🆚 PayPal Donate vs. Venmo

📈 PayPal Donate is much more popular than Venmo.
🌍 PayPal Donate is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

PayPal Donate

Venmo

Type

Donation tool

Payment service

About

PayPal Donate is an online donation service that allows organizations and individuals to collect contributions through hosted donation pages, shareable links, and embedded donation buttons.

It supports one-time and recurring donations, pop-up checkout overlays, customizable donation pages with logos and images, QR code sharing, card payments without a PayPal account, and dynamic integration through the Donate SDK.

Venmo is a social payments platform owned by PayPal that lets users send, receive, and request money from friends, split bills, pay businesses online, and manage a balance in its mobile app.

It supports peer-to-peer transfers, a social transaction feed, QR code payments, mobile wallet tap-to-pay, and a Mastercard-branded Venmo Debit Card with cash-back rewards.

Headquarters

San Jose, California, United States

Website

paypal.com #45

venmo.com #7,207

Pricing

Merchant feesFor receiving domestic donations2.89% + fixed fee
For receiving international donations2.89% + fixed fee + 1.50%

Charity feesFor receiving domestic transactions1.99% + fixed fee
For receiving international donations1.99% + fixed fee + 1.50%

Sending moneyFrom Venmo, debit cards, bank accountsFree ✔️
From credit cards3%

Receiving moneyPersonal profilesFrom VenmoFree ✔️
For goods and services2.99%
Charity profiles1.9% + $0.10
Business profiles1.9% + $0.10
Tap to Pay2.29% + $0.09

Venmo MastercardIssuance feeFree ✔️
ATM withdrawalsMoneyPass networkFree ✔️
Non-MoneyPass$2.50

Cryptocurrency purchase or sale fee$1.00 - $74.992.2%
$75.00 - $200.002%
$200.01 - $1,0001.8%
>$1,0001.5%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal Donate donation tool is 19 times more popular than Venmo.

Total websites

Market share

Donations

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal Donate is more popular than Venmo in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Italy

Canada

France

Australia

Spain

Netherlands

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Donations category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Donations category.

⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Donations category.
⬆️ 28th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal Donate is more popular than Venmo in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Business

General News

Sports

Art/Culture/Heritage

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#5,708

#8,444

#11,602

#11,951

Name

Rank

#7,207

#60,697

#67,855

#77,204

#129,581