# Donately vs WhyDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, WhyDonate delivers about £5.05 more of every £100 donated than Donately (£97.85 vs £92.80). WhyDonate holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.9/5 across 388 reviews, against 4.5/5 across 17 for Donately. WhyDonate stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donately does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donately | WhyDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £92.80 | £98.35 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.30 | 1.4% + £0.25 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (17) | 4.9 (388) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 77 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 115 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 0 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 24 |

## 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 WhyDonate if

> European nonprofits and individuals who want a transparent, low-fee, GDPR-native crowdfunding platform with broad multilingual and multi-currency support.

- Zero platform fee with a transparent voluntary-tip model
- EEA data residency and GDPR-native compliance
- Broad coverage of local European payment rails (iDEAL, Bancontact, Klarna, Twint, Swish, MobilePay, Vipps, Blik, Cartes Bancaires, Satispay, MultiBanco, EPS) plus global rails (cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Link, Revolut Pay)
- 19-language interface and 27 supported currencies for cross-border fundraising