GiveNow vs OneCause

GiveNow is a web-based Australian fundraising platform for small and medium-sized charities and not-for-profit organisations. Organisations can collect one-off or recurring donations, customise forms, and embed those forms on their own websites. The service also covers peer-to-peer CrowdRaisers, memberships, event ticketing, and grant search. Supporters may create unlimited individual CrowdRaiser pages, while organisations can review pages before publication. Listed donor payment methods are Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Apple Pay, and direct debit. GiveNow lists Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack and Google Analytics integrations, plus CSV export for donor and donation data. It says data is stored in Australia, sensitive information is encrypted, and OrgHQ uses multifactor authentication, role controls, and 24/7 monitoring. Donor credit-card details are not stored. There are no upfront or subscription fees; platform fees range from 1.5% to 3.5%, with a commonly listed payment-provider fee of 0.26%.

OneCause is paid web software for event and online fundraising by cause-driven organizations. It supports in-person, virtual and hybrid events, online campaigns, auctions, donations and peer-to-peer fundraising. Event tools include ticketing, table management, sponsorship sales, check-in, auctions, raffles and donation scoreboards. Online Fundraising provides donation forms, recurring giving, giving sites, personal fundraising pages, SMS messaging and reporting. Listed payment options include Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo, PayPal, ACH and donor-advised funds. Peer-to-peer plans list Mailchimp, Salesforce and Luminate integrations in Professional and Enterprise, but not Essentials. API support is included in the Nationals event package and excluded from Professional and Enterprise. OneCause says it follows PCI data-security standards, uses AES-256 encryption for stored sensitive personal information and TLS 1.2 or above for pages capturing sensitive card data. Support includes weekday phone, chat and email assistance, a knowledge base, tutorials and FAQs, plus customer success managers and event services. There is no free plan. Pay-As-You-Go starts at $200, paid once with a capped 5% pay-later fee on funds raised. Professional Auction & Event costs $2,995 a year.