# BetterWorld vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £3.20 more of every £100 donated than BetterWorld (£100.00 vs £96.80). On the headline numbers, BetterWorld and Spendenportal are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | BetterWorld | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £96.80 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 2.9 (2) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 81 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 0 |

## 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 Spendenportal if

> German donors who want to give to vetted, pre-checked charities, and supporters who want to donate goods as well as money - including via SocialBay's eBay-based resale of in-kind donations.

- Handles both monetary (Geldspenden) and in-kind (Sachspenden) donations, the latter via SocialBay's eBay-based resale.
- Charities are vetted and activated only after a review, supporting donor trust.
- Operated by a nonprofit social enterprise (Sozial-Aktien-Gesellschaft) recognized as a donation-collecting organization.
- Donors can choose whether payment-provider costs are added on top of or deducted from their gift.