Solicited Items
A web page can be set up where donors can donate items through your website. See the Solicit Items element and the Item Solicitation section pages for more details on this.
INFORMATION
You can use the Add New Page function which will trigger the Add Section function where you can select the Item Solicitation block to add the Pre-Built section to a new page.
Items entered online in this way are not automatically added to your item list, instead you need to accept the ones you want to promote to be added to the auction items.
Once a donation is submitted through the website, you will receive an email notification.
You can review these "Solicited Items" from the Auction Dashboard by clicking through Items and then clicking on the Review Solicited Items link under the Solicited Items sidebar menu.
All examples taken from a demonstration event.
Solicited Items Dashboard
The Solicited Items dashboard page will show, by default, the items that have not been "accepted" or "rejected". These are generally considered "new" as items that have not been addressed yet.
View Options
Donor Receipts
Solicited Items Actions
You can choose to Reject Selected Items (changing their status to "Rejected"); or, Accept Selected Items, which will create a new item using the information entered by the donor checking the appropriate listed items and using the Actions sidebar menu option.
Accept Solicited Items
After accepting a selection of items, the process will then ask for additional information to be applied to all of the accepted solicited items.
The Accept Solicited Items window will allow you to set the Item Type, Item Category, and Item How To Use Tags. Once an item has been accepted, you can edit the item like any other item in your event allowing you to change any of the "defaults" you used with the initial acceptance of the items.
If you require additional details or further interaction with your donors when accepting a donated item, using a customized Donor Receipt may be your best opportunity to continue the conversation. For example, you may want to have the donor signature on file and sending this request on a customized Donor Receipt could advise this.
Recent Accepted Items
Once the Item Type, Item Category (optional) and Item Tags (optional) have been set and the Accept button has been clicked the screen will refresh showing the list of recently accepted items linked to their Item Details page.
Last reviewed: March 2023