# Crowdfunder UK vs Donorbox

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Crowdfunder UK delivers about £2.93 more of every £100 donated than Donorbox (£97.48 vs £94.55). Crowdfunder UK holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.1/5 across 2,873 reviews, against 3.9/5 across 53 for Donorbox. Crowdfunder UK stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donorbox does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Crowdfunder UK | Donorbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.48 | £94.55 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 2.95% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.28% + £0.24 | 2.2% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 (2873) | 3.9 (53) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 85 | 91 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 23 |
| Data residency | UK/EEA/US | US |
| Languages | 1 | 12 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 19 |

## 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 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.