# Betterplace vs Donately

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about 4.40 more of every 100 donated than Donately (€97.20 vs £92.80 per 100). Betterplace holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.8/5 across 851 reviews, against 4.5/5 across 17 for Donately.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Donately |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | £92.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 4.5 (17) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 5 |

## 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 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.