Software/Features
Every way a room can give, in one platform.
Built by a working charity auctioneer, for real rooms, including the ones where the wifi collapses at exactly the wrong moment.
Giving
Silent auctions · live auctions · sealed bids · flash lots on a sixty-second clock · bids taken from the floor · paid voting · proxy bidding, anti-snipe and buy-it-now · raffles and prize draws · pledges and fund-a-need · direct donations · matched giving · second-chance offers · fee cover · bidding with no account, just an email · splitting a lot’s cost across a table.
Gifts, not just purchases
Gift Aid with proper declaration capture · regular giving by card and standing order · tributes and in-memory giving · the donor wall · peer-to-peer fundraising pages · multi-location campaigns with distance tracking and fundraiser updates · memberships.
The evening itself
Ticketing with tiers, named guests and per-guest QR codes · drag-and-drop table planning synced to tickets · QR check-in · gala screen, leaderboards and slideshow · the table race · watchlists · tablet mode for shared table devices · the whole site in eleven languages · amounts in each guest’s own currency.
Money
Your own Stripe account, your own keys — payments go straight to the charity and never through us · no transaction fees added on top · pre-authorisation at bid time · card-on-file · Apple Pay and Google Pay · fee cover · refunds · lot collection tracking · abandoned-payment recovery.
Talking to guests
Email, SMS and WhatsApp · outbid and closing alerts · bulk and segmented sends · scheduled messages · a record of what was sent, by whom.
Before and after
Item procurement · sponsor management · task management for your team · document storage · post-event surveys · thank-yous · full reporting · an assistant that answers from your own event data.
When things go wrong: offline-resilient bidding means bids survive a dropped signal. An on-site event server means the whole thing runs without the venue’s internet. And the installable event app puts your event on the guest’s home screen, with one-tap payment.
What it looks like
Added this month
Five things the platform did not do in July.
Each of these came out of watching what other platforms sell and what actually happens in a room. None of them is a setting you have to think about — they sit alongside everything else and switch on when you want them.
Bids from the floor
The auctioneer can take a bid from someone standing in front of him and it competes, live, with everyone bidding online. Identity comes after the hammer — nobody stops a lot to type an email address — so a lot knocked down to the room goes into a queue to be named afterwards.
Why it matters: a standing online maximum still answers the room, exactly as an absentee bid answers a saleroom. Money already promised is never quietly ignored.
Flash lots
Put something on the block with sixty seconds on it. It is the one mechanic in a silent auction that makes a whole room look up at once, and it is there for the point in the evening where attention drifts.
Why it matters: the clock is real. A lot that closes “within five minutes” is not a flash lot, so these close within about a second of reaching zero.
Paid voting
A bake-off, a talent night, best-dressed table, whose dog is ugliest. A vote costs money and the winner is whoever the room paid the most for.
Why it matters: ten lots means ten winners. Four entries at £2 a vote lets four hundred people give something, at a level nobody has to think about, running alongside the auction rather than against it.
A pop-up shop
Programmes, tote bags, the charity’s own products — sold on the night from the same platform, with the takings counted in the total on the wall.
Why it matters: merchandise money that never reaches the totaliser makes the number on the screen wrong, and you find out at midnight when the bank reconciliation disagrees with the photograph everybody posted.
Prices in the guest’s own currency
Guests bidding from abroad can read every figure in their own money, with the real charge currency stated beside it.
Why it matters, and its limit: this changes what people see, never what they are charged. Every bid and payment is still taken in your currency, and the page says so. Genuinely charging in another currency needs a merchant account in it — that is a conversation with your bank, not a checkbox.
Everything reaches the total
Votes, shop takings, lots, the paddle raise, cash typed in on the night — all of it lands in the one figure on the big screen.
Why it matters: a mechanic that takes money the totaliser knows nothing about is worse than not having the mechanic. Anything added from here on has one place to declare itself.
Fully customised to your event — never a template
See what it costs. It’s one number.
No commission, no per-guest fees, no cut of donations.
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