# Charitable Impact vs Donorbox

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Charitable Impact delivers about 2.65 more of every 100 donated than Donorbox (C$97.20 vs £94.55 per 100). On the headline numbers, Charitable Impact 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 | Charitable Impact | Donorbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | C$97.20 | £94.55 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 2.95% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.8% + C$0.00 | 2.2% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 3.9 (53) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 71 | 91 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 23 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 1 | 12 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 19 |

## 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 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.