Track donations

Element keeps a total for each member in each category. Categories sit in containers, and a container's total adds up its categories.

A common setup is one container per kind of donation, with a category per event or season. Rewards can then go to the biggest donors overall, or to the biggest donors to one event.

Open Donations for your server. On the Categories tab, click New container and name it. Then add a category to it.

The name is what commands use, so keep it short, like weekly. The label is what members see in menus, like "Weekly giveaway". Both can have an emoji and a description.

Run /donation create with a container_name to make a container.

Then run /donation view with the same name. The menu that opens adds categories to the container and sets its label, emoji, description and logging channel.

When someone donates, run /donation add with the user, the amount and the category_name. Amounts take short forms like 250k or 1.5m.

Made a mistake? /donation remove takes an amount off the same way. Any role rewards update straight away in both directions.

Anyone can run /donation check to see their own totals, or pick a user to see someone else's. Pick a category or container in name to open it straight away.

Give each container a logging channel, on the dashboard or in its /donation view menu. Element then posts every donation added or removed in it: who, how much, which category and who made the change.