# Donorbox vs Produzioni dal Basso

## What the data says.

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

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | Produzioni dal Basso |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £94.55 | £95.05 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 3% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 1.6% + £0.35 |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 (53) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | EEA |
| Languages | 12 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 0 |

## 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 Produzioni dal Basso if

> Italian associations, cultural and social projects, and start-ups that want a flexible, long-established platform with multiple funding models and optional co-financing, and that do not require international reach.

- Long-established (since 2005) generalist platform with broad project eligibility.
- Three funding modes: keep-it-all, all-or-nothing, and simple donation.
- Run by a benefit corporation; payments via PayPal and regulated Lemonway.
- Co-financing programs can unlock partner matching past a threshold.