# Enthuse vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about 5.00 more of every 100 donated than Enthuse (£100.00 vs €95.00 per 100). Enthuse stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Spendenportal does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Enthuse | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €95.00 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 5% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.6 (398) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 4.9 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | UK/EEA | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 0 |

## 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 Spendenportal if

> German donors who want to give to vetted, pre-checked charities, and supporters who want to donate goods as well as money - including via SocialBay's eBay-based resale of in-kind donations.

- Handles both monetary (Geldspenden) and in-kind (Sachspenden) donations, the latter via SocialBay's eBay-based resale.
- Charities are vetted and activated only after a review, supporting donor trust.
- Operated by a nonprofit social enterprise (Sozial-Aktien-Gesellschaft) recognized as a donation-collecting organization.
- Donors can choose whether payment-provider costs are added on top of or deducted from their gift.