Bid Beacon has been the best choice for our organization's needs and has made it possible to run our silent auction more easily and with fantastic results.

Bid Beacon has been a game changer for our annual silent auction. This is our organization's primary fundraiser and Bid Beacon has made it possible for us to reach an entirely different group of bidders who may not attend our in-person event. We can't imagine using anything else!

It would be great to have a few more customizable options, particularly the colors of the auction pages for those who pay for the highest tier.

Overall, this online tool is really amazing. I really like that it saves past auctions so you can compare years easily.

Easy to set up, easy for the users (older than baby boomers did struggle a bit), and even easier pick up process. Our company has used it two years in a row and it was a fantastic way to reach people, that otherwise wouldn’t have seen our items.

I think the price for adding on photos is absurd. We’re showcasing art and sometimes to get the full “picture” I need 3-5 photos per item. I quickly have to up the package-, and it’s pretty frustrating. I wish there was a feature that could show others that were looking at the items real time. It could build excitement and up bids.

It’s is very cost effective, and was pretty easy to figure out

Users should be required to enter credit card info before they start bidding, and then charged at auction closing for any items won. this would help in closing out auction items

Great experience with Bid Beacon, we will definitely be using this for our silent auction every year.

Bid Beacon gave us the ability to do something we hadn't previously been able to do, which was have a silent auction without all of the cluttering around tables of miscellaneous items. We opted to make all of our silent auction items experiences, or coupons instead of tangible things. (For example, a 3 night stay in a nearby town vs a basket of wine and chips) Bid Beacon allowed us to make eye catching thumbnails for these experiences and all of them sold for more than what we were expecting. It's very user friendly, and even some of our older attendees were able to bid along.

There isn't a feature that allows you to format the text within the auction item description. This makes the description look like a hard to read wall of text. It would be a huge improvement to be able to bold text and add bullet points.

Easy to put pictures and information onto the site

You could not enlarge the pictures Some of the bid functions did not work properly.