The auction is where the evening makes its money. Treat it that way.
A gala lives or dies on twenty minutes of bidding. Those minutes deserve better than paddles-and-spotters guesswork or a platform that quietly keeps five percent of what your donors gave.
Building it all is free. You pay once, when you open the real bidding.
Platforms that take a cut, take it from the cause
Five percent of an €80,000 evening is €4,000 of donated money. We charge a flat price you can put in the budget beforehand, and nothing of what you raise — the whole difference goes where your donors intended.
Half the guest list could not come
Put a live stream from the room on the bidding page and remote guests hear your auctioneer while they bid on the same lots at the same moment. A patron in another country bids like a table guest.
High-value lots need care
Hidden reserves so nothing sells below its worth, proxy bidding for guests who leave early, a buyer’s premium if your model uses one, and the power to void a mistaken bid without drama. On the wall: first names only.
How a gala runs
Two hundred guests, nine live lots and a silent table of thirty. The silent lots close during dessert, the live lots go one by one with the auctioneer’s countdown on the screen, and the fund-a-need bar fills in real time. Settlement e-mails are out before the band starts.
See it work before you decide
Build the whole auction, print the codes and run a full rehearsal with a colleague bidding from their phone. Ten minutes and you will know whether this fits your evening.