# Crowdfunder UK vs Donately

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Crowdfunder UK delivers about £4.68 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£97.48 vs £92.80). Donately shows the higher Trustpilot score (4.5/5), but it rests on just 17 reviews — too few to outweigh Crowdfunder UK’s 4.1/5 from 2,873 reviews. Crowdfunder UK stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donately does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Crowdfunder UK | Donately |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.48 | £92.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 4% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.28% + £0.24 | 2.9% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 (2873) | 4.5 (17) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 85 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 0 |
| Data residency | UK/EEA/US | — |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 5 |

## Choose Crowdfunder UK if

> UK community projects, charities, social enterprises, and individuals who want match funding and Gift Aid alongside either donation or reward-based crowdfunding and can settle to a UK bank account.

- Supports multiple campaign types - donations, reward-based pledges, and community share offers - on one platform.
- Match funding (+Extra) can unlock grants from corporate, public-sector, and charitable partners on top of money raised.
- Gift Aid is handled through SwiftAid for eligible UK donations.
- Offers both All-or-Nothing and Flexible (keep-what-you-raise) funding models.


## 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.