# JustGiving vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £2.20 more of every £100 donated than JustGiving (£100.00 vs £97.80). On the headline numbers, JustGiving 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 | JustGiving | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £97.80 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.9% + £0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 (7663) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 6 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | — |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 7 | 0 |

## Choose JustGiving if

> UK charities and individual fundraisers who want a recognised, no-platform-fee donation platform with Gift Aid support and a fully free direct-donation option.

- No platform fee and free to set up a fundraising page.
- Low payment processing: 1.9% + GBP0.30 for charities, 2.9% + GBP0.35 for personal crowdfunding.
- Gift Aid administration for UK charities (5% applied to Gift Aid, not the donation).
- Free Giving Checkout option with no processing fees and 100% to the charity.


## 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.