Collectives have transparent budgets, where all transactions are automatically reported. Everyone can see where money comes from and what it's spent on. The Budget Section on the Collectives Page shows the most recent transacations along side Todays Balance, Total Raised, Total Disbursed and Estimates Annual Budget.
Private information is hidden. For example, email addresses and attachments (which may contain personal information).
The expenses view shows what the Collective has spent money on. You can see individual expenses and people the budget has gone toward.
You can click on View all expenses to view a more detailed breakdown this view also allows you to filter by Type, Payout, Period, Amount and Status. You can also filter by different tags like Engineering, Communications, Travel etc.
The transactions view shows financial contributions. You can see individual contributions and who has made the contribution.
You can click on View all transactions to view a more detailed breakdown this view also allows you to filter by Type, Period, Amount and Kind. You can also download a CSV of all transactions.
Download CSV file from /transactions page inside your collective.
Copy the transactions template into your Google Drive
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Open the “RAW FILE” tab inside the file.
Make sure to check these settings are applied:
You will see something like this: _**_Now, you will have to do some tweaks to the data before we can use it…
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Click Cmd+F
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Select only the numeric values (From column G to K)
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Click on the three dots on the “Find in sheet” instance
This will open the “Find and replace window”, type a point (.) in “Find” and a comma (,) in replace with, mark the “Match case” option, then click “Replace all”
To change number formatting to US Dollars. Go to menu item “Format” → “Number” → “US Dollar”.
Since the dates of the file run from newest to oldest, it’s better to invert that order, thus being able to add new entries without the need of adding new rows.To do that, first select column “D” (This is where the date data is listed)Then go to menu item “Data” → “Sort sheet by column D, A → Z”
Select all values except the With cell A6 selected: Right click → “Paste special” → “Paste values only”. Voilà! You will have your totals for expenses and contributions into a nice and visible balance chart. Plus individual transactions sorted by date and differentiated by color codes.
You can personalize the collective banner by using the function “Insert” → “Image” → “Image in cell”. We are using a PNG of 1920x400. We recommend changing the color of that specific cell to match the collective banner background.
If you go under “File” → “Publish to the web” it will pop out a settings window for this to happen.You decide if you just only publish the URL to access and read(only) the file or embed it.
