CharityAuctions runs your whole auction online, in the room, or both. Guests bid and pay from their phones. You share one link and watch the totals climb. No events staff required.
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Plus: Risk Free items for your auction $0 upfront
Works with any auction software, any event type, online or in person.
CharityAuctions is a fundraising auction platform for nonprofits and schools. You run the night online, in the room, or both. Guests bid on the phones they already have. No app to download. No events staff required.
Most auctions here are run by volunteers, PTA parents, and small teams planning around work and family. The whole platform is shaped around that. If you are comparing nonprofit auction software, start there.
No training course. No IT department. No late-night spreadsheet work.
Add your items in minutes, or start with ours. Set your dates and get one link that is yours to share.
Guests register, bid, and pay from their phones. In the room, at home, or on the couch across the country.
Winners pay online and the fee comes out automatically. Your funds arrive by check or direct deposit, with every bid exported for your records.
The room and the internet bid on the same items at the same time, through the same link. Nobody gets left out because they could not make it in person.
The whole auction happens online over days, not hours. Share the link, people bid from anywhere, and winners pay when it closes.
Running bid sheets or a live ask? Enter bids as they happen, with bid numbers, attendees, and card charges all tracked in one place.
School fundraisers, community events, and headline benefit nights all run on the same platform you are looking at.
A school auction and a headline benefit night use the same setup.
Risk Free Items are the trips and experiences bidders actually fight for. They cost your organization nothing unless they sell.
Need a trip to list? Start with charity auction travel packages.
Running the auction as well as stocking it? Your free account handles bidding, payments, and checkout for the whole night. Start free here.
Risk Free auction items
Trips and experiences you list for $0 upfront. You pay the package cost only if it sells. They work with any auction software, any event type, online or in person.
Four golfers. Three nights at The Inn at Spanish Bay. Three rounds each with course choice. Concierge books rooms and tee times.
Three nights in Napa Valley for two. Choose two activities and one premium tasting. Concierge books it.
Five nights at a 4-star spa hotel in Chianti for two. Pick any 3 of 6 Tuscany experiences. Concierge books it. Spa treatments not included.
Five nights in downtown Reykjavík for two. Airport transfers. Two experiences from a curated menu. Concierge books it.
Get the full catalog
Tell us where to send it. We email you the full catalog with this package and every other one, with your cost and what you keep.
Sent instantly. We never share your information.
Two ways to run it. Both start free, and you can pass the fee to bidders so your organization keeps every dollar raised.
See charity auction platform pricing
Bidders cover $1,250. Unsold items are never charged a success fee.
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CharityAuctions is a fundraising auction platform for nonprofits and schools. You can run an online auction, an in-person auction, or both at the same time. Guests bid and pay from their phones. There is no app to download. You can start free, with no credit card.
It is built for volunteer chairs, PTA parents, and small school or community teams that already have a day job. You do not need events staff or an onsite crew. The same setup works for a school auction and a headline benefit night.
You can start free. Nothing Out of Pocket is a 5% success fee when items sell, capped at $100 per item. Prepay and Save is $499 plus a 3% success fee, capped at $75 per item. You can pass the fee to bidders so your organization pays $0. See our pricing page for the full breakdown.
No. Guests open a link or scan a QR code and bid in the browser on the phone they already have.
Yes. Hybrid is the most common. The room and the internet bid on the same items through the same link. You can also run a fully online auction or take bids in the room only.
Risk Free Items are trips and experiences you can add to your auction at no cost unless they sell. If an item does not sell, you owe nothing for it.
Yes. We have two settings. You can require bidders to pay a fee you set. Or you can give them the option to pay the fee or opt out.
Unsold items stay in your account. You can use them at your next event. You do not pay a success fee on items that do not sell.
Yes. You can export bidder names, emails, bids, and totals any time.
On the Nothing Out of Pocket plan it is 5% of funds raised. Prepay and Save drops that to 3%. You can also pass the fee to bidders so your organization pays $0. See our pricing page for the full breakdown.
Yes. We can send your funds by check or deposit them to your account.
When your auction closes, we subtract the success fee and send you the rest. If bidders cover the fee, you keep the full total.
Yes. You can mark items as paid offline. Those sales still count in your reports.
Yes. You can run online bidding, then close it at a live event. Same auction. Same checkout.
Talk to us. We will walk you through the plan that fits your event.
Create your free account, add a few items, and preview exactly what your donors will see on their phones. Decide after you have seen it.
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