Hype trains

Members can chip in real money together. There are two kinds of hype train.

The plan train (every plan)

Members fund the next plan up for a month, so the whole server gets it:

• Anyone can see the train and chip in with /hypetrain view, or with the Chip in button on the panel admins post with /hypetrain panel (or the green button in /settings > Plans).
• When it's funded, the server gets that plan for the month. On Premium, the community pays for the month so you don't have to.
• Keep going to Premium: once a train is funded, a top-up train starts for the rest of the month. If your members funded Plus, they can take the server on to Premium by raising just the difference.
• Renew for next month: once the server has Plus or Premium for the month (paid for or funded), a renewal train opens so members can cover next month in advance and keep the plan without a break. It has its own Chip in button on the panel, or use /hypetrain contribute train:Renew the plan for next month.
• Admins can also find it in /plan upgrade: pick the plan and choose Hype train: members chip in together to see the train and post it.
• Fund it several months in a row and the goal gets cheaper (shown here for Plus):

• If the next month isn't funded, the funded plan stays on for a 7-day last call, announced in your hype train channel. After that the server goes back to its usual plan and the streak starts again.

All the money raised by a plan train goes to Journo, because it pays for the plan itself. Admins can switch the plan train off in /settings > Plans.

The shop train (Plus and Premium)

Members fund one item from your shop together, such as a server event, a custom role or a giveaway:

1. /hypetrain shop-start item:<the item> goal:<amount> posts the train with a Chip in for the item button. Leave the goal empty and Journo works it out from your cheapest coin package.
2. Members chip in with the button or /hypetrain contribute train:Shop item train.
3. When the goal is reached, everyone who chipped in gets the item's role (for its usual number of days). If the item has no role, your payments log tells staff to deliver it.

One shop train runs at a time. /hypetrain shop-stop ends it early and lists who paid what, so you can refund them in PayPal if you promised to. Shop train money is a member payment for your server, split like coin sales (see Payouts).

With /hypetrain panel, both trains appear together with a button each.