# Donorbox vs PPL

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Donorbox delivers about 3.16 more of every 100 donated than PPL (£94.55 vs €91.39 per 100). On the headline numbers, Donorbox and PPL are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | PPL |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | €91.39 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 6.15% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 2.46% + €0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 12 | 2 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 4 |

## 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 PPL if

> Portuguese entrepreneurs, creatives, and social or humanitarian causes that want a local, Portuguese-language crowdfunding platform offering both reward-based campaigns and a dedicated donations area.

- Long-established in Portugal, operating since 2011.
- Supports both reward-based crowdfunding and a dedicated 'PPL Causas' donations area for social causes.
- Offers all-or-nothing and flexible funding models.
- Supporters can give unconditionally to causes, transferring even if the goal is not met.