PACKAGE FEATURES
Welcome to creating your exciting and professional on-line auction!
Here we will detail the key features of your dedicated bidding platform.
You’re in good hands, as we are a fully licenced provider of GIVERGY; one of the world’s leading auction fundraising software platforms.
Better still, you are being guided by over 20 years of auction fundraising experience, supporting over 1,200 events. Together we will tailor the best features of our service and guide you towards the best possible outcome for your silent and live auctions.
CUSTOM FUNDRAISING WEBSITE
Choose your own website name!
Our service will include your own, unique website, dedicated just for your event. Your site could be www.myauction.com or www.bidformycause.com or even .com.au
Pick a name that will suit your event. You can keep the site private or advertise across social media to increase bidders outside of your event.
Once your event is over, you still keep the name. Use it again for another event or for your annual event, year after year.
Create your own Look and Feel
You can choose your colour scheme, add your logos, event branding, details about your cause plus a whole lot more!
All auction items can have multiple images, full descriptions, donor names and set starting prices and bidding increments.
Ask one of our team about how easy it is to load your auction items to your site, add categories, set ‘maximum’ bid amounts and other ideas to get the most from your auction.
PHONE & TABLET BIDDING
How to bid
Bidding is simple, your supporters can use their smart phone while at the event. If you want supporters to bid who aren’t in attendance, that’s easy, they can bid from work or at home on any device that has a web browser such as phone, PC or tablet. Just type the website name and start bidding; no downloads and no SMS registration needed.
You can BYO Tablets
Because our bidding service is website based, any tablet with a browser can be used for bidding.
You can add your own tablets to your event along with some provided by our team*.
Tablet Bidding Service
You can also upgrade to a full tablet bidding solution. This will use custom tablets allocated to each guest table to share, plus a host of tablets in your auction display area.
You can also choose to have tablet bidding & phone bidding at the same time.
Tablets allow guests to view details about your auction items on a much larger screen. They can also be an ideal solution for venues with poor 4G or WiFi coverage.
You can also enquire about our ‘bidding stations’ and our ‘bidding buddies’.
DIVERSE BIDDING METHODS
Standard, Private or Buy Now
Running your silent auction can now be a whole lot easier. All bidders can continue to outbid each other, whilst being encouraged to bid again by receiving ‘OUT BID’ notifications via SMS or email.
You can also run PRIVATE BIDDING, or as we call it ‘BOLD BIDS’, so all guest bids are sealed, often encouraging bidders to bid higher than normal.
You can also allocate BUY NOW items into your silent auction, especially if you have multiple packages of the same item or service.
Bid Pre-event
Bidding in your auction can commence before your event or from the start of your event. The sample principles can be applied to your live auction. Allow guests the chance to register an early bid, especially if they can’t be there on the day.
PLEDGES & RAFFLE SERVICES
Your custom auction website can also include direct links to PLEDGES and buying RAFFLE TICKETS.
Donations
Pledges allow guests the opportunity to donate. This is best managed by having smaller and larger pledge amounts to suit all your guests budgets. You can even run a PLEDGE COUNTER on your visual screens.
Raffles
You can throw away the old raffle tickets and stubs, now your guests can buy as easy as making a bid. This is ideal to grow database and take out the administration of cash handling, counting tickets and closing on time. Draw your raffle electronically with ease and announce one or more winners!
INVOICE GENERATOR & ONLINE PAYMENTS
Payments
At the close of your auction, all guests will be notified by SMS and email of their auction win. You can access full reports and invoices for all bids and other transactions. By printing the auction invoices, you can request guests to pay on the night, and each keep a copy.
Quick on-line payments
If you want added convenience, you can set-up on-line payments for your guests to pay via credit card, directly from their phones. You can verify payments to allow guests to take home their auction purchase. Funds can be paid into your bank account post event.
LIVE LEADER BOARD
Real time bidding updates
You can publish a ‘live’ leader board on a TV, PC or large AV screen. This will scroll through all bids to show guests who is winning each bid. You can also show a live tally of funds raised.
Instant bidder pop-ups
Whilst the leader board is shown, any bid or pledge will pop up on screen. This often provides guests with instant satisfaction to see their name as a valued contributor.
Pledge counter
Set a goal for your pledges and display on screen. An ideal way to encourage more pledges.
EASY TO REGISTER – NO APP DOWNLOAD OR SMS REQUIRED
How to Register
As easy as any webform. Guests will enter their name, phone and email with a password, much like any other website. This will give them an account. They will instantly be acknowledged by SMS and email.
Bidder account
When logged in, you can see your current winning bids and where you have been outbid. You can set a maximum bid on an auction item you want as well; set your budget and let the system bid for you!
OPTIONAL PRE-EVENT CREDIT CARD REGISTRATION
Start the bidding early
Invite your entire community to bid on your auction. By adding credit card registration, you can be more confident all auction winners will pay on-time. A credit card is only entered the first time a guest completes a bid.
This is particularly important if an auction winner is not present at your event.
Debit winners instantly
All auction winners can be debited instantly. No fuss, instant payment! Best of all, payments are managed through world leading payment gateway STRIPE! Guests can bid with confidence as all their credentials are secure.