Auction Setup

Create your Event or Auction Main Campaign Webpage

• To create an auction, we will first create an Event or Auction Only. On the home dashboard, select "Start" and then the type of campaign you want. 
• You can provide all applicable information regarding your auction on the event details page.  You can fill out all applicable tabs on the Edit Event page. This is setting up your web landing page for this event and/or auction. 

• Once your event is set up, save it, and click the Auction Button to set up your Auction.

Begin your Auction Set Up

• To begin setting up your online or silent auction within Edit Mode select Auction.

• Begin by choosing your Auction Settings. 

• Choose your General Settings: 

• Bidder Payment Requirements -Select whether participants can or cannot bid without a card on file. This setting does not prevent them from viewing item images or description. 

• Display Info - Choose the information that will display publicly on an item during the auction. It will show on the items as shown below.
  

Public Auction Webpage:

 

 

 

Guest Experience Page: (Where your guests bid.)

 

 

 

• Banner - Upload a top background banner or turn it off for the public facing auction page. 
  

• Bidder Registration Options: If you are setting this up as a silent auction in conjunction with an event, you have the ability to allow people who are not buying a ticket to attend the event to still bid in your auction. 

• Then, if you have quite a few silent auction items, we recommend creating Item Categories for your bidders to search by. When creating your auction items, you can add items into one or multiple categories.

 

Add Auction Items

See below on how to add items in bulk or one-by-one. 

• Bulk Import Auction Items: Add items in bulk from an Excel or CSV file by selecting Actions>Import Auction Items. There is a spreadsheet template you can download to help you. 

• Add Items one-by-one. Within All Items select Add Item. 
• Please see Add Auction Items for details about all item settings and options. You will add both Silent and Live auction items here.

Start your Auction

**Please note, that you cannot complete the below steps if your main Campaign Webpage is not yet activated within "Edit Event".**

When you are ready select Activate Auction. This does 3 things.

1. Puts an Auction button on your main Campaign Webpage.
   
2. Makes your auction page live so people can now see it as it's own URL (Auction Page Link) and shows the auction items in their Guest Experience Link. 
   
   
   
   Guest Experience Link: See
   
   
   
   
3. Activates all your items. Changes them from being in Draft mode to being active. This is when the Visibility options kick in that you set on each item. See Add Auction Items
   for more details about visibility options.
   
   

Bulk Actions

You can bulk update Access Options, Item Visibility and certain item fields.

• First, select the items you want to update to the left. You can also select All Items by selecting the top box. 

• Then choose what you would like to update on all of the selected items.

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