# Donorbox vs OnParticipe

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, OnParticipe delivers about 5.45 more of every 100 donated than Donorbox (€100.00 vs £94.55 per 100). Donorbox holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 3.9/5 across 53 reviews, against 3.0/5 across 21 for OnParticipe.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | OnParticipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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) | 3 (21) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | France |
| Languages | 12 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 1 |

## 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 OnParticipe if

> French and European organisers running cagnottes, ticketed events, or association fundraising who want a no-commission, French-hosted platform with identity controls, and who will read the terms for inactivity and refund charges.

- No commission on collections, so organisers keep the entire amount raised and ticket revenue.
- Designed and hosted in France, with French customer support available seven days a week.
- Funded by an optional donor tip rather than a mandatory platform charge.
- Systematic identity-document checks on organisers for fraud control.