# Page 7 | SchoolAuction.net Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 7 - Is SchoolAuction.net the right Auction solution for you? Explore 236 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/106652/SchoolAuction-net/reviews --- SchoolAuction.net 4.7 (236) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 7 - Reviews of SchoolAuction.net ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 151-175 of 236 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use DS Dawn S. General Manager Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "General Manager" July 31, 2019 5.0 Wonderful, helpful - seemless Pros very easy to set up - very helpful support - accomplished all our needs Cons wish the app showed all of the silent auction items at once Review Source Response from Northworld August 6, 2019 Thanks, Dawn! Be sure to check out the changes we are making this year to the online catalog layout options - I bet you will like them... MW Maria W. Chairman of Harvest Sale Used the software for: ### "Harvest Sale" February 14, 2011 5.0 SchoolAuction.net is a great program with a staff that is second to none with tech support. They will bend over backwards to help you fine tune their product to meet your needs and then continue that same service with excellent customer support! I would recommend them to any fundraising group. The reports generated from the SchoolAuction.net/Garris Chapel site for our annual fundraiser will help us make it even more successful in 2011. Thanks again. Pros The input is calculated in realtime. The reports are very detailed. Is user friendly. Existing data was transferred seamlessly by company. Customer support is superb. Cons Just a few minor issues that will be resolved before we use the program in 2011 Review Source SB Sheli B. PTSA VP Used the software for: ### "SchoolAuction.net offers great organizational structure to auction planning. " February 1, 2015 5.0 I have used Schoolauction.net for auctions and art shows (for point of sale software) now between three different schools for the last 8 years and the product just keeps getting better and easier to use. Planning a benefit auction is complicated; it's often done by volunteers with little event or computer experience; and often done by people juggling busy lives. This software is clearly designed for multiple users to work together from start to finish and with all the auction-specific tasks in mind. Data entry flows easily; reports are easy to build and very helpful; the built in tutorials and support make it easy for even a beginner to use. The print outs are exactly what we need to pull off a successful event. I cannot imagine trying to organize an auction without it. Review Source DM Danni M. Chair 2013-2015 Used the software for: ### "Makes every single part of the process SO easy" February 1, 2015 5.0 Okay, so if you've done a lot of auctions, you used to have to 'create' a lot of paperwork. This software does it all, and it lets you customize fields, which makes almost anything possible. It saves so much time, and does the work for you, including thanks, tax letters, old receipts when people inevitably lose theirs. Usually, they already have one in their inbox somewhere. Anyway- also great, the portal for ticket sales, reminders to guests about the who/what/where etc. I've had a few times I couldn't find some feature, and when I emailed the tech support, had a solution same day. Have used other softwares for auction, this one is far and away the best. I've chaired probably 25 auctions in the last 20 years, so seen quite a few approaches. This one is the best. Review Source CB Colleen B. Event coordinator Fund-Raising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "School fundraisinf" July 31, 2019 5.0 Pros Ease and did everything we needed it to. We are just a group of parents trying to successfully run a school auction using only 1 software rather than Excel, etc. It was great for tracking all and reporting Cons The cost up front was a little hard to swallow. We opted for the top tier for our first year to learn the most then dropped down for 2nd year Review Source Response from Northworld August 6, 2019 Thanks, Colleen! It's been fantastic working with you and the Holy Spirit team. JM Jennifer M. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Schoolauction review " January 24, 2019 5.0 Overall it’s a great tool to help you if you’re ever doing a school auction! It will make your life a lot easier Pros I really liked using this software because it was super easy and kept track of all the data from our auction. It allows the users who are bidding on items to use many different forms of payment which is always a plus. Cons I wish the website was a little more details on how to set up the auction and had some more options for different types of auctions. Review Source Response from Northworld July 11, 2019 Thanks for the feedback, Jennifer! We'll keep building out the documentation on how to run different types of fundraisers in the system. CS Cynthia S. Executive Director Arts and Crafts Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "School Auction software saved us time and money, and made the event run much more smoothly thanks to th" July 27, 2017 5.0 Pros School Auction is very user friendly with the many features it offers. We received great customer support from them.. Cons Would be nice if we could customize some of their standard forms a bit more with our own logos, but not a big whoop. Review Source CM Cara M. Used the software for: ### "Very User Friendly!" December 21, 2016 5.0 After using an overly complicated auction software for a couple of years, SchoolAuction.net was such a refreshing change for us last year! It's very volunteer-friendly, but powerful enough to do everything we needed. The event night portion was a breeze and I was able to train our volunteers in less than 10 minutes. I also loved that all the credit card processing was online so I didn't have to batch process the credit cards the next day. I look forward to using the software at our next event! Review Source CU Celeste U. Event Chair Used the software for: ### "SchoolAuction.net" December 10, 2014 5.0 The software is very easy to use, understand, and figure out. Very intuitive design. It was able to do almost everything we needed it too. Wish there was a column for entering raffle ticket Numbers as the gaming commission requires so much documentation we had to keep a seperate spreadsheet for that. The customer service was excellent and was able to satisfactorily answer every question. Only complaint would be to have a phone number for quick and/or lengthy issues when emailing is a difficult option. The event night went smooth. No major issues just a few little ones that were easily dealt with. All of my volunteers were extremely pleased with the ease of us. I would highly recommend this product. Review Source HW Heidi W. Development Used the software for: ### "Portland Adventist Academy Student Scholarship Auction" November 13, 2013 5.0 Love the software. Checkout went very very good. Easy to enter items and bunch together as lots. Problems: When I went to print all my bidder sheets, it would only print the first 20 or so and then print blank sheets. So I had to print them all one by one. I like to put my bidder sheet on top and my description sheet underneath so my runners keep track of the items to bring to the customers. So now I know to also put in the description in the Name portion of the donor item input. That way it shows up to the silent auction bidder also. It would be nice to have an option to add description to the bidder sheet. Otherwise, thank you! It was worthwhile and we will be contacting you for next year! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Winning at School!" December 23, 2018 5.0 Pros Great time saving for our event. We were able to take our aution event online which was fantastic. Cons Offline follow up with winning bidders. Would love to have the ability to inform where they are. Review Source JK Jonathan K. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Fundraising Idea!" March 9, 2020 5.0 The customer service at SchoolAuction is nice and will help you out. Pros This product is a great feature for those looking to add something extra to their fundraisers! It is very simple to use and add items. The online bidding is nice! Cons If you are a smaller school, the sticker price may be a shock. I would consider finding a donor for helping your school. Review Source JM Jamie M. Vice President Board of Directors Used the software for: ### "Tofino Auction Software rocks!" February 16, 2013 5.0 If you are a non-profit looking for really powerful easy to use software to run your auctions, our org would highly recommend you try out Tofino! It's made an amazing difference for us! Pros Hey we are loving our new Tolfino software, it worked so well for our auction and talk about a fantastic improvement for us and our patrons during registration and closing, and again with reporting afterwards, so easy and very stressfree! Cons We haven't really found any outstanding "cons" yet, but I have no doubt that if we encounter issues, Tofino support will help us figure out a solution! Review Source AH Anna H. Jaguar Fund Chair Used the software for: ### "We are generally very happy with this product, but have some suggestions for improvement. " August 22, 2015 4.0 We used this software to process payments for our walkthrough registration day (so annual giving campaign, t-shirt and yearbook sales, etc. After processing payments we sent the users an email receipt. It was very frustrating that there is no acknowledgement that the email has been sent. We got acknowledgement that the payment had been processed but not that the email had gone through. Also, we have heard that for some reason a few Hotmail email addresses did not receive the emailed receipt. We confirmed the email addresses and hit send (multiple times in some cases) but they didn't get through to Hotmail (the users checked their spam folders too...they were not there either. Review Source AB April B. Used the software for: ### "Excellent resource for PTOs" January 11, 2017 5.0 Our PTO has used the software for two school auctions. The first year we used the website, we raised almost twice as much as we had in the previous year! It is very well thought out. You can tell the creators have run an auction before. They even provide ideas on how to creatively make more money at your auction. Their customer service is very good. I always hear back from them within an hour. And they have tons of information on their website that can be used to help you plan and troubleshoot. Our parents at our school find their website to be very user-friendly as well. Highly recommend this software!!!! Pros All of the options and customer service Cons None Review Source KB Kristi B. Parent Volunteer, ACCESS Auction Chair Used the software for: ### "We love Tofino! They make our lives easier......." April 5, 2016 4.0 Tofino is super easy to use, customer services is beyond amazing and the program has great support and tutorials to help everyone along the way. My only complaint, which I'm sure they will fix when they hear about it because that's how awesome they are, is that if we are selling items along with tickets, it assigns a "soft" bidder number. This causes some confusion at check in because folks who have looked online ahead of time, think this is their bidder number and start using it. Not a big deal, we caught it early, but this is the first year we have had items for sale with tickets prior to the event and that's what happened. :) Other than that, they are amazing! Review Source LE Linda E. Volunteer Used the software for: ### "Tofino Auction Software" February 3, 2015 4.0 The auction software has been very useful in helping us pull off three very successful auctions. Most is very easy to use. Online documentation is helpful but I found that some of it is hard to wade through. I've seen much improvement over the three years I have used the software as the auction coordinator. The direct support that I have received as a result of sharing my problem via email, has been excellent. I have found that the personnel has stuck with me until I get the problem resolved. Two suggestions I could make for improvement is to find a way to make professional-looking name tags and an easier way to make the table assignments. Review Source TW Tiffany W. SES PTA Vice President Used the software for: 2+ years ### "School Auction.net has made our fundraising and online auction much more successful!" July 13, 2017 4.0 One place to have parents go to make donations, review auction items, register for events. Pros Ability to process online payments, promote online and in-person auctions, register for events, create reports, and easily send tax receipts to our donors. Cons Sometimes it's not intuitive for setting up events, auction items, but support and how-to documentation is great. Review Source KE Kristen E. Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very easy to use" June 24, 2016 4.0 I used this product for the first time this year (although others at our school used previously; we've renewed our subscription a few times now) and found it helpful and easy to use. The check-out process was particularly user friendly and fairly intuitive. In the run-up to our event I used the online help feature and was very happy with the response time and assistance provided. Review Source KH Kerry H. Auction Co-Chair & PTO Co-President Used the software for: ### "Tofino Software" February 6, 2015 5.0 We have used SchoolAuction.net for a couple of events now and absolutely love it! The site may look a bit overwhelming because it is packed with lots of great tools & resources, but don't let that dissuade you. The system is actually very easy to use, and did everything we needed it to. It took 10 minutes to train our staff on the night of our Auction, and they were off & running! Really can't say enough good things. And we loved the Online Auction function to clear things out after the event. We will use it again & again! Kerry Hinrichs Auction Co-Chair & PTO Co-President Forest Hills Elementary Lake Oswego, Oregon Review Source JB Janis B. Used the software for: ### "Augustana Lutheran Church 2016 Gala and Auction" December 18, 2016 5.0 SchoolAuction.net's auction software is a great tool for managing your event from start to finish. The support team is super. They are very responsive to your requests for "help." Initially, we had an issue directing the money to the appropriate credit card gateway account with Vanco. School Auctions.net went the extra mile and worked with Vanco to resolve this issue for us and their other Vanco clients. Auctions are a huge undertaking with a myriad of administrative details. Using this software certainly made our work much easier. I highly recommend that you consider using School Auctions.net for your event. Review Source PG Paul G. Used the software for: ### "Outdated software" March 6, 2017 1.0 This software has no mobile Ux. If fact the terrible navigation on auction items reduced our ability to getbids Review Source Response from Northworld March 13, 2017 Hi Paul, Thanks for the feedback - we'd love to hear more specifics from you as to how the mobile UI can be improved - there is one, despite your assertion - it just obviously wasn't what you wanted it to be. We are in active development of the software - we have been since the beginning of the company 10 years ago, and we do realize that there are always things that need improving. We appreciate you taking the time to tell us that we still have work to do. Roger Devine SchoolAuction.net SF Sarah F. Auction Chair Fund-Raising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Thanks for GREAT Software!" July 17, 2019 4.0 Overall, I was happy with everything except the price! Pros I loved that payment was easy, checking in was easy, and reports were easy. Cons The price of this software is EXTREMELY TOO HIGH. We only need it for 1 evening and I think the price should be about $500...no higher. I tried to negotiate the price but was only given a $100 discount, which helped but was still a HIGH price for us to pay. Also, I would love a barcode scanning option. Would pop up the items faster at checkout. Review Source SD Steve D. Development Director Used the software for: ### "Easy to use and very effective!" March 11, 2015 5.0 We subscribed to SchoolAuction less than 2 months before our large annual "Gala" event (250+ attendees) and found it easy to use and very helpful. We registered guests, collected profile data, ran live and silent auctions, etc. The training videos and on-site help is great, and the support staff (both pre-event and "day of") is willing and able as well! Check-in and check-out (using multiple laptops simultaneously), post-event reporting, and making changes "on the fly" were all very manageable. And the price seems very reasonable for software you can use for multiple events each year. Review Source LR Lynn R. Development Director Used the software for: ### "Great Product, Excellent Customer Service" February 10, 2015 4.0 Pros: -Customer Service: online questions answered in 30 minutes or less. -Web Based, Users can Access from Home -Audio/Video Instruction for many areas -Cost is affordable for small organizations Cons: -Not able to migrate all information needed from one year to the next for same event. -Some technical issues need to be worked out regarding customization for our particular organization. Overall we are very happy with Tofino. Customer Service is extremely helpful leading up to event. Would like to see the ability to pull reports and compare the same event from year to year. Review Source Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.