Services

We make it easy for you to receive and disburse money without having to worry about accounting, invoicing, or setting up a legal entity or bank account for your project. You and other contributors can easily get reimbursed for expenses or paid for your time by submitting an invoice through your Collective.

We coordinate with sponsor companies to comply with their purchase order process and invoicing requirements. We have relationships with many large sponsors of open source and work to connect projects with supporters. We also advocate for open source sustainability, through conferences like SustainOSS and tools like BackYourStack.

Fees

Fee are 10% of incoming funds, plus payment processor fees. These cover our operating costs and support our initiatives to strengthen the open source ecosystem. We operate as an Open Collective ourselves—see our transparent budget.

Payments

We accept credit cards, via Stripe, through the platform automatically. We also support wire transfers and Paypal for one-off large donations. We can also credit income to your Collective from outside sources like Eventbrite for ticket sales or Threadless for t-shirt sales. We pay out expenses via Paypal. We can alternative payment methods for special circumstances (get in touch for details).

All Collectives in the Open Source Collective are denominated in US dollars. If you want your Collective to be in a different locality and currency, please check out Open Collective Europe, Open Collective UK, or other fiscal hosts.

Non-profit

We are a registered 501(c)(6) non-profit in the United States, meaning our income is not used for private or shareholder benefit. Our resources, such as the fees we collect, are all invested back into our mission: to promote a sustainable and healthy open source ecosystem. Donations to Collectives hosted by the Open Source Collective are not tax deductible. If you are a US-based project with an explicitly charitable mission, you may wish you apply to the Open Collective Foundation.

Open Collective

Open Collective Inc makes the software platform we use to enable our services. They provide their software to many organizations like us, who each host their own communities of Collectives. Open Source Collective and Open Collective were founded by some of the same people, but they are separate entities.

Accepted projects