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Little Green Light vs Zeffy: Pricing, Fees and CRM Compared
Little Green Light is a donor CRM billed by record count, from $45 a month, and its forms pay Stripe or PayPal a fee on every gift. Zeffy is the CRM and the fundraising, free.
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G2 ratings
Zeffy
3,463 reviews
Little Green Light
63 reviews
Ease of Use
Zeffy:
95%
1,054 responses
Little Green Light:
83%
53 responses
Ease of Setup
Zeffy:
95%
564 responses
Little Green Light:
85%
22 responses
Ease of Admin
Zeffy:
96%
428 responses
Little Green Light:
88%
28 responses
Quality of Support
Zeffy:
95%
490 responses
Little Green Light:
87%
46 responses
Meets Requirements
Zeffy:
94%
572 responses
Little Green Light:
86%
54 responses
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeffy:
98%
1,278 responses
Little Green Light:
87%
62 responses
Product Direction
Zeffy:
99%
563 responses
Little Green Light:
80%
49 responses
Zeffy VS Little Green Light
Little Green Light
Pricing
Zeffy:
$
0.
Little Green Light: 
From $45.
a month for up to 2,500 constituents, plus the processor's fee on every online gift.
On a $100 donation
Zeffy:
$
100.
Your nonprofit keeps all $100.
Little Green Light:
$97.50.
kept at Stripe's nonprofit rate, which the processor approves. No fee to LGL.
Processing fees
Little Green Light:
2.2% + $0.30.
per gift, paid by your nonprofit to Stripe at its nonprofit rate.
Platform fees
Zeffy:
$
0.
Zeffy never takes a cut. You keep 100% of every donation.
Little Green Light:
$0.
No fee to LGL on online gifts or on building forms.
Monthly fees
Zeffy:
$
0/month.
One free account with every feature, at 2,500 records or 200,000.
Little Green Light:
$45 to $135.
2,500 records $45, 10,000 $75, 50,000 $135, then $15 per extra 10,000. 10% off annual billing.
Other fees
Zeffy:
$
0.
No setup fee, no record tier and no prepay to plan. Donor Mail letters at $1 each are optional.
Little Green Light:
No setup or cancellation fees. Prepaid months are not refunded if you cancel.
What it means
Zeffy:
Zeffy's CRM costs the same at 2,500 records as at 200,000: nothing. Gifts collected through it reach your nonprofit with no processing fee taken.
Little Green Light:
Little Green Light charges nothing per gift, but the processor does, and the CRM subscription steps up each time your database passes a record tier.
Donor CRM
Zeffy:
A full donor CRM, built in: every donation, ticket and membership fills it, free.
Little Green Light:
A full donor database priced by record count, with every feature in every account.
Donor records
Zeffy: 
A timeline of gifts, tickets, emails and form answers, with households and companies.
Little Green Light:
Constituent profiles with contact history, custom fields and document storage.
Gift tracking
Zeffy:
Lifetime giving, last gift and this year against last. Cash, checks and in-kind gifts recorded with receipts.
Little Green Light:
Monetary, in-kind, memorial, honorary and matching gifts, with gift coding.
Pledges
Zeffy:
A pledge with a due date, and reminders to the donor before it is due.
Little Green Light:
Pledges with installments and reminders.
Data entry
Zeffy:
Every donation, ticket, membership and order creates or updates the contact on its own.
Little Green Light:
Gifts made on LGL Forms sync to the database.
Lists & reports
Zeffy:
Self-updating saved lists, and an AI Data Assistant that answers with charts.
Little Green Light:
Built-in and custom reports, scheduled reports and dashboards.
Duplicates
Zeffy:
Suggested duplicates, merged one pair at a time.
Little Green Light:
Duplicate management and bulk edits.
Volunteers & grants
Zeffy:
No volunteer hours or grant tracking.
Little Green Light:
Volunteer hours by task, volunteer statements and grant proposals.
Email & mail
Zeffy:
Newsletters to saved lists built from giving history, free.
Little Green Light:
Built-in email for receipts and thank-yous, mail merge letters and labels.
Price
Zeffy:
$0 for the full donor CRM, at any database size.
Little Green Light:
$45 to $135 a month up to 50,000 records, then $15 per extra 10,000.
What it means
Zeffy:
Zeffy's full donor CRM builds itself from every donation, ticket and membership, so records stay current with no sync, and it costs nothing at any size.
Little Green Light:
Little Green Light is a deep donor database, with volunteers, grants and pledges, and every feature in every account. Its price follows your record count.
All-in-one fundraising
Zeffy:
4.8/5.
Ease of use on Capterra. Forms, events, auctions and a store feed one free CRM.
Little Green Light:
4.6/5.
Ease of use on Capterra. LGL Forms take gifts, tickets and member sign-ups through your processor.
Donation forms
Zeffy:
One-time and monthly giving, with automatic tax receipts.
Little Green Light:
As many LGL Forms as you need, one-time or recurring, on your Stripe or PayPal account.
Event tickets
Zeffy:
Ticket types, e-tickets and QR check-in, with no ticket fee.
Little Green Light:
LGL Forms sell tickets and take registrations. E-tickets and check-in are not publicly mentioned.
Memberships
Zeffy:
Tiers with automatic renewals, reminders and wallet cards.
Little Green Light:
Membership levels and renewal dates tracked. Forms enroll new members.
Peer-to-peer
Zeffy:
Personal and team pages that supporters run for you.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned.
Auctions
Zeffy:
Silent auctions with outbid alerts for bidders.
Little Green Light:
Through Auctria, a separate auction tool that integrates with LGL.
Raffles
Zeffy:
Raffle tickets numbered and emailed, where your state allows raffles.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned.
Online store
Zeffy:
Merch with sizes, stock counts and pick-up or shipping.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned. Forms can take other payments.
What it means
Zeffy:
Raise money any way you like in one free product, from a gala or raffle to a team challenge or a merch shop, and each sale or gift updates the donor's CRM record.
Little Green Light:
LGL Forms cover gifts, event registrations and memberships. Peer-to-peer, raffles and a store are not publicly mentioned; auctions run through Auctria.
Sources
Zeffy:
Donations · Ticketing · Memberships · Peer-to-peer · Auctions · Raffles · Store · Capterra
Little Green Light:
Payment Methods
Zeffy:
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and ACH, with the processing paid by Zeffy.
Little Green Light:
Your own Stripe or PayPal account, with the processor's fee on every gift.
Cards
Zeffy:
No processing fee to your nonprofit on any card.
Little Green Light:
Through Stripe at 2.2% + $0.30 (nonprofit rate), or through PayPal.
Apple Pay & Google Pay
Zeffy:
Apple Pay and Google Pay on donation forms and tickets, at no cost.
Little Green Light:
Through Stripe.
ACH / bank transfer
Zeffy:
ACH bank transfers in the US, free for your nonprofit.
Little Green Light:
Through Stripe.
PayPal & Venmo
Zeffy:
Not accepted. Donors pay by card, wallet or bank transfer.
Little Green Light:
Through PayPal checkout.
In person
Zeffy:
Tap to Pay on iPhone or Android, with no reader.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned.
Donor-advised funds
Zeffy:
Donor-advised fund gifts from the US, no fee.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned.
What it means
Zeffy:
Zeffy is the processor too, on Stripe's infrastructure: no account to connect, no nonprofit rate to apply for, nothing taken from the gift.
Little Green Light:
LGL passes online gifts to the Stripe or PayPal account you connect. The nonprofit rate needs your 501(c)(3) letter, and your nonprofit pays the fee.
Support
Zeffy:
Help by chat, email and calls on request, at no cost to any nonprofit.
Little Green Light:
Email support with a 1 to 2 hour target on weekdays, plus free training and Q&A sessions.
Help center
Zeffy:
500+ help center articles on forms, payments and the CRM.
Little Green Light:
Knowledge Base and how-to videos.
Email
Zeffy:
Email answered within 2 to 6 business hours by the support team.
Little Green Light:
Most questions answered within 1 to 2 hours, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 7 pm ET.
Chat
Zeffy:
An AI assistant first, then a person when needed.
Little Green Light:
Not publicly mentioned.
Phone
Zeffy:
No phone line. A call is set up on request.
Little Green Light:
No phone number published.
Training
Zeffy:
Setup guides, and help by chat or email while you learn.
Little Green Light:
Free webinars, small-group Q&A sessions and a Basic Training course. Consultants for a fee.
What it means
Zeffy:
Zeffy pairs chat with email answers inside 2 to 6 business hours, and books a call when a question needs one.
Little Green Light:
Little Green Light answers email fast, most within 2 hours on weekdays, and teaches through free webinars and Q&A sessions.
Zeffy is 100% free, always.
A full donor CRM and every campaign, in one free product
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The whole gift, not the gift minus a fee
LGL takes nothing per gift, but Stripe or PayPal do, from 2.2% + $0.30. Zeffy covers processing, so a $100 gift arrives as $100.
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A CRM that doesn't raise your bill
LGL moves you to a higher price each time your records pass a tier. Zeffy's donor CRM is free at any size, with every feature.
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Every campaign writes into the CRM
Donation forms, events, auctions, raffles, peer-to-peer pages, a store and memberships run inside Zeffy, each one building the donor record.
What is the difference between Little Green Light and Zeffy?
Zeffy is a free all-in-one fundraising platform with a full donor CRM that every donation, ticket and membership writes into: donation forms, events, peer-to-peer, auctions, raffles, a store and memberships, and Zeffy processes the payments with the fee covered. Little Green Light (LGL) is a donor CRM for small and mid-sized organizations, billed by the number of constituent records, from $45 a month. Its LGL Forms take gifts and registrations on your own Stripe or PayPal account, so a processing fee comes off each online gift.
How much does Little Green Light cost?
LGL bills by the number of constituent records, and every account gets every feature, with no charge for extra users. From its pricing page:
- Up to 2,500 records: $45 a month. 5,000: $60. 10,000: $75. 20,000: $90.
- 30,000 records: $105 a month. 40,000: $120. 50,000: $135.
- Above 50,000: $15 a month for each extra 10,000, up to 200,000 records.
- Annual billing saves 10%. Prepaying 3, 6 or 12 months saves 2.5%, 5% or 10%.
- Online gifts: from 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction, paid to the processor, with no fee to LGL.
At 10,000 records, the subscription is $900 a year before any processing fee. Zeffy's CRM costs $0 and takes nothing from gifts: see how Zeffy is free. Source: littlegreenlight.com, October 2026.
Does Little Green Light charge fees on online donations, and who pays them?
LGL itself charges no fee. The processor you connect does, and your nonprofit pays it:
- Stripe, which LGL recommends, at its nonprofit rate: 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction.
- PayPal, at its nonprofit rate: 1.99% + $0.49 per transaction.
- Both nonprofit rates need your 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) letter, sent to the processor.
On a $100 gift, your nonprofit keeps $97.50 through Stripe, or $97.52 through PayPal. An option for donors to cover the fee is not publicly mentioned. Through Zeffy, the same gift lands as $100: processing is covered, and a donor's optional contribution is added on top, never subtracted.
Does Little Green Light do ticketing, auctions or peer-to-peer?
Ticketing, in part: LGL Forms can sell tickets and take event registrations, and Event Tracking follows invitees, attendance and the gifts they give. E-tickets and check-in are not publicly mentioned. Auctions run through Auctria, a separate tool that integrates with LGL. Peer-to-peer fundraising and raffles do not appear on its site. On Zeffy, tickets with QR check-in, silent auctions, raffles where allowed and peer-to-peer pages are built in, at no cost.
Is there a free alternative to Little Green Light?
Zeffy is one. It removes both costs at once: there is no CRM subscription, and no processing fee comes out of a gift. The donor CRM fills itself from your donation forms, tickets, memberships and store, and you can import your LGL records from a CSV or Excel file, with payment history. What you give up are LGL's volunteer hours, grant tracking and document storage.
Does Zeffy have a donor CRM like Little Green Light?
Yes, and it's free at any size. Every donation, ticket, membership and order creates or updates a contact, with lifetime giving, the last gift and this year against last. Contacts group into households and companies. You add custom properties, save filters as lists that update themselves, and merge the duplicates Zeffy suggests. Pledges carry a due date, and Zeffy reminds the donor before it. The AI Data Assistant takes plain questions about your donors and replies with numbers and charts. See Zeffy's donor CRM.
What does Little Green Light offer that Zeffy doesn't?
Volunteer management with hours by task and volunteer statements, grant proposal tracking, document storage, alumni tracking by class year, and mail merge letters, labels and envelopes. LGL also connects to DonorSearch and WealthEngine for prospect research, and takes PayPal and Venmo through PayPal. Zeffy has no volunteer-hours or grant tools and does not take PayPal or Venmo.
Is Zeffy really free?
Yes. The CRM, the forms and the payment processing cost your nonprofit nothing, whatever the size of your database. Zeffy is funded by an optional contribution donors can add at checkout, on top of their gift. See how Zeffy is free.
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