# Donately vs GiveNow

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, GiveNow delivers about 5.44 more of every 100 donated than Donately (A$98.24 vs £92.80 per 100). On the headline numbers, Donately and GiveNow are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | GiveNow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | A$98.24 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 1.5% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0.26% + A$0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 78 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | Australia |
| Languages | 0 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 0 |

## 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 GiveNow if

> Small to medium-sized Australian charities, not-for-profits, and community groups that want a low-overhead, no-lock-in donation platform with local Australian data storage and an optional donor-covers-cost model.

- Purpose-built for small to medium-sized Australian charities and not-for-profits.
- Operated by Our Community, a long-running Australian social enterprise (since 2001).
- Percentage-based pricing with no subscription, lock-in, or upfront cost.
- Optional donor-covers-cost model, which the platform reports most donors choose.