# Betterplace vs We Solidaire

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, We Solidaire delivers about 2.80 more of every 100 donated than Betterplace (£100.00 vs €97.20 per 100). On the headline numbers, Betterplace and We Solidaire are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Betterplace | We Solidaire |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 48 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 2 | 2 |
| 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 We Solidaire if

> Individuals, associations, and companies in France raising money for solidarity, health, cultural, animal, sports, religious, or memorial causes who want a simple French-language platform with broad international card acceptance.

- Backed by the established Papayoux crowdfunding operator (société Déméter, Paris).
- Payments processed by Lemonway, an institution approved by France's regulator ACPR under number 16568J.
- Registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS, number 17003690.
- Accepts international bank cards from more than 150 countries.