# Betterplace vs DierenDonatie

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, DierenDonatie delivers about €2.80 more of every €100 donated than Betterplace (€100.00 vs €97.20). DierenDonatie stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Betterplace does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | DierenDonatie |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 38 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 2 |

## 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 DierenDonatie if

> Dutch animal shelters, wildlife-care centres, and animal-welfare foundations that need specific goods funded - food, equipment, or veterinary care - and value a CBF-accredited, transparent donation platform.

- Exclusively focused on animal-welfare causes in the Netherlands
- Recognised as one of the first CBF-accredited donation platforms (CBF-Erkend Donatieplatform)
- Product-fulfilment model: donors fund specific items the platform buys and ships to the foundation
- Flat per-project contribution (EUR 10 up to EUR 300, EUR 25 above) rather than a percentage cut of donations