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# Spending money

### Submitting an Expense

Whether you're reimbursing a volunteer for their time, paying an invoice directly to a vendor or making a solidarity payment to someone in your community, the first step is for the person receiving the money to submit an expense. Open Collective's guide on how to do that is [here](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/expenses-and-getting-paid/submitting-expenses). In order to make sure everything is compliant, we ask that you try to make sure the person receiving the money is the same person that submits the expense. If they need additional support to do that you can always get them to email us.

Click [here ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lelaSttssiLB2TLLKfvlYSOY8cKdQ27A/view?usp=sharing)for a video walking you through the process of submitting an expense.