# Betterplace vs Crowdfunding voor Clubs

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about €5.00 more of every €100 donated than Crowdfunding voor Clubs (€97.20 vs €92.20). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and Crowdfunding voor Clubs are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Crowdfunding voor Clubs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €92.20 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 7.5% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 33 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 1 |

## Choose Betterplace if

> German and Austrian nonprofits and social-cause project owners that want a trusted, charitable, German-run donation platform with low pass-through costs and local data handling.

- Operated by the charitable betterplace.org gGmbH — a nonprofit, mission-aligned platform.
- Roughly 2.8% transaction fee, with the large majority of each donation passing to the project.
- Free for organisations to set up and run campaigns.
- Supports credit card, PayPal, SEPA Direct Debit, and bank wire transfer.


## Choose Crowdfunding voor Clubs if

> Dutch sports clubs and cultural organisations that want to combine donation crowdfunding with bond-based club financing, and that prefer iDEAL payments with predictable per-donation or subscription pricing.

- Purpose-built for Dutch sports clubs and cultural organisations
- Combines donation crowdfunding with club-bond (obligatie) financing on one platform
- Two pricing tracks: a 7.5% per-donation fee (VAT-inclusive) or a fixed annual subscription
- iDEAL payments processed through Mollie, the standard Dutch online payment rail