The platform
The platform built to capture generosity as a gift.
Silent and live auctions, pledges, ticketing, Gift Aid and the table plan — the whole evening in one place, run by you, with no commission and nobody taking a cut of what your guests give.
It was built for an argument
Most fundraising software is built to process transactions. This was built around a belief: that the generosity is already in the room, and the job of the technology is to give people every possible way to act on it.
That is why the mechanisms most platforms treat as extras are the ones this was designed around first. Pledges and fund-a-need. Gift Aid with proper declaration capture. Card-on-file. Regular giving by card and standing order. Matched giving. The donor wall.
Every one of them exists to capture money as a gift rather than as a purchase — because with Gift Aid a gift is worth 25% more to a charity, and an auction purchase, with narrow exceptions, cannot carry it at all.
Your money never passes through us
This one is worth reading twice, because it is where a surprising amount of charity money quietly disappears.
You put your own Stripe keys into the platform. Your guests pay, and the money lands directly in your account — the charity’s own payment provider, under the charity’s own control. We never hold it, never route it, and never take a slice on the way past.
Many event platforms do it the other way round. Guest payments run through the platform’s own merchant account, and a transaction fee gets added on top of what the payment provider already charges. On a six-figure evening, a couple of percent is real money — money your guests believed they were giving to the cause.
It is the same argument this whole business is built on. Every middleman between a donor’s intention and a charity’s bank account costs the charity something. This is one we removed.
See it working
The gala screen, live in the room
The running total, the pledge tiers as they fill, and the lots — on the big screen behind you while guests bid from their seats.
Every event is branded as its own — your charity, your lots, your tiers.
On the night, when it matters
Three things it does that most platforms cannot
It works when the venue wifi does not
Every fundraiser has the same horror story: four hundred people, one overloaded router, and a silent auction that stops taking bids at exactly the wrong moment. The platform runs an on-site event server that does not need the venue’s internet at all, and bidding is built to survive a dropped signal rather than lose the bid.
Every event becomes its own app
Guests add your event to their phone’s home screen and it opens full-screen with your branding. It also unlocks Apple Pay and Google Pay — one tap and a fingerprint, instead of typing a card number in a dark room. Fewer abandoned payments. More money banked.
The whole night lives in one place
Ticketing with named guests and per-guest QR check-in. The drag-and-drop table plan, synced to those tickets — because a ticket is a seat. Bidding, raffles, pledges, the gala screen, guest messaging by email, SMS and WhatsApp, and reporting afterwards.
In detail
Six parts of the platform, properly explained
Everything the night needs, grouped the way an event actually works rather than the way a feature list does.
Auctions
Silent, live and sealed-bid from one catalogue — plus outbid alerts, anti-snipe, a clear auction clock, tablet mode and bidding with no account at all.
Auctions in detail →Pledges & Gift Aid
Tiered live pledges, the HMRC Gift Aid split worked out automatically, regular giving by card or standing order, matched giving and the donor wall.
Pledges in detail →Ticketing & check-in
Tiers with live sold counters, a named e-ticket for every guest rather than ten to the buyer, guests filling in their own names, QR check-in and the table plan.
Ticketing in detail →The gala screen
A projector-ready screen rotating your lots, flashing an animated New Bid card the instant money lands, with a running total the whole room can chase.
The big screen →Payments
Your own Stripe keys, so money lands in your account. Card on file, automatic charging on winning, Apple Pay and Google Pay, fee cover and refunds.
How payments work →Running your event
Message the right guests rather than everyone, raffles you can defend, team tasks, peer-to-peer pages, CRM export and an assistant that knows your event.
The rest of it →Own it, don’t rent it
Why a charity should own its fundraising platform
Most charities either pay a silent auction company for the night, or rent space on somebody else’s bidding app. Either way, when the evening ends, you own nothing.
The relationships with your bidders, the data on what worked, the platform itself — all of it disappears, and you start from zero for next year’s event.
A platform you own is fundamentally different. Reuse it for next year’s gala, your Christmas raffle, or a fast emergency appeal. You are not a tenant in someone else’s software.
And your client never sees WordPress: give the charity an Event Organiser login and they land on their event, not a dashboard. No Posts, no Plugins, no Settings — genuinely closed off, not just hidden behind a menu.
Built for real rooms
Four things that only exist because a night needed them
Four people, one lot
A table wants the £2,000 weekend and nobody wants £2,000 on their own card. Split it four ways and it sells for £2,000 instead of £600 — each payer gets their own receipt, so Gift Aid is claimed per person.
One campaign, a dozen towns
Run the same walk in Bath, Bristol and Cardiff. Each gets its own page, date, venue and target — and they add up into one campaign figure, with nobody counted twice.
Miles, not just money
A second progress bar beside the money one, updated by your fundraisers themselves. Miles walked, lengths swum, books read, trees planted — whatever they are counting.
Guests in their own language
A globe menu switches the whole site into one of eleven languages instantly. Nothing for you to translate or maintain — you keep writing in plain English.
Before you choose anything
Buying charity auction software
What it should actually do
The short, awkward list of things that matter on the night — written by someone who has stood in the room while it was being used.
Read →Silent auction software
Outbid alerts, bidding from the table, closing properly and taking the money before people leave. What it’s worth against paper.
Read →The money questions
Whose account your donors’ money lands in, who owns the supporter data, and how Gift Aid is handled.
Read →The buyer’s checklist
Twenty questions to put to every supplier, including us. Bring your own verdict — we won’t rank our competitors for you.
Get the checklist →Book Kevin and the platform is free
Not a trial, not a discount, and not free until you cross some limit. If Kevin is your auctioneer, the whole platform is built around your event and costs you nothing at all — your branding, your lots loaded, the features you ask for.
Running the night yourselves instead? The same platform is £497 per event. Either way there is no commission, no per-guest fee, and no cut of what your guests give.
Or start with the whole evening
The platform is the instrument. The strategy is the music.
Book a discovery call and we design the night the platform gets played on.
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