What can you do on Open Collective?
Accept donations and sponsorships, celebrate your supporters, pay expenses, and keep everyone up to date — all in one place.
Collect Money
Collect Money
Receive funds by credit card, Paypal, or bank transfer, and record everything in your transparent budget. Define different ways people can contribute with customizable tiers and rewards.
Spend Money
Spend Money
Anyone in your community can submit expenses. Once approved, pay in one click with Paypal or manually. All transactions are public in your transparent budget (with personal information kept private).
Manage Money
Manage Money
Create Collectives for different projects for easy budget tracking. No need for messy spreadsheets! Automatic monthly reports make accounting a breeze.
How to use Open Collective
Discover the possibilities of our features.
Share your budget
Everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Clarity and accountability without any spreadsheets or extra work! Learn more...
Everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Clarity and accountability without any spreadsheets or extra work! Learn more...
Receive Contributions
Accept payments by credit card, bank transfer, and Paypal. Define custom tiers and set goals to motivate your supporters to give. Learn more...
Accept payments by credit card, bank transfer, and Paypal. Define custom tiers and set goals to motivate your supporters to give. Learn more...
Manage Expenses
Contributors and vendors can easily submit receipts and invoices. You approve or reject them, and once paid your balance updates automatically. Learn more...
Contributors and vendors can easily submit receipts and invoices. You approve or reject them, and once paid your balance updates automatically. Learn more...
Engage your community
Post Updates to engage supporters and share your progress and the impact of their funding. Use Conversations as a community discussion forum. Learn more...
Post Updates to engage supporters and share your progress and the impact of their funding. Use Conversations as a community discussion forum. Learn more...
Celebrate your supporters
Leaderboard of your top funders, plus highlight how your whole community contributes in different ways.
Leaderboard of your top funders, plus highlight how your whole community contributes in different ways.
Get monthly reports
A summary of your group’s activities, progress on your budget goals, new contributors, and expense details, with all transaction data and receipts/invoices attached.
A summary of your group’s activities, progress on your budget goals, new contributors, and expense details, with all transaction data and receipts/invoices attached.
Share your budget
Everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Clarity and accountability without any spreadsheets or extra work! Learn more...
Everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Clarity and accountability without any spreadsheets or extra work! Learn more...
Who is using Open Collective?
Communities around the world are using Open Collective. Find out more about them!
Open Source Projects
Babel Collective
More than 1,700 open source communities use Open Collective to receive money from companies and individuals.
Meetups
Women Who Code Atlanta
Nearly 100 chapters of Women Who Code use Open Collective to raise money locally and allocate donations throughout their network.
Movements
Extinction Rebellion Belgium
Many local XR groups are using Open Collective to be transparent, engage their communities, and cover their expenses.
Open Source Projects
Babel Collective
More than 1,700 open source communities use Open Collective to receive money from companies and individuals.
Meetups
Women Who Code Atlanta
Nearly 100 chapters of Women Who Code use Open Collective to raise money locally and allocate donations throughout their network.
Movements
Extinction Rebellion Belgium
Many local XR groups are using Open Collective to be transparent, engage their communities, and cover their expenses.
Open Collective for Fiscal Hosts
Some Collectives don’t have a bank account or legal entity set up to receive funds, and want help taking care of things like tax reporting and financial admin. We call organizations who provide this service (sometimes called fiscal sponsorship) Fiscal Hosts.
Open Collective allows fiscal hosts to reduce overhead and easily manage budgets and expenses for multiple projects. Our automated reporting makes accounting a breeze. No more messy spreadsheets!
We are open in every way
We not only help you be transparent, we are too!
Open Finances
We operate as an Open Collective ourselves, with transparent budgets.
Open Finances
We operate as an Open Collective ourselves, with transparent budgets.
Learn more
Our mission is to help organize the world in open circles, where everyone can contribute. We are starting with financial contributions, enabling communities to raise money while staying true to who they are.
Documentation
Discover how to create an open collective, how to become a Fiscal Host, how to use our software, our API and much more.
View our documentationBlog
Stay up to date with the latest news, collectives and sponsors’ stories. Our newsletter and updates are regularly published as well.
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