# Betterplace vs OnParticipe

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, OnParticipe delivers about €2.80 more of every €100 donated than Betterplace (€100.00 vs €97.20). Betterplace holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.8/5 across 851 reviews, against 3.0/5 across 21 for OnParticipe.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | OnParticipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 3 (21) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | France |
| 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 OnParticipe if

> French and European organisers running cagnottes, ticketed events, or association fundraising who want a no-commission, French-hosted platform with identity controls, and who will read the terms for inactivity and refund charges.

- No commission on collections, so organisers keep the entire amount raised and ticket revenue.
- Designed and hosted in France, with French customer support available seven days a week.
- Funded by an optional donor tip rather than a mandatory platform charge.
- Systematic identity-document checks on organisers for fraud control.