Australia’s Community Crowdfunding Platform
When it matters,
shout a mate.
Australians helping Australians. Start a campaign, raise funds, and make a real difference for the people and causes you love.
We take 0%. Card fees are Stripe’s, and donors are asked to cover them — see how it works.
- Every campaign reviewed
- Payments secured by Stripe
- Fast payouts
- A real person replies
How it works
Simple. Transparent. Aussie.
Getting started takes five minutes. Running a campaign that connects with people takes heart — and we’re here to help with both.
Tell your story
Spread the word
Watch it grow
Get paid out
Read by a person
Browse by cause
Your heart. Your cause. Your impact.
Find a campaign that speaks to what you care about most.
Just getting started
Be one of the first
Shout A Mate is brand new, so there are no campaigns running just yet. Start yours and it’ll be one of the first Australians see here.
Start a CampaignWhere your money goes
Every dollar is accounted for.
No platform fee, no fine print, no guessing what got skimmed off the top.
Our cut of your donation
We charge no platform fee. Most crowdfunding sites deduct a percentage of every donation — we deduct nothing.
Cover the card fee
Card processing is Stripe's charge, not ours. Donors are asked if they'd like to cover it.
Paid to an Aussie bank
Funds go to the organiser's identity-verified Australian bank account. No currency conversion, no offshore holding.
On a $100 donation
- Donor adds a $2.03 tip
- $100.00to the campaign
The donor pays $102.03. The tip covers processing, so the donation arrives whole.
- No tip added
- $98.00to the campaign
Stripe’s $2.00 processing fee comes out of the payout.
If a campaign’s tips don’t cover its processing fees, the difference comes out of that campaign’s payout — never charged back to donors. Organisers see the exact figure before they withdraw. This happens most often on international cards, which cost more to process than a tip sized for an Australian one covers.
Stripe’s Australian rates, exclusive of GST: 1.7% + $0.30 on an Australian card,3.5% + $0.30 on an international one — which would leave $96.20 of an untipped $100. The card type isn’t known until payment, so the fee recorded against any real donation comes from Stripe itself, not from this example.
Who’s behind this
Why we built Shout A Mate
Hi, I'm Andrew. I build software for a living. I'm not a fundraising company, I don't have investors, and nobody's expecting this to make me rich.
Someone I know needed help last year, and watching what got skimmed off what people gave was what pushed me into building this.
I built Shout A Mate because I looked at what the big platforms take out of every donation and couldn't make the numbers make sense. Some costs are real — Stripe charges to process a card, and that money has to come from somewhere. Everything on top of that is margin.
So I built the version without the margin. Australian platform, Australian dollars, paid into Australian bank accounts. 0% taken.
So how do we survive? Right now, we don't need to — this is built and run by one person, not a company with staff and investors to pay. If that changes, you'll hear it from us before it affects a single campaign.
Andrew ValentinFounder
If a campaign turns out to be fraudulent, we make it right.
Every campaign is reviewed before it goes live, and flagging a concern pauses donations immediately while we investigate. Confirmed fraud gets refunded.
Read the Shout A Mate GuaranteeReady to shout a mate?
It takes less than five minutes to start a campaign. We review it within 24 hours and you’re live.