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Office and workplace fund collection

Every office has one person who ends up collecting for everything, and no office has a good way of doing it.

Short answer. Workplace collections work best when the amount and the deadline are stated and the list of who has contributed is visible to the team — so the organiser is not chasing colleagues individually.

The usual collections

Say when it is optional

Gift collections are socially compulsory in a way that nobody admits. Stating "optional, no amount expected" changes very little for those who can contribute and a great deal for anyone who cannot — and it costs the collection almost nothing.

Protecting the organiser

The person collecting should not also be the person remembering. A list with the amount, the deadline and who has paid does the remembering, so their whole job is to start it and close it.

Close it with numbers

Collected, spent, remaining, and what happened to the remainder. One message. It takes a minute and it is the reason people contribute to the next one.

Common questions

Should contributions be optional?

For gifts and social events, always. State that plainly, because an unstated expectation is worse than a stated one for anybody who cannot afford it.

How do we handle people who leave?

Close their side cleanly when they go — settled up or written off — rather than leaving an open row nobody wants to raise.

Laqfiz is free, and runs in your browser Start a community, invite the people in it, and every payment leaves a receipt everyone can see. No card, no download unless you want one.

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