Unlike other auction companies AES does not just sell software or products. AES provides our own tried and true pre-planning expertise combined with our swift and accurate event night management, staff and software to professionally manage your event night volunteers, auctions, payment collections and patron experience.
Traditional Auctions
AES supports traditional bid sheet auctions by providing pre-event planning assistance, post event analysis and event night management including the following services:
• Professional and experienced staff
• Pre-event planning
• Revenue generation consultation
• Creation of bid sheets
• Event night staff and management
• Volunteer training
• Patron registration
• Auction tabulation
• Live auction spotting and scribing
• Special appeal, cash call and ask collection
• Checkout and cashiering of guests
• Auction item pickup management
• On-site credit card authorizations
• Post event reconciliation
• Post event analysis
Touch-Screen Bidding
This technology package is the premier in event night services. In addition to all the above services, we add touch-screen bidding to your auction to give it that over the top feeling and to increase revenue. Imagine your event without bid sheets. Instead wireless bid stations entice bidders from atop 42 inch hi-cab tables or directly from your auction tables. The colors, excitement and ease of use of this computerized experience will boost your auction revenue, guaranteed, and your patrons will love the excitement.
Big screen projection lures your patrons to auction highlights such as live auction items, current high bids, popular silent auction items, items without bids, auction sponsors, and even streaming video presentations.
Our service is ideal for small and large scale auctions and can reduce the physical space requirements of your auction. Bidding greatly increases as patrons can bid on any item in your auction from anywhere in the venue. They can even bid during dinner right at the table if you wish. Watch them use the "My Bids" feature to see what items they are winning and to easily re-bid on items they are losing. Since your entire auction will be automated, post-auction tabulation time is reduced to nothing allowing you to keep your auction open longer thus increasing fundraising revenue by at least 20%!
AES provides the equipment and the staff to setup the bidding environment and then to monitor it throughout the evening, ensuring a successful and fun evening for all.
Service Benefits
• Increases your event revenue 10% to 50%
• Provides innovative ideas to enhance fundraising effectiveness
• Allows you to focus on your patrons
• Streamlines cashiering and item pickup, eliminating bottlenecks
• Drastically reduces walkouts and post event follow-up
• Increases the duration of the silent auction by reducing tabulation time
• Provides 100% secure credit card authorizations that night, not the next day
• Creates detailed summary reports and event night financial reconciliation
• Creates a first class event management experience for you and your guests
