how is your donation used?

Admin & Tech Support
Money means I can afford assistants to take over admin tasks, which gives me more time to make new courses & song lessons!
Better, Faster Website
With your donation, I can afford talented developers who are always improving and adding amazing new features to JustinGuitar.
Keeping It Free
I rely on support from people who can afford to donate to keep 99% of the website free. Dreams are universal - opportunities are not.

donations faqs

The most common one-off payments are $50, and the recurring payment average is $25 a month. Two-thirds choose to make regular payments.
I have moved to use the super secure Stripe payment gateway at the start of 2019. I don't store any card details on JustinGuitar. The website uses SSL security encryption for when you submit the information on the form. See the padlock and "Secure" at the top of your browser and the HTTPS address. It means that your link with the server is secure.
If you prefer to use PayPal please click this link (one-off payments only) PayPal.me JustinGuitar Donation.
You can easily modify or cancel a recurring payment on the donation tab of your dashboard. PayPal makes it very difficult, which is why I switched from them. If you ever need help or you’re not happy, please reach out. I will put it right personally!
When I started JustinGuitar, I was encouraged by the emails I was getting from people all over the globe. People that could not afford proper lessons and were loving the website! I believe that good things travel. Maybe the goodwill that I offer here will spread, and people will "pay it forward." Together, we can make a small contribution to the greater good and help make this planet a little better to live on for all of us... It became my aim to keep as much as possible free on this website. It's going pretty well so far, but it does need financial support to survive. So I run JustinGuitar on an honor system. It is the only way to help people who can't afford lessons, people on income support, or the disabled. I estimate that about 1/4 of my students are people without credit cards. If I started charging, I wouldn't be helping the people I want to help, and that would be awful.
If you can afford to donate, you should not consider JustinGuitar free!
Unfortunately, at the moment, less than 0.1% of all users donate. I'm pretty sure that at least 50% of users would be able to donate the cost of a book or a private lesson once a year at least. This site gives you a WHOLE lot more than that. You can try it out for free as long as you like, but if you can, please help me make more cool lessons. If you enjoy JustinGuitar, I would appreciate a contribution - don't leave it for someone else. Have a good job and a few guitars? Put your hand in your virtual pocket now. ;)