# Betterplace vs leDonenligne.fr

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, leDonenligne.fr delivers about €2.80 more of every €100 donated than Betterplace (€100.00 vs €97.20). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and leDonenligne.fr are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | leDonenligne.fr |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 45 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | France (OVH) |
| 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 leDonenligne.fr if

> Small and mid-sized French associations with public-interest or mecenat status that need a compliant, low-overhead way to collect donations and memberships and issue automatic fiscal receipts.

- Built specifically for French public-interest associations, with eligibility limited to organisations recognised for mecenat - a trust signal for donors.
- Automatic issuance of fiscal receipts (recus fiscaux), emailed to donors without manual work.
- Payments secured by the Credit Mutuel Arkea banking group using 3D-Secure.
- Supports donation forms, membership (adhesion) collection, and custom or peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns.