Public pages: reporting that writes itself

Public pages let you show a project's money movement to anyone with a link, no registration required. A tool for shelters, homeowner associations, volunteer fundraisers, and in general any money that is collected together and needs trust. Here is how it works.

What a public page looks like

A project in Finance Flow 365 can have a public page. Anyone with the link can open it: any browser, any device, no account. The page shows the project's money in motion: what came in and what it was spent on.

Pin the link in a social media bio, add it to a fundraiser description, print a QR code for the notice board by the entrance. "Where does the money go" stops being a weekly post with receipt photos and becomes a permanent address.

Why it beats hand-written reports

A hand-written report goes stale the moment it is published and lives only while it is visible in the feed. A public page updates the moment an expense is logged: the food purchase is entered, and it is already in the report. Separate "reporting work" simply stops existing.

The second layer of trust: every record has an author. You see not only "medicine bought for 30" but also which volunteer logged it and when. For donors that is the difference between "they told us" and "we can see".

Third: reporting stops depending on one person. Several volunteers can join the project with their own permissions, each logging their part. One person burns out — the fundraiser does not go dark.

Limits and plans

Public pages start on the Plus plan: up to five pages. That usually covers a shelter or a community group: one page for the general fund plus separate ones for big goals.

The Pro plan raises the limit to fifteen pages, and Full drops it altogether. Pro also brings two options for special cases. A password on a public space: the collection is visible only to people who got both the link and the password, say, the residents of one building. And extended metrics: how many people open the page, so you know whether anyone reads your reporting at all.

Where to start

Create a fundraiser project, make the first entries, enable the public page and pin the link where your donors live. The rest happens by itself: the next "where did the money go" gets answered with one link.

The full story of how a shelter dropped its Sunday reports and grew its donations is in the “Public fundraising” scenario.