Bottomline: Honeyfund is best for funding honeymoons and a wider selection of charitable giving; Zola is better for everything else.
Keeping this in consideration, what percentage does Honeyfund take?
Guests pay directly into your own WePay or PayPal account via Honeyfund. You pay just 3.5% + $0.59 for Stripe or 2.59% + $0.49 for PayPal*/transaction for online gifts (offline payments are always free!) Each gift payment is immediately available to withdraw. To withdraw, login to your own PayPal account.
Also, does the knot take a percentage of your honeymoon fund?
We pass this fee directly to the gift-giver with no markup, so couples keep 100 percent of the gift amount requested. The Knot charges one of the lowest fees in the wedding industry at 2.5 percent, and we don’t take any commission.
What is better The Knot or Zola?
Main advantages of The Knot:
It’s easier to include registries from more places. Zola lets you add other registries, but it’s a bit more involved. You can still add a Zola registry to a The Knot website. They have social media integration that pulls in photos from hashtags or Facebook albums.
What percentage does Zola take?
Zola charges a 2.7 percent fee when a wedding guest gives cash. Couples can choose to pass on the fee to their guests or pay themselves. The company’s main revenue source is the cut it receives from the brands and companies whose products and activity packages it sells.
Is Zola actually free?
Zola Weddings is a free suite of wedding planning tools including your wedding website, registry, checklist, guest list, seating chart, and gift tracker. Sign up to create a free wedding website where you can personalize one of our beautiful, easy-to-edit designs with photos, stories, and all of your wedding details.
Does Zola have a honeymoon fund?
Definitely! We make it super easy to add honeymoon funds or custom cash funds for any part of your honeymoon itinerary to your Zola registry. To add a honeymoon or cash fund to your registry, head to our cash fund page or tap “+ Add Gifts” on your Manage Registry page.
What is elite Honeyfund?
Honeyfund is a simple way for couples to get what they really want – money for a fantastic honeymoon or any savings goal. Honeyfund Elite offers best-in-class design tools to customize your page to match your wedding theme or honeymoon destination, exclusive weekly travel deals, password protection and more.
Is it rude to have a honeymoon fund?
As we mentioned, though, you really should still put the money you receive as part of your honeymoon fund toward your honeymoon. Your guests are hoping to make that experience as memorable and exciting as possible for you, so put their generosity to good use.
How much is a typical honeymoon?
According to wedding industry statistics, US couples spend an average of around $4,800 on their honeymoon. 1 That cost might skyrocket for couples planning a destination wedding. “Honeymoons in the Caribbean and Mexico cost between $5,000 to $7,500,” Frazier says.
How much should you ask for a honeymoon fund?
In 2018, the average gift contribution per person was $110.00 which increased from $100.00 in 2017. Our advice is to keep your gift goal amount equal or higher to the amount you are hoping to receive per person.