SchoolAuction.net Changelog

    Every day, our support and development teams work closely to improve our software. We make updates and implement new features based on feedback from you, our customers.

    Covering July 2023 – June 2026.

    June 2026

    • Sharper reporting in the back office — Added search, sorting, and pagination to billing and residuals views, and expanded our California charity-compliance reporting.

    April 2026

    • Plan-change tools — New tools to message supporters and manage payment processing for accounts moving between plans.
    • Helpful setup guidance — Added a heads-up about Flash Sales right in campaign and ticket setup, plus a customer-name search on billing views.

    March 2026

    • Credit card "circuit breaker" — A new safeguard automatically detects payment-processing trouble, alerts our team, and provides one-click recovery — so checkout keeps running smoothly when it matters most, like the night of your event.
    • Receipts that do more — Added a print option and enhanced QR-code support on receipts for quick, contactless access.
    • Reliability across the board — A large round of stability and error-handling improvements across dashboards, checkout, and admin tools.

    February 2026

    • Stability & security hardening — Extensive reliability work so the platform handles unusual and automated traffic gracefully, with strengthened account protection behind the scenes.
    • Custom banner colors — Banner colors now extend to buttons for a more cohesive, on-brand look across your event pages.
    • Admin convenience — Added a "Show All Bids" view for admins.
    • Better character support — Forms and data now handle emoji and special characters reliably.

    January 2026

    • Sales by Month, your way — Added a year selector to the Sales by Month report and fixed forecast data so the numbers you rely on are always at hand.
    • Smoother onboarding — Enhanced user-invitation handling for getting your team set up.

    December 2025

    • AI-assisted item descriptions — A new tool writes and enhances item descriptions for you in a click, with an undo button if you'd like to tweak it. Available to Plus and Pro accounts.
    • Admin polish — Easier configuration editing and a cleaner manual-awarding experience.

    November 2025

    • Invite-your-guests links — Ticket buyers can now share a link so their guests complete their own details — less data entry for organizers, more accurate guest lists.
    • Payments, refined — A reworked "Pay Later" flow, clearer messaging when a partial refund can't be completed, added safety checks on round-up donations, and greater precision on stored payment amounts.
    • Clearer language — Renamed "vault"/"Card Storage" to the friendlier "Stored Card" throughout, with more consistent order-status wording.
    • Auction closeout — Continued reliability improvements and recovery tools, plus an auto-award toggle.
    • More payment options — Added support for an additional payment partner.

    October 2025

    • Pay-by-link invoices — Add a payment link directly to invoices so supporters can complete self-checkout in seconds.
    • Auction & bidding upgrades — Bidding-group improvements, a refined awarding modal, and additional auto-closeout recovery tools.
    • Referral program — Brought the referral program back to free-tier accounts, with UI refinements.
    • Text-to-Give clarity — Clearer handling and messaging around SMS-donate account status.
    • Custom fields — Bug fixes and a cleaner user-defined-field form experience.
    • Dashboard help — Reworked the webinar and help-resources section for easier access to support.

    September 2025

    • Online auction auto-closeout — New automatic closeout for online auctions, paired with recovery tools to keep wind-down smooth.
    • Cleaner bid paddles — Fixed half-page bid-paddle generation.
    • Import/export — Added SMS-template support to imports and exports.

    August 2025

    • Digital wallet checkout, refined — Polished Apple Pay and Google Pay support at checkout, intelligently shown when supported for one-tap giving and faster payment.
    • Double the Donation — New employer-matching integration so supporters can easily multiply their gift.
    • Clearer trial experience — More visible trial-mode banners with built-in upgrade prompts.
    • Tidier pricing — Whole-dollar amounts now hide unnecessary cents for cleaner displays.
    • Donor tools — Search all records (including non-donors) from the item form, and automatically create a donor when an item is added under their name.

    July 2025

    • Digital wallets at checkout — Continued the rollout of Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Android Pay at checkout, now capturing masked card details and expiration for smoother transaction handling.
    • Better duplicate detection — The "Possible Duplicate Users" filter now catches matching names with different email addresses.
    • Compliance reporting — New California charity reporting with EIN-status options in the back office.
    • More payment options — Payment-gateway updates to support an additional partner.

    June 2025

    • Reimagined in-app help — A new in-app help experience with inline articles and a more visible help button, so answers are easier to find without leaving your event.
    • Phone support for professional subscribers — Added a phone-support option right where professional-plan subscribers need it.
    • Easier catalog access — Smoother navigation to your catalog and cleaner bidder-handle display in bid listings.

    May 2025

    • Automated pre-event reviews — New automated checks help catch setup issues before your event goes live.
    • Friendlier support & bidding — Introduced an in-app support assistant and improved the online bid-display layout for readability.

    April 2025

    • Flexible bid paddles — Added a half-size bid-paddle option and clearer paddle-number generation for printing.
    • Catalog & reports — Fixed catalog sort order, made the winning-bid report easier to reach, and let admins adjust cash donations to fractional amounts.

    March 2025

    • Guest management API — Introduced an API for managing guests, opening the door to deeper integrations.
    • Card reader & swiper upgrades — Improved credit-card swiper support (including a Chromebook card-reader heads-up) for faster on-site check-in and checkout.
    • Better Payments report — Added common filters, clearer payment displays, and a print-status indicator in the advanced menu.
    • Mobile app integration — Connected the account page with our mobile app experience.

    February 2025

    • Smarter custom fields — User-defined fields gained inline validation, clearer help text, and a refined interface.
    • Bulk text messaging — Added text-message templates for ticket buyers and an easy way to enable texting from bulk actions.
    • Longer-lasting invite links — Extended expiration on "donate an item" and "edit tickets / guest info" links, giving supporters more time to respond.
    • Richer sales views — Added address columns and sorting to sales views.

    January 2025

    • "Last Ask" configuration — Added skip-tier options, custom title text, and smarter defaults to the checkout donation prompt.
    • Professional phone support, reworked — Streamlined how professional subscribers request support.
    • Faster order search — Reworked order-listing search for quicker, more accurate lookups.

    December 2024

    • Online Bidding Dashboard — Renamed the "Mobile Dashboard" to the clearer "Online Bidding Dashboard" and opened it up to Essentials-plan customers.
    • Nothing lost at checkout — Temporary orders and payments are now saved if a payment attempt is interrupted.
    • Catalog & orders polish — Newest orders sort to the top by default, clearer "Quantity On Hand" labels, an improved print menu, and a fix so non-public items can't be bid on via direct link.

    November 2024

    • Embeddable "Give" button — A new donation widget you can drop right into your own website, with customizable colors, text, and support for multiple buttons per page.
    • "Last Ask" donation prompt — A configurable prompt at checkout that invites supporters to add a donation, with tiered options.
    • Hybrid auction clarity — Improved messaging on the My Bid screen and bid list for hybrid events.

    October 2024

    • Optional ZIP at check-in — Admins can now turn off the ZIP-code requirement to speed up the registration line.
    • Buy Now notifications — Optional admin notifications when Buy Now items sell.
    • Catalog & print refinements — Description sheets now respect line breaks, with additional catalog and autofill improvements.

    September 2024

    • Dashboard refresh — Updated the admin dashboard and cleaned up the default catalog view.
    • Signup visibility — Made supporters created from the signup page easier to see and manage.

    August 2024

    • Apple Pay & Google Pay arrive — Launched digital-wallet payments (Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Android Pay) for faster, one-tap giving at checkout.
    • Contribution reporting — Added preset reporting to help organizations meet political-contribution reporting requirements.
    • Sharper icons — Upgraded our icon set for a cleaner, more modern look across the app.

    July 2024

    • Overhauled mobile paddle raise — Rebuilt the paddle-raise display for mobile, making live giving smoother on phones.
    • Optional phone number — Added an optional phone-number field to capture supporter contact info.
    • Homepage QR codes — Added QR codes to event homepages for quick mobile access.

    June 2024

    • Clearer fees — Reworked offset-fee settings and messaging so supporters see exactly what they're paying.
    • Smoother self-checkout — Streamlined the self-checkout experience and resolved edge cases with expired orders.

    May 2024

    • More secure QR checkout — Made QR-code checkout safer by limiting it to checkout only, without logging the user in.
    • Catalog sorting — Added new catalog sort options, plus a safeguard that prevents changing an item's type once it has bids.

    April 2024

    • Customizable Will Call report — Added customization options to the Will Call report.
    • Unified campaign checkout — Began unifying campaign checkouts for a more consistent giving flow, with improved pledge and fee handling.
    • Admin safeguards — Give pages now warn admins if they won't be visible to the public.

    March 2024

    • Emailable gift certificates — Send gift certificates along with receipts by email.
    • Redesigned progress tracker — New display and orientation settings for the thermometer / progress tracker.
    • Smoother campaign checkout — A unified checkout flow, clearer fee display at confirmation, and improved receipt and pledge handling.
    • Sharper printing — Bid sheets now use fonts that support a wider range of characters.

    February 2024

    • Sponsorship email tools — Added email communications and order-page templates for sponsorships.
    • Point-of-sale item status — New item-status controls at point of sale.
    • Unified advanced search — Standardized advanced search across orders and users for a consistent experience.
    • Richer sales reports — Added table and seat details to sales reports, with clearer, more descriptive settings.

    January 2024

    • Sell sponsorships online — Initial release of online sponsorship sales, letting organizations offer and sell sponsorship packages directly.
    • Spam protection — Added reCAPTCHA to donation pages to cut down on bot submissions.
    • Campaign banners — New campaign banner customization, plus a reorganized dashboard for quicker navigation.
    • Payment platform upgrade — Began rolling out our next-generation payment processing.

    December 2023

    • Free & $0 items — Added support for $0 items in stores and give carts — great for free add-ons.
    • Custom fields — New clear-with-backup tools for user-defined fields.

    November 2023

    • Custom campaign banner colors — Enabled custom colors on campaign banners.
    • Sponsor packages — Fixed sponsor packages so they correctly include tickets, with contest/voting refinements.

    October 2023

    • Low-seat notifications — Added alerts when ticket and table seats are running low.
    • Customizable sales reports — Reorganized sales-report field customization, with item-status and receipt improvements.

    September 2023

    • Per-campaign email headers — Customize the email header for each give campaign.
    • Chair tools — Chairs can now delete line items after they've been returned, with clearer paddle generation.

    August 2023

    • New themes & templates — Introduced new site themes and templates (including poster and modular layouts) with refreshed default styling.
    • Accessible custom colors — Added custom color options across give and public pages, with contrast improvements for readability.
    • Saved cards in profiles — Supporters can securely save a card from their My Info profile.

    July 2023

    • Refreshed catalog & banners — New catalog item display styles, a new stock-image library, and responsive page banners across public pages.
    • Faster check-in — Self check-in now defaults on, with flexible card-saving settings.
    • Ticket protection — Added rate limiting and a void feature to safeguard ticket sales.

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