Editorial policy
How this site decides what to publish
Where every number on cofunders.org comes from, how another company's rate gets onto a page, what is never for sale here, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong.
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Who publishes this
CoFunders is a reward crowdfunding platform operated from Portugal. Everything on cofunders.org is written and reviewed by the people who build the product, which is both the strength and the limit of it: we know exactly how the program moves money, and we are not a neutral party on the question of whether you should use it.
That is why almost nothing on this site asks to be taken on trust. Where a page states a fee, it names the constant. Where it states what happens to a pledge, it names the instruction in the contract. Where it states what another company charges, it links to that company's own page and says when it was read.
Anything on this site that looks wrong is worth an email to support@cofunders.org.
Where our own numbers come from
No figure about CoFunders is typed into a page. The percentage fee on the free plan (1.5%), the flat fee per pledge ($0.99), the 10 USDC minimum and the 0.5% floor below which no combination of plan, perk or referral can take the platform fee are all read from one module, which the test suite compares against the Rust constants compiled into the on-chain program.
The practical effect is that this site cannot quote a fee the contract does not charge. If someone changes a rate in the program without changing the constant, the build fails; if someone changes the constant, every page that mentions it changes with it. A page and a program that disagree is the failure this arrangement is designed to make impossible rather than unlikely.
How we write about other platforms
The comparison pages name 6 platforms and quote what each of them charges. Those figures cannot be derived from anything we control: they are published rates that change without notice, and repeating a stale one as current is a false statement about another company rather than a mistake about ourselves.
So every competitor rate on this site carries the date it was read and a link to the page it was read from. The oldest of those dates today is 4 September 2026. If a rate has moved since, the date is the thing that tells you to go and check.
Each comparison page also carries a section on where CoFunders is the worse choice, and it is never empty. The flat fee per pledge makes a small pledge cost proportionally more here than on a percentage-only platform, and that is stated on the pages where somebody is deciding.
The law we cite, and where to read it
Where a page explains why something is switched off, or why a clause is written the way it is, it cites the instrument by name rather than gesturing at regulation in general. Each one below links to the official text, so a reader can check that it says what we say it says.
- Regulation (EU) 2020/1503. European crowdfunding service providers. Why investment campaigns are switched off here.
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The General Data Protection Regulation, which the privacy policy is written against.
- Council Directive 93/13/EEC. Unfair terms in consumer contracts. Section 16 of the terms exists because of it.
- Decreto-Lei n.º 446/85. The Portuguese regime for general contractual clauses.
- Lei n.º 41/2004. Privacy in electronic communications, which is why the cookie policy asks before it stores.
Advertising, boosts and paid placement
No page on cofunders.org is paid placement. Inside the app a creator can pay to boost a campaign's position in the storefront; boosted cards are labelled, and boost revenue is listed on /transparency.
Nobody pays to appear on a comparison page, an answer page or the news index, and no page on this site carries an affiliate link. The links to other platforms exist because a reader comparing them needs to check what we said about them.
- What CoFunders charges, and what can go wrong. Every fee the contract applies, including what a boost costs and where the money goes
Corrections
When something here is wrong, the page is corrected and the correction is shown on it, dated, saying what changed. A page that quietly edits itself is asking to be trusted about the thing it just got wrong.
The legal documents carry their own correction notes for the same reason, next to the version number a user accepted.
No correction has been needed since this page was published on 19 September 2026.