Updates

After being completely passwordless since our beginning in 2015, it was about time! You can now set a password on your Open Collective account. The feature is available for everyone from the new "Security" section of your personal settings....

Open Collective now supports contributions through the ACH and SEPA direct debit payment systems. Open Collective is complementing its process for accepting contributions by bank transfer, providing support for ACH and SEPA direct...

We just launched a Discovery Tool to support Grassroots giving. · As you know, Open Collective supports grassroots groups to raise and spe...

We've improved our support for virtual cards for Collectives and Hosts. In May last year, we announced support for Virtual Cards. Today Virtual Cards have been use...

To ensure that you're only notified of the activities that are relevant to you, we're giving you more control over the types and sources of notifications from Open Collective. Open Collective is home to thousands of projects, contr...

We're adding features to help fiscal hosts/sponsors identify and manage risks of fraud from impacting their hosted projects. Fiscal Hosts (sometimes called Fiscal Sponsors) are the engine rooms of Open Collective. They extend their...

We've improved the interface for adding and amending tiers. Tiers can be used to provide perks and rewards to supporters, set membership fees, build funding drives, or simply categorise your contributions. The new experience shows...

Upgrade your budget with our new visualisation feature! Turn your money flows into insightful graphs 🎉 Hosts and Collectives now have access to...

Submitting regularly recurring expenses? Now you can automatically create a copy of an invoice or reimbursement. When submitting an expense you'll see a new section on the Summary page: Check the box, select the frequency and (optionally) s...

Differences in foreign exchange rates made it difficult to pay people exact amounts in other currencies. Now it's a lot easier! You can select your own currency instead of the Collective's currency when submitting expenses. For example, if...

You can now add custom text to the automatic email people receive thanking them for their contribution, at the level of a whole Collective and/or a specific Event or Project. This has been a long-requested feature and we're stoked to releas...

Our website has had a revamp! Welcome to our new Home page and Navigation Bar! 🤟🏼 The new homepage explains more generally what Open Collective is and what our main features are....

Hosts that require a minimum number of administrators to accept projects can now ask Collectives to invite them as part of their application. Back in February we announced...

Community Guidelines · Open Collective supports initiatives that make a positive impact on the world. To accomplish this, we must be a wel...

Due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the sanctions that are being applied to Russia, our primary payment provider, Wise, has restricted payments in Rubles (RUB). At the time of writing payments through Paypal were still accepted, but...

As we empower ever-larger communities to manage their money together we're beginning to look more closely at our governance tools. Today we're launching the first part of a 'two-to-sign' process that ensures at least two people are involved...

Cover images are awesome for customizing your page and telling your story. But getting the crop to look right on different screen sizes is tricky. Does your cover image look cut off? You might not even know if you haven't seen it on differe...

A company sent you a payable invoice instead of submitting an expense to your Collective? Or you need to pay someone who is unfamiliar with the Open Collective platform? Make the process easier by inviting them to submit an...

You can now embed videos in Updates! Just click the video icon and paste in a Youtube link. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/opencollecti...