Donately
Nonprofits, churches, and schools that want embeddable, customizable donation forms and an API to add giving to an existing website, with Stripe and PayPal processing and CRM integrations.
A US donation-software platform founded in 2013, offering embeddable donation forms, campaign pages, and peer-to-peer and recurring giving for nonprofits, churches, schools, and businesses.
- Funding model i
- Fixed platform fee
- Platform fee i
- 4%
- Payment processing fee i
- 2.9% + £0.30
- Recipient gets i
- £92.80 / £100
- Data residency i
- —
- Registered entity i
- Donately Corporation (California, US)
- Refund policy i
- Per-donation platform fees are non-refundable
- Payout speed i
- Standard
- Countries i
- 0
- Languages i
- 0
- Trustpilot i
- 4.5 / 5
- Domain Rating i
- 76 / 100
- Transparency i
- 4 / 5
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
Our overall editorial assessment. Full weights are published in the methodology.
The review
Donately is a US donation-software platform founded in 2013, built to let organizations accept donations online through customizable, embeddable forms and campaign pages. It serves a broad mix of nonprofits, churches, schools, agencies, and businesses, emphasizing fast setup and the ability to add giving to an existing website or app.
Processing runs through Stripe and PayPal, supporting card payments and ACH bank transfers, with donors able to opt into covering processing costs. The platform offers tiered plans - a pay-as-you-go option, a monthly subscription with reduced platform charges, and a prepaid enterprise arrangement - so organizations can trade subscription cost against per-donation cost as their volume grows.
Donately's strength is flexibility for developers and marketers: an API, multi-step forms, and native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Constant Contact, and Mailchimp make it easy to wire donations into existing systems. The trade-off is that it is software for organizations with some technical capacity rather than a consumer campaign marketplace, and it is US-oriented. For nonprofits embedding giving into their own stack this is ideal; for individuals seeking a hosted personal campaign it is more than needed.
Beyond core forms, Donately adds peer-to-peer and team fundraising, recurring donations, text-to-give, and event ticketing, with reporting dashboards and thousands of integrations available through Zapier. It states PCI-compliant processing and GDPR/CCPA handling, though data and operations are US-anchored.
What’s good, what’s not.
- ✓Customizable, embeddable donation forms and campaign pages that drop into an existing site.
- ✓API access and native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Constant Contact, and Mailchimp.
- ✓Card and ACH processing via Stripe and PayPal, with optional donor cost coverage.
- ✓Peer-to-peer, team fundraising, recurring giving, text-to-give, and event ticketing included.
- ✓Tiered plans let organizations trade subscription cost against per-donation cost.
- ✓Stated PCI-compliant processing with GDPR and CCPA handling.
- −Geared to organizations with some technical capacity rather than individual campaigners.
- −US-oriented operations and data handling.
- −Card and ACH focus via Stripe/PayPal, lacking region-native methods like iDEAL or Bancontact.
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.
0 countries · 0 languages · 5 payment methods.
Better-fit alternatives to Donately.
Our curated shortlist — the platforms we’d actively recommend instead of Donately for fundraising in the United Kingdom, with the figures behind the call.
WhyDonate lets more of each donation through than Donately — £97.85 reaches the recipient per 100, against £92.80.
Zeffy lets more of each donation through than Donately — £100.00 reaches the recipient per 100, against £92.80.
JustGiving lets more of each donation through than Donately — £97.80 reaches the recipient per 100, against £92.80.
Frequently asked questions
What does Donately charge?
Donately charges a 4% platform fee and 2.9% + £0.30 in payment processing per donation.
Where is Donately based?
Donately was founded in — and is headquartered in —. Data residency is unspecified.
Which countries does Donately operate in?
Donately operates in 0 countries.
Which payment methods does Donately support?
Donately accepts Card, ACH, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay.
Is Donately suitable for nonprofits?
Donately’s primary audience is individual fundraisers and groups; nonprofits can use the platform but may find specialized alternatives better suited.
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