# Donorbox vs Spendenportal

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Spendenportal delivers about kr5.45 more of every kr100 donated than Donorbox (kr100.00 vs kr94.55). On the headline numbers, Donorbox and Spendenportal are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Donorbox | Spendenportal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | kr94.55 | kr100.00 |
| Platform fee | 2.95% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.2% + kr0.30 | 0% + kr0.00 |
| Trustpilot | 3.7 (49) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 91 | 62 |
| Country coverage | 23 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | — |
| Languages | 12 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 19 | 0 |

## Choose Donorbox if

> Small-to-medium nonprofits across verticals like churches, healthcare, education, and animal welfare that want recurring-donation tooling, donor fee-cover, and a managed donation-form product without a CRM-scale platform commitment.

- Donor-cover-fees option at checkout — Donorbox frames opt-in as the default, so the recipient can receive the full donation amount.
- Broad payment-rail support: iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, BACS, Klarna, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and Link by Stripe.
- Standard plan has no monthly subscription — just per-transaction fees on the 2.95% / 3.95% tier.
- First-class recurring-donation tooling with upsell prompts and donor-management features on the Pro tier.


## 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.