Welcome
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Open Collective is an online funding platform for open and transparent communities. We provide the tools to raise money and share your finances in full transparency.
This is the place to find all help and documentation related to Open Collective. It's a work in progress, so please feel free to give us feedback.
To suggest changes, please read our Contribution guidelines. There you will find instructions on how edit pages and start new discussions.
If you can't find the answer you're looking for, contact us at support@opencollective.com or on our .
See links for more details. Each chapter heading in the docs has its own more specific FAQ.
An is a place for communities to collect and disburse money transparently.
Open Collective is great for collaborative groups, like meetups, open source projects, —and for the who want to support them.
It's fully transparent (you can see where money comes from and where it goes), and designed for ongoing communities, not individual creators or one-off campaigns.
You've come to the right place! These docs explain the whole platform in detail.
is based on a small percentage of funds raised through the platform, 5%-10% depending on your .
People can contribute from anywhere by credit card, with donations denominated in the of the Fiscal Host. Payouts work everywhere our payment providers, Stripe and Paypal, serve.
Yes! One main purpose of Open Collective is to provide unincorporated projects the legal and financial structures to provide receipts and invoices.
Email or join our .
We are an open source project and run as an Open Collective ourselves. You can contribute , [coding], [designing], [editing our documentation] or [translating our platform]. And we'd really love it if you and contributed by growing the community!
For more info about how you can contribute to Open Collective, check the .