Mightycause vs Zeffy: Fees, Features and CRM Compared

On Mightycause, gifts go to its foundation first, minus 7.9% + $0.30 unless the donor covers it. On Zeffy, they go to your nonprofit, with nothing taken.

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We use Mightycause's standard fee on a gift the donor does not cover: 7.9% + $0.30, of which 5% is for platform and foundation costs and 2.9% + $0.30 for processing, on the $0 Starter plan. Paid-plan subscribers pay 6.9% + $0.30, plus the plan. With the donor-cover option on, Mightycause credits back average costs above 1.99% + $0.49 per gift, except on Stripe, giving event and partner site gifts. Source: mightycause.com terms, October 2026.

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Zeffy

4.9/5

3,463 reviews

Mightycause

4.6/5

53 reviews

Ease of Use

95%

1,054 responses

88%

46 responses

Ease of Setup

95%

564 responses

89%

44 responses

Quality of Support

95%

490 responses

85%

40 responses

Meets Requirements

94%

572 responses

84%

45 responses

Online Donation Portal

96%

447 responses

91%

35 responses

Donor Profiles

89%

342 responses

82%

34 responses

Email Marketing

86%

354 responses

76%

30 responses

Automation

90%

366 responses

83%

34 responses

Event Planning

91%

412 responses

77%

31 responses

Zeffy VS Mightycause

Zeffy VS Mightycause: What nonprofits should know before choosing.

Pricing

$

0.

Completely free. Always. But how? →

7.9% + $0.30.

per gift on the $0 Starter plan, unless the donor covers it. Paid plans pay 6.9% + $0.30.

On a $100 donation

$

100.

Your nonprofit keeps all $100.

$91.80.

kept when the donor does not cover the fee: $5.00 platform and $3.20 processing.

Processing fees

$

0.

$0 in credit card and transaction fees. Zeffy covers these. How? →

2.9% + $0.30.

per gift, inside the 7.9% + $0.30. With your own Stripe account: a 4% fee plus Stripe's rate.

Platform fees

$

0.

Zeffy never takes a cut. You keep 100% of every donation.

5%.

of every gift, for platform costs and its foundation's expenses.

Price guarantee

No average to track: Zeffy takes no fee on any gift, so there is nothing to credit back.

1.99% + $0.49 average per gift, only with the donor-cover option on. Not for Stripe gifts, giving events or partner sites.

Monthly fees

$

0/month.

No subscriptions, no paywalls. Every org, big or small, gets full access for free.

From $0.

Starter is $0. Essentials and Accelerate are annual, price not published; event fundraising from $119/month.

Other fees

$

0.

We've never charged a single cent to nonprofits and we never will.

$15 per chargeback, whatever the outcome. $5 per paper check payout.

Value for money

5/5.

Source: Zeffy Value for Money on Capterra (465 reviews) →

4.3/5.

Mightycause value for money on Capterra, from 72 reviews.

What it means

Zeffy has no fee for a donor to cover and no average to wait for: a $100 gift arrives as $100, on every campaign.

Mightycause keeps 7.9% + $0.30 of each gift the donor does not cover; its 1.99% + $0.49 cap is an average, with exclusions.

Sources

How Zeffy is free · Capterra

Terms (fees) · Pricing · Processing fees · Plan price · Capterra

All-in-one fundraising

4.8/5.

Ease of use on Capterra. Every way to raise money in one place, all free.

4.5/5.

Ease of use on Capterra. Donation pages on Starter; peer-to-peer and event pages on paid plans, per its help center.

Donations

Donation forms and pages with recurring giving, pledges, fund choice and automatic tax receipts. No fees.

Donation pages, recurring giving and a donation widget. The custom embeddable form is on paid plans.

Ticketing

Sell tickets and run registrations. Every buyer lands in your donor CRM. No fees.

No native ticketing. Tickets are sold through an Eventbrite integration.

Event pages

Event pages that sell tickets, take registrations and accept a donation in the same form.

Event pages are part of the Accelerate subscription, per its help center.

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Personal and team pages with live leaderboards. Every donor they bring in becomes your contact.

Peer-to-peer and team pages need Essentials or Accelerate, per its help center.

Auctions

Silent auctions with outbid alerts for bidders. No platform fee, no per-item fee.

Auctions are not publicly mentioned.

Raffles

Numbered digital tickets sent automatically, bundles and 50/50 thermometers. No fee on any ticket.

Not allowed: its terms forbid raffles and lotteries.

Online Store

Sell merch with sizes and stock counts, with pick-up or shipping. Keep every dollar.

An online store is not publicly mentioned.

Memberships

Sign-up forms, automatic renewals and reminders, and digital cards in Apple and Google Wallet. No fees on dues.

Memberships are not publicly mentioned; recurring donations are offered.

What it means

Zeffy sells your tickets, runs your auction and raffle, and opens your store in one account, with no Eventbrite to connect and no plan to buy.

Mightycause starts with donation pages; peer-to-peer and event pages sit on paid plans, tickets go through Eventbrite, and its terms bar raffles.

Sources

Donations · Ticketing · Peer-to-peer · Auctions · Raffles · Store · Memberships

Features by plan · Peer-to-peer plans · Event pages · Eventbrite · Terms

Donor CRM

A free CRM built into your fundraising. Every gift lands on the donor record.

Contacts, its donor CRM, needs a paid subscription plan, per its help center.

Donor database

Donations, tickets, memberships and shop orders build your donor database on their own. Unlimited contacts.

Contacts with over 60 customizable fields and unlimited contacts, on a paid plan.

Notes & reminders

A timeline of gifts, emails and notes per contact, with reminders and a daily email of follow-ups due.

Notes and follow-up tasks in Contacts, on a paid plan.

Segments & lists

Filter by giving, campaign or any custom property, and save it as an auto-updating list.

Segments in Contacts, on a paid plan.

Newsletters

Drag-and-drop builder and AI drafts, with open, click and donation reporting. Unlimited sends, no fees.

Donor email messaging is listed as a paid-plan feature.

Automations

A welcome series for new subscribers that stops once they give or go monthly. Campaign reminders and receipts send on their own.

Three automated emails: a peer-to-peer creation message, a welcome and a yearly donation reminder.

Reporting

Live dashboards for recurring donors, plus the AI Data Assistant: ask in plain words, get charts back.

Real-time donation reports. Enhanced analytics on paid plans.

Tax receipts

Auto-generated, resendable, and attributed to the right fund.

Issued by Mightycause Charitable Foundation as a donor-advised contribution, not by your nonprofit.

Integrations

QuickBooks sync, Zapier, and a public API with webhooks, all free. Import contacts straight from Mailchimp.

Mailchimp, Salesforce, Slack and Zapier on Accelerate, per its help center.

Price

$0. No per-contact or per-user fees, ever.

Contacts comes with a paid annual plan, price not published.

What it means

Zeffy's CRM needs no upgrade: every gift, ticket and raffle buyer lands on the donor's record, and the tax receipt goes out on its own.

Mightycause's Contacts CRM has 60+ fields, segments and tasks, but its help center ties it to a paid plan, billed yearly.

Sources

Donor CRM · Emails

Contacts CRM · Donor management · Automated emails · Features by plan · Terms

Payment Methods

Donors pay your nonprofit directly, by card, wallet, ACH, DAF or Tap to Pay, at no cost to you.

Cards, wallets, PayPal, Venmo and ACH, all paid to Mightycause Charitable Foundation first.

Credit Card Payments

Accept all major credit cards with zero processing fees. Zeffy covers the cost, so you keep 100% of every donation.

Cards at 7.9% + $0.30 per gift, of which 2.9% + $0.30 is processing.

Apple Pay & Google Pay

One-tap donations and tickets with Apple Pay & Google Pay. No fees, just smooth mobile checkouts.

Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus PayPal and Venmo.

ACH / Bank Transfers

Accept bank transfers with zero fees. Full donation amounts go straight to your mission.

ACH for donors giving over $50, through Link by Stripe.

Donor-Advised Funds (DAF)

Accept donor-advised fund gifts of $1,000 or more, for US charities, with no fees.

Mightycause is itself a donor-advised fund. Gifts from donors' own DAFs are not publicly mentioned.

Who receives the gift

Your nonprofit. Payouts go to your bank every Monday, or monthly if you prefer.

Mightycause Charitable Foundation, which issues the receipt and pays you on the 10th of the next month, or twice a month with direct deposit.

Countries & currencies

For nonprofits in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and Germany, paid in their local currency.

US 501(c)(3) public charities only, with gifts in US dollars.

Tap to Pay App

Anyone on your team can take payments from their phone. No card reader, no fees, no friction.

In-person payments are not publicly mentioned.

What it means

On Zeffy the donor gives to your nonprofit, not to an intermediary, and no payment method costs you anything.

On Mightycause every gift is legally made to its foundation, which keeps legal control of the funds and pays you the following month.

Sources

Payment processing · Tap to Pay

Terms (DAF, payouts) · Payouts · ACH · Payment methods

Support

4.9/5.

Customer service on Capterra, from 464 reviews. Email, chat and calls on request, free for every nonprofit.

4.6/5.

Customer service on Capterra. Email and phone support advertised; priority support is a paid-plan feature.

Help Center

500+ help articles and step-by-step guides, all free, all the time.

A public help center with 172 articles.

Email Support

Email us anytime. Answers within 2 to 6 business hours.

Email support advertised. No response time published.

Phone Support

Calls on request. Reach out by email or chat first and we'll set one up.

Phone support advertised on its subscription page. No hours published.

Onboarding

No training required, and we're here by email or chat if you need us.

Data migration from your old system, at no charge.

What it means

Every Zeffy nonprofit gets chat, email answers in 2 to 6 business hours and calls on request, with no priority tier to pay for.

Mightycause advertises email and phone support, and lists priority customer support among its paid-plan features.

Sources

Contact · Capterra

Subscription · Features by plan · Help center · Capterra

Zeffy is 100% free, always.

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How is Zeffy free?

Why Zeffy over Mightycause?

Gifts paid to you, with nothing to upgrade

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The gift comes to you

On Mightycause, a donation is legally a gift to its foundation, which receipts it and pays you the next month. On Zeffy, donors give to your nonprofit and payouts reach your bank every Monday.

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Nothing behind a plan

Mightycause's help center puts peer-to-peer, event pages and its Contacts CRM on paid annual plans. Zeffy is one account with all of it inside, at no cost.

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Tickets, auctions and raffles built in

Mightycause sends ticket sales to Eventbrite, and its terms bar raffles. Zeffy sells tickets, runs auctions and raffles, and opens a store from the same dashboard.

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Questions nonprofits ask when choosing between Zeffy and Mightycause

What is the difference between Mightycause and Zeffy?

Zeffy is one free platform for donations, events, auctions, raffles, a store, memberships and a donor CRM, with no fee on any gift. Mightycause has a $0 Starter plan, but takes 7.9% + $0.30 from each gift unless the donor covers it, and puts peer-to-peer, event pages and its CRM on paid annual plans. Every Mightycause gift also goes first to Mightycause Charitable Foundation, a donor-advised fund, which then pays your nonprofit.

What are Mightycause's fees?

Mightycause's standard fee is 7.9% + $0.30 per gift:

5% for platform costs and its foundation's expenses, plus 2.9% + $0.30 for processing.
Paid-plan subscribers pay 6.9% + $0.30.
With the donor-cover option on, donors are asked to add the fee. When they decline, it comes off the gift, and Mightycause credits back costs above an average of 1.99% + $0.49 per gift.
That guarantee leaves out gifts through Stripe, giving events and partner sites.
With "Pay Fee with Donations", the full fee comes off every gift.
With your own Stripe account: a 4% fee, plus Stripe's processing.
$15 per chargeback, whatever the outcome, and $5 per paper check payout.

On a $100 gift the donor does not cover, your nonprofit keeps $91.80 on the Starter plan. With Zeffy, it keeps $100, whether or not the donor leaves a contribution. Source: mightycause.com terms, October 2026.

Is Mightycause really free?

Not per gift. The Starter plan costs $0 a month, but 7.9% + $0.30 comes off each gift unless the donor covers it. Its help center puts peer-to-peer, event pages and the Contacts CRM on Essentials or Accelerate, annual plans whose price is not published; Mightycause quotes event fundraising from $119 a month. Zeffy has no plan to buy and takes nothing from a gift.

Who receives the donation on Mightycause?

Mightycause Charitable Foundation. Mightycause works as a donor-advised fund: each gift is legally a gift to its foundation, which receipts it as a donor-advised contribution and keeps legal control of the funds, including the right to choose an alternate charity. It then regrants the money to your nonprofit, generally on the 10th of the next month, or twice a month with direct deposit. Because gifts go to a DAF, its terms bar raffles and tickets in exchange for a donation. On Zeffy, donors give to your nonprofit directly, and payouts reach your bank every Monday.

Does Mightycause have a donor CRM?

Yes, on a paid plan. Its Contacts CRM has over 60 customizable fields, segments, notes and follow-up tasks, and its help center shows it only to nonprofits with the necessary subscription. Zeffy's CRM is complete, and it's free. Each donation, ticket and membership creates or updates a contact by itself, grouped into households if you want. A welcome series runs on its own for new subscribers until they give. The AI Data Assistant turns a plain question into an answer and a chart. See Zeffy's donor CRM.

Can you sell tickets or run raffles and auctions on Mightycause?

Not natively. Tickets go through an Eventbrite integration on Mightycause event pages, which its help center lists under Accelerate. Its terms forbid raffles and lotteries, and auctions and an online store are not publicly mentioned. Zeffy sells tickets and runs silent auctions, raffles and a store at no cost, and every buyer joins your donor CRM.

Should we choose Mightycause or Zeffy?

Choose Mightycause if your community foundation or university runs its giving day there and you want to take part. Choose Zeffy if you want gifts paid to your nonprofit, with ticketing, auctions, raffles, peer-to-peer, memberships and a donor CRM in one account you set up yourself, and nothing taken from any of it.

Is Zeffy really free?

Yes, and not only to start. Zeffy has no plan, no platform fee and no card processing for your nonprofit to pay, and no foundation between you and your donors. Donors may add an optional contribution to Zeffy at checkout; it is never taken from the gift. See how Zeffy is free.

What is the difference between Mightycause and Zeffy?

Zeffy is one free platform for donations, events, auctions, raffles, a store, memberships and a donor CRM, with no fee on any gift. Mightycause has a $0 Starter plan, but takes 7.9% + $0.30 from each gift unless the donor covers it, and puts peer-to-peer, event pages and its CRM on paid annual plans. Every Mightycause gift also goes first to Mightycause Charitable Foundation, a donor-advised fund, which then pays your nonprofit.

What are Mightycause's fees?

Mightycause's standard fee is 7.9% + $0.30 per gift:

5% for platform costs and its foundation's expenses, plus 2.9% + $0.30 for processing.
Paid-plan subscribers pay 6.9% + $0.30.
With the donor-cover option on, donors are asked to add the fee. When they decline, it comes off the gift, and Mightycause credits back costs above an average of 1.99% + $0.49 per gift.
That guarantee leaves out gifts through Stripe, giving events and partner sites.
With "Pay Fee with Donations", the full fee comes off every gift.
With your own Stripe account: a 4% fee, plus Stripe's processing.
$15 per chargeback, whatever the outcome, and $5 per paper check payout.

On a $100 gift the donor does not cover, your nonprofit keeps $91.80 on the Starter plan. With Zeffy, it keeps $100, whether or not the donor leaves a contribution. Source: mightycause.com terms, October 2026.

Is Mightycause really free?

Not per gift. The Starter plan costs $0 a month, but 7.9% + $0.30 comes off each gift unless the donor covers it. Its help center puts peer-to-peer, event pages and the Contacts CRM on Essentials or Accelerate, annual plans whose price is not published; Mightycause quotes event fundraising from $119 a month. Zeffy has no plan to buy and takes nothing from a gift.

Who receives the donation on Mightycause?

Mightycause Charitable Foundation. Mightycause works as a donor-advised fund: each gift is legally a gift to its foundation, which receipts it as a donor-advised contribution and keeps legal control of the funds, including the right to choose an alternate charity. It then regrants the money to your nonprofit, generally on the 10th of the next month, or twice a month with direct deposit. Because gifts go to a DAF, its terms bar raffles and tickets in exchange for a donation. On Zeffy, donors give to your nonprofit directly, and payouts reach your bank every Monday.

Does Mightycause have a donor CRM?

Yes, on a paid plan. Its Contacts CRM has over 60 customizable fields, segments, notes and follow-up tasks, and its help center shows it only to nonprofits with the necessary subscription. Zeffy's CRM is complete, and it's free. Each donation, ticket and membership creates or updates a contact by itself, grouped into households if you want. A welcome series runs on its own for new subscribers until they give. The AI Data Assistant turns a plain question into an answer and a chart. See Zeffy's donor CRM.

Can you sell tickets or run raffles and auctions on Mightycause?

Not natively. Tickets go through an Eventbrite integration on Mightycause event pages, which its help center lists under Accelerate. Its terms forbid raffles and lotteries, and auctions and an online store are not publicly mentioned. Zeffy sells tickets and runs silent auctions, raffles and a store at no cost, and every buyer joins your donor CRM.

Should we choose Mightycause or Zeffy?

Choose Mightycause if your community foundation or university runs its giving day there and you want to take part. Choose Zeffy if you want gifts paid to your nonprofit, with ticketing, auctions, raffles, peer-to-peer, memberships and a donor CRM in one account you set up yourself, and nothing taken from any of it.

Is Zeffy really free?

Yes, and not only to start. Zeffy has no plan, no platform fee and no card processing for your nonprofit to pay, and no foundation between you and your donors. Donors may add an optional contribution to Zeffy at checkout; it is never taken from the gift. See how Zeffy is free.