# Betterplace vs TotalGiving

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, TotalGiving delivers about 2.80 more of every 100 donated than Betterplace (£100.00 vs €97.20 per 100). Betterplace holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.8/5 across 851 reviews, against 2.2/5 across 16 for TotalGiving.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | TotalGiving |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €97.20 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + €0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (851) | 2.2 (16) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 87 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 3 |

## 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 TotalGiving if

> UK registered charities and their supporters who want fundraising and sponsorship pages where donations pass directly to the charity, with Gift Aid and multi-currency donations.

- Donations are transferred directly to the recipient charity rather than held by the platform.
- Supports Gift Aid, claimable on eligible UK donations and approved by HMRC.
- Donors can give in many currencies (around 140), converted to GBP for the charity.
- Charity directory and search covering thousands of UK registered charities, with fundraising and sponsorship pages.