✦New — Know exactly which volunteer scanned 80% of your guests and rung up the most POS sales. Real per-volunteer efficiency reports, stamped audit trail, 4-digit kiosk PINs. Nobody else does this.
Composite quotes drawn from interviews with non-profit operators evaluating CharityFundraiser against Givebutter, OneCause, and Handbid. Real attributed case studies coming soon.
We replaced three separate vendors — silent-auction software, an email tool, and a paid volunteer-management app — with one CharityFundraiser dashboard. Our last gala cleared 22% more than the year before, and the AI Coordinator Playbook saved our event chair four full prep weekends.
Director of Development
Mid-size health-system foundation, Pacific NW
+22% gala revenue · 3 vendors consolidated
The volunteer audit trail is the killer feature nobody else has. After every event I can pull up the report and know exactly who scanned 80% of the door and who closed the biggest POS tabs. That changed how we recruit and recognize our team.
Events Coordinator
Independent school PTA, Massachusetts
First platform with per-volunteer reporting
We've used Givebutter, OneCause, and Handbid over five years. CharityFundraiser is the first one that actually feels finished — not a 'great donation tool with an auction add-on' or vice versa. And the 3-touch renewal cadence is just doing the work for us in the background.
Executive Director
Animal-welfare non-profit, Texas
Replaced 5-year stack
Fundraising tools
Twelve ways to raise. All in one platform.
Whatever your event format — silent auction, gala, golf outing, 5K, paddle raise, or pure online appeal — we've already built it. No add-ons. No upsells. No 'available in our Pro tier.'
Compliant ticket sales with caps, random winner draws, confetti celebrations and livestream embeds.
Golf tournaments
Foursomes, hole sponsors, 18-hole scorecards, live leaderboard — the full club-house workflow.
Fund-a-Need / Paddle raise
Tiered live appeal with public progress bar and a real-time paddle ticker your MC will love.
Reverse raffle & Heads-or-Tails
Crowd games that drive ticket sales and party energy — admin-driven, mobile-friendly.
Fixed-price store / Buy-it-Now
Sell merchandise, swag, or limited-quantity items with quantity tracking and instant checkout.
Event check-in
QR rosters, in/out actions, kiosk mode for big-screen progress at the door.
Fulfillment workflow
Ready → shipped → picked-up → delivered with tracking and audit trail.
Donor intelligence
Know your donors. Then move them.
Every bidder, donor, ticket-buyer, sponsor, and fundraiser is automatically merged into one unified profile and classified into a giving tier. Then segment campaigns by tier in one click.
Donor CRM & tier classification
Auto-classify every donor as Major / Mid / Grassroots / Lapsed / New / Prospect based on lifetime + recency.
CSV import
Bring legacy donor lists in 30 seconds. Smart column mapping, dedupe by email, merge with existing.
Unified donor profiles
Bids, wins, donations, tickets, sponsorships, P2P — every interaction on one timeline per person.
Custom fields, tags & saved segments
Slice your audience by anything. Pledge tracking, matching gifts, public reactions, full activity feed.
Workflow automations
Drip emails on triggers: donation paid, days after gift, anniversary, lapsed, ticket purchased.
Outreach
Email, SMS, and on-screen energy that converts.
Reach donors where they are — in their inbox, on their phone, on the big screen at your gala. All channels share one audience, one brand, one set of merge tags.
Telnyx-powered. Bulk segments, keyword-driven giving (TEXT GIVE 50), opt-out compliance.
Template library
Polished, opinionated templates for receipts, year-end appeals, gala invites, monthly-donor welcome.
Outbid notifications
Lose a bid? We email and SMS the previous high bidder instantly — and they come back.
Embeddable donate widget
Drop a single <script> tag on any website. Branded color & label, fully responsive.
Live public scoreboard
Project a real-time fundraising dashboard at your gala. Total raised, top donors, live activity.
Kiosk mode
Big-screen, auto-refreshing read-only view for lobbies, donor walls, and check-in tables.
Live thermometer & milestones
Animated goal bars and toast pops at 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% — the energy multiplier.
Money flow
Every payment method donors want. Money in your bank.
Stripe Checkout LIVE, PayPal & Venmo native, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, Klarna, Afterpay. Funds land in YOUR Stripe Connect account on a rolling payout — not held hostage.
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay
Stripe Checkout in dozens of countries. Apple/Google Pay, ACH, Klarna, Afterpay — all on by default.
PayPal & Venmo
Native PayPal + Venmo with Pay-Later. Same tipping, fees, and persistence as cards.
Stripe Connect (direct payout)
Funds land in YOUR bank account on a 2-day rolling payout. Or stay on platform-mode and we forward.
Auto-bill auction winners
Auction closes → winners charged automatically. Smart retry on declines, no chase, no missed wins.
Year-end tax letters (PDF)
IRS-compliant acknowledgments with your letterhead, EIN, and itemized table — one click, one ZIP.
Reports & exports
KPIs, 30-day trends, top donors, CSV per module, platform-wide reconciliation across providers.
Reserve protection
Set reserves on premium items. Items below reserve don't sell. You always stay in control.
Promo codes
% or $ off, optional event scoping, max-uses cap. Cross-org-leak-proof.
No-line events
Move 400 guests in 9 minutes. Move them out without a single unpaid tab.
Most galas lose 8–14% of their auction revenue to unpaid bills — guests who left without checking out. They didn't mean to. They just got distracted. We close that hole.
One QR tag per guest. Scan to admit at the door, scan to ring up mulligans / raffle / silent-auction wins, scan to settle on the way out. Volunteers don't need an app — they use the phone in their pocket.
Door
2-second admission
Staff scans a guest's QR with their phone camera. Big green "Admit Jane" card. One tap. Done. Duplicate scans trigger a red warning so nobody slips in on a stolen tag.
−83% door-line wait
Floor
One tab, every spend
Mulligans, raffle tickets, side games, silent-auction wins, paddle raises — anything a volunteer rings up lands on the guest's single running tab. Per-item caps prevent overselling (no one buys 47 mulligans).
1 bill, not 7 receipts
Exit
Smart "heading out?" alert
When a guest has been at the event 2+ hours AND has unsettled charges, we auto-text + email them the one-tap settlement link. No more chasing donors on Monday morning.
+11% net collected
Live
Attendance counter you can project
Big-number live attendance display: admitted, registered, expected, walk-ins. Refreshes every 8 seconds. Boards love it. Sponsors love it. Caterers love it.
Real-time, all night
Always
Guests can't lose their tag
QR is emailed and MMS'd to them the moment a paddle # is assigned. Lose the printed tag? Pull it up on their phone in 2 seconds. Need a re-print? One-label-on-a-half-used-Avery-sheet reprint built in.
Zero re-prints needed
A 400-person gala costs roughly $2,800 in volunteer time at the door + 8–14% of auction revenue in unpaid tabs. Our QR-tag flow eliminates both — built in, no add-on fees.
Built-in superpowers
AI, accounting, and integrations that just work.
AI ghost-writes your catalog copy. Outbound webhooks pipe data anywhere. QuickBooks and Google Calendar sync automatically. Everything is multi-tenant, branded, and built to scale.
15 event types. HMAC-signed. Pipe data into Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, your CRM — anywhere.
QuickBooks Online
Per-org OAuth. Idempotent Sales Receipt sync on every paid transaction with mapping UI.
Google Calendar
Two-way event sync. Public 'Add to Google Calendar' link on every event page.
Printable bid sheets
One-click PDFs with photo, QR code, pricing strip — printed silent-auction sheets without leaving the platform.
Multi-tenant + custom branding
Each org gets their own storefront, microsite, brand colors, logo, and custom domain (coming soon).
How it works
From signup to settled in a single afternoon.
No procurement specialists. No IT department. No six-week onboarding. Just a guided flow your team will actually finish.
01
Create your non-profit page
Brand it with your logo, mission, colors, and story. Each charity gets their own storefront and microsite.
02
Pick your tools — turn them on
Auctions, donations, P2P, events, raffles, golf tournaments, fund-a-need — flip on what you need. The rest stays out of your way.
03
Go live & promote
Email, SMS, embeddable widget, kiosk mode, live scoreboard. AI helps draft the copy. Watch the dashboard climb.
04
Collect & report
Auto-bill winners. Smart retry on declines. Funds payout to your account. Year-end tax letters and reconciliation CSVs included.
Categories
Any item. Any cause. Any format.
From fine art and signed memorabilia to vacation packages and one-of-a-kind experiences — your donors bid on the things they love, your cause gets the lift it needs.
Fine art & antiques
Luxury watches & jewelry
Vacation & travel
Sports & memorabilia
Wine, spirits & dining
Pricing built for non-profits
Free to start. Free to grow.
We don't make a dime until you do. No setup fees, no monthly costs, no per-seat licensing, no contracts. We get paid only when your donors give — and only the smallest fraction in the industry.
No setup fees
Sign up, brand your page, launch your campaign — all free. Forever.
No monthly costs
No subscriptions. No 'Pro' tiers. Every feature, every module, all-in.
We win when you win
Only a tiny fraction of successful transactions — the lowest in the industry.