Paperless/Electonic Silent Auction Bidding

Enhance your silent auction experience with audience response bidding technology!

From Hand-Held Devices To Cellular-Based
Bidding Technology, Auction-Tracker Has You Covered!

For twenty years, Auction-Tracker has helped to advance one of the consistent money making machines of the benefit auction, the silent auction. With our introduction of computer automation, which has helped to significantly lower the cost of production, events have been able to consistently raise the financial take. Guaranteed Bids and Bid-O-Gram, for example, have helped numerous non-profit organizations across North American to push the million dollar threshold. While we are pleased with the results we have helped to produce, we at Northwest Software are not satisfied!

Welcome to electronic silent auction bidding...
Northwest Software is pleased to integrate and offer the top market solutions from IML Worldwide of the UK, the market leaders in interactive audience response systems and Qtego of Indianapolis, Indiana, a telecommunications company offering unique human interaction services.

Solutions Built To Meet Your Specific Event Needs
Using either of these simple to use, cleanly designed technologies, bidders are free to go anywhere in the venue and maintain a constant vigilance over their bids without the need to continuously return to the silent auction tables. In turn, this frees the bidder to socialize with other guests and have a good time.

AFP Code of Ethics Pricing Compliant
Vendors supported by Northwest Software provide their services on an established price schedule and do not take a percentage compensation based on patron contributions for their services. This ensures that your budget is fixed and not full of surprises when service is rendered. Save hundreds to thousands of dollars over electronic bidding providers who's fees are either in part or based soley on the financial success of your event. A percentage of your profit! Critical funds your organization can use to support its' programs and needed services. Your paying for a fixed service. Why should you pay more when nothing is done to earn it?

Before making any verbal or written commitment, demand to see the contract! Before signing the contract, take the time to carefully read and understand what you are paying for.

Integration With The Market's Premiere Auction Software
An electronic bidding device by itself is not event fundraising management! It is simply a tool to enhance your silent auction experience, nothing more.

Using the valuable data you have collected and entered over the weeks prior to your event, Auction-Tracker takes these simple to use solutions and communicates with them in two easy steps:

Auction-Tracker transfers complete, detailed, information on all items offered for silent bid as well as all guest information in advance of your event. You come prepared with no last minute concerns. Last minute items and bidders are easily managed right up to the start of your event.
After all silent auction sections are closed, winning bids and Fund-A-Need gifts are easily returned to Auction-Tracker for a fast and efficient checkout of your patrons with 100% accuracy.

The Auction-Tracker advantage? Your patrons leave with guest statements that meet both I.R.S. and Revenue Canada federal reporting and substantiation law regulations. Even more important, you get the power of Auction-Tracker to analyze, from event-to-event, your patrons' spending habits and trends. Knowing their level of support is just one of the key aspects Auction-Tracker manages that you need to put your event on a consistent path to success for the long-term! No other event fundraising software in the market can give you this level of comprehensive data management.

Electronic Bidding Benefits
Some of the benefits of the interactive audience response devices include:

Elimination of the silent auction bid sheet. (The paper, printing and preparation are gone.)
Barcode technology and bidder labels become obsolete.
Continuous bid updates enable guests to monitor silent auction items from their seats.
Guests receive confirmation messages if they have entered the highest bid.

For complete information, contact Jack Wilson at 425.252.7287 or via email at solutions@nwsoftware.com.