# Continue to Give vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £2.95 more of every £100 donated than Continue to Give (£100.00 vs £97.05). On the headline numbers, Continue to Give 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 | Continue to Give | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.05 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 2.7% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + £0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 70 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 0 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 0 | 0 |

## Choose Continue to Give if

> US and Canadian churches, faith-based nonprofits, and missionaries that want an all-in-one giving platform with recurring and text giving, event tools, and built-in fund accounting.

- All-in-one toolkit: online giving, recurring and text giving, event registration, newsletters, and built-in fund accounting.
- Explicit faith-based positioning with a pledge not to deplatform organizations over their faith.
- Tiered plans including a no-monthly-cost Silver tier and a Gold tier with interchange-plus card rates.
- Optional donor-covers-fees toggle so organizations can receive the full donation amount.


## 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.