Greater Giving’s Fundraising Suite is an integrated solution for managing live and online fundraising activities year-round. It also allows you to track live and online fundraising in one system to cross-reference donors and donations to use for future fundraising efforts. This Suite includes Greater Giving Event Software, Greater Giving Online Payments, Auctionpay, and Greater Giving Online Auctions.
- Greater Giving Event Software manages all the details necessary to plan and run a successful gala event and benefit auction. It allows you to organize item procurement and track bidders, donors, and registration, plus print bid sheets and RSVPs, thank you and procurement letters. And, it enables staff and volunteers to enter data remotely, so time and resources can be fully leveraged.
- Auctionpay is a secure, cost-effective payment processing solution designed for live and silent auctions, golf tournaments and galas. It improves your guests’ experience at the event by reducing long check-in and end-of-evening cashier lines, encouraging a relaxed bidding environment. It also eliminates inaccuracies that come with manual, post-auction credit card data entry, making you and your staff and volunteers more efficient.
- Greater Giving Online Payments is an easy-to-use, highly-customizable and affordable way for nonprofit organizations and schools to raise funds and collect credit card payments online. Visitors to your Web site can easily and quickly register for an event and make a donation, membership payments, or other purchases. Online Payments can even be used to register and pay for classes, seminars, or conferences unrelated to a benefit event or auction.
- Greater Giving Online Auctions is a comprehensive, easy-to-use online auction service that can supplement your live event, or add to your year-round fundraising. Designed specifically for nonprofits, it’s a low-cost way to expand your donor base, reach out to new constituents to tap into new income sources, and it improves your fundraising visibility with sponsors and supporters.
Make fundraising a year-round effort! Adding online fundraising to your Web site is easy. Add a “Donate Now” button on your web site and take payments securely online. Hold online auctions before a live event to engage more participants. Online auctions held prior to a live event create excitement for attendees and allow those who can’t attend the event to still participate. Get a significant gift or a new sponsor in an off-event timeframe? Hold an online auction to leverage that gift or promote new sponsors.
Greater Giving Fundraising Suite allows you to manage all your fundraising efforts end-to-end, in the real and virtual world.
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Greater Giving Event Software Features
- Intuitive, easy-to-use benefit management sofware
- Enables organizations to track and manage every detail associated with a benefit auction for efficient, effective planning and execution
- Works the way your organization works, enabling productivity in and out of the office, with access via the Web or desktop
- Easily creates auction catalogs, bid sheets, detailed receipts, letters and other materials
- Organizes all of your benefit auction information, including donor records, for quick access and reporting
- Donor, procurement and related information is stored for future events, making it easier to forecast and plan
Auctionpay Features
- Secure, cost-effective payment processing solution designed for live and silent auctions, golf tournaments and galas
- Reduces long check-in and end-of-evening cashier lines, creating a better guest and volunteer experience at the event
- Eliminates inaccuracies/inefficiencies caused by manual, post-auction credit card data entry
- Enhances revenue potential by keeping guests bidding through the entire event
Greater Giving Online Payments Features
- Secure, online payment processing for event registration, donations and year-round online fundraising
- Provides secure, real-time donation and registration pages that match the look and feel of your Website
- Builds stronger, long-term donor relationships
- More cost-effective than mail or phone registration and donation
- Integrates with other Greater Giving products to eliminate manual data entry
- Options for taking donations, membership dues, tuition payments, and more
Greater Giving Online Auctions Features
- Supplement your live event, or add to your year-round fundraising efforts
- Expands your donor base beyond those who can attend your live event
- Taps into new sources of income and reaches out to new constituents
- Improves your fundraising visibility for your sponsors and supporters
"We're now planning our second event using Greater Giving's solutions for our fundraising auction. We had rave reviews on how smoothly everything went at last year's auction and I can't imagine running an event without Greater Giving. From planning through execution everything was very easy and worry free. The event software and payment processing systems work seamlessly together, leaving a very positive guest experience - one of our primary goals."
— Kristin Connolly, American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter, OR
Holy Trinity doubled the previous year’s revenue and raised over $117,000 at their most recent auction event, exceeding all goals and assuring the seminary the renovations it needed. They believe that pre-registering their credit cards at the beginning of the event with Auctionpay terminals had everything to do the huge increase in donations. “Pre-registering made it easy for them to place the bids.” The combination of ease and appeal brought in as much as $8,000 for one ‘Priest package.’ Though the auction team began with ambivalence about taking credit cards, they were “completely won over event night.” “We loved the efficiency of it and the fact there was no manual entry. Doubling our revenue and increasing our guest numbers so drastically was proof that the changes Greater Giving helped us make were just what we needed.”
— Rita Backus, Holy Trinity Seminary, TX
“Greater Giving’s online registration piece really grabbed me.… It had every detail they needed and really helped free up my time.”
— Amanda Haugh, St. Francis Healthcare Foundation, OK
Free Software Trials
Free Trial Download of Greater Giving Event Software PC
We invite you to download a free 14-day trial of Greater Giving Event Software PC.
Free Trial of Greater Giving Event Software Online
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Tips
Using Online Resources to Increase Fundraising Revenue
Stay competitive in today’s tough market by creating an online presence that keeps your constituents donating throughout the year.
Evaluating Event Success
Performing a post-event evaluation will enable you to have a more successful event next year.
See our Fundraising Tips page for more how-to’s.
Best Practice Guides
Auction Planner
From twelve months prior all the way up to event day, the Auction Planner offers a detailed timeline for planning an auction fundraiser.
White Paper: Procurement
This white paper covers procurement strategy and best practices, plus tricks and tips designed to ease the process and produce lucrative results.
White Paper: Moving People to Action-Managing Volunteers
Four out of five charities use volunteers, according to the Urban Institute, yet they often struggle to retain them due to poor volunteer management practices. This white paper outlines a four-step process to recruit and motivate long-term volunteers by leveraging volunteer management best practices.
See our Guides page for more white papers.
On-Demand Seminars
Mastering Auction Challenges: Optimizing Your Event
This 60-minute archived webinar offers tips on event setup and timing, live and silent auction best practices, volunteer management, and registration, checkout, pickup and post-event activities.
Using Social Media Effectively
Online publishing and discussion-generally referred to as 'social networking'-is becoming a significant influence on public thinking. This 60-minute archived webinar will help you understand how to turn this phenomenon to your advantage while maintaining existing commitments to donors, constituents, and your mission.
See our Web seminars page for more webinars.
What is the value in purchasing the Fundraising Suite?
Greater Giving's Fundraising Suite will give you the tools needed to leverage the power of the Web for year-round fundraising. By purchasing the four products together, your organization can: keep track of all your auction details, collect more donations online, capture credit card information up front, and host online auctions throughout the year.
How do the four products work in conjunction with each other, and can I use the products separately?
Greater Giving Online Payments can be used to collect registrations for an upcoming event and collect year-round donations. Host an online auction to generate excitement for your big event, then use the Greater Giving Event Software and Auctionpay terminals or card readers to manage every detail and securely process payments. Or use the products separately anytime.
What can Greater Giving Event Software bring to my organization?
Greater Giving Event Software is an event management tool that will help your organization run your auction from start- to- finish efficiently and professionally. Subsequent events can then be built on existing information in the database, so you don't have to start from scratch every year.
What can Greater Giving Online Payments bring to my organization?
Greater Giving Online Payments is a way to capture secure online registration and payment processing. It is a must-have product for the wired environment of fundraising today.
What can the Auctionpay product bring to my organization?
Auctionpay terminals or card readers brings a hassle-free way to capture credit card payments at your event without a phone line. Having guests pre-register cards before the event will streamline the checkout process and create a more enjoyable experience for everyone.
What can Greater Giving Online Auctions bring to my organization?
Greater Giving Online Auctions can help increase the amount of contributions and auction items your organization receives, expand your reach, promote your fundraising event and motivate participants to bid more competitively.