Architecture

Collectives

In Open Collective, every entity is a collective and can be accessed publicly via their unique slug https://opencollective.com/:slug.

A Collective can be of type:

Members

A Member connects a User to a Collective. It can have multiple roles (one role per row):

  • HOST legal holder of the bank account that holds the money on behalf of the collective

  • ADMIN users who can approve expenses for the collective (aka core contributors)

  • MEMBER aka contributors

  • BACKER users who gave money to the collective

  • FOLLOWER used atm for users interested in an event collective

Orders

An Order is the intent to give or withdraw money from a Collective. It is created by a UserId on behalf of a collective (which can be their own UserCollective or any other Collective that they are a member of).

Attributes:

Attribute

Definition

Example

type

type of order

EXPENSE|DONATION

UserCollectiveId

User who created the order

/xdamman

FromCollectiveId

Source of the money

/digitalocean

ToCollectiveId

Destination of the money

/webpack

currency

currency of the ToCollectiveId

USD

amount

amount in cents

10000

SubscriptionId

References recurring subscription

status

status of the order

PENDING -> APPROVED|REJECTED -> PAID

Transactions

A Transaction records money moving from one Collective to another Collective. In this example, a collective webpack is giving €100 to Women Who Code Berlin hosted by Women Who Code 501(c)(3).

Attribute

Definition

Example

OrderId

References the order

1

FromCollectiveId

Source of the money (virtual account)

/webpack

ToCollectiveId

Destination of the money (virtual account)

/wwcodeberlin

PaymentMethodId

Payment method (e.g. if there wasn't enough funds in the FromCollectiveId)

NULL

FromHostId

Source of the money

/opensource

ToHostId

Destination of the money

/wwcode

FromHostAmount

total amount in cents paid by the host of the FromCollectiveId in the currency of the host

-11481 (-$114.81)

FromCollectiveAmount

total amount that increases/decreases the balance of the FromCollectiveId in the currency of the FromCollectiveId

-11481

paymentProcessorFeesInHostCurrency

fees for the payment processor in cents

hostFeesInHostCurrency

fees for the host in cents in the currency of the host (which might be different than the currency of the collective, e.g. WWCode (USD) and WWCode Berlin (EUR)

574 (5% of €100 in USD)

platformFeesInHostCurrency

fees for the platform (Open Collective)

574 (5% of €100 in USD)

ToHostAmount

net amount in cents received by the host of the ToCollectiveId in the currency of the ToHostId

9630 (€100 - (2.9% + $0.30) - €5 platform fee)

ToCollectiveAmount

total amount that increases/decreases the balance of the ToCollectiveId in the currency of the order

9580 (€96.30 - €5 host fee)

FromHostCurrency

currency of the FromHostId

USD

FromCollectiveCurrency

currency of the FromCollectiveId

USD

ToCollectiveCurrency

currency of the collective that receives the money

EUR

ToHostCurrency

currency of the order (currency of the ToCollectiveId)

USD

fxrate

Foreign eXchange Rate from the currency of the order (ToCollectiveCurrency) to the currency of the host of the FromCollectiveId (float)

1.15

Note: The Collective currency might be different than the Host Currency (both for the source "From" and the recipient "To"). The fxrate only takes into account the conversion between ToCollectiveCurrency to ToHostId.

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