Money Transfers for Artists in GEL, at 3% Commission

Share a link with a buyer or a supporter and receive money with any card. The client does not register or install an app, they just open the link and pay.

It works with Georgian and foreign cards, wherever your client is. For an artist this is essential, because the buyer of a piece is often in another city or country.

One link serves the sale of a painting, a commission payment, and a supporter's gift at once, which keeps your income tracking simple.

Donator is a 3% commission platform, so the amount paid reaches you after a 3% commission. If a client pays 200 GEL for a painting, you receive the full 200 GEL.

For an artist whose income is often irregular, every percent matters. A 13% commission eats a whole commission piece over the course of a year.

On Donator the platform fee is 3% and there are no hidden withdrawal charges, so 97% of every lari a client pays stays with your work.

Funds land in GEL in a Georgian bank through the official TBC and Bank of Georgia partnership. No foreign-wallet conversion to deal with.

That means no currency conversion and no long process of pulling money out of a foreign system. The money is already in GEL, already in your bank.

For an artist who pays for paints, canvas, a frame, or studio rent in GEL, this is a direct and simple path from income to expense.

Foreign buyers and the Georgian diaspora can pay you with a foreign card. Donator is Georgia's first and best platform, expanding across the Caucasus.

Georgian art draws real interest abroad, and often it is exactly the diaspora or a foreign collector who wants to buy your work.

With Donator their foreign card works as easily as a local one, and you receive the money in GEL to a Georgian bank. This is the most direct path from a foreign client to a Georgian artist.

Step one: create a free Donator account and add your Georgian bank account where you want the money to land.

Step two: get your personal link and spread it where you show your work, on Instagram, Behance, or your portfolio page.

Step three: when a client opens the link and pays by card, the money instantly appears on your balance and you can see who bought or supported you.

Step four: withdraw in GEL directly to your Georgian bank at 3% commission. You use the money right away for materials and your next piece.

Picture a Tbilisi painter who posts a new painting on Instagram. One buyer in Tbilisi purchases it for 150 GEL with a Georgian card, while another, a Georgian in the Paris diaspora, commissions a portrait and pays with a French card.

Both payments show up instantly on the Donator balance, at 3% commission. There is no waiting on a foreign system and no currency conversion.

The next day the painter withdraws the money in GEL to a TBC account and buys new canvas and paints. That is the difference Donator makes for an artist.

Pin your Donator link in your portfolio and social profiles so a buyer can pay easily.

Show the price and the link together next to each piece. The clearer the payment path, the easier the sale.

Mention that the commission is 3%. This reassures a client that the whole amount goes to your work, and you do not have to build a fee into your price.

Foreign tools like PayPal or international marketplaces are often a problem for a Georgian artist: opening an account is hard, the money is in a foreign currency, withdrawal is slow, and fees are high.

Donator is built for Georgia. It works directly with Georgian banks, the money is in GEL, the interface is in Georgian, and support is local.

An honest comparison: a foreign tool may be better known, but for a Georgian artist who needs payment in GEL, in a Georgian bank, with a 3% commission, Donator is faster, cheaper, and simpler.

Many streamers search DonationAlerts or Streamlabs when they want setup or an alternative. For art money transfers in Georgia, GEL payout is often the real friction.

On Donator the OBS alert shows right away, viewers pay with any card, and money goes to TBC or Bank of Georgia. You can keep the same alert habit and fix payouts locally.

Many streamers start with DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, because those are the names people type when they search for an OBS donation alert, a donation page, or an alternative to a foreign tool. StreamElements often shows up in the same shortlist.

In Georgia those products are often built for other markets: foreign wallets, awkward withdrawals, or fees that never land cleanly in GEL. Patreon and PayPal still fit some creator formats, but they do not always replace live stream donations with payout to a Georgian bank.

Donator is built so a viewer can pay with any card, Georgian or foreign, the alert can show in OBS right away, and the money settles in GEL to TBC or Bank of Georgia. If you already used DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, you can keep the same alert habit and fix payouts locally.