Make your community sustainable
Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
What's great about Open Collective?
What's great about Open Collective?
Money management made simple, plus great tools for community engagement, budget reporting, and fiscal sponsorship.
What can you do with Open Collective?
Accept donations and sponsorships, celebrate your supporters, pay expenses, and keep everyone up to date — all in one place.
Money management made simple, plus great tools for community engagement, budget reporting, and fiscal sponsorship.
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 bank transfer. 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 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!
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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.
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Accept payments by credit card, bank transfer, and Paypal. Define custom tiers and set goals to motivate your supporters to give.
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Manage Expenses
Contributors and vendors can easily submit receipts and invoices. You approve or reject them, and once paid your balance updates automatically.
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Contributors and vendors can easily submit receipts and invoices. You approve or reject them, and once paid your balance updates automatically.
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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.
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Post Updates to engage supporters and share your progress and the impact of their funding. Use Conversations as a community discussion forum.
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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 ...
Do you need a Fiscal Host for your community?
Do you need a Fiscal Host?
Are you looking for somewhere to hold and distribute money for your project?
We can help!
Fiscal Hosts handle banking, taxes, accounting, legal, liability, and payments for you.
These are our Fiscal Hosts:
Find the right Fiscal Host for you:
Open Collective Foundation
Open Source Collective
Open Collective Europe
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 2,500 open source communities use Open Collective to receive money from companies and individuals.
Meetups
Women Who Code
Nearly 100 chapters of Women Who Code use Open Collective to raise money locally and allocate funding 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 2,500 open source communities use Open Collective to receive money from companies and individuals.
Meetups
Women Who Code
Nearly 100 chapters of Women Who Code use Open Collective to raise money locally and allocate funding 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.
We are open in every way
We are transparent, just like we help you to be transparent.
Slack
Come meet the team, chat with the community, and share your questions and stories.
Join our slack →
Documentation
Support your community with fundholding and fiscal sponsorship services.
View our documentation →
Open Source code
Our code is open source. You can contribute! Check it out on GitHub.
See our code base →
Open Finances
We operate as an Open Collective ourselves, with transparent budgets.
See our Collectives →
Join the movement
Be part of the new generation of communities.