# Fundraise Up vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £6.50 more of every £100 donated than Fundraise Up (£100.00 vs £93.50). On the headline numbers, Fundraise Up and Spendenportal are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Fundraise Up | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £93.50 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 4% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 72 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 46 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 18 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 12 | 0 |

## Choose Fundraise Up if

> Mid-size and large nonprofits running international online fundraising that want to maximize donation conversion with modern wallets, local payment rails, and multi-currency checkout.

- Conversion-optimized donation checkout adapted from e-commerce best practices.
- Broad payment support: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, bank debits, and cryptocurrency.
- International, multi-currency checkout with local bank-debit rails (SEPA, BACS, BECS, iDEAL).
- Used by large global nonprofits, signalling enterprise-grade reliability.


## 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.