Setting Up Donation Passes on Roblox Mobile
Pls Donate is one of those experiences you see everywhere on Roblox. It lets creators set up donation kiosks that collect Robux through game passes. Doing it on mobile is slightly different than using a PC browser, but the core process is the same. I've walked through this probably two dozen times now for people who don't have access to a desktop. The first thing you need is a Roblox account with at least some Robux or the ability to purchase game passes. You also need to own a group — individual accounts can't directly link a donation pass without a group. I learned that the hard way the first time around. Took me about ten minutes of back-and-forth before I figured out the pass had to be tied to a group I managed.
How to Create Roblox Com Passes Pls Donate Mobile
Open the Pls Donate experience on mobile. This works in the Roblox app, not the browser. Tap the "Create" button once you're inside. You'll be prompted to name your donation station and select which game pass it should link to. If you don't already have a game pass created for this purpose, go to roblox.com/groups and create one under your group first. Set the price, then come back to Pls Donate and connect it. Once connected, you place the kiosk in your game by putting it on a surface that won't clip through the floor. Some people put them on tables or pedestals. Others just let them float. It doesn't matter functionally. What matters is that you test whether mobile players can actually interact with it. There's a hitbox issue on mobile that isn't obvious at first. The interaction radius on mobile is smaller than it appears. I had a developer complain to me last month that his pls donate kiosk wasn't working for half his players. Turns out they were on mobile and standing about two feet too far away. He adjusted the screen touch sensitivity in the script and it resolved immediately. The default settings favor PC mouse-clicking.
If you're scripting your own version instead of using the official Pls Donate model, you'll need to handle the purchase flow manually. Use the marketplace service to create a prompt when a player clicks the GUI button. On mobile, this means detecting tap input rather than click. Use UserInputService to distinguish between mobile taps and PC clicks if you want cross-platform support. Here's roughly how that looks in practice: local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService") local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
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You'd wire up a LocalScript on a ScreenGui button to call ProcessReceipt with the game pass ID. Make sure you return MarketPlaceResultType.PromptSuccess after a successful purchase, otherwise the Robux gets deducted but the pass isn't granted. I've seen this bug pop up repeatedly. Players lose Robux and get nothing in return. It's a small detail that breaks the entire system if you skip it. One thing nobody warns you about: mobile data usage. If your kiosk polls the server frequently for updates or refreshes prices dynamically, mobile players on restricted data plans will notice. I optimized a setup once by caching the price locally and only syncing to the server every thirty seconds. Cut the data overhead by about eighty percent. Small thing. Big difference for mobile users.
Limits and Things That Go Wrong
Pls Donate has a maximum number of active kiosks per place depending on your group's level. A brand new group can usually only run one or two donation stations. Level ten unlocks more. If you're building a whole donation hub, you'll need to upgrade your group first or you'll hit the cap and wonder why nothing spawns. Also, game pass purchases on mobile sometimes fail silently if the player doesn't have Robux loaded and doesn't complete the payment prompt properly. The Roblox mobile purchase dialog has a delay. I've watched players tap through it too fast and end up with an incomplete transaction. Nothing logs in DevConsole either, which makes debugging annoying. The workaround is to add a cooldown or confirmation message on the kiosk GUI so players don't spam-tap. Another edge case: if your game pass is set to "unlimited" quantity, some players exploit it by repeatedly triggering the purchase event. The fix is to track owned passes on the server side and prevent duplicate purchases. I used a simple dictionary keyed to player UserId with a debounce timestamp. Any request within five seconds of the last one gets ignored. Slows down the exploiters enough without affecting real players.
If you're not comfortable scripting, the official Pls Donate experience is still the easiest path. It handles most of this automatically. But it comes with its own baggage — ads, limits on customization, and a revenue share that takes a cut. For serious projects, building your own system from scratch usually pays off after a few weeks. The initial investment in coding time is maybe two to three hours, and then you have full control over pricing, cooldowns, analytics, and mobile optimization.
