Deciding on a charity auction provider can be a real challenge. There are a lot of features you might not be familiar with as well as price considerations. Researching auction platforms can take up a lot of time: let us help you narrow things down.
BiddingforGood has a lot to recommend it, and so does CharityAuctionsToday. Compare CharityAuctionsToday vs. BiddingforGood on features and pricing to help decide whether their fundraising platform or ours best suits your needs and your budget.
Please keep in mind that auction sites and their prices update frequently: while this information was accurate at the time of publication, BiddingforGood’s prices or features might have changed since then.
Looking for a different auction platform? Take a look at how we stack up against OneCause, Galabid, Givebutter, and Charitybuzz.
CharityAuctionsToday vs. BiddingforGood Features
BiddingForGood is owned by Frontstream, a digital fundraising platform that can help you organize peer-to-peer fundraisers (like walks, runs, rides, etc.) in addition to charity auctions, donor management and even corporate sponsorships. You’ll notice that a lot of links on BiddingforGood’s site will take you to Frontstream.com for more information.
Like CharityAuctionsToday, BiddingforGood can help you host virtual, hybrid, or live auctions. These auctions allow your bidders to bid from anywhere in the world on their smartphones, tablets, or desktop computers, just like CharityAuctionsToday. Both fundraising platforms can help you sell tickets to your event and get bidders and guests pre-registered for success.
Customizable messaging is available on both platforms, with email templates, shipping labels, and more to help you keep auction administrators and bidders informed.
In addition to these services, BiddingforGood can help you create seating charts and provide your guests with maps of the venue’s layout. Donor and volunteer management, as well as complex peer-to-peer team fundraising, are available at BiddingforGood’s higher pricing tiers. While these functions can help with other aspects of nonprofit fundraising, when it comes to auctions, BiddingforGood and CharityAuctionsToday are neck and neck.
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CharityAuctionsToday vs. BiddingforGood Reviews
We looked at several review platforms and found that CharityAucitionsToday came out on top across the board. BiddingforGood is usually reviewed under the Frontstream or Panorama name, here’s how Panorama reviews shake out.
CharityAuctionsToday | BiddingforGood/Frontstream | |
4.9 | 4.7 | |
G2 | 4.5 | 3.5 |
Capterra | 4.3 | 3.5 |
CharityAuctionsToday vs. BiddingforGood Price
BiddingforGood and its parent company Frontstream, don’t make its prices publicly available. However, Frontstream’s fundraising solution, Panorama, is offered in yearly subscriptions. We understand that performance fees can be between 3-9%, with 3.8% processing fees per transaction.
Keep in mind that these numbers are subject to change, especially depending on which plan you need. With a wider focus than just charity auctions, BiddingforGood is sure to have higher prices.
Importantly, Frontstream’s Panorama fundraising platform plans include different features.
- Its most basic Pro plan includes auctions, event pages, ticketing, and peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities.
- Fronstream’s Panorama Premium plan includes all this and donor management, allowing you to track relationships between donors, employers, and households, as well as organize and schedule volunteers.
- Frontstream’s Panorama Enterprise plan is designed for large organizations holding nationwide fundraising events with regularity.
In comparison, CharityAuctionsToday makes it simple: we offer two types of plans. These plans’ prices include platform fees, to help us cover the costs of operation, processing fees to cover transactions, and, in the case of our Pre-Paid plan, a subscription fee to make sure we can provide solutions and support you require.
- Our Flex plan will cost you 5% of your total proceeds. If you don’t raise anything, you don’t pay anything.
- Our Pre-Paid plan costs a subscription fee of $297-$1,500 per year and platform fees of 0%-3%
- Both plans charge processing fees of 3% + $0.30 per transaction
With a more tightly focused mission, to help small nonprofits raise more with the easiest to use auction platform, CharityAuctionsToday is the more affordable option for fundraising auctions.
Hands-On Help
CharityAuctionsToday is dedicated to helping you raise more with less effort. Every auction is assigned an Auction Success Manager who can help you every step of the way, from set up to invoicing.
Additionally, we strive to design auction features that are self-explanatory. While we can help you understand your options and how to use them, most of our customers are able to set up their auctions without any help from us at all.
Our customers appreciate this hands-on support and the intuitiveness of our platform. Here’s what some of them have to say about it:
Fantastic experience. I’m getting ready to set up a second auction. Response to email questions was speedy and very helpful. Customers loved the online experience and found it very easy to navigate. – Melissa A.
Our experience with CharityAuctionsToday could not have been better! Our company has been doing business with CharityAuctionsToday for the past three years. The online auction feature is exceptional. Our Foundation raised $50,000 over our intended goal and I attribute much of the success to the auction site and the CharityAuctionsToday staff. – Alissa S.
In Conclusion
Although BiddingforGood offers a range of fundraising features, we feel that our platform goes head to head with it when it comes to the features that raise the most for your cause. Auctions that work for live, silent, or hybrid events. Raffles to increase your payout. Ticketing to make your guests’ check in process as simple as possible. Personalized text messaging, high touch support, and easy invoicing—we feel CharityAuctionsToday is well matched with BiddingforGood on these features.
Just as important, CharityAuctionsToday is affordable for small nonprofits and charitable causes, including schools and churches. We aim to help SMB nonprofits to raise more with less, expand their reach, and host successful events year after year. If you’re a small cause with limited budget and a need for flexible fundraising options, CharityAuctionsToday may be the best choice for you.
