# Steunactie vs WhyDonate

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, WhyDonate delivers about £4.45 more of every £100 donated than Steunactie (£97.85 vs £93.40). WhyDonate holds the stronger Trustpilot record: 4.9/5 across 388 reviews, against 4.5/5 across 723 for Steunactie. WhyDonate stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Steunactie does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Steunactie | WhyDonate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £93.40 | £98.35 |
| Platform fee | 6% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + £0.00 | 1.4% + £0.25 |
| Trustpilot | 4.5 (723) | 4.9 (388) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 66 | 77 |
| Country coverage | 2 | 115 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 19 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 24 |

## Choose Steunactie if

> Dutch- and French-speaking community fundraisers in the Netherlands and Belgium - sports clubs, schools, churches and local nonprofits - that want a simple, VAT-transparent platform with weekly payouts and no minimum goal.

- Built for Benelux community causes - clubs, schools, churches and nonprofits - with simple setup.
- Clear, VAT-inclusive pricing on a small set of common Benelux payment methods.
- Keep-it-all funding with no minimum target, and weekly payouts that can be paused.
- Payments handled by PSD2-licensed providers (Mollie, PayPal, Payaut).


## 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