Keepers
The people who run an enterprise and stand behind it. How to join, object, and step down.
What a keeper does
Keepers run an enterprise: they post its Offers and Needs, pay out its beans and look after it. One of them is the lead keeper.
A keeper can back the enterprise with some of their own trust. That deepens the enterprise's credit line. It never takes beans from your own balance or your own credit line.
The full rules, including what happens when a lead goes quiet, are in "Rules and how decisions work".
Asking to join
- Open the enterprise.
- Under Ask to join as a keeper, enter how much of your trust to back it with. Zero is allowed.
- Tap Request to join as keeper.
The lead keeper approves or declines. If the enterprise already has more than one keeper, you become a keeper after 3 days, unless another keeper objects.
Only you see how much trust you have left to back with. The lead keeper sees your pledge and whether your standing still covers it, never the figure. If approving you is refused, or your change is cancelled when its objection window ends, they are told only that your standing doesn't cover the pledge: never your figure, your balance or a freeze.
For keepers
- Approve or Decline requests under Pending keeper requests. Each request shows the pledge and says whether the person's standing covers it. If it doesn't, approving is refused until it does.
- Changes waiting under Keeper changes waiting show the objection window. Tap Object to stop one. Object works on the first tap, with no second question. One objection cancels the change.
- The lead can remove a keeper with Remove and their name. Other keepers can object in the same way.
- Operator controls let keepers post the enterprise's Offers and Needs.
Stepping down
Tap Step down as keeper, then Step down.
- The only keeper cannot step down. They can wind the enterprise up instead.
- If the enterprise is below zero and needs your backing to cover it, the app says Not yet.
When the lead goes quiet
If the lead keeper has not been active for a long time, the other keepers see Propose Active Keeper as Lead and can vote Yes or No. Votes on keepers cannot be changed.
Related
- Enterprises and projectsShared ventures with their own beans: find one, back one, or start one.
- Rules and how decisions workVoting, turnout, secret ballots, who may vote, suspension, removing a member, keepers, and convenors and lead convenors.
- Your credit lineHow far below zero you can go, and how it grows.
- The CommonsYour community's shared beans: where they come from, and how they are spent.
The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 112.