# Leetchi vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about £3.15 more of every £100 donated than Leetchi (£100.00 vs £96.85). Leetchi stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Spendenportal does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Leetchi | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £90.85 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 6% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.25 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 4.2 (50786) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 82 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 36 | 1 |
| Data residency | EEA | — |
| Languages | 4 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 3 | 0 |

## Choose Leetchi if

> French-speaking fundraisers, group collections among friends, and EU nonprofits comfortable with a longer-established platform.

- Established European brand with strong recognition in France and Belgium
- Free group-pot product for personal collections (gifts, group events, shared expenses)
- EEA data residency
- High Trustpilot rating across 50,000+ reviews


## 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.