BUY-IT-NOW FOR UK CHARITY AUCTIONS
Buy-It-Now: sell items at a fixed price
Add a buy-now option to auction lots
Some supporters will not wait for the hammer. Offer lots, experiences, tickets to next year's ball or club merchandise at a set price and take payment the moment they click. Buy-It-Now turns your GalaBid catalogue into a store. Buy now items sit next to your silent and live lots, raffle and donations, so the purchase lands on the same invoice. And, add a buy-now option to silent auction items.
INFORMATION & PRICING
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Buy-It-Now turns your GalaBid catalogue into an online store, giving UK supporters the option to buy instantly at a fixed price.
Revenue before and after the auction
List Buy-It-Now items at any point. Sell anything from table centerpieces, drinks vouchers and tickets to games at your event.
With Buy-It-Now, you can:
- Set a fixed price and quantity for one or more items
- Sell fifty hampers, thirty bottles of the sponsor's gin or twenty club scarves without a bidding war
- Give the guest who wants to skip idding a fixed price and a button
- Generate revenue for weeks before the event, not just during the limited the event is in progress
Your funds to your account, not a holding account
Each purchase settles to your own Stripe account. No weekly payout.
Supporters can:
- Browse Buy-It-Now items alongside the auction catalogue
- Purchase instantly with card, Apple Pay or Google Pay via Stripe UK
- Have the item reserved to their account with an emailed receipt
One catalogue, one checkout, fulfilment handled
Buy-It-Now items sit with silent lots, live lots, raffle tickets and donations. The guest sees one invoice.
GalaBid’s Buy-It-Now feature helps you:
- Run one catalogue and one checkout across silent, live and Buy-It-Now items
- Add no-risk experiences from the UK catalogue at a fixed price
- Let GalaBid's bookings team handle redemption for consignment items
- Reconcile everything on the same invoice and the same report
