# BetterWorld vs Donorbox

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, BetterWorld delivers about £2.25 more of every £100 donated than Donorbox (£96.80 vs £94.55). On the headline numbers, BetterWorld and Donorbox are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | BetterWorld | Donorbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £96.80 | £94.55 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 2.95% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 2.2% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 2.9 (2) | 3.9 (53) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 81 | 91 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 23 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 1 | 12 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 19 |

## Choose BetterWorld if

> Nonprofits, schools, PTOs, and community groups in the US running auctions, raffles, events, and peer-to-peer campaigns that want every fundraising tool available on every plan.

- Exceptionally broad format support: silent and live auctions, raffles, events, donation forms, peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, paddle raise, and a-thons.
- No feature gating - every fundraising tool is available even on the free entry plan.
- Paid Partner ($1,550/year) and Keystone ($5,950/year) tiers lower the platform's percentage cut for higher-volume organizations.
- Most donors (over 95%) opt to cover payment processing, so organizations retain more of each gift.


## Choose Donorbox if

> Small-to-medium nonprofits across verticals like churches, healthcare, education, and animal welfare that want recurring-donation tooling, donor fee-cover, and a managed donation-form product without a CRM-scale platform commitment.

- Donor-cover-fees option at checkout — Donorbox frames opt-in as the default, so the recipient can receive the full donation amount.
- Broad payment-rail support: iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, BACS, Klarna, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and Link by Stripe.
- Standard plan has no monthly subscription — just per-transaction fees on the 2.95% / 3.95% tier.
- First-class recurring-donation tooling with upsell prompts and donor-management features on the Pro tier.