Silent Auction Pro - Printing Bid Sheets Help Page

Printing Bid Sheets

Bid sheets are used by event attendees to place bids on auction items. The Silent Auction Pro™ software automatically generates bid sheets in full-page-width or half-page-width formats. By default, bid sheets are generated for Silent Auction and Silent Auction–Priceless auction types only, although this can be changed by an auction administrator. See Editing Auction Types.

To produce cleanly printed material from the Silent Auction Pro™ software, set your browser printer settings as follows:

Set all Header and Footer fields to empty.
Set to Print Background Colors and Images

This should be done on all computers from which you plan to print Silent Auction Pro material including those you are using for check-in / check-out.

For Internet Explorer users, press the <Alt> key and click File > Page setup... Other browsers have similar settings, typically available from Print: Page Setup in the browser tools and settings. Following are screen shots from the Page Setup dialogs from IE and FireFox:

Internet Explorer Page Setup Example:

FireFox Page Setup Example:

To print bid sheets

Click the Auction Admin menu item.

all

Full Page

Half Page

Full Page

Half Page

After reviewing the content, hit <Ctrl> P (PC), <Command> P (Mac) to print the pages.

In addition to the logo, group name, and event name, there are several aspects of the bid sheet that are customizable, including:

Printing the auction item value (or priceless if so labeled)
Printing pre-defined bid amounts using the specified minimum bid, bid increment, and maximum bid values
Printing a Buy-It-Now price
Printing an info sheet for this auction type
Printing amounts as barcodes
Printing the donor's identity, whether Company, Name, Name and Company, or Anonymous

See Editing Auction Types and Donation Fieldsfor more information on how to set these options.

By default, AuctionCore™ bid sheets are formatted for bidding by name and phone number. AuctionDay™ bid sheets are formatted for bidding by bidder number. These defaults are not changeable.