# Snowball Fundraising vs Tribee

## What the data says.

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

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Snowball Fundraising | 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/) | 59 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | EU |
| Languages | 0 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 1 |

## Choose Snowball Fundraising if

> Small and mid-sized US nonprofits that want donation forms, text-to-give, online auctions and event ticketing in one platform with US-based bilingual support, fundraising domestically in US dollars.

- All-in-one toolkit: donation forms, text-to-give and text-to-bid, online auctions, event ticketing, recurring gifts and donor CRM.
- Free Starter tier available, with paid annual plans that remove the platform fee and speed payouts to 1-2 days.
- Used by more than 15,000 US nonprofits, with US-based bilingual (English/Spanish) support.
- Payments processed by Stripe; the company states no hidden platform fees beyond the chosen plan and processing.


## 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.