A fund, its members, and the places they spend.
A fund is a shared pot of money — contributions, dues, donations, grants — that pays out to the people and businesses keeping things running. La Caisse runs the loop: members in, payouts out. This is the short version; the long one lives at lacaisse.eu.
Members receive and spend
Each member gets a balance in the fund's own token and a card to spend it with. No app, no phone and no bank account needed at the counter.
The fund team runs it
Allocations, dues or memberships, member onboarding, reminders, reporting. The fund sets its rules and La Caisse does the admin.
Merchants get paid
That's you. You accept the card on a Citizen Terminal and the fund pays what it owes you by bank transfer, on a cycle it sets.
Built for La CLASS, a local solidarity food fund, and open-sourced so other funds can run it.
Read the full story on lacaisse.euA tap, like a badge.
The member's card carries the fund's tokens. You enter the amount, they tap the card on the Citizen Terminal, and the balance drops on the spot. The sale lands in your dashboard like any other, marked with the fund.
- Read by our terminal itself — no partner card terminal involved
- Runs next to QR and your own tokens on the same device
- Counter, fridge or vending machine — wherever a terminal is
- Nothing for the member to install, charge or sign up for
A fund card is not a bank card. It carries the fund's tokens the way a badge carries your own members' credit: one token method, one more carrier.
Tokens in. Euros out.
The fund issues its token and the fund is who pays you. Citizen Pay runs the terminal, keeps the books and shows you both sides.
Connect once
The fund invites you by email. You sign in to Citizen Pay, attach your business, and the fund's token switches on for your places.
Collect
Every tap adds tokens to your balance with the fund. One token is worth one euro.
Payout
On the cycle the fund sets, it pays what it owes you by bank transfer, minus the fee it configured.
See it all
Incoming payments, fees and payout history sit in your Citizen Pay dashboard, next to your QR and token sales.
Start one, or move yours.
La Caisse is open source under AGPL-3.0. Run it on the official instance hosted by Citizen Pay, €20 a month and free for registered non-profits and schools, or self-host it. Everything about it, from the member app to the payout rules, is at lacaisse.eu.
Put the fund on your counter.
Already a fund's merchant? Tell us which one and we'll ship a terminal set up for it. Not yet? We'll put you in touch.