For Online & Virtual Auctions
The easiest fundraising you'll do all year — running while you sleep.
Online charity auctions are the lowest-effort, highest-leverage fundraiser most nonprofits will ever run. You set up the event, your donors bid 24/7 across a 7-, 14-, or 30-day window, and the dollars stack up overnight. HGA brings the eight proven travel packages your bidders actually compete for, a one-click TripSync push into ClickBid, and a dedicated on-staff auction software specialist who can build out your full event for you in any auction platform — not just ClickBid.
Set it. Forget it. Wake up to bids. Hand us the winner list at the close of the auction — we handle every booking from soup to nuts.
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Why an online auction is the easiest dollar your nonprofit will raise.
A traditional gala has every revenue lever, but it also has a venue contract, a guest count, an auctioneer, a band, a caterer, a run-of-show, and a hundred volunteer hours of production. An online auction has none of that. You stand up the event, list the packages, push it to your email and social audience, and bidding runs around the clock for as long as you want it open.
And travel is the rare auction item that performs better online than in person. There's no auctioneer hyping a room, but a beach photo, a Ferrari driving the Tuscan hills, or a Caribbean villa sells itself on the screen — and it sells to bidders who never would have made it to your gala.
Bidding while you sleep
Donors bid 24/7 across a 7–30 day window. Your team isn't on-site. The auction works on its own.
Zero inventory, zero risk
Reserve packages at no cost. Anything that doesn't close, you owe nothing for. Ever.
Travel sells online
Visual, aspirational, multi-winner-friendly. The category online auctions were made for.
We do the post-event work
Send us the winners — HGA handles every booking, every detail, every confirmation. Your team is done at the gavel.
The proven 8 for online auctions
The eight trips that actually win on screens.
These are the same eight packages we recommend for the Vacation Station — and they're the eight HGA trips with the strongest proven track record in online and virtual auctions. Beach, Europe, multi-destination Passports, premium experience, and a domestic favorite. Run any number of them; we'd recommend all eight.
We do the platform work for you
Whatever auction software you use, we'll get the trips in.
Most fundraising teams lose two full days to copy/pasting trip descriptions, hunting hero images, and formatting bid increments inside their auction platform. We don't make you do that. There are two ways HGA gets your packages live in your event — pick whichever fits.
Path 1 — ClickBid users
One-click TripSync push.
If your auction software is ClickBid (or any platform white-labeled on the ClickBid backend), TripSync is literally one click. From any trip's page on this site, hit "Push to my event" — the package, hero photo, gallery, description, terms, and consignment cost all flow into your ClickBid event. No copy/paste, no spreadsheets, no missing fields.
- Direct push from every trip page on this site
- Full media kit syncs in one shot
- Works for any ClickBid white-label partner
- Live in your event in under 60 seconds
Path 2 — Every other platform
We have a dedicated on-staff auction software specialist.
Using Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund, or any other platform? HGA has a dedicated, on-staff auction software specialist who knows every major platform on the market. She'll set up your packages directly inside your event — and most of the time she'll do the entire event build for you, not just the trips. You hand off your platform login (or grant her admin access), she does the full upload, you approve. Soup to nuts.
- Knows every major auction platform on the market
- Will upload your full HGA package list with all media
- Will build out the rest of your event too, if you'd like
- Most nonprofits hand off the entire platform setup to her
Either way, the trips show up in your event with marketing-grade assets, the right reserve pricing, and the right terms — and either way it's still risk-free consignment. You only pay on packages that close.
The HGA online auction process
From "we have an online auction coming" to "you're done."
- Step 01
Free strategy call
We learn your platform, audience, prior numbers, and goal — then recommend the right mix from the proven 8 (and beyond).
- Step 02
Trips into your platform
ClickBid? One-click TripSync. Anything else? Our software specialist sets it all up for you, including the full media kit.
- Step 03
Auction goes live
Bidding runs 24/7 for 7, 14, or 30 days. Push email/social. The auction works overnight while your team sleeps.
- Step 04
You hand off the winners
Auction closes. You export the winner list from your platform and email it to us. That's the only handoff.
- Step 05
We deliver every trip
HGA hospitality contacts every winner within 24 hours. Bookings, confirmations, support, fulfillment — all on us.
Sell the trip. Hand us the winner. You're done.
Send us the winner's name, email, and phone — that's the entire hand-off. Within 24 hours, a dedicated HGA booking specialist reaches out and your team is officially done. No itineraries, no follow-up emails, no "did they ever book?" anxiety. Your nonprofit gets the credit; we do the work.
The only thing the nonprofit owes us is the winner's name, email, and phone. We submit the trip and contact them within 24 hours.
Every winner gets a real human at HGA — same name, same inbox, from first call to wheels-down.
No blackout dates. Winners have 24 months to lock their dates (not to travel — to book).
Our in-house booking and customer-service teams handle every detail. Donors brag about the trip — and about the way the nonprofit treated them.
There is no cap on how many times a package can be put in front of bidders — same night, next event, every year. Reserve once, sell again and again. The nonprofit only ever pays the consignment cost on trips that actually sell.
Frequently asked
Online auction fundraising, answered.
Set the auction. Go to bed. Wake up to bids.
The eight proven trips. A one-click TripSync push for ClickBid. A dedicated on-staff software specialist for everyone else. White-glove winner fulfillment. Risk-free consignment from start to finish.
Prefer to talk first? Call (888) 362-6838