Learn how GiveCentral can help your next Auction and Special Event. We have more than 20 ways to help grow your event and build your donor base that no other tool can provide. Look below to see how we compare.
Auctions are fun and exciting fundraising events engaging guests with a competitive spirit. Your guests bid to win auction items; the highest bid wins the article, and your organization receives the proceeds. If you plan to host an auction, or if this is the first time you're hosting an auction, our platform is user-friendly and has everything you need to make your auction a huge success!
Set & Achieve Your Goals
We understand the unique goals of each organization, and everyone's goals are different. Online auctions allow you to reach a broad audience throughout your community while remaining cost-effective.
Easy to Bid in Seconds
Your donors are also consumers and are making many transactions online. 85% of them are on mobile devices. Donors expect giving online to be the same as buying goods. Buying goods online is not a 10-step process, and sharing should be optional. Giving must be accessible and efficient, or else it will cause donor friction.
At GiveCentral, we remove the donor friction by allowing you to create an auction with these features
Raffles, auction, paddle raise, and ticket sales
Able to recognize your donors and user-friendly for them
Bidding within seconds
Guest preregistration
Easy check out
Capable of adding dynamic photos and content
Advanced reporting post event
Our auction platform is also great for a fund-a-need. This type of fundraising event has the capacity to raise a significant amount of money where donors submit their funds towards a specific cause.
How Does GiveCentral Compare to Other Auction Platforms
Almost all auction platforms allow for online auctions, silent auctions and text bidding.
GiveCentral is so much more!
Live auction bidding
Crowdfunding support
Real-time leaderboard
Customizable giving pages
Support for raise the paddle
One-click follow-up via text and email
Outbound texting to promote your event
Payment pre-authorization
Integrated communications which allow for one-click registrations
Integrated database support which will allow you to build relationship beyond your event with everyone who participates
Customizable email templates to promote your event
Automated check-out - no line, no wait!
Integrated, personalized accounting support. Your donations will show up on the donor statement with your charity’s name, not a generic organization.
GC Auctions is so much more than a simple auction platform, it allows you to do comprehensive event planning all in one place. Auction tools often have three challenges that GiveCentral can help solve.
First
You want to do an auction, but you also want to support registrations, raise the paddle, live auction, and raffles all at the same time and with GiveCentral you can do this! We will share our expertise in making your event a huge success!
Second
At most events only one third of the people coming to the event have registered. With GiveCentral you can now follow-up with 100% of the people to build a long term relationship. Even better, you can do this without having to type the auction event information into your database.
Third
In person events are expensive to run and the best fundraising executives realize that it is critical to move from friend-raising to fundraising. After your event, you can follow up with your donors to become involved by sending in a prayer request, signing up as volunteers, supporting Giving Tuesday, and supporting Sunday giving all with one click.
Learn more about GiveCentral can help with your next Auction and Special Event
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We're excited to introduce GC Guru to our platform. The Guru is an AI-based chat tool that will allow you to ask questions, and receive plain text responses (as well as links to our Knowledge Center as applicable).
Over the last four months we've had the Guru learn everything it can about GiveCentral - donor-facing and administrator-facing - in order to help you find answers to your questions faster, at any time of day. As more and more people provide feedback, the Guru will also be able to refine its responses.
Not only can the GC Guru help answer FAQs about GiveCentral, but it can also help your organization compose emails and communications to your community-base. It will tell you exactly where to drop in our GC SmartLinks and guide you through the send process.
Below are some ideas on how to get started interacting with the Guru!
1. How do I reconcile GiveCentral with my bank statement?2. What is a deposit report by MID?3. Can I reset a donor's password?4. Help me write an email to my donors for Easter5. Please help me create a new event
Our goal at GiveCentral is to provide industry-leading fundraising tools to our clients. As we continue to innovate, the GC Guru will continue to be able to help support your organization learn how to use the tools made available.