🆚 Open Collective vs. PayPal.Me

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Donation tool
Donation tool

About

Open Collective is a platform that enables open source projects, communities, and groups to collect and spend money transparently to sustain their work.

It provides public budgets with detailed expense breakdowns, recurring and one-time contributions, fiscal hosting with legal and accounting support, multiple payment methods, and automated expense reimbursements.

PayPal.Me is a personal payment link service that lets individuals and businesses receive money through PayPal by sharing a simple URL.

It allows users to request fixed or custom amounts, supports payments from PayPal balances or linked cards and bank accounts, operates in over 200 markets, and applies standard PayPal transaction fees based on payment type and region.

Headquarters

Walnut, California, United States
San Jose, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Platform Fee
Free version ✔️For Collectives
For Fiscal Hosts15%
Domestic personal transactions
From bank accounts$0 (if no currency conversion)
From cards3.4% + fixed fee based on currency
International personal transactions
From U.S. bank accounts$4.99
From U.S. cards$4.99 + 3.4% + fixed fee
Merchant fees
For receiving domestic transactions3.40% + fixed fee
For receiving international transactions4.40% + fixed fee

Categories

Donations › Rank #11
Donations › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal.Me donation tool is 6 times more popular than Open Collective.
Total websites

Market share

Donations

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal.Me is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Open Collective is more popular in Turkey and Cote D'Ivoire.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
France
Spain
Canada
India
Netherlands
Indonesia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal.Me is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, Internet services, and entertainment, while Open Collective is more commonly used on software and hardware, and technical information sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Entertainment
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Technical Information
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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