# Alvarum vs Donately

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Alvarum delivers about 5.05 more of every 100 donated than Donately (€97.85 vs £92.80 per 100). On the headline numbers, Alvarum and Donately are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Alvarum | Donately |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.85 | £92.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.9% + €0.25 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.5 (17) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 69 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 0 |
| Data residency | France | — |
| Languages | 2 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 5 |

## Choose Alvarum if

> French and European charities and associations running cause-based or sports-challenge fundraising who want donations paid directly to the beneficiary and support for European local payment methods.

- Donations are routed directly to the beneficiary charity and settled on an automated monthly cycle rather than held by the platform.
- Strong fit for sports-challenge and participatory event fundraising such as marathons and cycling events.
- European local payment methods - iDEAL, Bancontact, Sofort, and SEPA direct debit - alongside Visa and Mastercard cards.
- Payments handled by HiPay, a payment institution authorised by France's ACPR; Alvarum registered with ORIAS as a donation crowdfunding intermediary.


## Choose Donately if

> Nonprofits, churches, and schools that want embeddable, customizable donation forms and an API to add giving to an existing website, with Stripe and PayPal processing and CRM integrations.

- Customizable, embeddable donation forms and campaign pages that drop into an existing site.
- API access and native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Constant Contact, and Mailchimp.
- Card and ACH processing via Stripe and PayPal, with optional donor cost coverage.
- Peer-to-peer, team fundraising, recurring giving, text-to-give, and event ticketing included.