# Doneerveilig vs iHelp

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, iHelp delivers about €7.66 more of every €100 donated than Doneerveilig (€100.00 vs €92.34). iHelp stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Doneerveilig does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Doneerveilig | iHelp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €92.34 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 6.7% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 2.9 (44) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 21 | 50 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EU |
| Languages | 1 | 2 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 1 |

## Choose Doneerveilig if

> Dutch and Belgian individuals running personal fundraising campaigns who prioritise a security-focused, PSD2-compliant platform with escrow handling and a simple, quick setup.

- Security-focused framing: PSD2 compliance supervised by De Nederlandsche Bank, escrow handling, and SSL.
- Donations held on a third-party escrow account (derdengeldenrekening) before payout.
- Quick, simple campaign setup aimed at individual causes.
- Account verification via a one-cent micro-transfer.


## 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.