The archive of platform updates predating our main changelog. We've been helping organizations run auctions and raise money since 2007. The detailed month-by-month records below begin in 2015 and run through mid-2023 — earlier change history isn't preserved.
Detailed records cover July 2015 – June 2023; the platform itself first launched in 2007. For July 2023 onward, see the main changelog.
June 2023
Flexible page headers — Enabled the "Page Header Text" option on snapshot and poster templates.
One-click color reset — Added a quick way to reset custom site colors.
Ticket quantity tracking — Added quantity tracking to tickets.
Theming — A new custom-color screen and theme-helper improvements.
April 2023
New homepage templates — Refreshed home pages with new public-page styling and per-template edit and print controls.
Manual payment handling — New tools to accept or cancel payments manually, a new cart/self-checkout payment flow, and easier ways to spot and resolve credit-card errors.
March 2023
Smarter ticket linking — Added safeguards so a ticket email is only reused when it's already linked, with stronger record validation.
February 2023
Online bidding confirmation — Added a confirmation screen to online bidding and clearer messaging when a link has expired.
Closing times & reporting — Added auction closing times, improved the Sales Report, and added fee controls to the edit box.
January 2023
Add/Edit Item improvements — Streamlined the item add/edit experience and standardized the bid, donor, and signup lists.
Cleaner bidding form — Improved how data displays in the bidding form.
December 2022
Custom-field safeguards — Added warnings when a field value isn't in its select list, and surfaced field names in import dropdowns.
Webinar signup — Added webinar signup.
November 2022
Add staff from the dashboard — Admins can now add staff directly from the dashboard.
Trial visibility — Show the trial end date while in trial.
October 2022
Flexible line items — Made the participant optional on line items.
September 2022
QR codes on sheets — Added QR codes to sellable-item and signup sheets, with item-number centering fixes.
Bid paddle settings — New bid-paddle configuration options.
August 2022
Peer-to-peer fundraising — Early peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities.
Offset controls — Super users can adjust offset-fee info, with improved error handling.
July 2022
Team fundraising — A new team-level page, with support for give pages that don't use groups.
Recurring donation compliance — Updated recurring donations to meet new requirements.
June 2022
Team levels — Added default team levels for peer-to-peer campaigns.
More supporter features — Updated underlying components and added supporter-facing features.
May 2022
SMS keywords — Added support for spaces in text-to-give keywords.
Ticket sorting — New "has ticket" sort override.
April 2022
Outbid alerts everywhere — Outbid emails and texts are now logged to email history, with fixes so outbid notices send during live, hybrid galas.
Texting compliance — Added the toll-free texting requirement form and improved ticket logic.
March 2022
Account recovery — Improved tools to recover different types of user records.
Friendlier passwords — Replaced strict password blocking with client-side warnings, and made texting optional when no phone number is provided.
Bulk edit — Added a Save button to the top of bulk-edit items, in a larger modal.
February 2022
Online-only setup fix — Resolved a credit-card setup issue for online-only products.
January 2022
Virtual event polish — New social-share (Open Graph) images for campaigns and homepages, plus give-page story text.
December 2021
Streamlined signup — A new signup form with a show/hide password toggle and verification-code email.
Email opt-in — Added subscriber/opt-in columns to the users view.
September 2020
Give-page media — Upload a custom image or pick a stock image for the classic give layout, with new template icons.
Virtual paddle raise — Improved the paddle-raise experience for virtual galas.
August 2020
A new give experience — Launched a new give index and fundraiser pages, with crowdfunding layouts featuring images, video, contributor lists, and top donations.
July 2020
Progress tracker — A new progress-tracker admin page and post-event display options, plus a cart in the navbar.
June 2020
Virtual events expand — More virtual-event features, live-chat tools, and refined alerts.
May 2020
Virtual gala toolkit — Event-type messaging for virtual galas, a livestream navbar and banner, chat avatars, and SMS templates.
April 2020
Virtual Gala launch — Introduced the Virtual Gala with live video support, auction-night controls, and the option to hide vote totals and standings.
March 2020
Thermometer on give pages — Added the fundraising thermometer to give pages, with smart display logic.
February 2020
Catalog categories — Master-category management and sellable-item package filtering, with maximum-quantity offer limits.
January 2020
Add a second guest — Capture a second guest during ticket sales.
Item gallery — A new photo gallery, plus premium support features.
December 2019
Category images & tiles — Added category images and a catalog browse experience with item counts.
November 2019
Master categories — Master-category tiles for the catalog, with image cropping and editable SMS templates.
October 2019
eCheck payments — Added eCheck support with refunds, plus payment methods and transaction descriptions in sales reports.
September 2019
Concierge call requests — Added "request a call" buttons and authorized-caller views, plus a pause-closeout option to extend bidding.
August 2019
Bidding groups — Create and manage bidding groups from the item form and during migration, with an "items without bids" badge.
July 2019
Award & pay — New award and pay buttons, online closing-time tables, and bulk checkout from the dashboard.
June 2019
Text notifications — Added text-message preferences and counters across ticket sales and invites.
May 2019
Text messaging opt-in — Text-notification options across signup, self check-in, and ticket sales, plus auto-invite templates.
April 2019
Mobile catalog — Added a catalog preview, user-selectable item views, and mobile item names and descriptions.
March 2019
Catalog navigation — New catalog navigation, category lists, and mobile catalog views.
February 2019
Theme overrides — Added theme overrides and a Buy Now confirmation; Online Auction added to table-management autocomplete.
January 2019
Tax deduction in exports — Added potential tax-deduction amounts to orders and CSV exports, with a vault-only processing flag.
December 2018
Installment payments — Added installment-month options, with a customizable view modal and select-all.
November 2018
Display screens — New display-screen color schemes and grouping, plus a postponed-order status.
October 2018
In-app guidance — Added inline help to public pages, including the homepage.
September 2018
Vaulted-card giving — Process give-page payments with a saved (vaulted) card, plus sponsorship admin email improvements.
August 2018
New printouts — Launched a new printout format with banner images on bid and description sheets, plus card-vault export/import tools.
July 2018
Site customization — New "Customize Your Site" general settings, dashboard updates, and banner images on bid and description sheets.
June 2018
Contests & voting — New contest and candidate features, bulk delete, and dashboard nav tabs.
May 2018
Modern theme engine — Converted themes to a modern styling system with a color picker and sortable donation items.
April 2018
Security & imports — Enabled TLS 1.2, added will-call flags to sales exports, and improved import rollback messaging.
March 2018
Import safeguards — Added quantity tracking to ticket imports with failure reporting, plus delays to prevent import conflicts.
February 2018
Catalog & sponsorship — Added a catalog refresh timer, a sponsorship tab on donor pages, and recurring billing to cache clearing.
January 2018
Cash contributions — Added cash-contribution filtering, reporting, and catalog-display controls.
December 2017
Recurring & guest forms — A new ticket-guest form, recurring email templates, and a global external-payment setting.
November 2017
Point of sale — A new point-of-sale order search and edit screen, online sponsorship-sales controls, and client-side donate-item validation.
October 2017
Catalog controls — Public catalog per-page settings, the option to hide closed online-only items, and sponsor image export.
September 2017
Mobile quick nav — Rolled out mobile quick navigation across pages, low-quantity notifications, and outbid status in the mobile bid bar.
August 2017
Sponsorship packages — Sponsorship stats on the dashboard, package line items, and show/hide of donor name and item number on catalog tiles.
July 2017
Email & print invoices — Email and print invoices from checkout, donor custom fields on the Donate-an-Item form, and editable ticket instructions without a reload.
June 2017
Sponsorship levels — Sponsor-level forms, social-media button customization, and contest controls in the public navbar.
May 2017
In-kind items — Links and reports for in-kind items, plus a public layout for catalog and login pages.
April 2017
Will Call search — New search controls on the Will Call page, with guest-management improvements.
March 2017
Guest & ticket management — Add new guests and ticket users with email validation, terms-and-conditions links, and an auditor invitation flow.
February 2017
Display screens & voting — New display-screen themes, custom CSS, voting-guest controls, and donor info in bid reports.
January 2017
In-kind donations & analytics — Added in-kind donations, Google Analytics on display screens, and role-based selection tools.
December 2016
Email reporting — A new email-report view, with outbound-email controls, limits, and notifications.
November 2016
Online open/close times — Added online and mobile homepage display times, ticket-syncing, and FMV totals on CSV sales reports.
October 2016
Migration import/export — Ticket export/import for migrations, plus signup-quantity tracking.
September 2016
Move tickets between users — A new feature to move a ticket sale to a logged-in user (for external sales), plus table rank on display screens.
August 2016
Donor importer — Initial release of the donor importer, sponsor-image management, and user-specific email merge tags.
July 2016
Email history & limits — Added outbound-email history logging, send limits, and bulk actions across list views, plus voting templates.
June 2016
Text invites & templates — Send alternate invites by text message, with reusable email-merge templates and business-name user search.
May 2016
QR alt-login & voting — Added a QR-code alternate login, editable vote prices, and non-attending tickets for imported guests.
April 2016
Roles & permissions — A new roles-and-permissions system with granular controls and a max-bidding option.
March 2016
Templates & receipts — A new template system with migrators, max-bid notifications, and gift-certificate border options on receipts.
February 2016
Signup integration — Initial release of signup integration, with a setup/help wizard, additional supported payment processors, and zero-dollar items at ticket sales.
January 2016
Foundational work — Behind-the-scenes platform improvements.
December 2015
Proxy bidding & Buy Now — Added single-item proxy purchases, fixed-price selection on the proxy bid screen, and an early Buy Now button.
Self-checkout customization — Custom text for the self-checkout screen.
November 2015
Point of Sale & online bidding — Added Point of Sale across item types, max and fixed-price options on the proxy bid screen, and self check-in/check-out controls, with new bidding validations.
October 2015
Import/export tools — Added exporters and importers for terms, privacy, communication, and organization settings, with duplicate-donor handling.
September 2015
Give-page display — Improved how items for sale appear on the give page.
August 2015
Help map — Added an event help map to the dashboard.
July 2015
Our month-by-month change history starts here. The platform first launched in 2007 and saw years of improvements before this point that aren't captured in this archive.
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