Hosted Collectives#

Open Collective makes it easy to keep track of all the Collectives that you host.

To view a list of all your Hosted Collectives, navigate to your Fiscal Host’s Dashboard > Collectives.

Search#

Either find the Collective listed on the page or look them up by their name via the search bar.

Tabs#

Utilize the tabs to view all, active, frozen or unhosted Collectives.

Filters#

You can use several filters to narrow your list of hosted Collectives:

• Type: The page is automatically set to show Collectives and Funds. You can customize this to also show projects and events.
• Fee structure: Global host fee (the standard fee you set in your settings) or a custom fee.
• Status
• Balance
• Joined host on: Show Collectives that joined your Fiscal Host within a date range.
• Left host on: Show Collectives that left your Fiscal Host within a date range.
• Had financial activity on: Show Collectives that had financial activity within a date range.
• No financial activity on: Show Collectives that had no financial activity within a date range.

You can also sort by the period of time you've hosted them — most recent and oldest.

More Actions#

Click on the three dots to view details, view transactions, add funds, add agreements, or contact, freeze, or unhost the Collective.

View Details#

View Details brings up a side view that provides more details about the Collective.

From the Details view, admins can see an overview of how long a Collective has been hosted, its balance, team members, transactions, and activities.

From this view, Admins can also easily change a few key settings for the Collective:

• Fee Structure: Allow the Collective to pay the default host fee, or set a custom fee structure for this specific Collective
• Expense Type: Select what expense types people can submit to this Collective
• Payout method details: Enable or disable Collective Admins ability to view sensitive payout method details of payees

Expense Types#

Use the Global host settings or Enable or Disable Invoices, Reimbursements or Grants for an individual Collective.

Set Fee Structure#

You will be prompted to either choose your global fee structure or to create a custom fee for this specific Collective.

Show Payout Method Details#

Fiscal Host admins can toggle whether admins of specific Collectives are able to view sensitive payout method details of payees by toggling on the option to "Show payout method details."

Add Funds#

To Add Funds you will need to fill in the required information:

• Source of the funds
• Tier that the funds belong to (if any)
• Description
• Effective date
• Memo, a private note only visible to fiscal host admins
• Gross amount
• Host fee
• Payment processor fee

Add Agreements#

To Add an Agreement you will need to fill in the required information:.

• Title of the agreement
• An optional agreement file
• An optional expiration date for the agreement
• An optional private note for fiscal host admins

Contact Collective#

Directly contact your Collectives using the contact button.

Additional security measures#

As an added security and compliance measure for Fiscal Hosts, their Admins can now freeze or unhost a collective. This may be useful for compliance reasons, violations of terms, or if a Collective wants to leave but hasn’t removed the Fiscal Host themselves already.

Freezing a Collective#

Freezing a Collective means temporarily limiting what a Collective (and their connected Projects & Events) can and cannot do on the platform.

Freezing a Collective will block all financial activity within that Collective. They will not be able to accept funds, pay out expenses, post updates, create new Events or Projects, or add new Team members under this Collective. However, they will still continue to receive recurring donations that were started before this freeze.

Contributions and expenses will be removed from the Collective's public profile, and admins will be informed of why the action was taken.

Unhosting a Collective#

We've also added the ability to unhost a Collective, which can be used to free a Collective to choose another host or to become an Organization.

• This Fiscal Host will no longer manage money on behalf of the Collective.
• Any active recurring PayPal contributions or Virtual Cards will be cancelled.
• Unhosted Collectives can then apply to a different fiscal host or become an Organization.
• When we trigger recurring contributions at the beginning of the month, valid Stripe configurations (through a Fiscal Host or via an Organization) will be charged.
• Stripe recurring contributions can be transferred to a new host. If the collective has a new host, they will continue as usual. If they don't, the contribution will be cancelled.

Before unhosting, a Collective's balance must be zeroed by paying expenses, making contributions to other Collectives or gifting the balance to the host.

Steps to unhost a Collective (if they want to join another Fiscal Host)#

1. The collective will make a one-time donation to their new Fiscal Host in the amount of the balance.
   1. Make sure "The payee is covering the fees" is checked when paying the Expense so the Collective can empty the balance precisely to the cent.
2. The Collective admin will need to update the collective's status on the platform to ‘unhost’ it from their current Fiscal Host.
3. The Collective admin will need to apply to the new Fiscal Host.
4. The new Fiscal Host will add them to their hosted Collectives and reallocate the balance via ‘add funds’ to the Collective.