# Alvarum vs Tribee

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Tribee delivers about 2.15 more of every 100 donated than Alvarum (£100.00 vs €97.85 per 100). Tribee stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Alvarum does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Alvarum | Tribee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.85 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.9% + €0.25 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.7 (2134) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 69 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | France | EU |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 1 |

## 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 Tribee if

> Friends, families, and colleagues in France organising group gifts or money-pots for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and farewells who want part of every collection to support an environmental, educational, or health cause.

- Combines a familiar online money-pot (cagnotte) with an automatic charitable donation on every collection.
- Card payments handled by Stripe, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
- Registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS, number 23000388.
- Personal data hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union.