Online Auctions
Maximise Donations with Our Advanced Online Fundraising Platform Sliderstock.
Supporting Charities in a Changing Landscape
With over 14 years of experience in the charitable sector, we understand the evolving challenges charities face, including the growing demand for digital fundraising services, resource constraints, and financial pressures.
Whether you’re a large organisation or a grassroots initiative, we offer a range of services, expertise, and a dedicated team to help you meet your fundraising goals. Operating from our headquarters in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, we have successfully worked with charities, schools, businesses, and sports clubs across the UK, US, UAE, Europe, and Australia.
Empowering Fundraising with SliderStock
Our affordable online auction platform, SliderStock, provides charities and event organisers with a user-friendly and fully customisable tool to maximise fundraising efforts.
With access to features such as auctions, prize draws, ‘donate now’ pages, and additional modules like ticketing, live auction listings, and sponsor pages, SliderStock helps you minimise costs while boosting funds raised. The platform’s easy-to-use interface and our dedicated support team ensure that clients can focus on what matters most: making a difference.
Why choose Impulse Decisions to deliver your Online Auction?
Our online fundraising platform SliderStock is an online SaaS platform designed to help charities integrate digital tools into their fundraising strategies.
Expertise
With over 14 years of experience, our team has managed online auctions for charities, awards ceremonies, sports clubs, and organisations of all sizes, consistently delivering exceptional results.
Advanced technology
Sliderstock’s cutting-edge auction technology ensures a secure and engaging bidding environment. Our state-of-the-art features drive participation, increase revenue, and offer a seamless experience.
Global Reach
Our online platform connects you to a global audience, expanding your donor base and maximising your fundraising opportunities on an international scale.
Full Service Management
Our team manage every aspect of the online auction from start to finish, allowing clients to focus on their guests and enjoy the event without any concerns.
Tailored Packages
Our customised packages are designed to meet your specific fundraising needs, including unlimited raffles, prize draws, and donation options.
Prize Selection
Our wide range of luxury items ensures there’s something to capture the interest of every guest, enhancing engagement and excitement.
Our proven track record speaks for itself
OVERVIEW OF SERVICES
Whether you’re a large organisation or a grassroots initiative our affordable online fundraising platform, SliderStock gives you with the tools you need to reach your fundraising goals by providing one central location to run all of your charities’ online fundraising through.
Sliderstock offers a bespoke online auction platform tailored to the specific needs and objectives of each client. Clients can maintain consistency with their brand guidelines by customising banners, fonts, buttons, and images to align with their branding.
Charities using Sliderstock benefit from a single central access point that aggregates fundraising data for all campaigns. Charities with regional activities can create sub-users who can manage their own campaigns, feeding data into the main admin account.
Sliderstock's intuitive dashboard allows clients to easily add products, images, descriptions, and videos. Clients can customise the colour scheme to match their branding, connect with their payment account, track ticket sales, pledges, and real-time bids, monitor users, send communications, and more—all from one central hub.
Post-auction payment collection can be a challenge for event organisers and charities. Sliderstock simplifies this process by automatically taking payments from winning bidders, saving time and reducing the risk of non-payers
Sliderstock has introduced several exciting new features to enhance the auction experience, including:
- Ticketing Function: Sell event tickets directly through the platform, keeping all transactions in one place.
- Live Auction Tab: Display live auction items during events, adding excitement to the bidding process.
- Enhanced Security: Additional measures have been implemented to ensure a secure auction environment.
- “Impulse” Bidding Option: Suggested bid amounts encourage higher bids and increase fundraising totals.
- Sponsors Page: Showcase and thank event sponsors with a dedicated page.
- Optional Service Charge: Users can now choose whether to apply a service charge on transactions to cover platform fees.
Our team provides full support for setting up online fundraising platforms, from prize selection to design work, ensuring a professional and engaging platform. We also offer event management services, including bidder registration and payment processing, to guarantee a seamless experience.
After the event, our team handles payment processing, item distribution, and communication with winning bidders. We also provide a comprehensive report on auction performance, including total funds raised and bidder engagement, allowing clients to focus on the overall success of their fundraising efforts
Common concerns of charities running online auctions
Choosing the right online auction partner for your fundraising event can be an overwhelming and confusing process. Many misconceptions about it also make the decision even harder. Here are some of the common concerns we hear about running online auctions:
A common concern charities and event organisers have is the fear of not having enough data or contacts to ensure a successful online auction. They worry that a lack of involvement could lead to failure. However, even with limited data, there are effective strategies to increase participation. For instance, running targeted social media ads before the event can attract more participants and boost engagement.
For those new to online auctions, there may be concerns about whether donors or attendees will engage. However, data indicates that approximately 70% of individuals who register for an auction actually place bids. Online fundraising is highly effective and engaging, demonstrating its success in involving participants.
Concerns about acquiring prizes for an auction are common. Organisers may want to run an online auction but may not know where to get prizes from. They may wonder if there are enough volunteers, business owners, restaurants or hotels that are willing to donate vouchers.
The good news is that many businesses, restaurants and hotels are willing to donate if approached confidently. We also offer a range of prizes to compliment a client's own items which range from luxury trips, fine dining, corporate hospitality and bespoke memorabilia.
Confidence and mindset are crucial. It’s important to stay open-minded about the potential success of an online auction. Often, charities are pleasantly surprised by the positive results when they approach the auction with a flexible mindset.
Running online auctions is easy if you have the right platform to do the heavy lifting for you. So, don’t be afraid to ask for professional help. It’s more cost-effective than most people think.
Client Testimonials and Success Stories
Hear what our clients say about their unforgettable experiences and successful events with Impulse Decisions.
Online Auction Enquiry
Contact us today to find out more about our online fundraising platform.
I cannot recommend SliderStock & Impulse Decisions enough for their exceptional service in organising three successful auctions for us this season. With the help of their team, we were able to build and launch auctions that managed to raise a significant amount of money for our chosen charity. The team are so responsive & helpful throughout despite tight deadlines. The platform itself is very user-friendly, easy-to-use as well as nicely designed - which again helped raise the amount of money we did.”
FRASER DICKSON Head of Digital, Swansea City FC