Auction Fundraising Software

Auction fundraising software is an application that will make an auction fundraising event a whole lot easier. It has built-in systems for easy event management, auction management, and even credit card processing. It is available in both PC and online editions too. But no, it won’t do everything for you. It is not like a live thinking tool that can formulate ideas for you. What it will do is help you systematically track and manage details thereby making it easier for you to run your auction. It gives you what professional auctioneers need to quickly and efficiently carry out simple to complex auction must-dos. 

Its main features include having a centralized contact file for donors, bidders, guests, sponsors, and even for staff and volunteers. These files are easily retrievable. Thus, though it already enables fast and easy walk up registration, it is also quicker to register attendees already on your file. It would even enable advance registration. To add to that, it would automatically give you a pool of future potential donors.

Now, with everyone attending the event recorded, this software goes one-step further. It helps you manage banquet seat assignments. With it, you can seat attendees at the best working location. You can also locate available seats and avoid over seating.

As for the management of items on your auction, it can help in many ways. From history of past donations, catalogs, item entries, notes for follow up, to pickup assignments and many more; this smart application has a program for you. It even has one to make it easy to manage and auction consigned items. Unlike the donated ones, these items are still attached to their owners, so to speak. You simply act as its dealer. You sell them, but you also return them if they are not sold.

All right, with the items and attendants covered, on to bidding. Regardless of your system and whether you will use bid increment schedules or free form bid sheets for silent auctions, this software still makes it easy for you. It tracks bidders and details their bids. With its special clerking programs, you maximize bidder service while making the task easier for your personnel as well.

Lastly, there is the all-important auditing of the cash flow. The auction fund raising software makes it possible for you not to have long cash out lines. It enables easy and secure payments whether by credit card, cash, check, or scrip. It will produce itemized receipts and invoices too. And as if it’s still not enough, it was made to conduct revenue analysis. Smart, huh?