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  1. FISCAL HOSTS
  2. Managing your Collectives

Hosted Collectives

Using Open Collective, a Fiscal Host can view all the Collectives it hosts, and filter by duration and fee structure.

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

There are four kinds of filters that you can use to sort your Collectives:

  • Using the filters at the top of the page, you can sort by Type. The page is automatically set to show Collectives and Funds, you can customize this to also show projects and events.

  • Filter by fee structure: global host fee (the standard fee you set in your settings) or a custom fee.

  • Status

  • Balance

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.

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.

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

  • This Fiscal Host will no longer manage money on behalf of the Collective.

  • Any active recurring PayPal contributions or Virtual Cards will be cancelled.

  • When we trigger recurring contributions at the beginning of the month, valid Stripe configurations (through a Fiscal Host or via an Independent Collective) 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.

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.

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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.

Unhosted Collectives can then apply to a different fiscal host or become an.

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

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