# Pledge vs Tribee

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Tribee delivers about 3.20 more of every 100 donated than Pledge (£100.00 vs $96.80 per 100). Tribee stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Pledge does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Pledge | Tribee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | $96.80 | £100.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + $0.30 | 0% + £0.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | 4.7 (2134) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 76 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | EU |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 10 | 1 |

## Choose Pledge if

> US-based individuals, nonprofits and purpose-driven companies that want a free-to-start fundraiser with a wide range of giving methods - cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, stock, donor-advised funds and crypto - plus Shopify and API-based embedded giving.

- No mandatory platform fee - funded by optional donor tipping, with most donors choosing to cover the fees.
- Exceptionally broad giving methods: cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, stock, donor-advised funds and cryptocurrency.
- Donations are regranted through the Pledgeling Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, with multi-state US fundraising compliance.
- Shopify "Give & Grow" app and embedded-giving APIs and widgets for e-commerce and product integrations.


## Choose Tribee if

> Friends, families, and colleagues in France organising group gifts or money-pots for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and farewells who want part of every collection to support an environmental, educational, or health cause.

- Combines a familiar online money-pot (cagnotte) with an automatic charitable donation on every collection.
- Card payments handled by Stripe, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
- Registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS, number 23000388.
- Personal data hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union.