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Every feature, one honest price
Paddle-Up is designed for organizations that run real-world fundraisers— jog-a-thons, online sales, galas, auctions, and more—without enterprise contracts. Explore each area below—nothing is paywalled behind “Pro” tiers.
Under the hood, campaigns tie everything together: the same contact might buy a ticket, win a silent auction lot, and volunteer at check-in. Product pages below describe how each module works—workflows, what staff see on event day, and how finance gets a single story instead of stitched CSVs.
Capability map
Each link opens a detailed page: goals, day-of behavior, and how it connects to payments and reporting.
Campaign command center→
Each fundraiser gets a workspace for goals, branding, timelines, and permissions—so ticketing, auctions, and donor outreach all roll up to one campaign ID. Duplicate what worked next year without rebuilding your stack.
Auctions & bidding→
Catalog items and packages, register bidders online or on-site with the Paddle-Up iOS app, run silent or live bidding, and settle with Stripe-backed checkout—staff get monitoring views instead of spreadsheet guesswork.
Bid sheet scanning→
Printable bid sheets with QR anchors to the right lot, photo upload after close, and AI-assisted read-back against registered bidders—fewer midnight transcription errors and a clearer audit trail for silent auctions.
Custom forms→
Campaign-specific intake forms—parents and community members can submit donated auction items with structured fields, photos, and contact details; staff review and approve into catalog and inventory instead of retyping emails.
Ticketing & attendees→
Ticket tiers, capacity, attendee data, tables/seating where you need them, and check-in tied to the same roster your finance team sees—no more reconciling three exports to answer “who attended?”
Payments & payouts→
Stripe handles cards and payouts; Paddle-Up adds 0.1% of each transaction plus $0.15 per successful transaction for the full platform. Tickets, bids, and donations flow through one consistent fee story—details on pricing.
Donors & communications→
Profiles combine purchases, bids, donations, and volunteer participation so thank-yous and follow-ups reference real behavior—not a stale import. Enough segmentation to sound human without enterprise marketing bloat.
Email management→
Email threads stay organized around tickets sold, custom form submissions, and payments—so staff are not hunting through a generic inbox. From the email manager you can update auction items, adjust form submissions, and fix purchased tickets without losing the conversation that started it.
Procurement email AI→
When inbound emails hit your campaign inbox and your organization has AI tokens, Paddle-Up reads each thread against live orders, tickets, meals, donated items, and procurement—then recommends actions your staff can approve: link the right records to the thread, route follow-ups, and draft replies with real order or payment links. Less inbox archaeology, faster donor and vendor triage.
Event operations→
Volunteer rosters, shifts, and roles aligned with ticketing and check-in—so door teams and floor captains work from the same truth as registration, not a printout from Tuesday.
Device monitoring & streaming→
Register each TV or projector with a name, stream different browser tabs or slideshows to different screens, and push a coordinated takeover when every display should show the same deck—one control view instead of chasing HDMI and window focus.
Inventory tracking→
Log donated items, merchandise, and prizes with quantities and locations—tied to campaigns and catalog lots so fulfillment and what’s-left-on-hand reconcile without a shadow spreadsheet.
AI Assistant→
In-product help and drafting support—ask how workflows fit together, turn bullet notes into donor-facing copy, and get unstuck without leaving Paddle-Up. Your team still reviews anything that goes live. Purchase AI tokens per organization when you want to use the assistant—the models we run are not cheap, so unlimited free AI would not be sustainable at our per-transaction rate.