Packages & Auctions

Auction Display Sheets

Generating Auction Display Sheets. Auction display sheets are customizable and eye-catching, making them the perfect addition to any event to showcase essential information to guests. After the Packa…

Collecting In-Kind Donation Items via the Microsite

Collecting in-kind donations through your event microsite is a huge time saver that cuts down on paper forms and manual data entry. Enable your donors to write their own descriptions, set values, and…

Consignment Items

Consignment items are items that have a cost associated with them. Typically consignment items are secured through a company or individual with the agreement that the non-profit will pay a predetermi…

Delete a Bid

There may be several reasons when a silent auction bid needs to be deleted either during or after the auction. The most common need to edit a bid stems from a bidder entering the incorrect bid amount…

Deleting vs. Hiding an Item/Package Image/Video

When you have an existing media (image or video) uploaded to an item or package, you may wish to either delete or temporarily hide the media for various reasons. Maybe you are not sure if an image yo…

Edit a Bid

There may be several reasons when a silent auction bid needs to be edited either during or after the auction. The most common need to edit a bid stems from a bidder entering the incorrect Maximum Bid…

Flagging Pre-Commitments

Sometimes an organization secures a donation verbally before the event begins — a board member who pledges at a cultivation dinner, a major donor who confirms a paddle-raise gift a week early, a corp…

How to Enter Auction Packages

Overview. Items versus Packages. Auction Packages are the final product available for bid or purchase in Event Conductor. They may be entered directly into the Packages section of Auction Conductor,…

Importing Item and Package Images

Importing images can be useful if you are working in a 3rd party system or spreadsheet for tracking your auction items. Allowed File Types. JPEG, JPG, JFIF. PNG. GIF. BMP. WEBP. File Name Requirement…

Linking In-Kind Donors to Auction Items

To recognize individuals or companies for their in-kind item donations, you must link their in-kind item donation to a contributor. It is recommended that you use the same contributor the patron has…

Multi-Unit Instant Pay

Multi-Unit Instant Pay is a feature that may be used to collect payments for special items immediately upon purchase, as opposed to only recording bidder numbers and invoicing guests for thier purcha…

Re-Ordering Package Numbers

In previous versions it was only possible to change package numbers for live auction packages. Due to popular demand, we have applied this same function to all other package types including silent au…

Re-ordering Package Images/Videos

Package images and videos can be re-ordered to display in a specific sequence on your mobile bidding site. You may also choose which image to display in locations where a single thumbnail image is sh…

Recognizing In-Kind Donations on Patron Receipts

In a previous article, we showed you how to track the relationship between Contributors and Item Donors: Linking In-Kind Donors to Auction Items Now that those relationships are built, we need to sel…

Running a Raffle

Set up raffle tickets as Multi-Unit packages, sell them at your event, and use the MU Ticket Generator report to print tickets or draw winners.

Uploading an Item/Package Video

To upload an item/package video. Navigate to the item or package edit screen. Click the upload video icon. In another browser tab, load the page where your video is hosted, and copy the full URL from…

Uploading and Editing an Item/Package Image

To upload a new image. Open the item or package edit screen and select the image upload icon. Drag and drop the image from your desktop or click inside of the upload box to bring up the file explorer…