# CauseVox vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £3.20 more of every £100 donated than CauseVox (£100.00 vs £96.80). On the headline numbers, CauseVox 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 | CauseVox | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £96.80 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 75 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 0 |

## Choose CauseVox if

> New and growing nonprofits that want crowdfunding and peer-to-peer pages plus a built-in donor CRM and communications in one connected platform, without enterprise complexity.

- All-in-one toolkit: crowdfunding, peer-to-peer, events, auctions, and donor CRM in one platform.
- Entry tier sustained by optional donor tips, with a paid Pro tier for scaling teams.
- Eligible nonprofits can access reduced Stripe/PayPal nonprofit processing rates.
- Built-in CRM with email and SMS marketing and AI-assisted data management.


## 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.