# Spendenportal vs WhyDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal 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 Spendenportal does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Spendenportal | 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/) | 62 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 115 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 0 | 24 |

## 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.


## 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