# Donately vs TotalGiving

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, TotalGiving delivers about £7.20 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£100.00 vs £92.80). Donately holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.5/5 across 17 reviews, against 2.2/5 across 16 for TotalGiving.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | TotalGiving |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | 2.2 (16) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 0 | 1 |
| 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 TotalGiving if

> UK registered charities and their supporters who want fundraising and sponsorship pages where donations pass directly to the charity, with Gift Aid and multi-currency donations.

- Donations are transferred directly to the recipient charity rather than held by the platform.
- Supports Gift Aid, claimable on eligible UK donations and approved by HMRC.
- Donors can give in many currencies (around 140), converted to GBP for the charity.
- Charity directory and search covering thousands of UK registered charities, with fundraising and sponsorship pages.