# Betterplace vs mycause

## What the data says.

On the headline numbers, Betterplace and mycause are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | mycause |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | A$97.50 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 2.5% + A$0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 75 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | Australia (US backup) |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 0 |

## 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 mycause if

> Australian individuals, registered charities, and schools running domestic donation campaigns who value a long-established, locally owned platform with Australian data residency and a donor-tip funding model for personal causes.

- Long-established Australian pioneer of crowdfunding, operating since 2009.
- Wholly Australian owned and operated, with primary servers based in Sydney.
- Personal fundraisers carry no platform charge, funded by an optional donor tip.
- Donations receipted to the chosen Australian charity.