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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Zeffy VS Little Green Light
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.
Frequently asked questions
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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