SchoolAuction.net is a service of Northworld LLC, the premier provider of benefit-auction software solutions. Which is to say, we’re a software company who likes to help non-profits with their fundraisers.
Let’s talk about how procuring auction items has changed in the time of COVID-19.
The most common conversation I have with prospective customers surrounds one particular aspect of our product design: it’s a annual plan, which allows you to...
Have you checked out DonationMatch yet? I’ll give you a moment. Do come back, though: we have a very cool program going on with them...
We’re rolling out new code this afternoon, including an adjustment to our new catalog display. Some of you have been unhappy about the way item...
So in my last blog post, I told you about some new code that we have been working on. Most of the time, we release...
Special Appeals (aka Paddle Raises or Fund-A-Need) are a staple of fundraising auctions. Mobile Bidding is a popular auction trend. Are they compatible?
We use Amazon’s AWS service to serve the item images on your auction sites. We also use two other services that rely on it heavily:...
Last summer, we re-jiggered the feature sets for our annual plan levels, adding significant new mobile-bidding features to our Plus and Premium annual plans. We...
From time to time, I’m going to post questions sent to me from auction chairs about our product or company, along with our answers.
Last night, we rolled out three greatly-anticipated upgrades to our software that should make your life as an auction chair easier. We’re excited about these,...
Auction longevity is certainly a sign of success, but it can also lead to stagnation. After a few years of hosting the same event, your...
Here at SchoolAuction.net, we’re continuously upgrading our auction software throughout the year, and this summer, we will be rolling out some awesome upgrades. In addition...
This summer, we’re going to be rolling out many improvements to our mobile-bidding system; we’ve received some excellent feedback from the mobile events of this...
We’ve been asked often by the schools who use our software how to set it up for online scrip ordering. We used to discourage this,...
The second edition of our blog series Case Study comes from way out east in the great state of Washington. Laurel Hosmer, Assistant Athletic Director...
If you have used our software in the past 7 years (and you aren’t based in our hometown of Portland), you probably found us through...
Most weeks, we release a code upgrade. We don’t blog about these regularly (although I probably should), because most of the time (at least during...
No doubt about it, Mobile Bidding has been the topic of the past couple of years around here. We spent a lot of time thinking...
First of all, my apologies - this is long for a blog post. But I want to put it here, so we can engage in...
Yahoo made some changes to their security settings in the past two weeks - which is blocking emails being sent with a Yahoo “from” address,...
The widely-publicized vulnerability in Open SSL has affected most e-commerce web applications on the Internet, and our software is no exception. We have been working...
Over the next 20 months or so, most merchants in the United States who accept credit-card transactions will be upgrading their card-reading equipment, to enable...
Online auctions may appear to be an easy, convenient way to raise money for your school or organization. But the truth is that online auctions,...
From the moment you purchase our software, we’ll offer you opportunities to learn how to use it. However, we know that regardless of how much...
Running a school fundraiser can be a lot of work – we know; we’ve done it ourselves. We’ve also helped a lot of other fundraising...
UPDATE: Fall 2014
Our one-of-a-kind fundraising software is designed to make guests happier and results better for hard-working volunteer teams. To that end, we are excited to announce...
We’ve developed software that will effectively support you in carrying off a successful school auction fundraiser. And… it has lots of other wonderful bells and...
In our last blog we talked about the most important pieces of information to have with you on Auction night. In today’s post, we’re adding...
The Auction is over… but what about the leftover items?
This week, along with several security- and performance-enhancements, we’ve enabled the following:
A couple of weeks ago, there was news that Square, the innovative payments processor that makes those iPhone-based card-readers one sees at coffee shops everywhere,...
Square has been a disruptive force in the merchant-processing business since its emergence a couple of years ago. And since you can use just about...
We got some very exciting news this week - SchoolAuction.net was named a Top Product of 2012 by Christian School Products magazine.
Many of our customers are either gung-ho about doing an online auction, or curious about it. It’s one of the reasons they like our software...
Did you know you can try our essentials, plus or professional plans for free!
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