# Classy vs Donately

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Classy delivers about £4.50 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£97.30 vs £92.80). On the headline numbers, Classy 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 | Classy | Donately |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.30 | £92.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.4% + £0.30 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.5 (17) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 86 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 4 | 0 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 6 | 5 |

## Choose Classy if

> Mid-to-large US nonprofits running enterprise-scale peer-to-peer campaigns, ticketed events, and recurring-giving programmes that need depth beyond a basic donation page.

- Enterprise-grade peer-to-peer, events, and recurring-giving tooling.
- Now part of GoFundMe Pro, backed by GoFundMe's reach and 190-million community.
- Essentials plan with zero subscription fees and no setup costs for smaller nonprofits.
- Multi-currency settlement in US dollar, Canadian dollar, pound, Australian dollar, and euro.


## 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.