# Donately vs Leetchi

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Leetchi delivers about £4.05 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£96.85 vs £92.80). Donately shows the higher Trustpilot score (4.5/5), but it rests on just 17 reviews — too few to outweigh Leetchi’s 4.2/5 from 50,786 reviews. Leetchi stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donately does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | Leetchi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | £90.85 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 6% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 2.9% + £0.25 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | 4.2 (50786) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 82 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 36 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 0 | 4 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 3 |

## 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 Leetchi if

> French-speaking fundraisers, group collections among friends, and EU nonprofits comfortable with a longer-established platform.

- Established European brand with strong recognition in France and Belgium
- Free group-pot product for personal collections (gifts, group events, shared expenses)
- EEA data residency
- High Trustpilot rating across 50,000+ reviews