Sponsorship and Finances Report for October 2016

Here’s that weekly monthly update on the payments and income for WordPress community events that we now post monthly. (You’d be amazed at how much more efficient it is to do this report on a monthly basis.) This report might get more elaborate as we get the time to build more tools around financial reporting (currently it’s quite, very, extremely manual), so if there’s a level of detail we’re not providing that you’d like to see, please mention it in the comments!

In the month of October, here’s what came in:

Ticket revenue via PayPal: $95,801.71 USD (2,655 total tickets )
Sponsorship income via wire transfer: $148,326.19 USD
Sponsorship income via check: $12,016.00 USD
Sponsorship income via PayPal: $54,746.76 USD

Total revenue (in USD): $310,890.66

As for invoicing in this period:

We sent 73 invoices to local sponsors.
Of those, 51 invoices have been paid, and 22 invoices are still outstanding.

And in this same period, here’s what went out:

Total number of vendor payments/reimbursements: 171

Total payments (in USD): $245,931.30

Global Sponsorship Grants that were set in this period:

Bilbao 2,800 EUR
Sao Paulo 9500R$
Miami 20,000 USD
Manila 49,000 PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php.
Mumbai 400,000 INR
Nairobi 800,800 KES

As always, if you have any questions, please ask away in the comments!

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