I will add that our organization runs a live auction during our annual fundraiser as well as a silent auction. The current support for silent auctions is a good start but it is imperative that we be able to run a live auction and a silent during the event with real-time tracking of bidder cards, etc. Until this is available, the only viable campaigns for us in Givebutter are the text-to-give campaigns. We do love the concept behind Givebutter and Zeffy (with Givebutter appearing to be the better of the two; Givebutter should buy Zeffy) but just have to stick with our current provider for now because of the ability to run our annual fundraiser with it.

Hello! I wanted to check in and see the status of this feature. I hadn't seen anything about a sneak peek last month, however I did see some articles letting users know about other silent auction software to use. Is this project still moving forward?

Wondering if there is any update on the timeline since this has been marked as planned?

We have used onecause previously and ran into issues with their mobile silent auction feature, for example, every time our guests would pull up the auction site, they would be forced to re-login every single time. Silent auction communication features are very important. I think you might have to expand your texting and email capabilities. For example, shooting a reminder text out to people who have not picked up their auction item. It would be incredible if we could mark items as "picked up" or "not picked up" and reminders for items not picked up would automatically go out to the winners after so long. We have people who like to participate in the silent auction even though they can't come to the event, so allowing people to bid virtually, view pictures of the items, is very important. Also, profiles would HAVE to save credit cards because I know our guests would be very unhappy having to re-enter their card number or rely on autofill (I'm going to be honest, a good portion of our supporters aren't tech savvy at all). The last few important features would obviously be outbid, buy it now, and fire sale.

I would just like a virtual option, period. We have people wanting to craft things to donate for us to raise funds. If we had a way to show them, and for people to bid/buy, that would be awesome!

I have been a long-time customer of clickbid at other organizations for virtual fundraising but decided to give you guys a try to integrate with Bloomerang. While I understand it takes a lot to develop the silent auction piece, I think it would increase your market share. I was excited to start with givebutter, and I love what you have done. However, I am forced to go back to clickbid because you don't have the silent auction feature. They do a very good job with their silent auction capability. It is a bit of a tedious process and not super user-friendly if you are not familiar with some web design. But their customer service is great. I hope you will get this capability in the near future, and I will consider givebutter for our purposes at that time.

We are planning an event in June 2022 with an auction involved and would really like not to involve another platform.