# Donorbox vs Papayoux

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Papayoux delivers about 3.25 more of every 100 donated than Donorbox (€97.80 vs £94.55 per 100). Papayoux holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.6/5 across 434 reviews, against 3.9/5 across 53 for Donorbox.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | Papayoux |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | €97.80 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 1.9% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 0% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | 4.6 (434) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 53 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 12 | 6 |
| 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 Papayoux if

> French and EU individuals organizing group collections for gifts and events, plus associations running solidarity campaigns, who want a regulated French platform with flexible fee handling.

- Two products in one brand: group-pot collections and solidarity donations.
- Regulated French crowdfunding intermediary (ORIAS) backed by Lemonway.
- Group-pot creation and SEPA-zone withdrawals carry no transfer charge.
- Organizer can absorb or pass per-contribution costs to contributors.