Accelevents vs Silent Auction Pro: Which is a better fit?

Alicia: Hi, my name is Alicia. I'm a freelance marketing and event consultant. I work in the event industry and I give Accelevents a 5 out of 5. My event was moving from a live event to a virtual event, and so in researching the various options, we didn't as much love some of the other platforms such as Whova or Event Farm. They just did not have the functionality we were looking for as networking and connection were incredibly important to the event and its participants. When we discovered Accelevents, we realized that its functionality around video chat components, networking, the ease of use in terms of setting up our event within its platform, was going to be the obvious reasons why it was the best for our virtual event this year. When we started to use the Accelevents platform, we found it very easy to dive right in and start building our virtual event immediately. It has a very easy layout in terms of where you find different components, how to set up your event, how to build profiles, how to import speakers and sessions. We found it incredibly easy also to connect with the customer service team, they were immensely responsive, and if we needed a answer in a very, very rapid sort of sense, the online help section within the website is one of the best I have ever come across, and we found so much help between those two options. I don't think I realized just how easy Accelevents was going to be from start to finish, in terms of knowing that we could customize the platform, so, so easily between color palettes and graphic design elements, also just being able to jump on video chat functioning within the platform to understand it with one of the customer service reps was a huge, huge benefit. And ultimately day of our event, our attendees loved being able to interact with one another, whether that was via the virtual chat function, which as organizers also came incredibly in handy as we were offering different announcements throughout the day. But also just the incredible feedback about how our attendees still felt that they got just as much out of this virtual event as they did with previous live versions of this event was really, really exciting and also fantastic to know that we hit that goal, especially.

Speaker 1: My name is Sierra, and I'm the Director of Family Support and Operations at Lafayette Preparatory Academy. We are a school of 55 staff members and 400 students, and I give Silent Auction Pro a five. Before Silent Auction Pro, we actually used a lot of paper and pencil bid sheets, and we also used some PayPal donations, but we just noticed with the bid sheets we weren't getting the return on items whenever we were doing our school trivia night. And also, it was really hard to get advertising out with just our PayPal Donate button, so we decided to switch. There were a lot of reasons why we decided to go to with Silent Auction Pro. To start off, it was one of the most affordable platforms that we found. We researched numerous different options, and we just kept coming back to Silent Auction Pro. It was this one-stop shop. We had our bid sheets, people could buy their tickets online, we could do online ticket sales for raffles. And then the thing that really sold us was whenever they upgraded it and allowed you to have campaigns, so not only could we use it for our big event, but we were able to use it for little fundraisers throughout the year. It has just boosted our sales so much. We saw it the first year, and it's continued every year after. Silent Auction Pro is really user-friendly. There were definitely some just tips and tricks at the beginning that took a little bit of getting used to, but we've been with Salem Auction Pro I think for five years now. They took our feedback really well. And so every year there would be an FAQ page and it would have those things on there. So once we got over the learning curve that first year, it has been really easy. I would say if you're thinking about getting Silent Auction Pro, you should just do it. Again, we saw our profits increase almost by a full half the first year that we used it. Our people that are at our events love it. The biggest thing that I can say is, when you're using it, just make sure you take lots of clear pictures because the picture features on Silent Auction Pro are wonderful, and that's what's going to help you raise money.