Post-Gala: Offering Unsold Items Online
An Online Auction or your Donate Now page can be useful tools for selling any remaining spaces in Signup parties, extra quantity of Sellable items and/or repositioned Silent items that did not receive any bids during your Gala.
Option A: Online Store page:
If you just have a few different fixed-price items remaining to sell, it is simplest to create a a Fundraising Campaign page for use as an online store. Campaign pages are easy to set up and have a big advantage that buyers do not need to create an account or login in order to make purchases.
Option B: Online Auction:
1. If you have many unsold items and/or items you want to continue to offer to the highest bidder - you can setup (or extend) an Online Auction. If you haven't used the online/mobile bidding feature on your site yet, you'll need to:
- Turn it on and set up the desired access to bid
- Choose your bidding settings
- Confirm your winner notification and online payment settings
2. Edit the items you want to offer online:
- Create an Online Bidding Group with the desired open/closing date/time for your online auction.
- Change "Bidding Via:" to Online/Mobile (and select the newly created Online Bidding Group).
- Since the item did not receive any bids at the Gala, reduce the minimum bid amount.
- If the item is a lot/basket, consider breaking it apart and selling items individually.
3. Hide any items you do not want displayed in the public catalog:
- If you're setting up a new online auction, you can simply configure your display settings so the public can only see Online items by setting the catalog default view to Online and disabling the button bar.
- If you have other online items you don't wish to display, select the items to hide, then bulk edit to Visible to Public? = No.
4. Promote! Make sure your supporters know that these items are still available and send them Invitations to Bid.