# Chuffed vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £7.80 more of every £100 donated than Chuffed (£100.00 vs £92.20). On the headline numbers, Chuffed 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 | Chuffed | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.20 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 4.9% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.8 (668) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 79 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 29 | 1 |
| Data residency | AU | — |
| Languages | 4 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 0 |

## Choose Chuffed if

> Nonprofits, social enterprises, and community-cause organisers in 29 supported countries who want a 100%-free, tip-funded platform and are willing to complete identity verification before launching.

- Free to launch — no signup or monthly fees.
- Optional donor-tip model can make campaigns effectively free to run.
- Three flexible fee structures (keep-100%, shared, and flat-fee) to suit different campaigns.
- Mission-aligned: operates as a Social Benefit Company weighing social and community impact.


## 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.