Honest
head-to-head.
We won’t pretend everyone’s great. Where Joy or Zola is genuinely better at something today, we say so. Where the others charge a platform fee on top of card processing, we say that too. The 2.5% is real.
| Feature | Donum | Zola | The Knot | Joy | Amazon Registry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universal, any store | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes | No |
| Platform fee on cash gifts | $0 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | n/a |
| Couple-friendly setup (no bank-account KYC) | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| No data selling | Yes | Mixed | No | Mixed | Mixed |
| Cross-store duplicate detection | Yes | No | No | Partial | n/a |
| Wedding website | No (v1) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Group gifting, no minimum | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Couple pays a subscription | No | No | No | No | No |