# GiveWheel vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £1.40 more of every £100 donated than GiveWheel (£100.00 vs £98.60). On the headline numbers, GiveWheel 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 | GiveWheel | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £98.60 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.2% + £0.20 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.7 (92) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 71 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | EU (Heroku) | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 0 |

## Choose GiveWheel if

> UK fundraisers, charities, companies, and event organisers who want to raise for one or several charities at once, with custom donation splits, Gift Aid, ticketed events, and prize draws.

- Lets fundraisers support an unlimited number of charities from one page, with a custom percentage split.
- Gift Aid is handled via disbursement partner Charities Trust for eligible UK donations.
- Broad feature set: ticketed events, prize draws and raffles, DonorMap, donor messaging, and a public API.
- Accepts donations in GBP, AUD, USD, CAD, and EUR, settled in GBP.


## 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.