# Enthuse vs Snowball Fundraising

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Snowball Fundraising delivers about 1.80 more of every 100 donated than Enthuse ($96.80 vs €95.00 per 100). Enthuse stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Snowball Fundraising does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Enthuse | Snowball Fundraising |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €95.00 | $96.80 |
| Platform fee | 5% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Trustpilot | 4.6 (398) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 4.9 | 59 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | UK/EEA | US |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 1 |

## Choose Enthuse if

> UK and Irish registered charities that want fully branded donation pages, peer-to-peer fundraising, and event registration consolidated on one platform under their own identity.

- White-label donation, fundraising, and event-registration pages presented under the charity's own brand.
- Combines online donations, peer-to-peer fundraising, and event ticketing in a single platform.
- Registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority as a Small Payment Institution (firm reference 797344).
- Payments processed through established providers Stripe, GoCardless, and PayPal.


## Choose Snowball Fundraising if

> Small and mid-sized US nonprofits that want donation forms, text-to-give, online auctions and event ticketing in one platform with US-based bilingual support, fundraising domestically in US dollars.

- All-in-one toolkit: donation forms, text-to-give and text-to-bid, online auctions, event ticketing, recurring gifts and donor CRM.
- Free Starter tier available, with paid annual plans that remove the platform fee and speed payouts to 1-2 days.
- Used by more than 15,000 US nonprofits, with US-based bilingual (English/Spanish) support.
- Payments processed by Stripe; the company states no hidden platform fees beyond the chosen plan and processing.