Overview: Virtual Live Auction (Professional subscription)

This feature provides the tools needed to gracefully run a Live Auction (with paddle raise) with a virtual audience of bidders.   Our software uses a WebRTC livestream (similar to web meeting platforms) to provide feeds to viewers in almost real time.

Your supporters will be able to watch your livestream and place bids from the same screen, plus communicate with your auctioneer/team and other bidders via a chat window.    

Your team can also work from a single screen.  The control panel allows your team to:

• view the video feed as your supporters are seeing it
• view the item details, including internal notes for the auctioneer
• monitor bids/donations placed in real time
• monitor and participate in the chat conversation
• award items to the high bidder with a single click
• organize (and adjust) your lineup of items
• view real time progress toward your fundraising goal

An Auctioneer View is also available for a simplified, easier-to-read screen (with options for teleprompters).

Our Virtual Event feature has been designed to allow you to easily pivot to or from an in-person Gala event - as conditions allow/require.  If the feasibility of in-person events become uncertain, our software is versatile. And most changes of plans can be accommodated with just a few settings changes.

• Setting Up a Virtual Event
• Livestream Settings and Requirements
• Connecting Your Livestream
• Adding and Managing Items
• Creating Pre and Post Event Screens
• Sending Invitations to Virtual Event
• Providing Access to Friends/Family w/o User Records
• Running a Virtual Paddle Raise
• Monitoring Virtual Bidding and Awarding Items
• Reporting Virtual Event Results