# iDonate vs WhyDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, iDonate delivers about £2.15 more of every £100 donated than WhyDonate (£100.00 vs £97.85). WhyDonate stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while iDonate does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | iDonate | WhyDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £100.00 | £98.35 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + £0.00 | 1.4% + £0.25 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.9 (388) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 72 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 115 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 0 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 0 | 24 |

## Choose iDonate if

> Mid-sized and larger US nonprofits that want conversion-optimised, embeddable donation and recurring-gift tools with enterprise-grade donor-data security, and are comfortable with custom, sales-quoted pricing.

- Conversion-focused giving tools: pop-up forms, hosted donation pages, embeddable website forms, and recurring-gift prompts.
- Enterprise donor-data security with annual SOC 2 Type 2 audits, third-party penetration testing, and a zero-trust design.
- Operates in accordance with GDPR standards per its privacy disclosures.
- Multiple donation rails: credit card, debit card, and ACH bank transfer.


## Choose WhyDonate if

> European nonprofits and individuals who want a transparent, low-fee, GDPR-native crowdfunding platform with broad multilingual and multi-currency support.

- Zero platform fee with a transparent voluntary-tip model
- EEA data residency and GDPR-native compliance
- Broad coverage of local European payment rails (iDEAL, Bancontact, Klarna, Twint, Swish, MobilePay, Vipps, Blik, Cartes Bancaires, Satispay, MultiBanco, EPS) plus global rails (cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Link, Revolut Pay)
- 19-language interface and 27 supported currencies for cross-border fundraising