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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 delivered directly to your favorite news reader app or RSS client. Since RSSContinue Reading

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’s proven to be more complex than we initially hoped. We’ve learned a lot alongContinue Reading

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 announcement explains: Why we’re making this change: To address issues with how edited transactions wereContinue Reading

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 trialed our work and are ready to gather user feedback! To activate the public beta, navigate to your profile image in the top right-hand cornerContinue Reading

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  Cycle 2 was our first time committing engineering resources to address some of theContinue Reading

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  During Cycle One of 2025, we: Deprecated the old host reportsContinue Reading

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 Eight Reflection  Cycle 8 is the lastContinue Reading

Here is a reflection of Cycle Seven and an overview of the current; Cycle Eight.  Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects that are being worked on in our six-week cycles.   Cycle Seven Reflection  Host Efficiency We expanded the off-platform transactions tool, and fiscal hosts canContinue Reading

The yearly Open Collective retreat shuffled our schedules around a bit: We used the two weeks before the retreat to tie up loose ends and take care of outstanding issues.  We ended the retreat with a two day hackathon which gave the team an opportunity to propose pet projects andContinue Reading