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AUD minimum donation amount error on mobile form?
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A donor who encountered an error specifying the minimum referred us to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/7gqzmf/a_dollar_donation_wont_cut_it_apparently/

I'm unable to replicate this on desktop. @Jseddon commented in thread to explain the minimum donation amount, but is there also a technical issue with the AU mobile form?

Screen Shot 2017-12-18 at 4.11.09 PM.png (1×1 px, 226 KB)

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Our minimum is 1 USD, which would be 1.30 AUD. I guess the donatewiki logic is rounding up?

This is actually a banner, and I don't think there's a bug here.

Based on a suggestion by @schoenbaechler we do now round the minimum donation amount up to the nearest whole number, to avoid giving the user a weirdly precise minimum (like 0.78 GBP or 1.33 AUD). We could maybe work on improving this, and/or adding some kind of inline validation so it's clearer to the user.

Thanks, @Pcoombe. We've never seen any negative feedback about non-whole minimum amounts from donors, but rounding up (if I understand the cause of the screenshot above) seems to be confusing some. If there are not technical reasons for rounding up, maybe we could revert?

We do see a low volume of donors who choose the actual minimum for wherever they are located, so keeping that option available might be an additional factor to consider.

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I've reverted the behaviour to not round up the minimum. Diff.