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TL;DR: Independent Collectives are being converted to Organizations to make the platform more consistent. There is no change in functionality. From its beginning in 2017, the platform was built around three main t...
New Expense Submission flow 馃帀
Published on October 30, 2025 by Shannon Wray
We are pleased to announce the release of the new Expense Submission flow! 馃帀 We鈥檝e done a lot to increase the odds that your expenses are submitted correctly, pass the essential checks from Collectives and Fiscal Hosts, and are paid prompt...
Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. We've been working hard and are excited to share a summary of the projects completed during Cycles...
RSS Feeds for Updates
Published on August 4, 2025 by Benjamin Piouffle
You can now subscribe to your favorite collectives' updates using RSS feeds! RSS is an open standard that lets you get automatic notifications whenever a collective posts new updates, similar to following someone on social media, but delive...
An Update on Virtual Cards
Published on June 22, 2025 by Shannon Wray
We know many of you, both Fiscal Hosts and Collective admins, are eager to see virtual cards return to the Open Collective platform. We've been working hard behind the scenes to make this happen, but it鈥檚 proven to be more complex than we i...
We're rolling out an update to improve the clarity and reliability of our ledger, especially for accounting purposes. This will make tracking changes like edits and refunds much more straightforward in your transaction exports. This announc...
Over the past few cycles, we have been working towards upgrading and integrating a New Expense Submission flow into the Dashboard. We have tested and tria...
Reflection of Cycle Two, the second cycle of 2025, and an overview of Cycle Three. Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle Two Reflection 路 Cycle 2 was our fir...
Here is a reflection of Cycle One, the first cycle of 2025, and an overview of Cycle Two. Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle One Reflection 路 During Cycle...
Here is a reflection of Cycle Eight, the last cycle of 2024, and an overview of the first Cycle of 2025 - Cycle One. Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle Ei...
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