Support us
Fund the evidence, not another lobby.
The number that decides this argument — what compliance actually costs a small seller — does not exist yet, because collecting it is nobody's paid job. This is where it gets funded.
The Observatory
Collecting real quotes from small sellers, stripping anything identifying, and publishing the median cost per €1,000 of revenue. The evidence the schemes are legally required not to impose a disproportionate burden on.
The desks and the documents
Keeping twenty-seven country desks dated and re-checked, answering consultations in full and in public, and writing the Threshold Paper that puts the evidence in front of the people who can act on it.
Free ways to help
Money is the last resort here. Three things help more, and cost nothing.
- Send one quote
- One real provider quote — country, fee, scope, volume band — is a row in the only dataset of its kind. Post it in #quotes-and-costs on the Discord.
- Keep a desk
- If you ship to a country and know its register, you can make that desk better than we can. Twenty-seven are open.
- Be counted
- Join the founding list and bring one other seller. The negotiating position is the number of shops behind it.
Donate
Donations pay for research time and publishing — the parts of this that nobody can invoice for. Every euro is accounted for in the annual report.
- Account holder
- [Vereinsname, once the register entry is through]
- IBAN
- [AT00 0000 0000 0000 0000]
- BIC
- [BIC]
- Reference
Support— add your email address if you would like a receipt.- Tax deductibility
- [To be confirmed once the association is registered. Until then, we simply cannot promise it — and we will not pretend otherwise.]
Grants and institutions
If you fund research, consumer protection or small-business representation and want the output to be open, this is a cheap way to get a dataset that currently does not exist anywhere. Write to hello@kontorbund.com. Every grant we accept is listed publicly with its amount and its funder.
Our rules for money
No money from providers of compliance services, no commissions, no paid rankings, no advertising. The full list is on the Transparency page; the accounts will be on it too. And the data we collect from members is governed by the Privacy page — never sold, never shared.