Tribee
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.
A French online cagnotte (group-pot) platform that pairs every collection with an automatic 5% donation to a chosen charity, so organisers keep 95% while a cause always benefits. IFP-registered, payments via Stripe.
- Headquartered in
- FR
- Funding model
- Optional tip
- Platform fee
- 0% + tip
- Payment processing fee
- 0% + £0.00
- Recipient gets
- £100.00 / £100
- Data residency
- EU
- Countries
- 1
- Languages
- 1
- Trustpilot
- 4.7 / 5
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
Our overall editorial assessment. Full weights are published in the methodology.
The review
Tribee is a French online cagnotte platform that reinvents the familiar group-pot for gifts and shared occasions by attaching a charitable purpose to every collection. Alongside celebratory pots for birthdays, weddings, births, and farewells, it supports participatory and solidarity projects, placing generosity and reduced over-consumption of unwanted gifts at the centre of its model.
The platform charges no commission and covers the Stripe payment-processing fees itself, so organisers receive 95% of the pot while an automatic 5% donation always goes to a chosen association; Tribee funds itself through voluntary donor tips known as pourboires. It is registered as an Intermédiaire en Financement Participatif (IFP) with ORIAS under number 23000388, and personal data is hosted exclusively on servers within the European Union.
Tribee suits friends, families, and colleagues in France who want their group gifting to benefit a cause as well as a recipient, with a focus on environmental, educational, and health charities. The trade-off is reach: it operates only in France and in French, is built around occasion-based pots rather than large or long-running campaigns, and accepts card payments only.
Card payments run through Stripe and cover Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. The funding model is keep-it-all, so collections pay out regardless of whether any informal target is met, with the fixed charitable share deducted automatically at payout.
What’s good, what’s not.
- ✓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.
- ✓Supports both celebratory group gifts and solidarity fundraising for environmental, educational, and health causes.
- −Operates only in France and in French, limiting use for international or cross-border fundraisers.
- −Built around occasion-based group gifts rather than large-scale or long-running cause campaigns.
- −Card is the only payment rail, with no European bank-transfer methods such as SEPA or iDEAL.
- −The mandatory charitable share means organisers never receive the entire amount collected.
Where each £100 actually goes.
Fees vary by payment method. We default to Credit card because that’s the dominant method in the United Kingdom.
1 countries · 1 languages · 1 payment methods.
Better-fit alternatives to Tribee.
Our curated shortlist — the platforms we’d actively recommend instead of Tribee for fundraising in the United Kingdom, with the figures behind the call. For the full, neutral index of every side-by-side, see Compare with below.
WhyDonate operates in more countries than Tribee (115 vs 1), so it reaches donors Tribee can’t.
Zeffy operates in more countries than Tribee (4 vs 1), so it reaches donors Tribee can’t.
JustGiving operates in more countries than Tribee (6 vs 1), so it reaches donors Tribee can’t.
See how Tribee stacks up head-to-head.
Frequently asked questions
What does Tribee charge?
Tribee charges a 0% platform fee with an optional voluntary donor tip on top, plus 0% + £0.00 in payment processing per donation.
Where is Tribee based?
Tribee was founded in — and is headquartered in FR. Data residency is EU.
Which countries does Tribee operate in?
Tribee operates in 1 countries including major European markets and English-speaking markets.
Is Tribee suitable for nonprofits?
Tribee’s primary audience is individual fundraisers and groups; nonprofits can use the platform but may find specialized alternatives better suited.
Rankings are produced by a public editorial methodology — open to peer review. We disclose ownership, scoring weights, and every change.