The complete charity auction platform
Everything your night needs.
Nothing extra to buy.
From the first guest registration to the final thank-you screen, BID gives you mobile bidding, venue displays, ticketing, payments, lot management and a live dashboard — all in one place.
Built for the room. Designed for the phone in every hand.
for a guest to register and start bidding
drives every TV and screen in the venue
platform fee, forever, for every charity
Build the auction
Name it, set the start and end time, upload your charity logo and a 1600×900 background, then choose a currency.
Load the lots
Photo, description, starting price, bid increment, reserve and internal cost price. Categories and sub-categories keep long catalogues browsable.
Guests register
A QR code or short link opens the auction. Name and email is all it takes. No passwords, no app.
Name + email
The room plays along
Displays rotate lots and leaderboards, phones buzz on outbids, and the countdown keeps everyone honest.
Close and collect
The clock runs out, winners are locked in and cards are charged automatically. Reports are ready before the lights come up.
Everything included
One platform. Every moving part of your night.
Mobile bidding, no app required.
Guests scan a QR code or tap a link, enter their name and email, and start bidding in under ten seconds. The whole experience is designed for phones and tablets first.
- One-tap next-increment bids
- Instant outbid push alerts
- Synchronised countdown on every screen
- Anonymous bidding option for every guest
Room display URL
One link powers every TV in the venue: rotating lots, live leaderboard, countdown clock and new-bid banners.
Automatic payment
Cards are captured at registration and charged the moment the auction closes. Winners get receipts; you get a settlement report.
Full lot management CMS
Add photos, descriptions, starting price, reserve and internal cost price. Cost price is hidden from guests but visible to your team for margin reporting.
Categories and sub-categories keep long catalogues browsable.
Live auction lots
Mark lots as live-only so the room can watch and cheer, with bidding controlled by the auctioneer.
Dynamic auctioning
Guests search across your entire catalogue. When they bid on an unlisted item, it instantly joins the live auction.
Ticketing, built in.
Sell singles, couples, tables and VIP packages from the same event as your auction. Build your table plan, set capacity limits, share one mobile booking link, and check guests in on the night.
- Promo codes: fixed or percentage discounts
- CSV guest list import and export
Event microsite.
A beautiful public page for your evening: event info, running order, ticket sales, auction preview, travel, parking, local hotels and an interactive venue map. Hosted by us or on your own domain.
Engagement boost
One tap in the live dashboard pushes quiet lots to the top of bidder phones and shows them twice as often on venue screens until the first bid lands.
Live dashboard
Real-time totals, money raised breakdown, top lots, top donors, top tables and a live activity feed — designed mobile-first so you can check it from the floor.
Room layout builder
Drag-and-drop floor plan with square and rectangle tables, VIP tags, sponsor tables, special guests and a dedicated lot-display table shape.
Gift Aid, ready to claim.
HMRC-compliant declarations, split-rule math and a CSV export for your claim. Bidders opt in during registration or checkout.
How Gift Aid workson eligible donations
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Unique, money-can’t-buy lots at pre-negotiated rates: authenticated memorabilia, limited artwork and celebrity experiences with current stars and legends.
Pledges, with a twist.
Let guests pledge preset or custom amounts, one-off or monthly. Pledges over £50 spin the prize wheel for a little gamified fun.
Schedule everything
Set start and end times per auction. When the clock hits zero, winners lock in and cards charge automatically.
Thank-you credits roll
At close, the room display switches to a film-style credits roll of every guest name with a thank-you message.
Secure & auditable
Every bid is timestamped, every action logged, with role-based access for your team and platform owner oversight.
QR codes & short links
One code opens bidding, another opens ticketing, another opens the room display. No printed sheets, no confusion.
Carbon neutral by default
We plant a tree for every lot sold on every auction, balancing the footprint of the events you run through BID.
Boost engagement in one tap.
When some lots are quiet, hit the Boost button in your live dashboard. Those items jump to the top of the mobile bidding list and appear twice as often on the room display — until the first bid returns them to their natural order.
- ✦Surface still-waiting lots automatically
- ✦Push them to the top of every bidder’s phone
- ✦Show them more frequently on venue screens
- ✦Return to normal order once bidding starts
See it in action. No sign-up needed.
Open the demo auction on your phone, place a bid, watch the room display update, and see how the dashboard tracks every pound raised in real time.