# Betterplace vs Doneerveilig

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about €4.86 more of every €100 donated than Doneerveilig (€97.20 vs €92.34). Betterplace holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.8/5 across 851 reviews, against 2.9/5 across 44 for Doneerveilig.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Doneerveilig |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €92.34 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 6.7% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 2.9 (44) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 21 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| 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 Doneerveilig if

> Dutch and Belgian individuals running personal fundraising campaigns who prioritise a security-focused, PSD2-compliant platform with escrow handling and a simple, quick setup.

- Security-focused framing: PSD2 compliance supervised by De Nederlandsche Bank, escrow handling, and SSL.
- Donations held on a third-party escrow account (derdengeldenrekening) before payout.
- Quick, simple campaign setup aimed at individual causes.
- Account verification via a one-cent micro-transfer.