diff --git a/docs/federation/finance.md b/docs/federation/finance.md index e473da2..1cb77d4 100644 --- a/docs/federation/finance.md +++ b/docs/federation/finance.md @@ -16,18 +16,9 @@ The Federation agrees on Budget items as large decisions that must pass a resolu ## Sending and receiving money -It's slightly complicated, because money is complicated, but here's how it works. There are two moving parts: +Money is managed through The Co-op Cloud Open Collective account. Platform 6 is [the fiscal host](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts) for the Co-op Cloud Open Collective account. -* The Co-op Cloud Open Collective -* The Autonomic Wise account - -Autonomic is [the fiscal host](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts) for the Co-op Cloud Open Collective (OC). - -OC helps us make all expenses and transfers transparent to the Federation. No actual money is handled via the OC interface. All payments are done via the Autonomic [Wise](https://wise.com) account. The total sum of the available funds shows on the OC page is the actual amount that is held in the Autonomic Wise account. - -Autonomic Co-op members commit to support the federation by doing the financial adminstration work for the time being. Autonomic is publicy registered, has a bank account, files taxes etc. All financial comings/goings are kept on the books internally at Autonomic. This could be further mutualised or another collective could pick this up in the future. - -Autonomic does not eat the transfer costs from the Wise account when paying out expense for members. That is charged to the Federation common fund. +Transactions are submitted through Open Collective, approved by the Federation and paid out by our fiscal host. ### How to get paid via Open Collective