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Raise More Funds with our Auction Software
Allegiance Auction Fundraising Software helps
you take care of all aspects of your auctions, from telemarketing to scheduling, bid entry
to invoicing. It tracks everything related to the primary elements involved:
donors, items and buyers. And when it’s over, you’ll be able to analyze the
data from all three, figure out what worked and what didn’t and do an even
better job next time.
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- Eliminate redundant data entry with direct
data entry into telemarketing forms, including operator call notes
- Store item information by quantity,
type of item (merchandise, certificate, underwriting, in-kind donation, or cash
donation), description, market value, minimum bid, preferred board type,
delivery, scheduling and warehouse data
- Create a report and download that shows
items that need to be picked up, making it possible to map out an efficient
route for pick-up
- Assign in-house values (even if it’s
lower than donor’s assessment)
- Create certificates for printing or
downloading for mail merging
- Denote special information with item
flags, including sample available, taxable, or recycled
- Calculate minimum bid amount automatically
as a % of market value
- Search for an item by its value,
description, category/description, “description contains” or item number
- Print labels for each item donated,
plus an extra label for the shelf
- If there is a sample of the item, the
last label is noted “do not sell” so that you will give away the other items or
certificates before the actual sample
- Preserve complete donor and buyer histories
- Easily find, delineate and analyze
comprehensive information about buyers, donors and auction items
- Search for a donor or buyer by name,
affiliation/member number, email address, address, zip code, telephone number,
company name, or by a customized method you define
- Easily download, segment and analyze
all history fields
- View summaries of landmarks and
lifetime totals
Automated Lot
Generation, Item Packaging and On-Air Production Aids
Allegiance has the
unique capability of packaging items. Simply enter in the number of lots and
the number of items that go into each package and the system will create the
lots.
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- The system automatically creates lots,
which can consist of any combination of items or packages, each having a
quantity of 1-999, assigns lot numbers and adds scripts to the lots along with the
board placement information
- Add other items to the package
- Make package decisions at any time
- You have the flexibility to manually
enter and modify lots
- You can highlight and “unlot” multiple
items in a lot one at a time without going back out to the subfolder to open
the next item on the list
- A lot can be a multiple, meaning more
than one winning bidder
- Key in up to 12 lines of description
for scripts; one script can be used for several lots
- Search for a lot by its lot number, lot
name, board, description or item number
Auction Scheduling
Streamline and
simplify tracking and scheduling of items, lots and boards – before, during and
after an auction.
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- Enter boards with the projected date,
times and type and use the scheduling program to display the entire lot on screen
- Schedule and reschedule unsold lots
because the system also shows market value, number of confirmed buyers and
preferred board type
- Print work-order production forms to
begin the video production/slide production process
- Download and print the inventory list
for a physical warehouse inventory
- Immediately after a board has been sold
but before the bids go to confirmation, you can use the Quick Key Bid Stats
feature to key in the number of bids and the highest bid amount on each lot on
the board
Auction Bid Entry
Retain control
over bid data entry while benefiting from automated record updating and
extensive search criteria for locating buyers.
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- Search for buyers by name, affiliation/member
number, affiliation/name, email address, telephone number, address, zip code,
company name or criteria you define
- Enter changes if the buyer is already
in the system
- Enter the lot number, bid amount and
total number of bids
- Use automatic credit card processing
for mailable fulfillments
- If the buyer already has an open
invoice, the new lot is added to it automatically
- Set activity records to notify you of
reminders and warnings every time you open an account record
- Store unlimited amounts of information
- Use the info tickler feature
- If you use an online auction service,
you can import the data into the Allegiance auction
Auction Analysis
Your donors
deserve – and your station needs – the best, most accurate and comprehensive
information possible.
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- View how many of an item sold, who
bought them, the average price, and the return on value
- Look up a buyer and see everything the
buyer purchased, the entire invoice, the over/under market value and the
invoice history information
- Provide donors with accurate lists of people
who bought specific items
Auction Transaction
Completion
Seal the deal with
advanced functionality that gives you all the information you need to get
purchased items into buyers’ hands and dollars into yours. Allegiance software
auction systems help you match sold items with the right buyers and ensure your
station gets the payment.
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- Access invoices on your screen when a
buyer arrives to pick up and pay. When you enter the payment, the invoice
prints
- The donor’s name and all information
the warehouse needs to find the items is printed on the invoice. It also notes
overbid items
- Reprint invoices if needed
- Add shipping and handling charges to
invoices based on the percentage of the invoice
- Set different shipping rates for
merchandise and certificates
- If there is more than one item in a
lot, the system lists each item separately
- Automatically “unconfirm” items that
are confirmed but not picked up and recycle them to the next highest bidder
- Find invoices confirmed with a credit
card number, create a file to be sent to the bank and automatically pay the
invoice, then print labels for shipping and print a report
Auction Tax
Receipts
Receipts list all
items contributed by a donor and total their market value, plus you can
download tax receipts and print tax receipts on the same form as membership tax
receipts.
Auction Reports
Keep auctioneers, schedulers
and donors informed and prepared. Since Allegiance Auction uniquely packages
combinations of items, the analysis reports are 100 percent accurate. Each item
in a package is weighted according to its market value. Analysis is easy, too.
Download all reports to a spreadsheet and chart them for easy analysis.
See auction reports »
- Item Report – Lists the details of each item
and provides a quick reference for delivery and warehousing information. You
can print this report by various order and selection criteria.
- On-Air-Script
Report – This is a
one-page report for each lot. It includes a script for the auctioneer and is
attached to the bids to be sent to confirmation staff. It lists all the items,
quantities, donors of the items, the number of multiples and other information
your confirmation and data entry staff need.
- Auction Schedule
Report – Shows
every lot that is up for bid by board with each item in the lot detailed. This
report allows the scheduler to easily see any holes. It is available on-screen
in the scheduling program to allow for easy lot-to-board assignments and can be
downloaded to aid in on-air production.
- Unpaid Invoices
Report – This report is
useful for follow-up with confirmed bidders who haven’t paid when pick-up and
pay is finished.
- Analysis Reports – Allows you to evaluate data
from a number of perspectives with more than 400 fields for analysis and
comparison. You can use any field from the item, lot, board, buyer, donor or
invoice file. Using any combination of fields, you can print the item’s market
value, sold value and return on value. This allows you to check the
profitability of a category, a donor, a zip code, a board, a date or any
combination.
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