.NET: A Heart and Sponsorship for NuGet Maintainers

NuGet package maintainers can now receive financial support from their users by adding sponsorship URLs to their packages.

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Oct 24, 2025 at 10:34 am CEST

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Maika Möbus

Microsoft has announced that the new sponsorship feature is available for package maintainers in the NuGet.org ecosystem – the package manager for .NET. It allows them to provide sponsorship URLs through which users can send them financial support.

The link to the sponsorship URLs appears as a heart emoji or "Sponsor" button on the respective package page. After clicking it, users can make their desired payment via a platform like GitHub Sponsors or Patreon. As Microsoft emphasizes, even small contributions can make a big difference in managing and securing critical packages.

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Entering Sponsorship Links

Developers who want to add a sponsorship link must be the owner or co-owner of the NuGet package in question. The link must lead to one of the following approved platforms: GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Open Collective, Ko-fi, Tidelift, or Liberapay.

On the package management page of the respective package, developers must scroll down to the "Sponsorship Links" section and enter one or more links in the form, for example, https://github.com/sponsors/yourusername. Up to ten URLs can be stored per package ID and removed again if necessary using the "Remove" button.

Sponsorship links can be entered in the form.

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After entering the URLs, developers can verify that the storage has worked by visiting the public page of their package. The "Sponsor" button should appear in the "About" section, and clicking it should display a pop-up with the stored URLs.

NuGet package with sponsorship button

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The pop-up after clicking the button displays the stored URLs.

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As part of the sponsorship feature, no personal or payment information is stored on NuGet.org, as transactions occur on the selected external platforms, as Microsoft emphasizes.