Spreadsheets Were Never Meant to Run Your Fundraiser

Every charity budgets for the obvious costs.

The venue.

The catering.

The AV.

The entertainment.

Nobody budgets for the spreadsheet.

Yet it quietly becomes one of the most expensive parts of the event.

Not because Excel is expensive.

Because every spreadsheet represents hours of manual work.

Auction items.

Sponsors.

Guest lists.

Table assignments.

Volunteer schedules.

Bidder numbers.

Payments.

Tax receipting.

Thank-you emails.

One spreadsheet becomes three.

Three become ten.

Soon the event isn't running on software.

It's running on people copying information between systems.

Every manual update costs time.

Every duplicate record creates confusion.

Every last-minute change means someone has to remember which spreadsheet is the "real" one.

The financial cost isn't the software.

It's the hundreds of volunteer and staff hours spent maintaining information instead of building donor relationships.

Technology shouldn't eliminate people.

It should eliminate unnecessary work.

That's the philosophy behind Aucti.

We don't think the problem is spreadsheets.

We think the problem is asking spreadsheets to be your fundraising operating system.