BiddingForGood

BiddingForGood

FrontStream
GiveSmart

GiveSmart

Momentive Software
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About

BiddingForGood by FrontStream is an online auction platform built for nonprofits, schools, and organizations looking to raise more money with online auctions. A part of the Panorama all-in-one fundraising platform, BiddingForGoodlets users run online, live, and mobile auctions from anywhere. It also offers tools for easy event administration, such as online ticketing, registration, bidding, and check out.

About

GiveSmart is a versatile fundraising and donor management platform designed to help nonprofits and organizations maximize their campaign impact. The system offers tools for managing mobile bidding, silent auctions, event ticketing, and peer-to-peer fundraising, making events interactive and engaging. It supports seamless online giving with integrated payment processing and text-to-donate features, enhancing donor experience and retention. GiveSmart’s intuitive donor management automates tracking, thank-yous, and recurring giving to boost long-term support. Trusted by over 8,000 nonprofits and schools, the platform powers fundraising campaigns ranging from local operations to large global organizations. With robust reporting and integration capabilities, GiveSmart helps organizations raise more while simplifying event and donor management.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Nonprofits, organizations, schools of every shape and size.

Audience

For Non-profits, education and healthcare

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$249.00/year
9% fee on auction proceeds raised online 3.8% credit card processing fee
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
One flat fee, year round subscription. Unlimited campaigns.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.8 / 5
ease 3.0 / 5
features 2.8 / 5
design 2.0 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The peer to peer software program was reasonable, but still had several issues. Bidding for Good offers certain specs for the art that you can upload to your homepage but they are inaccurate and so it takes several attempts at uploading various files of different sizes before you can find something that works. This problem has been ongoing for years and is still not resolved.
  • Site was okay. Did its job. It’s what I’d expect when paying $950 for a website for once year, nothing special.
  • Easy donor thank yous, good reporting, easy to use overall, easy check out, great online to bid sheet features.
  • It is a pretty good platform for an online auction and ticket sales. Easy to use. I liked that you can use a phone version at the event.

Cons

  • As others have said, the customer service and tech support are really bad. The product is also full of glitches and bugs that have not yet been worked out. Due to a software glitch, they overcharged several of our donors. It took weeks to resolve and almost a year before the glitch was fixed. There were several other problems and inconsistencies. In our auction, sometimes the opening bid price would calculate correctly and sometimes it would not. Several of the customized reports that you can run at the end of the auction did not work at all, such as the disbursement report which tells you amount and date of payouts to your organization. They also charge very high fees to use their platform and many of our donors were upset about having to pay fees on top of the money they are already donating to our organization.
  • They automatically charged us $950 for a second year or use when we stated we were only signing a one year contract. They stated that they notified us that they reached out 60 and 45 days prior, which is an absolute lie as there is no messages in any stated inboxes from the point of contact email.
  • Shipping label feature worthless, tech support poor, knowledge base could have better instructions.
  • Biggest issue is that if you do not cancel the subscription 45 days ahead of your annual initial purchase date, even if you say you only want it for one year, they automatically charge you over $800 again. Also, there was a major technical glitch that automatically upped people's bids on them. Bidding for good never figured it out. Luckily, our bidders were very kind and took it in stride except one that will never give us her email address again.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

FrontStream
Founded: 2007
United States
www.frontstream.com

Company Information

Momentive Software
United States
www.givesmart.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

BidJS

BidJS

bidlogix

Categories

Categories

Auction Features

Absentee Bidding
Alerts/Notifications
Bid Management
Billing & Invoicing
Buy Now Option
Dutch Auction
Inventory Management
Live Auction
Membership Management
Nonprofit / Fundraising
Online Auction
Online Bidding
Online Ticket Sales
Proxy Bidding
Reverse Bidding
Silent Auction
Watch List
Website Management
White Label

Auction Features

Absentee Bidding
Alerts/Notifications
Bid Management
Billing & Invoicing
Buy Now Option
Dutch Auction
Inventory Management
Live Auction
Membership Management
Nonprofit / Fundraising
Online Auction
Online Bidding
Online Ticket Sales
Proxy Bidding
Reverse Bidding
Silent Auction
Watch List
Website Management
White Label

Fundraising Features

Alumni Management
Auction Management
Campaign Management
Contribution Tracking
CRM
Donor Management
Event Management
Gift Matching Management
Grant Management
Membership Management
Mobile Giving
Payment Processing
Pledge Management
Prospect Management
Raffles / Lotteries
Recurring Giving
Volunteer Management

Nonprofit Features

Accounting
Committee Management
Donor Management
Dues Management
Event Management
Fundraising Management
Member Database
Membership Management
Social Media Management
Volunteer Management

Integrations

Momentive Software

Integrations

Momentive Software
Claim BiddingForGood and update features and information
Claim BiddingForGood and update features and information
Claim GiveSmart and update features and information
Claim GiveSmart and update features and information