# Donately vs Donorbox

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Donorbox delivers about £1.75 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£94.55 vs £92.80). On the headline numbers, Donately and Donorbox are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | Donorbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | £94.55 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 2.95% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 2.2% + £0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | 3.9 (53) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 91 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 23 |
| Data residency | — | US |
| Languages | 0 | 12 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 19 |

## 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.


## 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.