Free nonprofit auctions that your donors will love
Run your dream fundraising event with a seamless auction experience that is fun and easy for you and your supporters.
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Exciting and intuitive bidding experiences
Your supporters can easily browse, favorite, and track items they're interested in. When they're ready, bidding is just a click away.
A stress-free auction for you and your team
Seamlessly add and manage unlimited auction and buy-now items. Keep track of bids, winners, payments, and fulfillment.
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Our Trust & Safety team has you covered
Givebutter does the heavy lifting when it comes to fraud. Our systems ensure your auction runs smooth as butter and free of spam.
Real-time auction updates
Auction pages automatically update in real time, letting participants see all new bids and items as they go live, all without ever having to refresh a page.
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Instant bid notifications
Gamify your auction through instant bid notifications that allow bidders to be notified when they’ve won or are outbid.

Oh no, you've been outbid! Increase your max bid before time expires.
Hi, the Cooking Class for Two you tracked is now open for bids. Place your bid!
Congrats! You've won Super Salted Butter for $180. View your won item.

Oh no, you've been outbid! Increase your max bid before time expires.
Hi, the Cooking Class for Two you tracked is now open for bids. Place your bid!
Congrats! You've won Super Salted Butter for $180. View your won item.

Oh no, you've been outbid! Increase your max bid before time expires.
Hi, the Cooking Class for Two you tracked is now open for bids. Place your bid!
Congrats! You've won Super Salted Butter for $180. View your won item.

Oh no, you've been outbid! Increase your max bid before time expires.
Hi, the Cooking Class for Two you tracked is now open for bids. Place your bid!
Congrats! You've won Super Salted Butter for $180. View your won item.
Fully customize your auction items
Make each item feel special with individual starting prices, start and end times, buy-now functionality, photos, and videos. Plus, you can easily organize items by category.
“We have people who like to participate in the silent auction even though they can’t come to the event so allowing people to bid virtually and view pictures of the items is very important.”
Teachers' Treasures
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Take your event to the next level with a seamless auction experience
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Automated Bids
Bidders can specify a max bid amount, allowing for bids to automatically be made in the configurable bid increments up to a bidder’s max bid amount.
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Easy checkout
Automatically charge bidders after they’ve won an item or send automated reminders for bidders to complete payment.
Butter Bread for All

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Automated bids
Bidders can specify a max bid amount, allowing for bids to automatically be made in the configurable bid increments up to a bidder’s max bid amount.
Built for scale
Sell a handful of items or hundreds—our auction platform is built for scale and can handle high volumes of bidding activity in real time.
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Givebutter focuses on the customer. They're responsive to feature requests and they listen to users. As a one-stop shop for nonprofits, it can replace a CRM tool, a text blast tool, a ticketing platform, and more. It has saved our organization quite a bit of money.
Special Needs Respite, Inc.
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Frequently asked questions
Create your free Givebutter account to get unlimited access to Auctions. To learn more about how to set up your first auction, check out our Help Center.
Like all Givebutter features, Auctions is free thanks to optional tips we receive from donors. If you'd prefer to disable tips, enable Auto-Charge, or manually charge winners via the dashboard, a 5% platform fee applies instead. Smooth as butter. 🧈
With Givebutter, you can run in-person, virtual, and hybrid auctions. We provide multiple options for configuring your auction to meet your particular needs.
Nope! You can add as many auction items as you’d like.
You can auction physical items, experiences, gift cards, and so much more. The sky is quite literally the limit.
Absolutely! Check out our Bid & Butter demo auction or watch the video walkthrough below: