Collaborative Finances for Organizations

Foundations, Non-Profits, Companies, Public Sector and Co-ops

Participatory Finances

Empower your people and teams to manage their finances using our simplified and approachable financial tools.

Expense Processing

Process payment requests, pay invoices and reimbursements using automated integrations.

Crowdfunding

Launch campaigns to raise support for both one-time and continuously funded projects.

Real Time Balances

Keep track of balances, income and spending using up to the minute balances.

Transparency

Communicate your finances, transactions and real-time balances to your community.

Hosting

Provide a fiscal umbrella by safely managing the money of unincorporated groups.

Financial Platform

An integrated toolbox for collaboratively and transparently managing your finances.

Everything you need to know & do in one place

Your dashboard brings together all the tools you need to collaboratively manage your finances and stay on top of financial activities that require your attention.

Money In

Document & track all incoming money.

Add money to your accounts

When money shows up in your bank account or a check is received and processed, add it to an account and it is immediately available for disbursement.

Accept contributions

Track promised funds

Money Out

A comprehensive suite of tools for submitting, review, correcting, approving and paying out disbursements. A small team of administrators can efficiently handle thousands of monthly payment requests.

Accept requests from people asking to get paid

A step-by-step payment request form will walk users through filing correct and complete payment requests. Include your own unique instructions on how to properly submit a payment request in order to get paid.

Invite people to get paid

Approve Payment Requests

Pay approved payment requests

Spend within your balance

Pay Instantly

Automated security checks protect against fraud

Quickly resolve issues

Easily work your way through all payment requests

Hosting

Invite other groups to operate under your financial and legal umbrella as Collectives. With a small team using the platform you can efficiently support thousands of groups and projects.

Host other groups

Collectives are mini-organizations within your organization. Each collective can setup their own accounts, crowdfunding campaigns and projects.

Accept applications from groups looking for a host

Collectives autonomously manage their finances

Collectives decide which expenses to pay

Efficiently process payment requests

Charge hosting fees

Crowdfunding

Create a variety of crowdfunding campaigns: simple tip-jar with one time contributions, one-time goals, monthly recurring goals and even yearly memberships for generating continuous income via crowdfunding.

Different ways to contribute

Flexible tiers enable you to create a diversity of crowdfunding campaigns. Design tiers that are appropriate for you and your audience. Collect tips, one time contributions and recurring contributions.

Set & commit to funding goals

Accounting & Accountability

Review & verify financial activities and provide your accountants with reliable information for your accounting processes.

All financial activities are recorded

At the heart of the platform is a transaction ledger. All financial activities on the platform generate ledger transactions.

Trace and verify all financial activities

Legible financial summaries

Export ledger data for your accountants

Categorize financial activities for accounting

Connect your bank accounts

Collect tax forms

Document financial agreements

Testimonials

The Open Collective platform is a critical part of how we operate. It streamlines our operations, saving us time and reducing administrative overhead. By automating many tasks related to managing financial contributions and expenses, we’re able to focus more attention on supporting our hosted collectives’ individual needs.

The platform keeps our financial records accurate, timely, and transparent, helping us build trust within our community and enabling us to focus more on providing meaningful support.

Lauren Gardner

Executive Director

Open Collective is essential to how we operate as a foundation. The platform allows us to support hundreds of grassroots and open-source communities with transparent budgets, accessible financial tools, and smooth cross-border grant distribution.

Working with Ofico ensures that the platform continues to evolve with the needs of fiscal hosts and the communities they serve — it’s an indispensable partner in making collective financial infrastructure truly work at scale.

Jean-François De Hertogh

Executive Director

Open Collective enables us to deliver valuable services to numerous collectives in a structured and automated way.

Our communities appreciate how efficient and user-friendly the platform is, allowing them not only to fundraise but also to manage their budgets and expenses transparently.

With frequent updates, the platform continues to make it easier for us to support our collectives and for them to work with greater clarity and simplicity.

Babette

Open Collective has enabled us to distribute funds across community groups and collectives in transparent and clear ways.

The platform has unlocked our capacity to build sustainable infrastructure for our work - peer to peer learning and action - in meaningful and sustainable ways.

Furthermore the support we receive is thorough and consistent - we deeply appreciate the platform and the team.

Anna Garlands

Co-Director

Open Collective has democratised community organising, helping to build trust and foster collaboration and transparency across community led work.

Our continued partnership with Open Collective has enabled our network of more than 600 fiscally hosted community groups worldwide to manage their finances with ease and reassurance, thus freeing up headspace to focus on front line impact and long term strategy.

It's an easy to use platform and the Open Collective team are dedicated to ensuring that client feedback from our network is fed into further product design.

Esther Foreman

CEO and Chair of the Board

The future of civil society isn’t just big organizations—it’s the long tail of grassroots initiatives.

Open Collective unlocks that potential with transparent finances by default and infrastructure built for collaboration.

Kasimir Suter Winter,

Chairman