEmbeddableSelf-hosted

Trust & compliance

Verified signals

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Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed2 Aug · 01:58 UTC
Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin verified against its public source
Source: PulseGate · Open

Frequently asked questions about Buy Me

What is Buy Me?: Buy Me focuses on accepting donations, recurring memberships, and supporter payments directly from a website or blog without complex setup. It is catalogued under Business & Operations on PulseGate.
Who is Buy Me for?: Buy Me is a consumer product built for bloggers, creators, and independent developers.
Is Buy Me free?: Yes — there is a free tier, with paid plans for advanced use.
What platforms does Buy Me run on?: Buy Me runs on the web and embeddable surfaces. It can also be self-hosted.
Is Buy Me still active?: Unverified. Buy Me has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What are alternatives to Buy Me?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Buy Me a Coffee, Donate Me, and Buy Button for WooCommerce.Buy Me a Coffee Donate Me Buy Button for WooCommerce
Who makes Buy Me?: Buy Me is developed by Buy Me a Coffee.
When did Buy Me launch?: Buy Me first shipped in 2017.

At a glance

Pricing: Freemium · pricing page detected · free tier
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
First seen: 2 Aug 2026
Built for: Bloggers, creators, and independent developers
Model: B2C
Solves: Accepting donations, recurring memberships, and supporter payments directly from a website or blog without complex setup.

Registered as

WordPress.org: buymeacoffee

Developer

Buy Me a Coffee

Live coverage

Identity confidence: High · 91.6
Indexed: 2 Aug 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
First seen: Aug 2026
Last seen: 2 Aug 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: buy-me-a-coffee-8211-button-and-widget-plugin-wordpress-org
Lifecycle state recorded: 2 Aug 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 2 Aug 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology (no inferred launch/funding milestones).
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Assigned by a language model.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model, checked against the page's own declaration.
Last updated: 2 Aug 2026
Canonical URL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com

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