Auctria vs MoneyDolly: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hello, my name is Cassidy. I am a board member and the co-chair of the New River Valley Home Builders Association Home Expo, and we use Auctria to run an auction for our charity every year, and I give Auctria five stars. Before we started using Auctria for our organization, we ran a pretty significant auction event, but we did all of it with paper, sort of the traditional way and adopted Auctria when we realized we could expand our auction success by offering online bidding and better access to sea items and more participants and just a broader reach for the whole items and organization. So we made that move a few years ago and it's been a great move for us. We looked at several different options before choosing Auctria and some of the main reasons we chose this particular program was the cost was great and worked for us as a nonprofit. We also have lots of features that were important to us, like being able to keep our donor information from year to year. So it's really easy for us to kick up the next event with Auctria because everything is stored and ready to go for the next auction. We're also able to keep all of our bidder information, which makes communication really easy. We can remind folks, "Hey, our next event's coming up, make sure your information is current and get ready to bid for our next auction." We love the interface during the auction. It gives us really great live updates and information and closing the auction is really easy. Our auction often happens over a very busy weekend, part of our big Home Expo event, and it's kind of a high stress moment when the auction ends and everybody wants to get their things and find out if they won. And closing the auction is super easy.It's kind of a one click, everybody's billed and we're ready to close and get things out the door to folks. So those have all been really, really important features for us. When we first set up Auctria, we used a lot of the tutorials that are offered through the site to kind of learn the ropes and get the hang of things. So there were some really great video tutorials that walked us through. One in particular that was really helpful was setting up our donor spreadsheet so that we could automatically import it into Auctria and have the auction pre-built out for us. So being able to use some of those resources out of the gate helped us get set up pretty quickly. But we've also had great customer service, so any questions we've had, we've just popped over a question through the website and gotten a response pretty easily and quickly as well. If you're considering using Auctria for your organization or event, I would jump on there and kind of play around and test it out a little bit. I've actually also used Auctria as a bidder for other organizations and I found that was a really great way to realize, hey, this is a really easy tool, really friendly to both the bidder and the organization doing the event through Auctria. And so if you can get on there and play around with the tools and test it out, watch those tutorial videos, those are really helpful. And then obviously if you've got the opportunity to be a bidder, I think it's really great to know that the other end, not just my end of creating the event, the other end is really user-friendly as well. And that makes your event a great success.

Lawrence N.: My name is Lawrence, the founder of LN Academy and I have been using MoneyDolly and I rate it a 5 out of 5. Prior to using MoneyDolly, I was using a variety of just local fundraising companies, third party organizations and it just wasn't very convenient. MoneyDolly really kind of just streamlined the process. I didn't have to worry about anything. They took care of the marketing. They took care of the offerings that they provided people to enable me to just focus on other parts of my business besides the fundraising and really made it easy. I chose MoneyDolly because they were the first company to reach out that had a really positive, customer service oriented phone call or demonstration and I just felt like they knew what they were doing and they were able to walk me through, step-by-step and I'm pretty quick at learning things. So they really provided a way for me just to learn how to use it and how to share it with my company and then really provided extraordinary customer service. I think the most important thing about MoneyDolly was it was very easy to start. They sent me a link to an app. I downloaded an app on my iPhone and it was really quick to be able to share with my company and really simple user interface. So we got up and running within 15 minutes. The very first phone call, the very first demo, we were up and running within 15 minutes. So that was my experience right from the get-go and that's why I recommend them to most people that I talk to if they have the same needs my company does. For anybody thinking about MoneyDolly as a great opportunity to streamline your fundraising processes, I recommend you give them a try. It's really simple. It's really easy to use. All the people, every single person I've been interacted with have been extremely easy to work with and kind and willing to help out and go the extra mile to make sure that we were able to get the money that we needed, that we were able to fulfill our objectives and we are very pleased. I would recommend them to anyone who really just wants to raise money and doesn't want to have to worry about any of the steps in between.