# Betterplace vs Gandee

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about €3.20 more of every €100 donated than Gandee (€97.20 vs €94.00). Gandee stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Betterplace does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Gandee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €94.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 6% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 56 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EU |
| 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 Gandee if

> French individuals and companies who want to raise money for vetted associations through solidarity pots, corporate social-responsibility campaigns, or event-based giving, with automatic tax receipts.

- Donors give without charge; organisers create solidarity pots without a platform commission
- Partner associations are vetted before they can receive funds
- Automatic tax-deduction receipts for individual and corporate donors
- Corporate social-responsibility (RSE) campaigns and sponsor matching for companies