Donately vs Tribee
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.
Friends, families, and colleagues in France organising group gifts or money-pots for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and farewells who want part of every collection to support an environmental, educational, or health cause.
On a £100 donation, Tribee delivers £7.20 more to the recipient than Donately.
What the data says.
Paying by Credit card, Tribee delivers about £7.20 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£100.00 vs £92.80).
Tribee holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.7/5 across 2,134 reviews, against 4.5/5 across 17 for Donately.
Tribee stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donately does not.
Side-by-side.
| Metric | Donately | Tribee |
|---|---|---|
| Recipient gets (£100) | £92.80 | £100.00★ winner |
| Platform fee | 4% | 0%★ winner |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00★ winner |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | 4.7 (2,134)★ winner |
| Country coverage | 0 countries | 1 countries★ winner |
| Data residency | — | EU★ winner |
| Languages | 0 | 1★ winner |
| Payment methods supported | 5★ winner | 1 |
Winner by category.
£100.00 vs £92.80 reaches the recipient.
4.5 vs 4.7 on Trustpilot.
1 vs 0 countries.
EEA data residency for GDPR-sensitive donor data.
Choose based on who you are.
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.
Friends, families, and colleagues in France organising group gifts or money-pots for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and farewells who want part of every collection to support an environmental, educational, or health cause.
- ✓Combines a familiar online money-pot (cagnotte) with an automatic charitable donation on every collection.
- ✓Card payments handled by Stripe, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
- ✓Registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS, number 23000388.
- ✓Personal data hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union.
A third option.
Dutch and other social-impact initiators running Global-Goals-aligned campaigns who value personal coaching and community-building over a high-volume, self-serve crowdfunding marketplace.
Other comparisons.
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Donately or Tribee?
On a £100 donation, Donately delivers approximately £92.80 to the recipient and Tribee delivers approximately £100.00. Real costs depend on the payment method donors choose.
Which is better for European nonprofits?
Tribee is generally better suited to European nonprofits handling GDPR-sensitive donor data because of its EEA data residency.
Which platform has more country coverage?
Donately operates in 0 countries; Tribee operates in 1.
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