
Donorbox vs Fundraise Up
Replace Donorbox with a fundraising growth engine
Donorbox gives nonprofits the tools to launch fundraising. Fundraise Up is built to continuously improve fundraising performance.








Migrate from Donorbox with confidence
Switching platforms shouldn’t put donor relationships or recurring revenue at risk. Our migration team helps nonprofits move from Donorbox with expert support throughout.
migration and setup
included at no extra cost
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How does Fundraise Up compare to Donorbox?
Nonprofits move to Fundraise Up for AI-powered donor experiences, continuous optimization, and pricing built around long-term fundraising success.
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| G2 rating | ||
| G2 rating | ||
| Conversion rate | ||
| Conversion rate | 30% average | 8% industry |
| Donor experience | ||
| Donor experience | ||
| Dynamic ask amounts | ||
| Dynamic ask amounts | ||
| Recurring giving | ||
| Recurring giving | ||
| Global giving | ||
| Global giving | ||
| Form speed | ||
| Form speed | ||
| CRM integrations | ||
| CRM integrations | ||
| High-traffic performance | ||
| High-traffic performance | ||
| Continuous optimization | ||
| Continuous optimization | ||
| Customer support | ||
| Customer support | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Platform focus | ||
| Platform focus | Donation conversion and long-term revenue growth | Broad fundraising tools |
Ready for a better way to fundraise?
See how Fundraise Up helps nonprofits raise more. White-glove onboarding and migration are included at no extra cost.
See pricingWhy are nonprofits moving beyond Donorbox?
Both platforms help nonprofits collect donations. Fundraise Up goes further by continuously optimizing the giving experience to help more visitors donate, give more, and stay engaged longer.
AI that raises revenue, not just productivity
Donorbox’s Jay·AI helps teams create emails and reports.
Fundraise Up’s AI improves the donor experience itself, optimizing ask amounts, fee coverage, recurring prompts, and checkout flow in real time.
Grow long-term donor support
The first gift is only the beginning. Fundraise Up continuously optimizes how recurring donors are acquired, upgraded, and retained with personalized asks, intelligent recovery, and flexible donor self-service.
Pricing that stays simple as you grow
Growing your fundraising should not mean unlocking features, paying for integrations, or moving through increasingly expensive plans. Fundraise Up includes the full platform for one transparent transaction-based rate.
What nonprofits say after switching to Fundraise Up
Fundraise Up is more than just our fundraising platform — they’re a valued partner in advancing our mission. They've been key in growing our monthly giving program, providing the tools to attract and retain donors. As a true collaborator, they help us elevate our fundraising strategies to achieve greater impact.
Kimberly McGorty
Director of Donor Experience
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How does migration from Donorbox work?
Migrating fundraising technology shouldn't put your donor relationships at risk. That's why Fundraise Up provides white-glove migration services that help nonprofits move faster, retain donors, and start seeing results sooner.
Keep the donors you've worked so hard to earn
Migrate recurring donors with confidence. Fundraise Up has successfully migrated more than 600 organizations while helping retain 99% of existing recurring donors.
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The sooner you switch to a platform that continuously optimizes every donation, the sooner you can start increasing donation revenue.
See the platform in actionWhy growing nonprofits choose Fundraise Up
See how Fundraise Up helps growing nonprofits increase conversion, improve donor experiences, and maximize every donation.
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Built for the next stage of fundraising
As fundraising grows, teams spend less time looking for more tools and more time looking for better results.
Fundraise Up is built to help organizations:
Raise more from every visitor
Understand what's driving fundraising performance
Connect fundraising with the rest of their technology stack
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | ||
| Approach | Fundraising growth platform | All-in-one fundraising toolkit |
| Focus | ||
| Focus | Donation conversion and revenue growth | Donations, events, donor management |
| Innovation | ||
| Innovation | Experimentation and refinement with 70+ A/B tests per year | Product focus spread across multiple tools |
| CRM integrations | ||
| CRM integrations | Native CRM integrations and REST API included | Integrations vary by plan and often require paid add-ons |
| Salesforce integration | ||
| Salesforce integration | Native integrations with Salesforce Agentforce for Nonprofits, Agentforce for Education, NPSP, and Standard | Paid, NSPS only |
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AI that never stops optimizing giving
Most fundraising platforms leave optimization to your team. Fundraise Up uses AI trained on millions of donations and insights from 70+ annual tests to automatically improve ask amounts, recurring prompts, fee coverage, and the donor experience.
3× higher donation conversion rates
30% larger average donations
80% of recurring donors retained after one year
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| AI focus | ||
| AI focus | Continuously optimizes fundraising outcomes | AI assistant for productivity |
| Learning model | ||
| Learning model | Trained on millions of donation transactions; adapts to donor behavior in real time | No learning path |
| Suggested donation amounts | ||
| Suggested donation amounts | Personalized in real time for each donor automatically | Set manually by the organization |
| Fee coverage | ||
| Fee coverage | Dynamic donor-level optimization | Static settings |
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Built for global giving
Global fundraising takes more than accepting foreign currencies. Donors expect a giving experience that reflects their language, preferred payment method, and local requirements.
Fundraise Up helps nonprofits deliver localized donation experiences across markets with:
23 professionally translated languages
135+ currencies, regional payment methods
Built-in support for GDPR, PIPEDA, and more
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| Languages | ||
| Languages | 23 languages with regional dialect support | 15 languages |
| Currencies | ||
| Currencies | 135+ currencies and local-currency payouts | 50+ currencies |
| Privacy and compliance | ||
| Privacy and compliance | GDPR, PIPEDA, and global compliance support | More limited coverage |
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Build recurring revenue that lasts
Donorbox lets teams configure recurring giving. Fundraise Up continuously optimizes it to help more donors start, maintain, and increase their recurring support.
AI-powered frequency recommendations
Recurring upsells that adapt to donor behavior
Detailed analytics that help retain more long-term revenue
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| Giving frequencies | ||
| Giving frequencies | 9 recurring frequencies | 6 recurring frequencies |
| Frequency presentation | ||
| Frequency presentation | Configurable and AI-optimized | Manually configured; recurring-first setup may require an add-on |
| Recurring acquisition | ||
| Recurring acquisition | AI-selected pre- and post-donation upsells | More limited optimization |
| Existing donor upgrades | ||
| Existing donor upgrades | Personalized Upgrade links, emails, and Donor Portal prompts | Primarily email-based |
| Recurring analytics | ||
| Recurring analytics | Acquisition, retention, cancellations, failed plans, saved plans, revenue, and upsell impact | Basic recurring gift reporting |
| Proven results | ||
| Proven results | 27% more recurring donations from AI-optimized frequency defaults; 33% more recurring donations on desktop from an optimized checkout sequence | No public data |
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Ready for your biggest fundraising moments
As fundraising grows, every second of uptime, every security safeguard, and every accessibility standard matters more. Fundraise Up is built to:
Handle high-volume giving
Protecting donor data
Deliver an accessible experience for every supporter
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| High-traffic performance | ||
| High-traffic performance | Automatically scales for major giving spikes, supporting 600+ transactions per second | No comparable public transaction-volume benchmark identified |
| Security and compliance | ||
| Security and compliance | PCI DSS Level 1 v4.0.1, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, UK GDPR, PIPEDA, and CCPA | SOC 2 Type I and II and PCI compliance; no published ISO 27001 certification |
| Accessibility | ||
| Accessibility | Entire donor experience meets WCAG 2.2 AA | Donation forms meet WCAG 2.1 AA |
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No add-ons, ever
Donorbox can be inexpensive to get started, but costs often increase as organizations add users, integrations, premium features, and higher support tiers.
Fundraise Up keeps pricing simple. Every customer gets the full platform, including:
13+ native CRM integrations
Migration, onboarding, customer success
Built-in AI and ongoing optimization
| Feature | Fundraise Up | Donorbox |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | ||
| Pricing model | One simple transaction-based rate | Free, Pro, and Premium tiers with added fees for advanced features |
| Platform access | ||
| Platform access | Everything included | Premium features require upgrades |
| CRM integrations | ||
| CRM integrations | Native real-time integrations with leading CRMs included | Some integrations require paid plans |
| Migration | ||
| Migration | White-glove migration included | Limited support |
| Customer support | ||
| Customer support | Dedicated CSM and 7-day support | Support varies by plan |
Since moving to Fundraise Up, well over 40% of our donors are donating via mobile. People are making that donation on their first visit because it's so easy. It's made a huge difference.”
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FAQ
Fundraise Up is the digital fundraising platform that helps nonprofits raise more by optimizing the donor giving experience. Through AI-powered conversion, modern checkout, and a 100% performance-based pricing model, Fundraise Up delivers 3× higher conversion rates and 30% larger average donations than legacy fundraising tools — with no contracts and no risk.
Donorbox gives nonprofits tools to launch and manage fundraising. Fundraise Up is built to continuously improve fundraising performance. The platform uses AI trained on millions of donation transactions and 70+ experiments a year to optimize ask amounts, fee coverage, recurring prompts, and checkout in real time. That difference shows up in results: 3× higher donation conversion and 30% larger average donations.
Yes. Nonprofits choose Fundraise Up over Donorbox when they want to grow revenue, not just collect donations. Instead of relying on your team to configure and test what works, Fundraise Up optimizes the giving experience automatically and retains 80% of recurring donors after one year. Every customer gets the full platform, including 13+ native CRM integrations, migration, and ongoing optimization, with no paid add-ons.
Fundraise Up uses 100% performance-based, transaction-based pricing. You pay nothing until you process a donation, with no contracts, no upfront fees, and no paid add-ons. Where Donorbox uses tiered plans with added fees for advanced features, Fundraise Up includes the entire platform for one transparent rate: 13+ CRM integrations, white-glove migration, onboarding, and a dedicated CSM.
Yes. Fundraise Up includes native, real-time CRM integrations and a REST API at no extra cost. Salesforce coverage is native across Agentforce for Nonprofits, Agentforce for Education, NPSP, and Standard. Fundraise Up integrates with the systems you already use rather than replacing them, so donor records stay in your CRM of record.
Migration is included at no extra cost. Fundraise Up's team handles the move, and results back it up: 99% of recurring donors retained in the first month and a 4.9 / 5 satisfaction rating for the migration process. Onboarding and a dedicated customer success manager are included, so your recurring revenue transfers without disruption.
Both platforms support recurring giving, but Fundraise Up continuously optimizes it. AI-selected frequency defaults drive 27% more recurring donations, and an optimized checkout sequence drives 33% more recurring donations on desktop. Nine recurring frequencies, intelligent recovery, upgrade prompts, and donor self-service help nonprofits acquire, retain, and grow long-term support, with 80% of recurring donors retained after one year.
Yes. Fundraise Up maintains 99.99% uptime, even during giving spikes like Giving Tuesday and humanitarian crises, and scales automatically for major surges. Security and compliance cover PCI DSS Level 1 v4.0.1, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, UK GDPR, PIPEDA, and CCPA. The entire donor experience meets WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.
Fundraise Up's AI optimizes the donor experience itself, not just staff workflows. Trained on millions of donation transactions, it personalizes ask amounts, fee coverage, and recurring prompts, and tunes the checkout flow for each donor in real time. Where Donorbox's Jay·AI helps teams draft emails and reports, Fundraise Up's AI drives revenue directly: 3× higher conversion rates and 30% larger average donations.
Yes. Fundraise Up delivers localized giving experiences across markets with 23 professionally translated languages and 135+ currencies, plus regional payment methods and local-currency payouts. Built-in support for GDPR, PIPEDA, and other regional privacy requirements keeps campaigns compliant across borders. In comparison, Donorbox supports 15 languages and 50+ currencies.
Fundraise Up gives nonprofits detailed visibility into what drives fundraising performance. Recurring reporting covers acquisition, retention, cancellations, failed plans, saved plans, revenue, and upsell impact, so teams can see not just what they raised but why. That depth lets organizations understand donor behavior and connect fundraising results to the rest of their technology stack, rather than reconciling plan-level exports by hand.

Ready to see what's possible?
Talk to our team to see how Fundraise Up can help you improve donor experiences, increase conversion rates, and raise more online. White-glove onboarding and migration are included at no extra cost.
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