Allow disabling Proration / Prorated Amounts for Sponsors

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When creating a sponsorship, users get to choose between "Prorated Amount" and "Full Amount", with prorated amount being lower depending on how many days are left until the next payment period.

This makes sense for subscriptions, but makes no sense for perks that aren't bound to a subscription where the user can subscribe once to get access then immediately cancel (for example repo access, since they can just make a local copy). Users can game the system this way and get rewards for way less money than intended. If they immediately cancel, you lose out on a lot of money.

It would be amazing if creators could configure this in their Sponsor settings (or maybe even on a tier by tier basis). Allow us to completely disable Proration for all sponsors or specific tiers.

Stripe already allows you to do this but it seems there is no way to do it for GitHub Sponsors.

Here's a very extreme example where instead of the expected 25$, I only ended up getting 1.79$. What am I supposed to tell users like this? "Sorry, you can't actually get any rewards because thanks to proration you ended up paying almost nothing"?

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[okisooo]

Definitely agree with this. Wouldn't hurt to have the option considering it's already implemented in Stripe, and plus people have been abusing this in situation where perks can be obtained from a one-time payment, through the monthly subscriptions by cancelling straight after.

[tyt2y3]

Granting repository access immediately when someone sponsors for just a single day creates a loophole: sponsors can pay a fraction of the monthly tier, gain full access to private repos, and then cancel before the next cycle.

It would be far more equitable if maintainers could choose to disable proration, or at least delay repo access until a full billing cycle is completed. That way, sponsorship remains a genuine commitment rather than a one‑time unlock for minimal cost.