# Donorbox vs 1%Club

## What the data says.

1%Club stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Donorbox does not. On the headline numbers, Donorbox and 1%Club are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | 1%Club |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | €100.00 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 53 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 0 |
| Data residency | US | EEA |
| Languages | 12 | 2 |
| 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 1%Club if

> 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.

- Mission-driven focus on social initiatives aligned with the UN Global Goals.
- Personal coaching of campaign initiators rather than a purely self-serve model.
- Bilingual Dutch and English interface.
- Accepts donations in euros and US dollars.