A dual-purpose marketplace for people who gather crowds and people who raise for causes — especially teams that live in more than one payment economy.
Most organizers in Africa and the diaspora end up running Eventbrite for tickets and a separate GoFundMe (or a raw Paystack link) for donations. Fees stack. Branding splits. Reconciliation becomes a spreadsheet. Gatherly collapses that stack.
Event hosting is sold as a subscription because software should not punish success at the door. Crowdfunding keeps a transparent, creator-controlled contribution — a slider from 0% to 20%, defaulting to 7% — so the platform stays honest about how it is paid.
We designed the payment layer as orchestration, not lock-in. A campus fellowship in Lagos can collect on Squad or Moniepoint. A conference in London can collect on Stripe. A creative campaign can take USDT on Binance Pay. The poster chooses.
This repository is a production-shaped MVP: MVC boundaries, CSRF, hashed passwords, idempotent payment fulfillment, plan gates, and adapters you can point at live keys.
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