# Crowdfunder UK vs iDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, iDonate delivers about £2.52 more of every £100 donated than Crowdfunder UK (£100.00 vs £97.48). Crowdfunder UK stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while iDonate does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Crowdfunder UK | iDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.48 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.28% + £0.24 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 (2873) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 85 | 72 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 0 |
| Data residency | UK/EEA/US | — |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 0 |

## 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 iDonate if

> Mid-sized and larger US nonprofits that want conversion-optimised, embeddable donation and recurring-gift tools with enterprise-grade donor-data security, and are comfortable with custom, sales-quoted pricing.

- Conversion-focused giving tools: pop-up forms, hosted donation pages, embeddable website forms, and recurring-gift prompts.
- Enterprise donor-data security with annual SOC 2 Type 2 audits, third-party penetration testing, and a zero-trust design.
- Operates in accordance with GDPR standards per its privacy disclosures.
- Multiple donation rails: credit card, debit card, and ACH bank transfer.