# Charitable Impact vs Donately

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Charitable Impact delivers about 4.40 more of every 100 donated than Donately (C$97.20 vs £92.80 per 100). On the headline numbers, Charitable Impact and Donately are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Charitable Impact | Donately |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | C$97.20 | £92.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + C$0.00 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.5 (17) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 71 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 0 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 5 |

## Choose Charitable Impact if

> Canadian individuals and families who want a single donor-advised Impact Account to organize their giving, support friends' causes, and receive a tax receipt for every contribution they add.

- Operates as a donor-advised fund: donors add money to an Impact Account and recommend gifts to charities over time.
- A tax receipt is issued for the full amount added to the Impact Account, regardless of when it is granted to charities.
- Accepts a wide range of assets, including cash, securities, real estate, and cryptocurrency.
- Peer-to-peer giving, Giving Groups, and campaigns let donors pool and direct money together.


## Choose Donately if

> Nonprofits, churches, and schools that want embeddable, customizable donation forms and an API to add giving to an existing website, with Stripe and PayPal processing and CRM integrations.

- Customizable, embeddable donation forms and campaign pages that drop into an existing site.
- API access and native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Constant Contact, and Mailchimp.
- Card and ACH processing via Stripe and PayPal, with optional donor cost coverage.
- Peer-to-peer, team fundraising, recurring giving, text-to-give, and event ticketing included.