# Betterplace vs Papayoux

## What the data says.

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

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Papayoux |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | €97.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 1.9% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 4.6 (434) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 53 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 6 |
| 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 Papayoux if

> French and EU individuals organizing group collections for gifts and events, plus associations running solidarity campaigns, who want a regulated French platform with flexible fee handling.

- Two products in one brand: group-pot collections and solidarity donations.
- Regulated French crowdfunding intermediary (ORIAS) backed by Lemonway.
- Group-pot creation and SEPA-zone withdrawals carry no transfer charge.
- Organizer can absorb or pass per-contribution costs to contributors.