OnParticipe vs Snowball Fundraising

French and European organisers running cagnottes, ticketed events, or association fundraising who want a no-commission, French-hosted platform with identity controls, and who will read the terms for inactivity and refund charges.

• ✓No commission on collections, so organisers keep the entire amount raised and ticket revenue.
• ✓Designed and hosted in France, with French customer support available seven days a week.
• ✓Funded by an optional donor tip rather than a mandatory platform charge.
• ✓Systematic identity-document checks on organisers for fraud control.

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.