# Donately vs iHelp

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, iHelp delivers about 7.20 more of every 100 donated than Donately (€100.00 vs £92.80 per 100). iHelp stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donately does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | iHelp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 50 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EU |
| Languages | 0 | 2 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 1 |

## 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 iHelp if

> Spanish nonprofits and donors who value vetted, legitimacy-checked causes and a commission-light giving model, and who are comfortable with a single Santander payment gateway and a smaller catalogue of campaigns.

- No platform commission charged to nonprofits or donors, per iHelp's FAQ.
- NGOs and causes are vetted for legality and viability before listing.
- Long heritage in Spanish online giving, continuing Cibersolidaridad.org which ran from 2001.
- Post-donation follow-up and a stated focus on transparent, effective altruism.