Auctions on Kambeo are quick to set up and easy to manage.
Include as many items you want and get all the premium features!
Easily add, duplicate, and display any amount of items in your online auction.
Customize products with images, highlight donors, allow buy now options, highlight retail prices, and set incremental bid minimums.
Receive more bids and automate bid management with unrestricted optimization features.
Manage winning orders and automate issuing tax receipts.
Here are some common questions the community is asking
When an auction is closed the winners will immediately receive an email notification of their win, with payment instructions. If the item is not paid for, the winner will receive an email notification once a week until the payment is made.
Yes, automatic bidding is an included auction feature and a great way to encourage higher bids.
When a person is placing a bid, they will have an option to set up automatic bidding.
Yes, adding a ‘Buy Now’ option is an available optional.
If a ‘Buy Now’ price is added, auction bidders will have the option to purchase the item at this price. The bidder using the Buy Now option is required to purchase the item via credit card immediately.
Once purchased, the auction item will close. Other bidders of the item will receive an email notification informing them of the purchase.
Shipping or pick-up options can be arranged in Kambeo.
If both options are added to an auction item, the Winner will choose between them at checkout.
Shipping
Shipping can be added in the Shipping section of the Auction Item creation and edit modal.
Shipping can be set for $0 or a paid amount, which will be added to the purchase at checkout.
Pick-Up
Pick-Up options can be added in the Pick-Up section of the Auction Item creation and edit modal.
Auction Items can have multiple pick-up locations. Purchasers will select the pick-up location from a dropdown list at checkout.
You can add as many items as you want to your online auction.
There is no cost to add more items.
Yes. Kambeo allows you the ability to automatically issue charity tax receipts.
Setting up your online auction is completely free. We do charge small fees based on the transaction type. For auction item sales, we charge 4% + the stripe processing fee. You can learn more about our pricing here.
Kambeo started out as an idea to help connect volunteers with the organizations that needed them. Kambeo Co-founder & CPO, Chris McIntosh set out to make a platform that was as easy for the organization to use as it was for the individual.
“Kambeo is about making change. By making it easier through the web, we’re simplifying how you can give back. Any small amount of change is change. Kambeo makes it easier to donate, to volunteer, to create your own charitable campaign. Our goal at Kambeo is to help grow social change both within our company and throughout the world.”
The idea was always to help those who were looking to help others. Providing volunteer software was the first step in making that idea become a reality. Today, Kambeo serves as a platform to amplify and support the changemakers and the organizations doing good every single day by providing them the tools to build a better world.
Change the way people change the world.
At Kambeo our mission drives everything we do. From how we build our products to how we interact with one another on a day-to-day basis. The mission is the ‘why’ we do what we do.
Our vision is to connect cause, community, and commerce to accelerate and amplify the good being done in our communities and around the world. We will look to accomplish this by bringing together nonprofits, schools, businesses, and the people who support them within a single platform.