JustGiving
5%
of the Gift Aid it claims for you
£3,750 a year on £75,000 claimed.
One monthly fee. No percentage.
The platform, your website, hosting and support for one flat monthly price. Unlimited staff, no minimum term, and no VAT added.
Where do you take donations today?
Pick your platform and we’ll show you what changes, using that platform’s own published terms.
On JustGiving
A tip to JustGiving is added at the last screen, set to 19% of the gift. The slider stops at 12.5%; getting to £0 means opening a separate box.
Source: A live JustGiving checkout, seen 4 October 2026With us
Cost-cover is off unless you switch it on. If you do, you set the percentage and every penny of it goes to you.
With us
Gift Aid comes out as HMRC’s own schedule, and nothing is taken from it.
On JustGiving
Donors pay on donate.justgiving.com, under JustGiving’s name.
Source: A live JustGiving checkout, seen 4 October 2026With us
Every appeal and the checkout sit on your own domain, under your name, so your Google Ad Grant can advertise the page where the gift happens.
On every platform we build, anyone who stops halfway through a donation gets one reminder email, written by you, and Zakat, if you take it, is kept apart from everything else.
Providers change their terms without telling us. Check the current position with them before you rely on a comparison for a decision.
Everyone else takes a percentage. We take none.
The one cost that grows every year you succeed.
Raisely
4%
of every gift, if you turn donor tips off
Plus 2% on regular givers you move over from another platform.
Us
0%
of anything
One monthly fee. The card fee goes to the card network, not us.
The cover-costs money goes to you too. On JustGiving and LaunchGood, the extra a donor adds at checkout goes to the platform, and over 70% of LaunchGood donors add one. On yours it covers your card fees, and you decide whether it is asked at all.
What it costs, and what it replaces
One monthly fee covers the platform, your website, hosting, support and the development work that keeps it moving. What changes between tiers is how much of the running we do with you, how much building we do for you, and which bigger features, such as events and supporter fundraising, come with the plan.
Compare the plans
The platform£197per month, or £1,970 a year
Book a discovery callGrowthMost charities£497per month, or £4,970 a year
Book a discovery callPartner£1,197per month, or £11,970 a year
Book a discovery callA website for your charity, on your own domain
One of three designs, in your brand
Designed for you
Designed for you
Pages, appeals, news and impact stories you edit yourself
Included
Included
Included
Works on phones, fast, with the basics Google needs
Included
Included
Included
Hosting, security updates, daily backups, secure certificate
Included
Included
Included
Old website addresses sent to the right new page
Included
Included
Included
Maintenance mode for planned work
Included
Included
Included
A second site (trading arm, campaign brand, sister charity)
Not included
Not included
Included
Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, finished on your own domain
Included
Included
Included
Donors can cover your card fees
Included
Included
Included
Monthly and weekly giving
Included
Included
Included
Friday giving and Ramadan nights, set once by the donor
Included
Included
Included
Qurbani orders, followed to delivery
Included
Included
Included
Gift Aid at the point of giving, with the address checked
Included
Included
Included
Anonymous gifts and dedications
Included
Included
Included
Receipts sent automatically
Included
Included
Included
A regular-giving offer on the thank-you page
Included
Included
Included
Unfinished donations followed up by email
Included
Included
Included
Conversions your Google Ad Grant can count
Included
Included
Included
Unlimited donors and contacts, with no price jumps
Included
Included
Included
A donor record that holds everything: gifts, Gift Aid, notes, regular giving
Included
Included
Included
Donor accounts: donors see their gifts, receipts and regular gifts
Included
Included
Included
Duplicate donors merged
Included
Included
Included
Enquiries answered from the platform, with saved replies
Included
Included
Included
Donor impact reports
Included
Included
Included
Consent to email kept on every record, ready for your own email tool
Included
Included
Included
Data requests answered from the record (copy, erase, restrict)
Included
Included
Included
Gift Aid claim checked and exported in HMRC's own format
Included
Included
Included
Zakat kept separate and spent only where it may be
Included
Included
Included
A public Zakat report
Included
Included
Included
Restricted funds, with a ledger that adds up to the penny
Included
Included
Included
Expenses, offline gifts (cash, cheque, bank transfer) and fund transfers
Included
Included
Included
Monthly reconciliation against Stripe and PayPal
Included
Included
Included
Books you can close at month end
Included
Included
Included
Exports for Xero, QuickBooks and Sage
Included
Included
Included
Trustee statement: income, spending and balances by fund, with last year beside it
Included
Included
Included
Gifts sorted into programmes by your rules
Included
Included
Included
Wells, livelihood, food packs, cash distributions, maktabs, sponsorship and family cases
Included
Included
Included
Telling the donor when their project is done, with the report
Included
Included
Included
Overseas partners submit cases in their own language
Included
Included
Included
One page for trustees showing whether the charity is in order
Included
Included
Included
Key dates with owners and reminders, shown on the Overview when due
Included
Included
Included
Policies and reports with review dates; the annual report sent in one button
Included
Included
Included
Checks on your overseas partners
Included
Included
Included
Activity log of every change and sign-in
Included
Included
Included
Overview of the day, month and year
Included
Included
Included
Analytics: where visits come from and which turn into gifts
Included
Included
Included
Compare appeals, against targets and last year
Included
Included
Included
Supporter fundraising pages and teams (peer-to-peer)
Not included
Included
Included
Events: tickets and sign-ups
Not included
Included
Included
Unlimited staff accounts
Included
Included
Included
Roles: manager, finance, fundraiser, trustee, overseas partner
Included
Included
Included
Two-step sign-in
Included
Included
Included
Step-by-step guides for every task, and a guided tour
Included
Included
Included
Your data exported in full at any time
Included
Included
Included
AI assistant in the admin: answers, drafts replies, prepares changes for you to confirm
Your own key
Included: 500 tasks a month
Included, fair use
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your charity's data (API access)
Not included
Not included
Included
Set-up
Standard: your design, one donor export moved
Full: designed for you, donors from several systems
Full, plus a second site
Support replies
Within 2 working days
Same working day
Same working day, plus phone and WhatsApp
Work done for you
Fixes
One piece of work at a time; small changes within 2 working days
Two at a time, plus 3 build days a quarter
Campaign and fundraiser pages set up for you
Not included
Included
Included
Gift Aid claim prepared each quarter
Not included
Included
Included
Quarterly review of your donation data
Not included
Included
Included
Live training
Not included
One session a quarter
For each new member of staff
Custom features, kept as your own add-ons
Not included
Not included
Included
Preview site to sign off changes before they go live
Not included
Not included
Included
Your own developer, under a developer licence
Not included
Not included
Included
Finance system connected beyond the standard exports
Not included
Not included
Included
SEO each month, Ad Grant landing pages, Google Ads set-up
Not included
Not included
Included
Peak-season campaign (Ramadan or your own) built and run with you
Not included
Not included
Included
Named account manager
Not included
Not included
Included
Every new feature as it ships
Included
Included
Included
Enterprise
For larger charities and groups. Tell us how your organisation works, and we shape the platform around it: your processes, your systems, as many organisations as you run. Priced on what you need.
Everything in Partner, plus a build plan for your year, any number of organisations with combined reporting, your own integrations and single sign-on, hosting in your own cloud if you need it, uptime set out in your contract, and a permanent licence to run your own copy.
Every price includes the build, the migration of your existing donors and ongoing support. Anything we build for every charity, you get. Anything built only for you is development, which is what Growth and Partner are for. Paying a year up front suits a restricted grant, which is often easier to get approved than new recurring spend. No VAT is added to any price.
Any price here can be paid yearly instead of monthly: pay for ten months, get twelve. A month's notice is all it takes to leave: on monthly payments at any point, on a yearly plan before it renews. There is no minimum term and no set-up fee: the build and the move of your donors are included.
Nobody builds custom software for £197 a month
A donation platform costs £40 a month because it is a form on somebody else’s website, shared with thousands of other charities. We build and run software for your charity under licence. So the comparison that matters is not another platform. It is what it costs to have someone who can build and change your own.
One web developer, employed
£32,316 salary, plus employer NI and pension
£37,196a year
The same, after Employment Allowance
Charities are usually eligible; it offsets up to £10,500 of employer NI
£33,098a year
The platform 6% of one developer£2,364 a year
Growth 16% of one developer£5,964 a year
Partner 39% of one developer£14,364 a year
Partner is our most expensive tier. It costs around 40% of one developer, and the platform, the website, hosting, Gift Aid and two pieces of development running at once all come inside it. And you are not recruiting, managing or covering anybody’s notice period.
Salary is the UK median for a web developer (Indeed, 1,500 reported salaries, July 2026). On-costs are employer National Insurance at 15% above the £5,000 secondary threshold and the 3% minimum pension on qualifying earnings, 2026/27 rates.
What three years actually costs, both ways
A rough guide before you read further: if you need a new website anyway, this usually costs about the same as buying one and renting a donation platform separately. If your website is fine and you only want the giving side, you are probably better off where you are. The calculator further down works it out on your numbers, and will say so either way.
Buying it piece by piece
- Donation platform, 36 months£1,404
- Gift Aid fee, 5% of what you claim£3,938
- Website designed and built£5,000
- Website hosting and upkeep£2,700
- Donor CRM£2,484
Everything from us
- The platform: £197 a month, 36 months£7,092
- Website built on one of our designsIncluded
- Your donors brought across from one exportIncluded
- Gift Aid administrationIncluded
- Website hosting and upkeepIncluded
- Donor CRMIncluded
£8,434
Buying it piece by piece costs you £8,434 more over three years, and still leaves you renting someone else's platform. With us, your data and domain are already yours, with no exit fee when you decide to leave.
Card processing is left out on both sides: it is Stripe's fee, it is the same wherever you go, and neither we nor most platforms keep any of it. Gift Aid is costed at 5% of what you actually claim, assuming 70% of donations are eligible — not 5% of your income, which is how this sum is usually presented and is roughly six times too high.
See a whole charity running on it.
Bring how you take donations today and what your trustees keep asking for. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth it for a charity your size, including when it is not.
