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SchoolAuction.net Product Details

SchoolAuction.net is an easy-to-use fundraising event software platform built to help schools and nonprofits plan, manage, and run successful fundraising events—from gala auctions to online campaigns and hybrid fundraisers. Designed by event organizers for event organizers, it offers all the tools you need to simplify ticketing, manage donations, track bidders, and handle check-in and checkout with ease. Whether you’re hosting a live, silent, online, mobile, or hybrid event, SchoolAuction.net provides a secure and customizable solution to fit your organization’s goals. You can create unique event sites, sell tickets and sponsorships, manage item procurement, and process payments in one place—without hidden fees or complicated add-ons. Our intuitive interface and flexible plans make it simple for both new and experienced teams to get started. With over 20 years of experience, we’ve helped thousands of schools, churches, and nonprofits across the U.S. and Canada raise millions of dollars to support their communities. SchoolAuction.net also offers weekly live training webinars, friendly customer support, and a variety of plan options—including the Acorn Plan for smaller events and annual plans for organizations that host multiple fundraisers each year. If you’re looking for reliable, affordable fundraising event software that grows with your organization, SchoolAuction.net is the all-in-one platform to make your next event smooth, efficient, and profitable. Visit www.schoolauction.net to start a free trial or schedule a demo today.

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Product Description

SchoolAuction.net is a web-based software to help school auction teams plan, manage and run school fundraising auctions. The platform offers tools for both silent auctions and live auctions; whether in-person, online, or both.

Overview by

Roger Devine (Entrepreneur, Marketing/Sales Professional, Teacher)

Pricing

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Acorn

$79.00

1 Event

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SchoolAuction.net Demo - SchoolAuction.net Works on Whatever Device You Use

SchoolAuction.net works on Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, Tablets, and Smartphones - no need to download an app.

SchoolAuction.net Demo - Fundraising Campaigns

We provide a choice of templates to create unique online campaigns for all of your fundraisers: crowdfunds, annual giving, online stores, event tickets, memberships, pledge-athons and so much more.

SchoolAuction.net Demo - Hybrid and Virtual Live Auctions

Our Virtual Feature brings livestreaming video, chat, and bidding all together on one screen to allow your supporters to participate from wherever they are — at your gala and/or from home.

SchoolAuction.net Demo - Voting Contests

Looking for a fresh fundraising twist? Voting contests allow your supporters to vote for their favorite artwork, best dressed pet, in-person event performance — the possibilities are endless. Each vote is a donation to your organization!

Our Last Ask feature allows your guests to help subsidize the costs of running your event. You set the suggested tip levels—if any—and unlike our competitors, your organization keeps 100% of these funds. Your supporters can select one of the suggested % tip levels you've chosen, specify thei...

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Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/24/2023

"Sufficient software for a small auction but not very robust or user friendly"

2.5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

I like the "night of" menu, which is easy to use and easy for volunteers to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

Reporting is limited and not intuitive. The processes are not straightforward or easy to understand. Somewhat antiquated menus and navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Roger Devine of SchoolAuction.net

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Thanks for the review, and the feedback. Before your next event, let's spend some time discussing the reporting - we'd love to get further feedback from you. I agree that there is a learning curve.

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Sally T.

Owner Operator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/18/2022

"Great product, Service and user features"

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

SchoolAuction.net provides us with a product that covers all aspects of our event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

If there was a feature to check ALL attendees in or groups of attendees in it would save a lot of time. We also have many people who purchase an entire table, so we don't have billing information on all of those tickets, It is frustrating and time consuming at Checkout to ask for billing address, and email when you have a line of 100 people wanting to check out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SchoolAuction.net:

Always shop around and ask lots of questions, as one product may not fit your needs. We've been using SchoolAuction.net for many years and keep coming back due to the ease of use, great customer service and all-around great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SchoolAuction.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use to use an outside mobile POS for raffle ticket sales, Merchandise sales etc, and this last year we chose to do it all through SchoolAuction.net and it saved so much hassle with collecting our funds after our event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kathy Doody of SchoolAuction.net

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We're happy to have you as a loyal customer who keeps coming back Sally, and we really appreciate you leaving us a review! We have some suggestions about how to request guests who are part of a group or table to check in before the event, which would help alleviate some of check out process issues if you would like to reach out to our support team at support@schoolauction.net to discuss. Best of luck at your next event and thanks again!

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Nicole M.

Career Center and Scholarship Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/25/2022

"Easy to use, great customer service"

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

The software is easy to use. The reporting features are also very helpful when doing auction wrap-up! The automatic sending of receipts is great! It is a great value for the price and includes more functions and features at this price point than many competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

Honestly, all went very smoothly this year. Hopefully next year we won't need to live-feed features and will only need them for cataloging auction items and running the auction the night of! But that's only because we are excited to be in-person again. This software has so many functions and I believe we can rely on it for all our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi Nicole,

We're so glad that we were able to help you reach your supporters remotely, and we look forward to helping you with your next event (yay for it being in-person again!). Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a review.

AE

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2022

"Ready to go for your first auction!"

4/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

I love that SchoolAuction.net can print donor receipts, organizes the donors, links accounts across donors/buyers/etc. It made summarizing reports much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

The user interface does not always seem super intuitive. Things didn't always feel like they were in the most logical place, and it was hard to get the answers to questions I had through their help pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to leave a review - we really appreciate it. We're glad that our software has helped your school combine multiple methods of fundraising all in one place. And if you ever can't find what you're looking for in our support library, don't hesitate to click the Contact Support button there - we're happy to help. Looking forward to helping with your next fundraiser!

LH

Lindsay H.

Communications Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2022

"Westside Silent Auction"

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

Being able to import e-mails and send invitations so easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

There is a learning curve to figure out where to go. I had to click around a lot to get familiar with the site and the functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi Lindsay, thanks for leaving a review. We're glad you find our invitation system easy to use and that we're saving your volunteers time on your event night. We hope to help with your next event or fundraiser!

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Maureen G.

Scholarship Program Director/Office Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/11/2022

"User Friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

Reporting is easy to manage and share with the fundraising team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

Adding photos to auction items is difficult and takes too much time to add more than one photo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi Maureen,

We really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with us. Perhaps you've already seen this, but we have a support article, complete with a video, on how to migrate over data and settings from one event site to the next: https://bit.ly/3CiSUAF

If you need any other assistance with migration or site setup you can always reach us at support@schoolauction.net. We're happy that you appreciate our reporting features and item management, and we look forward to helping with your next auction!

AH

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2022

"Software just what our Gala Event needed"

4/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

SchoolAuction software is very user-friendly and has so many tutorials to answer questions and navigate what you are trying to accomplish. The SchoolAuction support team is helpful too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

Setting up the financial aspect of the software and learning how to make sense of payments when they come in was not well explained. Non-profits need to do their best to reconcile down to the penny, thank goodness we have an accountant who's team took that portion over for us. It would have been too much for our event committee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi there, thanks for taking time to leave a review. We're glad you appreciate our sponsorship features and help tutorials. If you want to go over payments before your next event or fundraiser, you can email us at support@schoolauction.net - we're happy to help!

MM

Melissa M.

Office Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2022

"Very user friendly with help screens readily available when/if you need it."

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

SchoolAuction.net makes it easy to have an online Gala and an in-person event. You can easily distinguish which items will be up for bidding for each part of the event. I love how you can import users and donors from year to year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

I wish it was a little easier to print custom instructions on invoices, or that you were able to customize the emails when sending invoices or payment reminders. We also use an outside credit card processor so I would like to be able to include a link to pay when sending email invoices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kathy Doody of SchoolAuction.net

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Great recommendation to use all of the help tools available to make sure you're using all our our features to their fullest! We do have a number of options to customize invoices and emails as well as some templates to choose from when in manager under "Customize Your Site / Receipt Setup and Email/Text Messaging," but please let us know if you have any questions and thanks for the review Melissa.

JL

Jennifer L.

Stewardship and Development Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2022

"What a FANTASTIC Platform!"

5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

As the event and fundraising hub for my school, SchoolAuction.net is outstanding. It is incredibly easy to set up my event website, invite guests, manage their transactions and contact them as needed. And their customer service team is AWESOME. Always there and never leave me hanging! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

If there was one feature I could add, it would be the ability for my parents and students to check how much they have raised individually. This takes me a bit of time to manage, and if they had visibility themselves, that would great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SchoolAuction.net:

I've researched many platforms and I am incredibly happy with this one! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SchoolAuction.net solving and how is that benefiting you?

SchoolAuction.net enables us to launch large-scale fundraising campaigns that are supported by excellent customer engagement and ease of payment. Reconciliation of fundraising is also exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kathy Doody of SchoolAuction.net

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Thanks so much for your review Jennifer and stay tuned for more information on your wish list item - coming soon!

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Amanda W.

Development Associate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/18/2022

"Perfect for Fundraising Needs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SchoolAuction.net?

SchoolAuction is very user-friendly. The online support is especially helpful as response time is fast and effective. The program keeps track of everything we need for our fundraising events and the report functions are perfect for keeping records for our donors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SchoolAuction.net?

It can be a little confusing when first creating the event webpage but the support tickets are quick and helpful when answering any questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vanessa Beyers of SchoolAuction.net

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Hi Amanda,

Thanks for sharing your review with us and the community. We're grateful that we can help with your organization's fundraising efforts, and that you appreciate our report functions and online support. We look forward to helping with your next event!