@danirabbit yes, they do invoices for services rendered or reimbursements for expenses occured: https://docs.opencollective.com/oceurope/how-it-works/expenses/expenses-and-getting-paid-faqs

@danirabbit Both @owncast and @liblast use OpenCollective, and I think the experience has been pretty good for them.

@danirabbit we have had a pretty good experience with it in pmos, although i haven't been directly involved in expenses and stuff it's fairly straightforward as i understand it. ofc it depends on what fiscal host you use since they are responsible for actually managing the funds and approving invoices and stuff

@danirabbit depending on your fiscal host you could get a debit card from them. But they might have ended that recently I'm not so sure. We applied but never got it a while ago. Usually I have to just fill out invoices and send them receipts to get payed back

@danirabbit I am using it to administer a grant to #pkgconf relating to SBOM work. The person doing the work covered by the grant invoices the collective and then I approve it once we come to an agreement for the invoice amount based on the scope of work for each phase.

@danirabbit You should reach out to the Asahi Linux group, they are also using Open Collective, afaik.
(And the US one)

@danirabbit if you are in France hello asso allows to get funding in a clear legal way. A lot of non profit org here -1901 french law- are benefitting if this clear and simple access to simple funding
https://www.helloasso.com/
Where financial contribution is ethic -you pay what you want, if you want-.
Opencollective is just another financial project, from 5 to 10% if your income - opaque taxes - and supposed to be closed soon.