Dues and collections

Groups collect for things. Annual dues, a fee for an event, a shared project, a one-time assessment. This is where you keep one clear account of what each member or household is responsible for and what has been settled.

You start a collection and name what it is for. You set the amount, whether it is a fixed sum or left open, and a due date if there is one. You choose whether each member is covered or each household is. You can write in how people pay and paste a link to wherever they already handle it. When you create the collection, Threshold lays out one line for everyone it covers, each starting open.

Threshold never touches the money. Payment happens however your group already handles it, by check, by cash, by an app, through a link you paste. You record the result. As payments arrive you mark each line settled, partial, or waived, and note the method or a reference if it helps you keep things straight. A member sees only their own line and can tell you they have paid. That report waits for you to confirm it. No one but you sees the full ledger.

The point is never to move money. It is so that what has been settled and what remains open stays in one place, plain to you, so nothing slips and no one is asked twice for what they already handled. When the season is done you close the collection and the ledger holds as it stood.