# GoFundraise vs TotalGiving

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, TotalGiving delivers about 1.78 more of every 100 donated than GoFundraise (£100.00 vs A$98.22 per 100). On the headline numbers, GoFundraise and TotalGiving are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | GoFundraise | TotalGiving |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | A$98.22 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.4% + A$0.38 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 2.2 (16) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 73 | 74 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | Australia | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 3 |

## Choose GoFundraise if

> Australian individuals, charities, and event organisers running personal or peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns who want Australian-hosted, PCI-secure infrastructure and DGR-aware tax receipting.

- Established Australian platform for donation and peer-to-peer fundraising.
- Strong event-based and community-fundraising tooling with multi-beneficiary support.
- Payments via Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and Stripe.
- All data encrypted at rest and hosted in Australia, with PCI-secure infrastructure and third-party penetration testing.


## Choose TotalGiving if

> UK registered charities and their supporters who want fundraising and sponsorship pages where donations pass directly to the charity, with Gift Aid and multi-currency donations.

- Donations are transferred directly to the recipient charity rather than held by the platform.
- Supports Gift Aid, claimable on eligible UK donations and approved by HMRC.
- Donors can give in many currencies (around 140), converted to GBP for the charity.
- Charity directory and search covering thousands of UK registered charities, with fundraising and sponsorship pages.