# Donorbox vs GoFundraise

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, GoFundraise delivers about 3.67 more of every 100 donated than Donorbox (A$98.22 vs £94.55 per 100). On the headline numbers, Donorbox and GoFundraise are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | GoFundraise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | A$98.22 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 1.4% + A$0.38 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 73 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | Australia |
| Languages | 12 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 2 |

## Choose Donorbox if

> Small-to-medium nonprofits across verticals like churches, healthcare, education, and animal welfare that want recurring-donation tooling, donor fee-cover, and a managed donation-form product without a CRM-scale platform commitment.

- Donor-cover-fees option at checkout — Donorbox frames opt-in as the default, so the recipient can receive the full donation amount.
- Broad payment-rail support: iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, BACS, Klarna, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and Link by Stripe.
- Standard plan has no monthly subscription — just per-transaction fees on the 2.95% / 3.95% tier.
- First-class recurring-donation tooling with upsell prompts and donor-management features on the Pro tier.


## Choose GoFundraise if

> Australian individuals, charities, and event organisers running personal or peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns who want Australian-hosted, PCI-secure infrastructure and DGR-aware tax receipting.

- Established Australian platform for donation and peer-to-peer fundraising.
- Strong event-based and community-fundraising tooling with multi-beneficiary support.
- Payments via Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and Stripe.
- All data encrypted at rest and hosted in Australia, with PCI-secure infrastructure and third-party penetration testing.