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Activating Your Fundraising Event

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The Accelevents fundraising guide. Here you'll find guides on setting up your fundraising modules, FAQs and tips and tricks!

Fundraising

Watch this video to see how you can try our bidding system for your silent auction.

Submitting a Demo Bid

How is the Event Text Message Number Generated?

Create a Fundraising Event From Scratch

How to bid, pledge, donation & everything in between!

Shareable Fundraiser Instructions

Fundraiser Page Views

Adding a Link to an Item Description

Marking Items as Distributed

Goal Starting Amount

Change the Order of Fundraising Items

General Fundraiser Settings

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Auction

Step-by-step video guide for getting your silent auction setup!

Accelevents Auction Video Overview

Watch this video to see how you can set up your silent auction.

Setting up Your Auction

Learn how to easily add your silent auction items.

Adding Your Silent Auction Items

Learn how you can set your auction end date & time.

Setting Your Auction End Date & Time

Watch this video to learn how you can set up payment processing for your silent auction to accept credit card payments.

Setting Up Payment Processing for Your Silent Auction

Set your auction end date and time, hide the auction tab, set auction item categories and more!

Other Auction Settings

Adding/using silent auction item bid increments

Auction Bid Increment

Assigning Multiple Winners for Your Silent Auction Items

Let your bidders know the exact price that they need to pay for an item so that they can purchase it right away!

Buy It Now Feature for Auctions

Extended Bidding

Bidder Registration or Credit Card Registration can be activated by the CX Team for you!

Bidder Registration

Copy your auction or raffle items from one event to another

Fundraising Item Import (from past event)

Submit auction bis through the event landing page or text to bid!

How to Submit Auction Bids

Delete Auction Bids

Online Auction Winner Checkout

In-Person Bidding and Auction Checkout

Marking auction items as paid when someone pays with a cash or check.

Marking an Auction Item as Paid

In-Person Bidding Auction Items

Auction Setup

Activate only when you want to start taking bids

When Should I Activate My Auction?

How Do I Require Auction Participants to Enter Their Credit Card Information When They Bid?

Winners are automatically notified after the event via text message and email.

How are winners selected and notified with Auctions?

Resend a text and email to follow up on credit card payment

How do I follow up on payments from auction winners?

Why are my bidders showing as "Unknown?"

5 Rules for Your Best Silent Auction Yet

Auction FAQ & Tips

Step-by-step video guide for setting up your raffle!

Accelevents Raffle Overview

Edit your raffle end date and time through Raffle > Settings

Setting Your Raffle End Date & Time

Adding Raffle Items

Send a text message using the complimentary raffle ticket code

Complimentary Raffle Tickets

Set your raffle end date and time, hide the raffle tab, set raffle ticker prices and more!

Other Raffle Settings

Activating Credit Card Processing for Your Raffle

Buy raffle tickets through your event page, through texting or pay by cash through staff.

How Do Participants Make Payments for Raffle Tickets?

How can I sell raffle tickets for cash?

What if participants do not submit all of their raffle tickets before the drawing?

Refund raffle tickets through the Buyers & Winners section

How Can I Refund Raffle Tickets?

The system will randomly select a winner for each item when the raffle ends. Winners will be notified via email and text message.

How are Raffle Winners Notified and Selected?

How Do I Add a Raffle to My Silent Auction?

Submit a demo raffle ticket to generate your event text number

Submitting Demo Raffle Tickets

How Do My Guests Purchase and Submit Raffle Tickets?

Raffle

What is Fund a Need?

A step-by-step guide to setting up your mobile fund a need campaign.

Accelevents Fund a Need Video Overview

Setting Up Your Fund a Need Campaign

Setting Your Fund a Need End Date and Time

Adding Your Fund a Need Cause Items

Fund A Need Quantity Limits

Set your Fund A Need end date and time, enable a countdown timer, customize categories, and more!

Other Fund A Need Settings

Setting Up Payment Processing for Your Fund a Need Campaign

Submitting a Demo Fund a Need Pledge

How Can Guests Donate to My Fund a Need Campaign?

Fund A Need

Raise funds through donation on your event page, while buying a ticket and while watching virtual event sessions.

The Donation Feature

Customize the email that your donors receive!

Can I Edit the Email That Donors Receive After they Donate?

How does Text-to-Give work?

Quick, step-by-step guide for setting up your text to give campaign.

Accelevents Text to Give Overview

Donation Goal Amount

Can I embed my donation page into my own website?

Can my donors create a recurring donation?

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Donations & Text to Give

There's no need to download the app! They can use a browser to donate!

Do My Donors Need to Download an App?

What if my participants do not have smart phones?

Do Participants Need to Register in Accelevents to Participate in an Auction or Raffle?

What if someone doesn't have a cell phone or their battery dies?

Do you rent iPads for our event staff and volunteers?

What is the Difference Between Text to Give and Fund a Need?

What should I expect when my fundraising event ends?

Download and view event data and participant information.

Is there a way for me to view the data from my event once it is over?

How do I transition from an online auction to an in-person auction?

Can I Use Event Ticketing with My Silent Auction, Raffle, or Fund a Need Campaign?

Can I monitor the performance of my fundraiser before, during, and after my event?

How do Participants Submit Payment for Items They've Won?

What if I do not know all of the prizes that will be offered until the day of my event?

Use these tips to make it easy for your participants to access your fundraiser page at your event.

How will my guests know how to bid?

How Can My Staff and Volunteers Submit Silent Auction Bids for Participants?

Fundraising FAQs

Find the latest strategies, tips, and trends to help you navigate a successful fundraising event!

Fundraising Tips & Tricks

How to Raise More Money at Your Fundraising Event

Show Fundraiser Page Throughout Venue

Fundraising Tips And Tricks

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