# Betterplace vs 1%Club

## What the data says.

1%Club stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Betterplace does not. On the headline numbers, Betterplace and 1%Club are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | 1%Club |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 53 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 2 | 2 |
| 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 1%Club if

> Dutch and other social-impact initiators running Global-Goals-aligned campaigns who value personal coaching and community-building over a high-volume, self-serve crowdfunding marketplace.

- Mission-driven focus on social initiatives aligned with the UN Global Goals.
- Personal coaching of campaign initiators rather than a purely self-serve model.
- Bilingual Dutch and English interface.
- Accepts donations in euros and US dollars.