Bid For Education
Raise money for your school!
Bid For Education is a fully featured online auction site.
Step-by-Step Instructions
We'll guide you through every step of your
auction with 1-2-3 setup, help buttons, and FAQs.
Financial Success
Capture credit card information when bid is made
to ensure item payment.
Income and Reporting
Real time information on the progress and
success of your auction and bidder participation.
Buy-It-Now and Proxy Bidding
Increase your profits with Buy It Now and set-it and forget-it proxy bidding.
Automatic Email Delivery
We provide automatic email notifications at all stages of your auction so you don't have to.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS
- 4 easy steps to set up your auction.
- Add items and donors easily. Each field has help buttons to guide you through the process.
- Easily customize auction color and logo for your school.
Increase bidder participation
- No advertisements.
- Easy bidder sign up.
- Leaderboard highlights biggest supporters.
- Recent bids identifies most active supporters.
- Anonymous bidding option.
Buy-It-Now and Proxy Bidding
- Buy-it-now option allows you to set a premium price.
- Proxy bidding increases your profits by allowing bidders to set a maximum price they'll pay for an item.
Automatic Email Delivery
- Automatic emails acknowledge bids, notify bidders when they've been outbid, and when they've won!
- Email sent to auction winners includes information set by you on when and where to pick up their auction item(s).
Financial Success
- We've integrated with Square for easy credit card processing.
- Integration with other credit card processors available.
- Capture credit card information when bid is placed for automatic payment of winning bids.
Income and Reporting
- Create bid reports during and after your auction to monitor item and auction progress.
- Use winners report to facilitate easy distribution of auction items.
- Donor reports allow for easy merge of donor information for thank you letters and repeat solicitations.
Pricing
Our goal is to save you time and money. Our one price fee for all features eliminates the need for you to try to guess what features you may need or how many items you'll have to auction.
Five Steps to a Successful Auction
- Set up your auction.
- Contact donors to support your cause.
- Promote before and during the auction.
- Track bidding progress.
- Celebrate your success!
- Back-To-School-Special $389.
- Credit card costs paid to third parties (Square or others) are separate from our flat fee and are paid to the credit card processor when your payments are processed.
As parent volunteers ourselves, we understand the time it takes to coordinate fundraising events. We've designed Bid For Education with the volunteer in mind to be easy-to-use so you can minimize the time it takes to set up and execute an attractive online auction. We strive to take the impediments out of your way so you can host a successful and profitable online auction. Please feel free to contact us at support@bidforeducation.com if you have questions regarding Bid For Education or hosting an online auction.