# Doare vs Pledge

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Pledge delivers about 3.05 more of every 100 donated than Doare ($96.80 vs £93.75 per 100). On the headline numbers, Doare and Pledge are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Doare | Pledge |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £93.75 | $96.80 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 5.8% + £0.45 | 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 72 | 76 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 3 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 8 | 10 |

## Choose Doare if

> Brazilian nonprofits and third-sector organizations that want hosted donation pages, recurring-giving tools, and a donor CRM to build a sustained local donor base, rather than a one-off campaign.

- Purpose-built nonprofit toolkit: donation pages, recurring giving, and donor CRM.
- Supports Brazilian rails including boleto and PIX, plus automatic recurring PIX.
- Tiered plans with per-transaction costs that decrease at higher tiers.
- Peer-to-peer ambassador fundraising and corporate ESG and matching products.


## Choose Pledge if

> US-based individuals, nonprofits and purpose-driven companies that want a free-to-start fundraiser with a wide range of giving methods - cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, stock, donor-advised funds and crypto - plus Shopify and API-based embedded giving.

- No mandatory platform fee - funded by optional donor tipping, with most donors choosing to cover the fees.
- Exceptionally broad giving methods: cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, stock, donor-advised funds and cryptocurrency.
- Donations are regranted through the Pledgeling Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, with multi-state US fundraising compliance.
- Shopify "Give & Grow" app and embedded-giving APIs and widgets for e-commerce and product integrations.