The purpose of affiliations is to associate a contact with a group or organization for reporting purposes. This helps focus your efforts on future events by inviting people who tend to spend the most money. If, for example, you made an effort to invite members of your local Kiwanis club and marked those people as affiliated with Kiwanis, after the event the report statistics will show how much money as a group the Kiwanis club spent at your auction.

Auction assistants or higher-level members can add new affiliations by way of the contacts form. Click the Add Affiliation button next to the Affiliation drop-down list.