# Betterplace vs Steunactie

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Betterplace delivers about 3.80 more of every 100 donated than Steunactie (€97.20 vs £93.40 per 100). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and Steunactie are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | Steunactie |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | £93.40 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 6% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 4.5 (723) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 66 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 2 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 4 |

## 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 Steunactie if

> Dutch- and French-speaking community fundraisers in the Netherlands and Belgium - sports clubs, schools, churches and local nonprofits - that want a simple, VAT-transparent platform with weekly payouts and no minimum goal.

- Built for Benelux community causes - clubs, schools, churches and nonprofits - with simple setup.
- Clear, VAT-inclusive pricing on a small set of common Benelux payment methods.
- Keep-it-all funding with no minimum target, and weekly payouts that can be paused.
- Payments handled by PSD2-licensed providers (Mollie, PayPal, Payaut).