# Betterplace vs Fundraise Up

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about 3.70 more of every 100 donated than Fundraise Up (€97.20 vs £93.50 per 100). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and Fundraise Up are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Fundraise Up |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | £93.50 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 2.2% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 72 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 46 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 2 | 18 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 12 |

## 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 Fundraise Up if

> Mid-size and large nonprofits running international online fundraising that want to maximize donation conversion with modern wallets, local payment rails, and multi-currency checkout.

- Conversion-optimized donation checkout adapted from e-commerce best practices.
- Broad payment support: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, bank debits, and cryptocurrency.
- International, multi-currency checkout with local bank-debit rails (SEPA, BACS, BECS, iDEAL).
- Used by large global nonprofits, signalling enterprise-grade reliability.