If you are talking about the sponsorship feature of a group, think of it
this way. When you turn that on, it lets others pay for the group plan fees.
Same as if you were paying. You are not part of the loop. It is only letting
others help to pre-pay for the group. It is a one-way payment method it goes
to Groups.io and stays there until used for the fees.
On one group I manage I enabled it (it's on the settings page) and posted
for people to consider it, just visit the home page of the group. Well,
within a couple of days we had enough collected that I turned off the button
and it will be a couple of years before I need to turn it on again.
-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
www.jmri.org
www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
www.cnymod.com
www.syracusemodelrr.org
Ken Cameron