Resources

At MobilBid, we like sharing resources and information about our products, practices, upgrades and generally what we are all about. We also like hearing from you. So if you have information to share, questions to ask or stories to tell, please let us know.

Feature Sheet

Review a complete list of features and options here…

Your Best Silent Auction Experience Brochure by MobilBid

Planning a Charity Golf Event This Year?

Discover how MobilBid can add fun, excitement, and success to your silent auction…then end on a high note with “instant close” and mobile payment.

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MobilBid Cheat Sheet

MobilBid Hacks

Amazing Tips to make your life easier and give you a better, more successful, silent auction!

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10 ways to Maximise your silent auction efforts

10 Ways to Maximize Your Silent Auction Efforts

Non-profits and event organizers are using MobilBid to hold silent auctions that are easy to manage, exciting for their guests and quite simply raise more money - with a lot less fuss. They share their tips with us and we're happy to share them with you.

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Five reasons to consider MobilBid for your next silent auction

Five Reasons to Consider MobilBid

MobilBid was designed as a full-featured, highly effective mobile bidding platform that clients are using to improve the results of any-sized fundraiser. So forget those stories about the high-cost of mobile bidding and discover MobilBid. We'll help you reduce costs and raise more money.

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A Guide to the Silent Auction Technology Make Over

Five features fundraisers love about today’s charity silent auctions.

Charity silent auctions have been a mainstay of modern fundraising for decades. As popular as they are, anyone who has ever been involved agrees that silent auctions of any size are a lot of work, require astute planning, tight organization, and an army of volunteers to ensure the event is a success.

We’re talking live event silent auctions, not to be confused with Internet-based online auctions that all mimic eBay.

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Still Using Pencils and Bid Sheets But Not Looking Forward to Your Next Silent Auction?

A couple of minutes watching this short video will give you the lowdown on how MobilBid can help you set up and manage your next event - deliver an amazing guest experience - close and clear your venue in minutes not hours and most importantly spend less to raise more money.

Made-Up Toronto: MobilBid Assists Exhibit with Mobile Bidding, Silent Auction Platform

Recently, two young curators chose MobilBid for a unique Toronto art exhibit exploring makeup as communicating cultural and social identity. This fundraising exhibition featured 24 portraits by renowned photographer Leeor Wild. Working with the curators, MobilBid helped design and set parameters of the charity silent auction for this fundraising event. Visitors simply texted a special number to instantly access the auction, with portraits and descriptions, to start bidding. This brief video delivers a fascinating glimpse of this exceptional event.

Unity for Autism Chooses MobilBid for its 2018 Unity Golf Classic

Unity for Autism is a Toronto – totally volunteer-based - charitable foundation dedicated to assisting the many service providers for autism overwhelmed by the growing number of families needing their services.

The annual Unity Golf Classic is the organization’s signature event and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars since its inception. This year Copper Creek Golf Club in Kleinberg, just north of Toronto, hosted the fundraiser.

MobilBid worked with organizers to design and set up the charity silent auction for this fundraising event who then managed the auction from a laptop computer.

MobilBid at AFP Congress

Delegates to the AFP Congress in Toronto were invited to participate in a MobilBid "Mock Auction" to try the product and bid on unique business items.

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Features List

Confused by the pricing of online and mobile bidding platforms? So are we.

Many companies offering online or mobile bidding platforms for charity auctions prominently display the minimum low cost of using their software and then in a blur of asterisks and fine print list dozens of exceptions, restrictions, limitations, term contracts, and gotchas.

At MobilBid we pride ourselves on transparent performance pricing. You pay nothing until you use our platform. Our pricing includes access to all our advanced features, unlimited use of the platform, training, ongoing tech assist, and no restrictions… to everyone using MobilBid.

So, we decided to list our features. Use it to compare MobilBid with any company offering similar services.

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Auction Administrators
Number of Administrators
Unlimited
Online Tutorial Videos/Searchable Help Files
Unlimited
Number of Auction Items
Unlimited
SMS Dedicated Phone # + Usage Fees
Unlimited
Telephone/Zoom Training for Administrators
Unlimited
Telephone/Email Support for Administrators
Unlimited
Revenue per Auction
Unlimited
Length of Auction
No Restrictions
Silent Auction Item Type
Included
Display and Assign Live Auction Winners
Included
Accept Donations/Fund A Need
Included
Import Auction Items from a Spreadsheet
Included
Bulk Assign Auction Item Photos
Included
Print Auction Item Display Cards (In-Person Events)
Included
Display Auction Items by Custom Category
Included
Schedule Auction Preview
Included
Pre-program Start and End Times
Included
Schedule Automatic Messaging
Included
Customizable messaging Templates
Included
Leaderboard/Sponsor Display (In-Person Events)
Included
Multi-Sale Auction Item Type
Included
Participants/Bidders
Number of Bidders
Unlimited
Number of Bids
Unlimited
Optimized Smartphone Bidding
Included
Optimized Tablet/Laptop/Desktop Bidding
Included
Easy Text Signup
Included
Bilingual English/French or Both
Included
Bidding Functions Easily Accessible to Visually Impaired
Included
In Person/Online/Virtual Bidding
Included
Max Bid/Auto Bid Feature
Included
Countdown Timer on Bidder Screen
Included
SMS & Email Outbid Alerts
Included
Email and SMS Messaging Broadcasts
Unlimited
No Unauthorized Third-party Advertising
Ever
Closing/Billing
Request CC Information Prior to First Bid
Included
Automatic Tabulation and Invoice Generation at Close
Included
Automatic CC Payment Processing*
Included
Automatic Notification to Winning and Non-Winning Bidders
Included
Supports CAD & USD Currencies
Included
PDF/CSV Invoice and Payment Details
Included
PDF/CSV Bidding Reports by Item and Bidder
Included
CSV Participants Names & Contact info
Included
Data Analytics/Report Retention
Included

*Client STRIPE fees apply when using MB platform

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