Following is a historical listing of changes and enhancements to Silent Auction Pro.

• Fixed an issue with the formatting of the contact address information on printed tickets receipts. [SAP-2020]

• Fixed a bug, that under certain circumstances, created an invalid email message, to users registering or purchasing tickets.[SAP-2814]

• Fixed a bug that prevented adding a background color, to the Fund-A-Need page. [SAP-2813]

• Added new [BidderNumber] tag for writing letters to bidders and attendees. [SAP-2809]

• Silent Auction Pro will now pull donations from the previous 4 events. Previously this was limited to the previous 2 events. [SAP-2783]

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the declared value for tickets, on the receipt, for an Auction Day checkout.[SAP-2768]
• Fixed a bug that displayed the Group logo, instead of the Event banner, when viewing the Bidding Sign Up page, from the Home Page. [SAP-2800]

• Group Administrators may now create a custom email to send to guests when guests purchase tickets or register for online bidding. [SAP-2183]

• Modified the tickets page so that it only shows cents in the price if the ticket price includes non-zero cents. $1000.00 will show as $1000 where if the ticket price was $5.25 would show the cents.

• Fixed a bug that caused scheduled emails to Donors to go to all contacts within the group instead. [SAP-2785]

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from using their email address to log in, while purchasing tickets. [SAP-2781]

• Fixed a bug that generated an invalid Text message, when using the Write Letters TextAndEmaiToReg template. [SAP-2776]
• Added the ability to customize the FAN (Fund-a-Need) button labels. [SAP-2743]
• Fixed the incorrect spelling of "recipients" on the preview email page. [SAP-2766]
• Added code to remove the option to view only raffle tickets on the ticket purchase page if there are no raffle tickets. [SAP-2772]

• Added instructions to navigate to the Home Page to buy tickets, when there are no auction items. [SAP-2769]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the first two templates created in the Write Letters from saving when you clicked the "Save and Preview" button. [SAP-2491]

• Updated the print Display Sheets page to constrain images to 500 pixels in width. With the addition of multiple donation photos we also allowed images to be uploaded up to 1024 pixels wide and that messed with the formatting of the Display Sheets. [SAP-2757]

• Fixed a bug that failed to include all fields, when writing letters to Campaign donors. [SAP-2751]

• Fixed a bug that caused an error, when a new 'unreconciled' user, purchases a ticket. [SAP-2750]

• Fixed a grammatical error on the QR code for mobile. [SAP-2739]
• Updated our Services Agreement with new company hours. The updated text is as follows:
  
  Silent Auction Pro™ has an extensive online help system that is designed to answer virtually any question you might have about the system. Please refer to the help system before requesting help via email or calling support. Technical support is available via phone or email during our normal working hours of 9am - 9pm Eastern time 7 days a week, non-holidays. On-site support for events or extended hours support may be available at an additional cost and must be arranged prior to your event.

• Fixed a bug that failed to include all ticket holders, when filtering by ticket holders, in Write Letters. [sap-2733]

• Fixed a bug in the FAN page, that failed to float all the donor names. [SAP-2726]

• We've improved the Live Auction Monitor page. It now automatically refreshes the bids showing the bidder name, number, bid amount and how long ago the bid was placed. In addition we added the ability to directly place a bid for a bidder on that page as well as mark the item sold. [SAP-2629]
• Fixed a bug that was causing the items in the Auction Catalog to shift positions if the display order was not defined. Items will now default to being displayed by Item Number if the display order has not been set otherwise. [SAP-2728]

• Giving Campaigns now include the option, for an email notification, each time a recurring donation is received. [SAP-2700]

• Modified the link provided to the mobile auction catalog to only include the group Id. Additional parameters were unnecessary and caused the links to not work with URL shorteners like bit.ly. [SAP-2710]

• Fixed a bug that displayed invalid characters in scheduled announcements. [SAP-2714]

• Removed the restriction on duplicate names, when purchasing tickets for guests. [SAP-2635]

• Fixed a bug that failed to email a receipt, when the group name or event title, contains special characters. [SAP-2702]

• Added the ability for Group Administrators to enter negative amounts, for cash and check payments, when processing an invoice. This facilitates issuing a cash or check refund, when the original payment type was a credit card. [SAP-2699]
• Fixed a bug that caused the Category drop-down select list to open then immediately close on the Public Donations List page. [SAP-2649]

• Updated the login in pages to indicate that users can enter their username or email address. [SAP-2692]

• Upgraded tickets so that you may now include a starting and ending time. [SAP-2522]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Scheduled Notifications page to display inconsistent font. [SAP-2666]

• Updated the public online ticket page to add a credit card surcharge if one has been set for the event. [SAP-2676]

• Fixed a bug that failed to retrieve the associated image, when cloning a previous donation. [SAP-2673]

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the select choice, for tickets that include choices, on the ticket receipt. SAP-2668

• Fixed a bug that prevented people from being able to sign up / create an account and add a cell phone number. [SAP-2669]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Auction Catalog to show the wrong auction item for multiple-winner items when all of those items had been sold. [SAP-2663]

• Added the ability to delete tickets in bulk from the Edit Contact page. This makes it easy for admins to delete tickets quickly should they need to do so. [SAP-2601]

• Modified the forgotten login flow when purchasing tickets to pass the target group Id so that the user lands in the right group after resetting their password. [SAP-2659]

• Modified the forgotten login process on desktop to pick up a passed in groupId and return the user to that group number instead of their previous group if a groupId is provided. [SAP-2651]

• Added code to detect if a user is on one of our test sites and to warn them. [SAP-2631]

• Added the ability to export the Bid Details information that currently shows on the Auction Results page. This report also includes the name, address and phone numbers of the winners. [SAP-2514]

• Fixed a bug that allowed online ticket purchases, with an option to pay later. [SAP-2613]
• Added an option for Giving Campaigns that allows the administrator to turn off the display of the goal and progress bar. [SAP-2625]
• Removed the "Posted by" column from the home page for announcements. [SAP-2628]

• Modified the Auction Catalog to show opening bids for items on which there was no bid. Previously the page just said "no bid". [SAP-2611]

• Fixed a bug that was producing a truncated email, when the message contains an HTML entity character. Also added the ability and requirement, to send yourself a test message, prior to sending a bulk email. [SAP-2475]
• Fixed a bug that prevented "broken" or missing donation images from showing up in the Edit Donation page. We're still not sure how we're getting broken images and will continue to chase that issue but for now if there is a broken image it will show on the Edit Donation page and can be deleted by an administrator. [MDP-61]

• Fixed a bug that failed to list items in the correct order, when viewing the mobile catalog.[SAP-2602]

• Outbid text message links now take the bidder directly back to the item on which they were bidding and are currently losing. [SAP-2416]

• Editing auction items, now allows users to drag and drop auction items in a list view or grid view, to set the order in which, those items will appear in the catalog. [SAP-2450]

• Added the TicketId to the tickets report.
• Added a pop-up dialog to the receipt page on mobile to direct the user back to the Home page or Auction page. Changed the name of the List menu button to Auction as that is more descriptive to where it goes. [SAP-2519]
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicate images to show on the auction catalog when the previous auction item had a donation image and subsequent items did not have an image. [SAP-2587]
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicate images to show up when cloning a donation in an existing event. [MDP-58]
• Fixed a bug that caused the default bidding ending time for items not in sections to be reset when switching to closing by sections. [SAP-2581]

• Added Silent Auction Pro subscription information / anniversary pricing to the Edit Group page. Subscription based pricing started Jan 1, 2020. Customers who had events in 2020 have 364 days to use the system without needing to pay the package price again. [SAP-2581]

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the guest names, on raffle ticket receipts. [SAP-2570]

• The Write Letters function, now includes the ability to filter on ticket purchasers, ticket holders and ticket types, when writing letters or exporting to a CSV file. [SAP-2542]

• Updated the pricing chart that shows when you change packages to show the new ticket pricing at the top. [SAP-2580]

• Fixed a bug that caused broken top level images when editing auction items. [SAP-2575]
• Removed the code that automatically posted an announcement on the home page when we updated the changehistory.php page.

• Fixed a bug that failed to display images of type png and gif, when viewing the mobile catalog. [SAP-2561]
• Fixed a bug that prevented the link to view the printed program guide from working. [SAP-2571]

• Added a new "Sponsor" category and auction type that can be used to highlight sponsors and advertisers in the Auction Catalog. [SAP-2290]
• Modified the link to the Mobile Auction Catalog in the Software Links and QR Codes table to go directly to the page with pictures on mobile.
• Added a button on the mobile home page to go directly to the Auction Catalog page.
• Updated the pricing page to show the percentages for both Auction Items and Tickets in the banner area. [SAP-2566]

• Modified how closing times are presented to allow more flexibility with overlapping sections and with people who are not offering items for "bid" [SAP2563]

• Updated pricing pages to state that all ticket sales as of Jan 1, 2021 are subject to the 1% fee. [SAP-2557]

• Modified the public donations list page to show the multiple donation photos and reformatted the page to present the pictures larger. [SAP-2556]

• Modified the policy when online bidders sign up for bidding to always assign them a bidder number. Originally we did not assign bidder numbers to not "use up" numbers but this causes other challenges. For now bidder numbers will always be assigned to guests regardless if they are physically present at your event or if they are just online bidders. [SAP-2553]

• Significant update for online bidding customers:
  • Donations may now include up to 5 pictures including videos.
  • Online bidding detail pages have been reformatted to present a larger image with the supporting description, value, etc., shown below.
  • Clicking on a picture on the full browser view will open the picture in a larger window allowing the bidder to view more detail.

• Updated the FAN monitor page to allow administrators to enter FAN pledges on behalf of other guests. Also added a link from the AuctionDay page to the FAN Monitor Page. [SAP-2453]

• Released a new version of the live auction monitor as a standalone page similar to the FAN monitor page. [SAP-2472]

• Added the ability for Group Administrators, to export Fund-a-Need donor information, in CSV format, from the FAN Monitor page. [SAP-2501]

• Fixed a bug that failed to send Text messages, when doing an auto notify, after bidding has ended. [SAP-2524]/li>

• Fixed a bug that caused multiple copies of a Text message, to be sent to the same recipient. Scheduling Text messages has been re-enabled. [SAP-2397]

• Added the ability to purchase tickets on mobile devices. [SAP-1467]
• Fixed a problem where when a user purchased tickets for another guest and the guest was already a contact in the groups contact, they would still show up to be reconciled. [SAP-2496]

• Fixed a bug that was sending blank Giving Campaign 'recurring' donation receipts, to the Group email address. The 'correct' receipts for 'recurring' donations, go to donors only. [SAP-2498]

• Silent Auction Pro will now send emails to the group email address when guests need to be "approved" / reconciled. [SAP-2493]
• When people sign up as group members they are now automatically added as contacts in the group. Note that group members must still be granted access by a Group Administrator and the group member may need to be reconciled into the group as a contact if there is a conflict. [SAP-2306]
• We removed the need to define ticket prices when creating a new event. Default ticket prices are set to $0. This may be easily edited later by a Group Administrator [SAP-2464]

• Giving Campaigns, now include the option to create a custom footer, which will appear on donor receipts. [SAP-2490]
• Updated the Donation CSV Export Report, to include the Contact Owner, and donations for 'all' Events. [SAP-2489]

• Worldpay is no longer offering $0 monthly fees to our customers. They will honor the contracts with existing customers but if they boarded new customers there would be a minimum monthly fee of $30. For that reason we are no longer recommending Worldpay and have removed them from the credit card processing fees help page. [SAP-2481]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to schedule the sending of some email templates. [SAP-2746]

• Fixed a bug that sent a blank receipt for Giving Campaign setup fees. [SAP-2467]
• Redesigned the Links, Reports and Export section of the Auction Admin page to make it easier to find desktop and mobile links. [SAP-2328]

• Modified the edit donations page to allow editing of donations that do not have a title. We do not recommend creating donations without titles and they will not show up on the donations home page. [SAP-2470]

• Modified the email that users get when they have been out bid to return them directly to the item on which they were out bid so that they may easily place another bid. Note that they must still have an open browser and be logged in to Silent Auction Pro. If they are not they will still land on the correct page but will need to log in again before placing an updated bid. [SAP-2376]

• Changed the guest ticket purchase process to always mark purchasers as bidders regardless if the ticket was an admission ticket or not. [SAP-2463]

• Added a new option to the Edit Event page to allow administrators to turn off the display of the Fund-A-Need goal, thermometer and confetti drop. [SAP-2456]
• Passwords may not contain the # sign. Updated the code when creating an account to not allow # signs in passwords. [SAP-2462]

• Added email and cell phone opt out indicators, to the Contacts export report, and the 'Text And Email To Register' preview and export report.[SAP-2452]
• When reconciling online bidding requests, if a record was selected out of order and the No match, add contact option was chosen the resulting confirmation dialog did not provide the correct name (it used the first name in the reconcile list). Adding the contact worked correctly, the message was wrong. [SAP-1438]

• Fixed a bug that created an incorrect payment date, when exporting Giving Campaign payments. [SAP-2437a]

• Fixed a bug that created an invalid URL in the TextAndEmailToReg Template for Write Letters. [SAP-2447]
• Added a warning, when deleting an Auction Item, that any bids on that Item, will also be deleted. [SAP-2448]

• Fixed a bug that failed to associate a new user to a group when purchasing tickets if the user bailed on the ticket purchase before completing the process. This left the User's group in an unknown state where they needed their group number to continue the process. [SAP-2441]

• Couple small UI/UX improvements
  • Changed the "Event Date" label to be "Event ends" - concept of an event date has changed from when people were having in-person events that essentially started and ended on the same day to events that span multiple days and end on a particular date. In Silent Auction Pro the concept of the Event date has already really meant the event ending date. We've changed the labels to reflect that when creating an event, editing an event and in what shows in the header for the event date. All now refer to Event ends date. [SAP-2421]
  • Changed the words "Give Now" on the Fund-a-Need page to "Giving Levels" and also changed the code so that bar doesn't change colors implying that it is a button on which you can click. [SAP-2410]
  • Changed the label that people see on their home page under the bidding status when they have purchased a fixed price item or made a Fund-a-Need donation from "won" to a check mark. [SAP-2444]
• Added Atlantic-Puerto Rico timezone to the timezones select list.

• Monitor mode will now show bidder names if enabled by an Auction Admin or higher level member. [SAP-2399]
• Modified the Manage Online Bidding page to show a warning on items that are NOT in sections if the Enable Section Closing Times is set. [SAP-2406]
• Fixed a bug that prevented archived tickets from showing in the event history page. [SAP-2435]

• Changed Fund-A-Need auction item numbers to start at 10000 or above. Eliminated email notices regarding sections closing, when the Event does not have auction items, that can be bid on. [SAP-2423]

• Modified the Auction Catalog and bidding detail pages to NOT reference bidding for fixed price items. [SAP-2319]

• Fixed a bug where in certain circumstances ticket purchasers would receive a "database error" at the end of their ticket purchase process. Tickets were purchased and recorded correctly, just the final process created a database error. This issue has been fixed. [SAP-2430]

• Changed the Fund-A-Need page to drop confetti when the goal is either met or exceeded. Previously it only dropped when the goal was exceeded. [SAP-2420]

• Fixed a bug that in certain circumstance where a guest was a member of more than one group, they would be switched to another group when they came back and logged in. This had to do with the definition of the default group and was certainly confusing to folks who encountered this. Once they used the "Switch Groups" feature the system would record the correct default group and the user would not experience any other side effects. [SAP-2315, SAP-2388]

• Updated the Write Letters... page to default to the last event when choosing an Auction Report for the "To" option. Previously it was possible to choose any Event which resulted in a database error when trying to run the report. [SAP-2408]

• Fixed a problem that prevented the ability to save a Template as a CSV file in the Write Letters... page. [SAP-2408]

• The ability to schedule Text messages has been temporarily disabled. We're working on getting it up and running as soon as possible.
• Modified the guest checkout invoice page on mobile to NOT include additional donation amounts in the credit card surcharge calculation. [SAP-2372]

• Modified the page that is presented when a new user is not associated with a group to make the instructions more friendly and understandable. Also added a drop-down list of groups from which the person may choose to sign up for online bidding. [SAP-2387]
• Changed the "Cancel" button on the guest invoice checkout page to say "Pay Later" as this page is in the flow when purchasing tickets and Cancel implied that the tickets would not be assigned. [SAP-2394]

• Fixed a bug (sort of) that prevented the ability to send the Text and Email to Register instant login links. We're still working on being able to pass the right parameters to the page but for now users must go to the Write Letters page and select the "Text and Email to Register" template manually. We'll continue to work on the real fix. [SAP-2382]
• Fixed a bug that failed to associate a new user with the Group, when the new user fails to complete the credit card transaction, while signing up for online bidding. [SAP-2375]

• Removed the contents of the custom ticket message from the page presented after the opening online bidding sign-up page as this was confusing customers going through the sign-up process. [SAP-2272]

• Fixed a bug that failed to show a credit card failure message, when signing up for mobile online bidding. [SAP-2356]
• Fixed a bug that prevented users from logging in with their email address, when signing up for online bidding. [SAP-2352]
• We re-enabled the ability to create, send and schedule bulk text messages. Text messages are now automatically trimmed to 160 characters before a template for a text message may be sent.
  • In addition any tags in the message such as [FirstName] are stripped out. You may not create or send text messages that have tags in them as the tag could result in the text message being truncated and links that might be in the text message rendered not valid.
  • Templates must now be saved with a format. Email, Text, Print, etc., This was done so that when scheduling a text message we know that the template is valid, is 160 characters are fewer and does not have any [Tags] in it.
  • We added a new section at the bottom of the Write Letters page that includes commonly used links for easy quick reference.

• Added the ability to sign up for online bidding for a different group from the Home > Join a Group page. [SAP-2368]
• The Member Home page will no longer show the Auction Catalog button if there are no auction items that are online on which to bid. [SAP-2359]
• Added links between the Join a Group page under the Home menu and the Switch Groups page under the Group menu to make it easier to find the right thing to do.

• Fixed a bug that failed to upload video files, that are larger than 8MB. [SAP-2358]

• Added a "Mark Sold!" button to the online bidding detail page when in monitor mode. This allows a group administrator to quickly and easily mark and item sold during the live auction bidding without having to go to the Manage Online Bidding page and find that item. [SAP-2325]
• Added bid increments to live auction items. The system will now allow you to add a bid increment when creating auction items and will enforce that bid increment when bidding. Note that bidders may only place bids that MEET the current bid plus increments of the bid increment, so if an item has a current bid of $200 and a bid increment of $50, valid bids would be $250, $300, $350, etc. A bid of $375 would not be a valid bid.
• In certain cases the Edit Auction Items page didn't provide the correct link to edit a non-grouped auction item. [SAP-2360]
• The Edit Auction Items page was incorrectly showing a "Max Bid" (Buy it Now) price for items that did not have the Buy-It-Now option enabled. [SAP-2360]

• Fixed a bug that failed to show a 'credit card failure' message, when authorizing a credit card, for online bidding. [SAP-2356]

• The ability to send bulk text messages either directly from the Write Letters form or scheduled has been disabled. We are evaluating the viability of this feature at this point and may or may not enable it for future use.

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the correct 'amount raised' for Giving Campaigns. [SAP-2339]

• Added to the Mobile QR code sign-up page that users may text the group number like G1 to 63665 to receive a sign up link. Also changed the wording on the QR code pages to tell the user to "open their camera on their mobile device and point it at the QR code to receive a link to sign-up for online bidding or to the Auction Catalog or FAN page whichever was appropriate. [SAP-2332]
• Widened the main container for content by 100 pixels to prevent tables from overflowing the UI. [SAP-2329]
• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to create a new event. [SAP-2331]
• Updated the sitemap.xml file for search engines. [SAP-2327]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error, when running a Contact Transaction Report. [SAP-2318]
• Modified Giving Campaigns, to dynamically adjust the values of the donation buttons, according to the campaign goal. For more information, please click here. [SAP-2293]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ipadpro.jpg file from showing in the announcements on mobile. [SAP-2320]

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from switching groups on full browser. [SAP-2317]

• Users can now Text a group number (proceeded by the letter 'g') to 63665, and receive a link to log in (or create an account) for that Group, or be logged in automatically, if there is a unique account with that cell phone number. [SAP-2277]

• Modified the CardConnect input form to accept the credit card expiration date as MMYY or MM/YY. [SAP-2299]
• Updated the pricing page to emphasize that we do charge 2% against non-attendance ticket sales and that as of Jan 1, 2021 we will be applying a 1% charge to ALL ticket sales regardless of type.
• Added new iPad Pro Raffle Tickets example with pictures to the ticket purchase page in the demo group. [SAP-2310 / SAP-2279]
• Added a couple example announcements including photos and a link to different pages. [SAP-2279]
• Added a video example on the online ticket purchase and registration page. [SAP-2279]
• Updated the "print all section results" page so that you may now sort based on the various columns. [SAP-2260]

• Changed the guest ticket purchase page to allow access by a group member who is not a contact, but to warn them that they cannot buy tickets because they are not yet a contact. [SAP-2308]

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the Top-N-Winners or fixed price winner names after the page automatically refreshes. [SAP-2189]

• Raffle ticket support: When creating or editing tickets you may now indicate that the ticket is a raffle ticket. This includes the following enhancements:
  • Any public enabled ticket may now be accessed and purchased by a guest from the member home page (using full browser mode - we hope to add this functionality to mobile soon.)
  • Tickets may now include photos
  • Exporting the tickets report now shows the ticket type as Admission, Raffle or Other
  • There is a new guest facing ticket purchase page. At the top left of this page the user may check the "Show raffle tickets only" checkbox to filter the list of available tickets to only raffle tickets.
• Fixed a bug that caused a white screen related to the raffle tickets enhancement when the user was not associated with a group. [SAP-2302]
• Modified the code that resets the demo group every night to mark the Raffle ticket 20 pack to have the raffle ticket attribute. Also upgraded the functionality on the guest ticket purchase page to make the "Show raffle tickets only" checkbox toggle between showing only raffle tickets and showing all tickets.

• Formatting updates to emailed receipts. [SAP-2295]
• Added an actions log for when contacts are deleted or archived [SAP-2296]

• Group Administrators may now send Instant Login links (or links to sign up for online bidding) to all contacts using a special template through the Write Letters functionality. This option is only available to purchasers of the Mobile Pro package. [SAP-2207]

• Fixed a bug that failed to retrieve 'bidders' when exporting a mailing list. [SAP-2287]

• Added restrictions that a Giving Campaign domain name can not contain a period, nor can it be a single letter, followed by a number, such as g100 etc. [SAP-2282]

• Fixed a bug that failed to allow upper case characters in Giving Campaign domain names. [SAP-2280]
• Several minor formatting changes to hopefully improve the user experience. [SAP-2274]
  1. Renamed the "View Items" button on the Member Home page that takes you to the auction catalog to "Auction Catalog"
  2. Moved the Auction Catalog and Fund-A-Need (if enabled) buttons on the Member Home page to the top of the page below system announcements to make these easier to find.
  3. Announcements now only show if there IS an announcement. Announcements are placed before the Online Bidding Status.
  4. Fixed a bug that showed a link to the Fund-A-Need (FAN) page in the sub navigation tab on the Auction Catalog even if the FAN page was not enabled.
  5. Renamed the View Items link to Auction Catalog on the FAN page and Auction Catalog pages.

• Modified the script that resets the demo group nightly to automatically make Jean-Luc Picard have a credit card on file and be approved for online bidding. [SAP-2273]
• Added a new page to the Links, Reports and Export table that is the QR code to direct people to the mobile sign-up page.

• Fixed a bug that caused the FAN content to be deleted when editing the Event. [SAP-2271]

• Fixed a bug that caused Edit Event to fail, when the Tickets Message contains an apostrophe. [SAP-2270]
• Added new "Monitor Modes" for live auction items and the Fund-A-Need page that can be used by an Auctioneer or Emcee to monitor the live bidding or FAN bidding. [SAP-2246]
• Added links to the online bidding catalog and FAN page to allow users to easily navigate between those two pages.
• Modified the FAN (Fund-A-Need) pages so if an invalid group number is passed the page will respond. Previously it just showed a white screen.
• Removed Zoom as an embed option. It was not working correctly and frankly doesn't make sense.

• Fixed a bug that caused an error when entering a 'Fund A Need' donation. [SAP-2248]

• Fixed a bug that failed to list a Giving Campaign individual payment, for a donor that does not have an existing user account. [SAP-2247]

• Fixed a bug that produced a blank donor receipt, when processing a recurring payment plan. [SAP-2242]
• Fixed a bug that allowed administrators to edit auction items that were assigned as part of an automatic Fund-A-Need item. Those items may not be edited. [SAP-2238]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Giving Campaign page to show a 'not authorized' error message, when using a CardConnect Merchant Account. [SAP-2240]
• Fixed a bug that allowed Giving Campaign domain names, to include spaces. [SAP-2237]

• Changed the FAN page so that when it first loads, the amount raised is correct rather than showing $0 and then updating to the correct amount. [SAP-2235]

• Modified the pricing page and package options to clearly show which options are for virtual / online events and which are for in-person events. Updated our Services Agreement to include Giving Campaigns. [SAP-2230]

• Fixed a bug that caused an incomplete payment process, when creating a Giving Campaign. [SAP-2233]
• Fixed a bug that caused an incomplete Giving Campaign donor receipt when reprinting the receipt. [SAP-2232]

• Fixed a bug that caused an incomplete Giving Campaign donor receipt. [SAP-2227]

• Added the URL in ligher gray text below the QR code in the FAN page when the page is switched to presentation mode. Also added the links to the FAN page for both full browser and mobile devices to the Links, Reports and Export table on the Auction Admin page. [SAP-2224]
• Fixed a bug that caused a zero dollar payment receipt to be presented to a guest when making a donation or purchasing tickets on the online bidding page. The zero dollar reciept was also sent to Group Administrators but if the guest choose to have their receipt emailed to them then it was correct. All payments were captured in the system and processed correctly. [SAP-2225]
• Fixed a bug that broke the Edit Event page and FAN page if you modified the fonts in the FAN page HTML content. [SAP-2222]

• Fixed a bug that was preventing the Write Letters... page from returning any results when targeting other than just Contacts. [SAP-2214]
• Fixed a bug that was inserting a blank line at the top of the custom description when editing an auction item. [SAP-2215]

• Moved the View Items link on a online bidding detail page to the top tab. I don't think most users noticed the View Items link. Upper tab now has View Items | Member Home | Help. [sap-2206]

• Added the 'Text to donate' address to the Giving Campaign Dashboard. [SAP-2197]

• Fixed a bug that showed the incorrect bidding status in certain instances. [SAP-2194]
• Fixed a bug that caused a PHP error when deleting a Merchant Account. [SAP-2196]

• Fixed a bug that incorrectly showed Bidding Approval Pending when a bidder was authorized to bid. [SAP-2193]

• All Groups can now accept public cash donations via credit card, by creating a Giving Campaign. Giving Campaigns include a custom Giving Page and a custom web address for donors to make a single donation, or set up a recurring donation plan. Each Group Giving Campaign incurs a one time setup fee of $99.00 and an ongoing monthly fee of $19.95. [SAP-1239]

• Fixed a bug that prevented processing an invoice, if the payers name contains an apostrophe. [SAP-2180]

• When editing existing donations in Silent Auction Pro the system would insert extra carriage returns at the top of the content. This has been fixed. [SAP-2137 / RD-26]

• Fixed a bug that was causing an error on the online ticket purchase page when choosing the number of tickets to purchase. This was introduced as a result of a bug fix regarding sessions. [SAP-2188]
• Removed the "Fund-A-Need" Automatic from the list of auction types one can select because it is a special auction type. [SAP-2187]

• Fixed a bug that prevented non-mobile customers from being able to edit their event. This was a result of the new Fund-A-Need functionality being released. [SAP-2182]

• Modified the FAN page to only accept numbers in the "other amount" field. Allowing other characters like a $ causes the page to throw an error. [SAP-2177]
• Modified the code to show SOLD for $$$ on the individual items in online bidding when updating the current bid. This is primarily for live bidding. [SAP-2179]

• Changed the FAN button levels to be dependent on the stated goal. Please see the online help for the events page for the defined button levels based on goal.

• New Fund-A-Need (FAN) page support. The new page has several new features. Please see the help page on Virtual Events for more information. [SAP-2156]
  1. It is no longer necessary to create placeholder donations or auction items. The system will automatically add items as people make their donations.
  2. You may embed a live feed, video or custom HTML content in the page.
  3. Once the goal is reached, the page will "drop" confetti indicating that the goal has been reached.
• Updated the help to clarify the Worldpay fees. [SAP-1699]
• Fixed a bug that failed to list certain donation status correctly, when viewing donations for a particular donor. [SAP-2174]
• If an item is marked donated by "Anonymous" we no longer show the Donated By: tag on the auction item detail pages. [SAP-2175]

• Updated the file that resets the demo group every night to take advantage of the new Virtual Live auction functionality.

• To support Virtual Live Auctions, auction items created using the Live auction type will behave slightly differently than other items. 1. The bid increment is automatically set to $1 and the bid increment is hidden from the bidder, 2. The Bid for Me and Buy-It-Now options are disabled, 3. When bids are placed the system will return the bidder to the item page on which they just placed a bid. This is all to support the concept of a live auctioneer calling / asking for bids during a virtual event.

• Both "Print Section Results" pages from the AuctionDay page will now refresh every 3 seconds.

• Added a "Presentation Mode" option to the individual item detail page for online bidding where an Auction Administrator or higher level member may switch the display to show a QR code in place of the bidding buttons. This screen could then be shown during a virtual live auction and guests viewing that screen may use their mobile device to scan the QR code and be taken directly to the item being offered for auction at that time. [SAP-2158]
• Modified the individual item detail pages on both full browser and mobile to automatically refresh the current bid amount every 3 seconds. [SAP-2158]

• Modified the Auction Results - Event Roll Up table to better clarify the auction results. [SAP-2155]

• Added the ability to delete a group logo. [SAP-689]

• Added the ability to include images and videos, when creating an Announcement. [SAP-2140]

• Updated the auto email that goes out when someone requests a free trial. [SAP-2133]

• Lifted the restrictions on donation titles specifically to make the Spanish � work. Titles may now also include & or + but ONLY if they are NOT going to be used as fixed price items with paper bid sheet bidding as those characters cause problems when trying to print fixed price / multiple winner bid sheets. [SAP-2136]

• Modified the "Donations export to CSV" functionality to automatically strip out HTML tags from the Title, Description, Restrictions and Notes fields. Note that this can be turned off by invoking the file directly like this dump_donations_csv.php?stripHTML=0 [SAP-2124]

• Added ContactId to the export functions. This IS NOT the Bidder Number but intended to be used as a reference when importing data into other systems. The ContactId is a unique number auto assigned to each contact. There is an also a RefNumber field that can be manually assigned to each Contact as well. [SAP-2127]

• Added ticket purchase date to the Tickets Report. [SAP-2052]
• Created a new help page with step-by-step instructions for signing up for online bidding on a mobile device. [SAP-2107]

• Fixed a bug that prevented manual invoice payments, if the Groups' name contained an apostrophe. [SAP-2126]

• Modified the flow when adding or editing a contact and authorizing a credit card to return back to the Edit Contact page. This allows the person checking in this guest to send out an Instant Login Link or further update or modify the guests contact record. [SAP-2064]

• Updated code to allow new email domains such as @company.email to validate as an valid email address. [SAP-2115]
• Added script and calligraphy fonts to the Write Letters Editor. [SAP-2118]

• Modified the "View and Batch Process Outstanding Invoices" page to show bidders with a negative balance. [SAP-2114]

• Added the ability to include video (links and uploads) in the tickets page message area. [SAP-2112]

• Added the ability to email an invoice from the invoice page. [SAP-1763]

• Added field for the Donation Notes so that that information may be inserted in the Write Letters, Emails, ... templates. [SAP-2111]

• Fixed a bug that in certain circumstances prevented bid winners from receiving notifications that they won items. This bug was specific to groups closing items by section and where the bidder won and paid for items from the previously closed section. [SAP-2109]

• Added the ability to split a single auction item across multiple winners. This is designed to address the issue where something like a vacation package was won by one bidder but it is going to be split / shared between 2 or more people and they want to split the payment equally between them. The AuctionDay page now includes an option in the Check-Out Functions table that allows you to quickly and easily split the item. Items may be split between 2-10 bidders. [SAP-239]
• Help Updates: Added a new help page for the Bidders Report check in tool, as well as updated the existing Check In help pages to better describe the different possible check in processes and flows. [SAP-2096]
• Modified the system to NOT automatically email receipts for $0 transactions such as when you are authorizing a credit card. [SAP-2106]

• Added the ability to choose an alternate refund type (cash or check) when attempting to refund a Worldpay credit card transaction that is more than forty five days old. Worldpay does not support online refunds for those transactions. [SAP-2101]

• When processing a member assisted ticket purchase, guests of the purchaser will now receive an email letting them know that a ticket has been purchased for them so that they may pre-register for the event or sign up for online bidding if that is being offered. [SAP-1565]

• Fixed a bug that caused the top level picture for an auction item to reference an invalid file. This only happened if an existing auction item was edited and saved. This was also as a result of the security update. [SAP-2080]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error to be shown when entering or updating content that included apostrophes. This was part of a security update. [SAP-2077]

• Increased the Top-N-Win maximum number from 20 to 30 winners.

• Fixed a bug in the View All Payments exported report that was showing the contact ID instead of the bidder number. Also separated out the date and time fields and reformatted to allow those columns to sort. [SAP-2070]

• Added the total dollars raised to the top of the leader board bar chart. This number was available before by hovering over the bar chart, but now the total amount will persist at the top of the chart in large font. This page is typically projected on a large screen during a fund-a-need / raise-the-paddle type event. [SAP-2048]
• The auctioneer info sheets page was only showing the Donated By if the Company field was populated for the contact. Changed the code to pull what is specified in the Donated By field for the donation - Name, Company, Name and Company or Anonymous. [SAP-2063]
• Fixed a bug that caused a white screen when deleting a contact after navigating to the Edit Contact page from the invoice page. [SAP-2062]

• Fixed a bug that caused the self-checkout invoice page on both full browser and mobile to display "nan" for the tax calculation and ultimately the amount due. This was caused by a divide by zero when calculating tax on items that had the value set to $0 (such as a fund-a-need item). [SAP-2059]

• After sending an Instant Login link the Edit Contact page will return to the same contact so that may also authorize a credit card for the attendee. [SAP-2053]
• Updates to the Bidders Report and Check-in Attendee help pages. [SAP-1869]

• Fixed a bug that in certain circumstances caused the number of bids reported on the Bidders Report to be inflated. Also fixed the sorting of the Bidders Report page when clicking on the ''Tkt'' heading to sort alphabetically by the ticket purchaser's last name and then show their guests below them. [SAP-2039]

• Added raffle tickets and a raffle ticket tracking sheet to the demo group. [SAP-2032]
• We've changed our sales and support phone number to (408) 583-4880. The (888) 691-5993 toll free number will continue to work for the time being but we are phasing out that number. [SAP-2031]

• Fixed a bug that caused blank contacts to be inserted when updating included choices for tickets where attendee names were not required. [SAP-2025]

• Added sorting of the Bidders Report page by ticket type for purchasers of the Bidsheet Plus and Bidsheet Pro packages. This was omitted in the first release. [SAP-2021]

• Invoices now include the company name. [SAP-2019]

• When creating a new event, the system will now remember your previous choice for the time zone and pre-populate that field during set up. [SAP-1988]
• When setting up a new event or changing your package choice, Silent Auction Pro will now show what package was chosen for your previous event if one exists. [SAP-2003]

• Added the ability to include images and document links in emails and letters, when using the 'Write Letters' functionality. [SAP-1989]

• Modified the system to allow the underscore "_" character and up to 100 characters for the user name. [SAP-2014]

• Reduced price of renting Worldpay credit card readers to $25 per reader. Also updated the demo group dialogs to no longer refer to the bugsbunny login and use guest1 instead. [SAP-2009]

• Modified the Landing Page Editor to include a new tool which inserts a 'Contact Us' form.

• Fixed a bug that failed to show the credit card logo in the Bidders Report. [SAP-2006]

• Modified the Landing Page Editor to include tools to define a 'showcase' set of company logos. The 'showcase' can then be inserted as as a grid, to feature sponsor logos etc.

• The Item Bid History page now shows rescinded bids.

• Added link from the Bidders Report to individual bidder history via the number of bids column. Also redesigned the Bidder History page to be more intuitive and show bids, any items with ''Bid for Me'' (Proxy) bids and rescinded bids. Rescinded bids now also show the group member who rescinded the bid. [SAP-1996]
• Published a completely new demo group with a new design and new auction items. Several of the auction items are real items that are available from our partner Mitch-Stuart. [SAP-1999]

• Added code to present guests with a confirmation dialog if they enter a donation amount and their outstanding balance is zero. The confirmation asks then to confirm that they intend to donate money since they do not have an outstanding balance. [SAP-1683]
• Fixed a bug that caused CardConnect authorization transactions to fail and not show the receipt. [SAP-1997]

• Significant enhancements to the Bidders Report page. It now includes a "Tkt" column and a "Bidder Paddle" column. Clicking on the Tkt column will order the page grouped by who bought the ticket. Ticket colors indicate the type of ticket purchased. The Bidder Paddle column will show a paddle icon if a bidder number is assigned to that bidder. Clicking on the icon will open up a new page allowing you to print the bidder paddle for the guest. In addition, you can search the page for names by clicking the "Find in page" button or search your Contacts database by clicking the "Search for Contact" button. These enhancements should make the page more valuable asset when checking in guests who have pre-registered for your event.

• Modified code to send copies of online bidding approvals to the email address in the Group Admin > Edit Group rather than to individual Group Admins. [SAP-1975]

• Fixed a bug that caused the last auction item to be grouped incorrectly, when editing auction items. [SAP-1977]

• Added cell number to the print invoice pages. Also fixed a bug that was presenting the wrong cell number on the invoice page. [SAP-1972]

• Modified code to now send copies of ticket purchase receipts to the email address in the Group Admin > Edit Group rather than to individual Group Admins. [SAP-1975]
• Added the ability to directly check bidders in from the Bidders Report. Also added a Search functionality to the bidders report to make it easy to find people. [SAP-1974]
• Added the Attendee cell phone number to the Invoice. [SAP-1972]
• Added the ability to include archived contacts in the search results from the Add/Edit/Search Contacts page available from the Group menu. [SAP-1973]

• Modified the edit auction items code to handle when an auction item is switched from a non fixed price item to a fixed price item. [SAP-1969]

• Fixed a bug that was causing printed invoices to show NAN for tax rates and other numbers when donation values were set to zero. Also the bidder number was being presented as the old Contact ID rather than the correct bidder number. [SAP-1970]

• Changed the "Find" functionality on the My Donations and Edit Auction Items pages to search for any text on the page rather than just donation or auction item numbers. This is essentially the same thing as using the browsers "Find" functionality you get when you hit <Ctrl>+F or <Command>+F on a Mac. Also changed the button to say Search instead of Find. [SAP-1963]
• Updated allowed special characters list for passwords to include the following characters !$@=/#&~+ [SAP-1964]

• The outstanding invoices table on the Auction Results page was showing the original bidder number / contact ID as the bidder number rather than using the new bidder number option. [SAP-1956]

• Changed the Configure Merchant Account page so that it can accessed without having a current event.
• Added the group logo to the upper left corner when printing bidder numbers. [SAP-1960]

• Added information on how to configure credit card readers on Apple / iOS devices if they are not initially recognized by the system. [SAP-1941]

• Fixed a bug that prevented ticket purchases if guest names were left completely blank. This was introduced in a bug fix from yesterday. (Sorry!) [SAP-1942]

• Updated the online ticket purchase page to prevent people from putting a blank space in the first or last names for their guests. [SAP-1935]
• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when trying to print an info sheet from the AuctionDay page for a bidder number that did not exist. [SAP-1850]
• Updated the system to allow entering a top level photo when there is only one donation in the auction item. [SAP-1614]
• Updated the training help page to no longer reference the old bidder numbers from the Demo Group. [SAP-1932]

• Changed to new Short Code number 63665 for sending Text messages. [SAP-1915]

• Fixed a problem where printed bid sheets were not printing using the highest placed bid from online bidding. [SAP-1930]

• Fixed a bug that caused a 'file not found' error when authorizing a credit card, as part of adding a new Contact. [SAP-1928]

• Fixed a problem with the View Payments / Issue Refund option from the Auction Results section of the Auction Admin page not finding the correct contact because of the new bidder numbers feature. [SAP-1926]
• Fixed a problem with mobile bidding where if the minimum bid on an item was adjusted after bids had been placed on an item, the system would prevent people from being to place valid bids on that item. [SAP-1920]
• Fixed a bug that prevented administrators from viewing the bidding history for an online bidder that had not been assigned a bidder number. [SAP-1849]

• Modified the system to allow donation values to be zero dollars ($0) - The classic example of this would be for Fund-A-Need type items or raffle tickets where there really is not a value to the item. This change also allows the payment receipts to show declared values for donations to be $0. [SAP-1886]
• Added the donation descriptions to the scrolling marquee leader board. [SAP-1923]
• Fixed a bug that prevented winner names from showing in the Detail Results table in the Auction Results report when there was no bidder number assigned to the winner. [SAP-1904]

• Fixed a bug that failed to complete the addition of a new Contact, while reconciling online bidding requests. [SAP-1914]

• Fixed a problem where in certain instances people who were signing up for online bidder were not set to be reconciled when they should be. A related issue also caused pre-assigned bidder numbers to be deleted for groups who were manually assigning bidder numbers to guests before they signed up for online bidding. [SAP-1903]

• Fixed a problem that caused the Bid Winners Report for Donors to time out. [SAP-1877]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to reconcile a user when using the automatic bidder number mode with bidder numbers starting lower than 100. This also caused problems when trying to assign a bidder number to an existing contact. [SAP-1881, SAP-1882]
• The "Online ticket / bidding sign-up message" now shows on the Online Bidding Sign-up page. [SAP-1885]

• Added a button to the Bidders Report that allows an Auction Administrator or higher level member to quickly assign bidder numbers to everyone who is marked as a bidder in the system. This enhancement will help organizations who are not selling tickets or selling tickets outside of Silent Auction Pro and who are offering online bidding with Silent Auction Pro and who are also having a physical event with a live auction or Fund-A-Need type auction. [SAP-1862]
• Modified the CardConnect credit card entry Form, to automatically submit the Form when the card is being read through a card reader. [SAP-1855]
• Added the ability to upload images (jpeg, jpg, png, gif, webp) and link documents (txt, doc, pdf, xls, xlsx) when editing the Event Tickets Message. [SAP-1857]
• In accordance with new Cell Carrier regulations, cell phone users can now opt out of receiving Text messages from Silent Auction Pro, by Texting STOP to 85760. They can also opt back in by Texting RESUME to 85760. [SAP-1825]

• Printed bid sheets where there is an existing online bid will now show the word ''Online'' in place of the bidder number for the current high bidder. Previously it would print the legacy bidder number. With the recent release that allows you to control the bidder numbers, it is possible that the person who placed the bid would not have a bidder number if they are not attending your event. Therefore it is not possible to always print a bidder number. [SAP-1863]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Online Program Guide and Printed Program Guide to not produce complete results in special situations. [SAP-1852]

• Updated Silent Auction Pro to allow administrators options on how bidder numbers are assigned. Bidder numbers may now be either automatically assigned or manually assigned during the check in process. [SAP-1506]

• Added a column for Section Number, to the Event/View Action Items page. [SAP-1711]

• Incorporated the Group name, event name and event date that shows on the online ticket purchase page just above the Tickets table into the editable HTML field on the Edit Event page. This allows you to completely customize the text that shows below the banner and above the ticket table. We plan to add additional functionality to the new HTML editor to allow you to upload images in the near future. [SAP-1808]

• Help updates to include more information about CardConnect [SAP-1829] and updates to how table names are printed on the bidder number and bidder info sheets. [SAP-1712]

• Added refund transactions to the Contact Transactions CSV Report. [SAP-1815]

• Fixed an issue that prevented Buy It Now bids from being placed using online bidding when the Buy It Now price did not meet the bid increment rules. [SAP-1819]

• Implemented a new and improved HTML Editor, which eliminates prior issues with HTML formatting. [SAP-1680]
• Fixed a bug in the Write Letters, Emails, Texts or Custom Reports functionality that caused Auction Reports to hang. [SAP-1817]

• Added CardConnect, a First Data Company, as an additional choice for processing credit cards. [sap-1531]

• Fixed a bug that failed to display the correct bidder approval status, after signing up for online bidding. [SAP-1745]

• Online bidding Sections for which, there are no items marked as online, will no longer show in the Section drop-down list, or as an option on the mobile site. [SAP-824]
• Fixed a bug that failed to retrieve the description and restrictions text, when cloning a donation from a previous Event. [SAP-1704]

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from being able to print gift certificates from previously closed events. [SAP-1737]

• Reversed the code that forced bids to be a multiple of the bid increment as this created problems with bidding. Will revisit later. [SAP-1709a]
• Updated the system so that if a bid is placed that doesn't meet the bid increment rules, the system will present a warning dialog with suggestions for the closest lower and higher bids that are valid. [SAP-1709b]

• Modified the online bidding code to reject bids that are not a multiple of the bid increment - whether placed bids or "Bid for Me" (proxy) bids. [SAP-1709]

• Removed Reference ID from the receipts since this was really just value used internally by Silent Auction Pro and not something users needed to see. [SAP-1578]

• Changed the label "Bid Increment" to "Minimum Bid Increment" on the online bidding pages to more clearly state that you can place a bid at any amount that is greater than the current bid plus the minimum bid increment. [SAP-1708]

• Added quick links from the Edit a Contact page to the Invoice page. [SAP-1677]
• Added count of auction items on the View Auction Items and Edit Auction Items pages. [SAP-1609]

• Added donation tag to the bid winners report for donors. The report also now lists items that did not sell. [SAP-1694]

• The company website was showing up twice on display sheets when QR codes were turned on. Because it's unlikely that a guest would type in a company URL from the display sheet we removed the company website from being presented. [SAP-1690]

• Added HTML editing functionality, when entering or updating the 'description' and 'restrictions' information for donations. [SAP-1365]
• Fixed a bug that prevented cursor keys from working in the donation description and restrictions fields. Adding the HTML editor fixed the problem! [SAP-522]
• Fixed a bug that prevented a customer's Zip code from being included in the email to Group Administrators [SAP-1679]

• Added the option to print and/or email a receipt for a Member assisted ticket purchase, when the 'pay later' option is selected. [SAP-1652]

• Added a warning dialog if a bid winner is changed using the Enter Bid Results form. [SAP-1658]
• Changed code to NOT send an out bid notification when using the Enter Bid Results form. [SAP-1639]

• Fixed a bug that caused out bid notifications to be sent to bidders for Top-N-Win auction types when "watch" bids had been placed on those items. [SAP-1650]

• The Edit Auction Items page will now ignore the max bid value if online bidding is enabled and Buy-It-Now is turned off or if the item is not biddable. [SAP-1076]
• Fixed a bug that made the link (if provided) to the donation website not work on mobile devices. Also added the donor's logo to the mobile bidding detail page. [SAP-1635]

• Added a "Search" button to the mobile kiosk page so that Android devices work better with the mobile kiosk page. [SAP-1404]

• Fixed a bug that caused Worldpay credit card transactions to fail, when the length of the Invoice Note exceeds 250 characters. [SAP-1622]

• The option to disable or enable closing times by section was moved to the Manage Online Bidding page. In addition, if the "enable closing times by section" is selected and there are auction items that are marked as online but not in sections, the system will show a warning on the Manage Online Bidding page as those items will have a different closing time (the default) which may not be what is desired. [SAP-1615a]

• Added new support for QR code functionality after Google pulled the plug yesterday on their support of QR codes from their website. [SAP-1619]
• Fixed a bug that displayed incorrect Event info when re-printing receipts from previous Events. [SAP-1621]

• Fixed a bug that displayed incorrect donation numbers when viewing auction items, within a particular grouping sequence. [SAP-1618]

• Fixed a bug that prevented refunding a credit card payment that was made using an external merchant account. [SAP-1459]

• Fixed a bug that could cause tickets to be deleted when dragging and dropping individual tickets to the same party on the Manage Table Seating Assignments page. [SAP-1555]
• Fixed a bug that showed gift certificate icons and links on the Current Donations table for items that were not marked as having gift certificates. Clicking on the icon / link would result in a blank page. [SAP-1612]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when purchasing a ticket for a Contact, with a name that contains special characters, such as an apostrophe. [SAP-1613]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the donor's name and bid winners address from showing in the "Bid Winners Report for Donors". [SAP-1606]
• Removed support for new PayPal accounts. PayPal has had chronic problems boarding our customers and we have exhausted our efforts with PayPal to have them fix this. Existing Silent Auction Pro customers may continue to use PayPal though we highly recommend that they switch to Worldpay. [SAP-1583]
• Fixed a bug that prevented the event title from being included in the email a guest receives when a ticket has been purchased for them by another guest. [SAP-1544]

• When cloning a ticket, the system now sets the starting date for ticket sales to the current date. [SAP-1575]
• When creating a new category, the Max Bid / Buy It Now amount defaults to 100% [SAP-1426]
• When creating an auction item bundle, the custom description will now default to the description(s) for the included donation(s). [SAP-1289]
• The Add a Donation page - Current Donations table now presents a link to print the gift certificate for that donation if the gift certificate option is selected for that donation. [SAP-1243]
• If the close auction items by section option is set and no auction items are assigned to sections, the Manage Online Bidding page will now present a warning. [SAP-1230]

• Party names shown on the Manage Table Assignments page now default to the last name of the purchaser. [SAP-1592]
• Cloned auction items now default to NOT show in online bidding. The TopNWin functionality can create many cloned auction items and showing them on the online bidding page after bidding ended was confusing. [SAP-1596]
• Modified the Edit Ticket functionality on the Auction Admin page to allow editing of tickets for Bidsheet Plus and Mobile Plus customers. [SAP-1598]
• Fixed a bug that caused a blank screen when attempting to print a receipt from the Batch Checkout page. [SAP-1590]
• Fixed a bug that failed to show the original payment date when re-printing or emailing a receipt. [SAP-1591]
• Updated the Company Fact Sheet. Removed references to AuctionPromoter from the Edit Ticket Types page. [SAP-1599, SAP-1597]

• Fixed a bug in the Mobile Site that caused a 'too many redirects' error when attempting to obtain a password reset link. [SAP-1588]

• Removed the Atlantic timezone from the choices for Event timezones, and converted all future Events that were using the Atlantic timezone, to use the Eastern timezone. [SAP-1567]

• Fixed a bug that failed to capture the guest ticket email address, and insert it into the Contact record. [SAP-1564]
• Fixed a bug that returned to the wrong page when canceling an 'Edit Contact' operation. [SAP-1566]

• The Enter Bid Results page will now remember the last entered bid amount if the auto-increment option is checked. This makes entering items with repetitive bid amounts like Fund-A-Need, raffle ticket purchases, drink ticket purchases, etc., much faster. [SAP-1562]
• Removed the title and steps from the online ticket purchase and online bidding sign-up flow. The titles were inconsistent in some of the flows and we believe that the steps indication just added clutter and took away from the ability for customers to brand the page. [SAP-1551]
• For Bidsheet Plus and Pro customers, Silent Auction Pro will now include links in the "Somebody bought you a ticket" email that is automatically sent to guests when a ticket is purchase for them by another guest. This allows the recipient of the ticket to pre-register and put a credit card on file for the event. This functionality already existed for Mobile customers. [SAP-1553]
• Removed the insert image icon from the Edit Event > Online ticket / bidding sign-up message form as that feature is not available. [SAP-1552]
• Fixed a bug that prevented certain fields like Donor First Name from populating correctly in the exported file. [SAP-1561]

• Fixed a bug that failed to recognize MasterCard as an accepted card type for PayPal Merchant Accounts. [SAP-1548]
• Fixed a bug that was including the words 'User initiated' in the Notes field, when exporting Table Assignments. [SAP-1524]

• Added the ability to export tickets and table assignments from previous events. This is accessed from the Auction Admin > Event History section. [SAP-1549]

• Fixed a bug that prevented TopNWin auction types from completing the cloning and notification process for items that had apostrophe's in the title of the item. Double quotes are now also allowed in donation and auction item titles but are converted to back-to-back single quotes to prevent problems down the road. [SAP-1535]
• Fixed a bug that prevented sections from being highlighted on the mobile browser home page bidding status after a refresh. [SAP-1545]

• Fixed a bug that caused a 'transaction not found' error when renting credit card readers with a new card. [SAP-1521]

• The previous donations drop-down list on the Add a Donation page was limited to pulling donations from the current event and the previous event. We changed the code to pull from the past two events as well as the current. [SAP-1502]

• Per customer requests we no longer send emails alerting Group Administrators that guests need to be reconciled. A notification shows up on the home page and other pages alerting administrators that reconcilation needs to be done. [SAP-1508]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when attempting to email a receipt for a member assisted ticket purchase. [SAP-1516]

• When defining tickets you may now enter a "declared value" that will show up on the purchaser's receipt. The reason we added this is the difference between the purchase price and the declared value may be used as a tax deduction. Purchasers should also consult their tax professional to find out if it is in fact deductible in their particular situation. [SAP-1512]

• Fixed a bug that failed to email the receipt for online ticket purchases. [SAP-1511]
• Fixed a bug that prevented cents from showing in the price of a ticket on the Online Ticket Purchase page. [SAP-1510]
• Added Worldpay sample application on the Establish and Configure a Worldpay Merchant Account help page. [SAP-1515]
• Added IMPORTANT note to credit card processing fees comparison and to the Establish and Configure a PayPal Merchant Account page that we are currently recommending that customers DO NOT GO with PayPal. They are having problems boarding customers.

• Updated the online help for tickets to say that selling raffle tickets in some states is illegal and to check your local laws before doing so. [SAP-1483]
• Fixed a bug that failed to retain the bidder status when adding a new Contact and authorizing their credit card. [SAP-1482]

• Silent Auction Pro has negotiated a new processing agreement with Worldpay that offers new customers a flat 2.9% rate with no per transaction fees or monthly fees. Existing Worldpay customers interested in converting to the new flat rate fees may contact Worldpay and have their account changed over. For additional information please see our Credit Card Fees Comparison page. help page.

• Fixed a bug that was outputting HTML instead of plain text for certain characters, when generating csv (dump files) [SAP-1469]

• Changed Auction Day (assisted checkout) to not automatically email the receipt. The Assistant will have the option to email the receipt at that time, or at a later date, by viewing the payment and selecting to print and/or email the receipt. [SAP-1490]

• Fixed a bug that caused an HTTP 500 error when updating tickets with guest names. [SAP-1488]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when trying to view auction items online and there was no bidder number associated with the viewer. This was related to the Top n Win update. [SAP-1486]
• Updated Gold Line bids to clarify that it works only for Mobile. [SAP-1485]
• Fixed a bug that was truncating text on the right side of the print online tickets receipt page. [SAP-1487]

• Top n Win (Merry Christmas!). Silent Auction Pro now supports the ability to define an auction type where the top "n" (where n is a number between 2 and 20) bidders win an item. Once bidding ends Silent Auction Pro will automatically clone the donations and auction items associated with the Top n Win auction type and assign those items to the top n winners. For more information please see our help page on Other Auction Types.

• Fixed a problem that failed to display the correct 'active' status for the Merchant Account. [SAP-1476]
• Fixed a problem that failed to display/print the payment receipt when viewing payments from the Home page. [SAP-1476]

• Fixed problem with the Instant Log In button not consistently enabling or disabling when adding or editing contacts. [SAP-1473]
• Added note field to Export Table Assignments file to include notes entered when people purchased tickets. [SAP-1474]

• Improved control for emailing receipts. [SAP-1377]

• Added a button to the Add Person and Edit Person pages to allow full control over when the instant log in link is sent. This button only shows if you have purchased the Mobile Plus or Mobile Pro packages. [SAP-1411]

• Vantiv Integrated Payments is now Worldpay. Updated references in the online help to Worldpay. [SAP-1456]
• The Previouus Donations Report on the Auction Admin page only showed donations where the donor was claimed by a group member. All previous donations are now shown regardless if the donor was claimed or not. [SAP-1454]

• Fixed a problem with the mobile website where auction item titles were being inconsistently truncated with ellipsis that would go away when the page was refreshed. [SAP-1409]

• Added "Show Password / Hide Password" toggle on the mobile website to hide the password by default but to allow users to optionally show the password if they want. [SAP-1422]
• Fixed bug in full browser kiosk that would submit the lowest valid bid if someone entered a bid lower than the next valid bid. Page will warn the user now and not place the bid. Note: The system places the next valid bid in the bid amount box and users would have to intentionally try to place a lower bid to have encountered this issue. [SAP-1415]

• Fixed a bug that made it difficult to sign up for bidding on mobile if you were already a member of another group and logged in to that other group. [SAP-1420]

• Forgotten Login links and Instant Login links now expire after 24 hours rather than after a single use. [SAP-1413]

• Fixed a bug that was generating a database error when people were trying to use an "Instant Login" link more than once. For security reasons instant login links are only valid for one use. The system now presents an informative error message giving the user options. [SAP-1403]

• Updated the image cropper to set the background of images to white instead of black. This will make images more presentable on the online bidding pages. [SAP-1395]

• When cloning a donation from the Add a Donation page, the drop-down that lists the previous donations for this donor was referencing images from the FIRST event in which the donation was entered. This was causing the image to be broken as all images that are older than 2 years old are automatically deleted from Silent Auction Pro to save disk space. The system will now correctly pull images from the last event or the current event and those should not have been deleted. [SAP-1394]

• Fixed a bug that was causing an HTTP 500 error to be displayed when processing Vantiv card authorizations [SAP-1391]

• Fixed a bug that caused the Remove Credit Card button to show on the Edit Contact page when there was not a card on file and to NOT show when there was. The logic was backward. [SAP-1378]

• Fixed a bug that failed to generate the correct content when emailing online ticket purchase receipts. [SAP-1375]

• Fixed a bug that failed to show the receipt time stamp in the correct time zone. [SAP-1368]

• Updated credit card processing fees page to more clearly outline processor fees. Also added note to say that the PayPal supplied credit card readers do not work with Silent Auction Pro [SAP-1357, SAP-1359]

• The Online Program Guide, Bid Sheets and Sold Sheets now present underlying donations in order of value starting with the highest value. [SAP-1226]

• Added assigned table information to the Edit Contact page. Also updated the table name formatting on the print bidsheets and info sheets pages. [SAP-1348]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to delete individual auction items using the bulk delete functionality. [SAP-1353]

• Fixed an issue with the Gold Line Bids report that was presenting incorrect results. [SAP-1342]

• Fixed a bug that prevented a user from being fully marked as a bidder when creating an instant login link. [SAP-1335]

• Improved bidding response times that was related to sending outbid sms text messages. [SAP-1271]
• Added code to ensure that payment processing does not stop if the Processor disconnects. [SAP-1301]

• Instant login - For groups using the Mobile Plus™ or Mobile Pro™ package options, when guests are checking in, Silent Auction Pro will automatically create a User account (or match the guest to an existing user account) and send a text link to allow the guest to immediately start bidding. This is an important enhancement as it significantly simplifies the check-in process for guests who have not yet registered for online bidding for your event. [SAP-1311]
• Modified the code to only pull previous donations from the current and previous event that are shown on the "Add a Donation" page in the drop-down list. This is an attempt to speed up the page where hundreds or thousands of "donations" have been entered from a single donor (such as entering Fund-A-Need or Raffle Tickets" type "donations". If the page is still slow or not responding we suggest creating a new "dummy donor" and using that. It's also important to NOT enter many hundred or even thousands of items when a few hundred would suffice. [SAP-1317]
• Improved security for merchant account credentials [SAP-1283]

• Added support for "Gold Line Bids". A "Gold Line Bid" is a bid at a certain percentage of the value of an auction item for which if the bidder places a bid at that level, they get entered into a drawing for a prize. Organizations do this to encourage bidders to place bids at a certain level - 80% for instance. Regardless if the bidder wins the item the person is entered into the drawing. Access the "Gold Line Bids" report from the Other Functions on the AuctionDay page. [SAP-1315]

• Changed code to default to a valid group if the default group for which a person was a member gets deleted. Previously the system would go to a page that essentially said, sorry, I don't know what to do... Now if the person is a member of another group the system will default to that group or the lowest number group for which that person is a member. [SAP-1314]

• Added donor email address to the output of the Donations CSV file export to spreadsheet. [SAP-1313]

• Fixed a bug that prevented editing an individual Auction Type. [SAP-1309]

• Fixed issues with the forgotten login handler and handling of blank passwords. [SAP-1306, SAP-1307, SAP-1308]

• Added links from the Manage Online Bidding page to edit auction items. This allows an Auction Administrator to easily reduce minimum bids or make other edits to auction items during the online bidding. Also added a link to the Manage Online Bidding page from the Auction Day page for Auction Administrators and higher level members. [SAP-1304]

• Upgraded to PHP7

• Removed all references to the old component pricing from the online help.

• Fixed a bug introduced by the check on the PayPal Vendor and Usernames that prevent Vantiv configurations from validating. [SAP-1291]

• When configuring a PayPal merchant account, Silent Auction Pro now checks to make sure that a unique username was created for the Silent Auction Pro PayPal User.

• Fixed a bug that was causing errors after returning from clearing a "watched" item. [SAP-1285]

• Fixed a bug that may have caused a PayPal merchant account configuration to be reset to NULL. [SAP-1280]

• New forgotten password process using encrypted passwords. [SAP-451, SAP-1265]
• Fixed bugs related to ticket purchases and signing up for online bidding using the new encrypted password functionality. [SAP-1279]

• Added Address, City, State and Zip fields when creating an account on the mobile website. [SAP-1277]

• Added PayPal payments total in the Auction Results Payment Totals table for groups using PayPal as their processor. [SAP-1272]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the zip code from being correctly passed to PayPal when doing address validation. [SAP-1267]

• Added [AuctionItemQRCode] tag to the Write Letters functionality that automatically generates a QR code that will go to auction items on the mobile site. [SAP-1261]

• Transaction details for PayPal now show up in the PayPal portal [SAP-1194, SAP-1254]

• Transaction notes including bidder number will now show up in PayPal's system making it easier to identify individual transactions and match them to those in Silent Auction Pro. [SAP-1194]

• Ampersands are now allowed in Donation Titles and Auction Item titles. [SAP-560]
• Updated system to allow issuing refunds AFTER an event has closed and archived. [SAP-1152]

• Added the ability to export the bidders report. [SAP-1242]

• Fixed a bug that prevented simulatenous scheduled text and email messages from sending. [SAP-983]

• Added Cell Phone to the fields exported by the "Export a mailing list" function. [SAP-1235]

• Removed the ability to apply a credit card surcharge to online ticket purchases. This feature caused a problem where the amount paid as a credit card surcharge was applied as a credit on the final invoice. Unfortunately it is not possible to support the credit card surcharge for online ticket purchases without a significant redesign of the ticket purchase flow, so this "feature" is being removed.

• Fixed a bug where the first ticket purchased by a user was not always assigned to the user. [SAP-1218]
• Updated instructions on how to find the Vantiv POS data (AccountID, AcceptorID and Account Token) in Vantiv's IQ system. [SAP-1225]

• Fixed a bug that prevented being able to print detailed receipts from previous events. [SAP-1209]

• Updated the Public Donations List page to automatically sort by donation value. [SAP-1207]

• Fixed a bug that would allow two batch processes to run if started by the same user account at virtually the same time. [SAP-1206a]

• Added code to ignore the preview option on the online ticket purchase page if the page is being accessed by someone who is not an Auction Administrator or higher level member. We had a customer mistakely email out the preview page link to 500 plus potential attendees. [SAP-1203]
• The hash or pound sign is no longer allowed in passwords.

• Changed link to add a new contact to a button on the Search Results page to make it more obvious how to add a new contact. [SAP-1184]

• HTML tags are now allowed in Donation Titles
• Zero dollar transactions are not allowed with PayPal Express payments (paying by PayPal). To prevent a user from getting a white screen when purchasing a comp ticket or otherwise running a zero dollar transaction and having selected pay by PayPal, Silent Auction Pro will change the payment type to pay by credit card so that the user can complete the transaction and put a credit card on file. [SAP-1196]

• It is now OK to edit everything BUT the value of a donation that has already been sold. The system will still prevent you from changing the value of a donation that has been sold. [SAP-1193]

• Fixed a bug that prevented a new credit card from being stored on file when an individual bidder completed a self-checkout using a new credit card. [SAP-1180]
• Fixed a bug that caused the note on receipts processed using the batch check-out to repeat on subsequent reciepts. [SAP-1185]
• Fixed a bug that caused the credit card surcharge amount to not get recorded as an additional donation when doing batch checkout. Customers were being charged the right amount but it left a negative balance of the appropriate cc surcharge rate on the bidder's invoice. [SAP-1186]

• Added "Notify Winners" option to Auction Types. This allows an administrator to turn off notification of winners by Auction Type. The most obvious use of this is to prevent notifying bidders if they have only purchased raffle tickets or drink tickets. We also updated all current Auction Types that contain the word "raffle" or "drink" and set the notify option to FALSE.
• Added Fund-A-Need Auction Type and Raffle Ticket Purchase as a default Auction Types for new groups. Removed Door Prize as an Auction Type.
• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when creating a new event in Silent Auction Pro [SAP-1186]

• Fixed a bug that caused self-checkout of more than $999 to fail on the full browser site. [SAP-1178]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the mail merge from working when targeting anything other than Members. [SAP-1176]

• Added "Checked In" radio button on the Add Contact and Edit Contact pages. Also added a count of total number checked-in on the Tickets report page and a visual indication of checked in on the Bidders Report. The "Checked In" status is intended to allow groups to get an accurate count of the total number of guests physically present at their event. The field is not required to allow someone to bid on items. [SAP-1071]
• Fixed a bug that caused sections that had no items to show in the drop-down list of available sections. [SAP-1145]
• Fixed a bug that prevented credit card surcharge amounts from applying to online ticket purchases by the user. [SAP-1173]
• Fixed a bug that allowed ''member'' level group members to edit donations from contacts for who they were not the contact owner. [SAP-1131]

• Fixed a bug that allowed contact information to be overwritten in special circumstances where the browser back button was used for navigation rather than using the standard flows provided by Silent Auction Pro. In general it is a bad idea to use the back button with any database driven / transactional website. [SAP-1163]

• Fixed a bug that caused the event title to disappear from the Silent Auction Pro header area. [SAP-1119]
• Added code to trap and report when contact names change significantly. This is an attempt to track down a bug where contact information is being overwritten by another person's contact information. [SAP-1169]

• Added a link on the Auction Admin page to instructions on how to add the Silent Auction Pro mobile website / app to your phone's home page.
• Improved the scanning and importing of contacts functionality. [SAP-1154]

• Fixed a bug that prevented the last login date from updating when people logged in via the online bidding sign-up page. [SAP-1149]

• Fixed formatting of PayPal credit card entry page on mobile site. [SAP-1143]

• Fixed a bug that prevented detailed ticket information from being included in the ticket purchase email. [SAP-1133]
• Fixed a bug that allowed contacts to be deleted rather than archived when payment history was present for that contact. [SAP-1150]

• Added the footnote to the Online Program Guide page. [SAP-1144]
• Fixed a bug possibly created by a PayPal change that caused mobile bidding sign-up to fail. [SAP-1140]

• Fixed a bug that caused a whitescreen when trying to process a refund paid by a PayPal account. [SAP-1135]
• Fixed a problem where if a person cancelled their online ticket purchase or the purchase failed, the tickets they wanted would still be assigned (though left unpaid). This was causing duplicate tickets being assigned. [SAP-1134, SAP-1135, SAP-1139]

• Package pricing. We switched from the component based pricing (AuctionCore, AuctionDay, etc.) to package based pricing (Bidsheet Basic, Bidsheet Plus, Bidsheet Pro, etc.) to make it easier to decide which options to purchase. The underlying prices did not change. [SAP-531]
• Fixed an issue that caused party codes to be missing the alpha portion of the code (the last three letters of the purchaser's last name). [SAP-1132]

• Changed the way online ticket purchases work to first assign the ticket to the buyer and then process the charge. This way if there is a problem with the transaction the person still has their ticket and can pay later at checkout at the event. Previously it was possible for a card to be charged but if the postback from the processor failed, the person would be left without a ticket and would still have paid and there would be no record of that payemnt in Silent Auction Pro. While this scenario is very rare we felt it best to record the ticket purchasee first. [SAP-1126]

• Improved handling of deleting all credit cards on file for Vantiv users.
• Removed the donation section from the half page bid sheets IF a custom description is being used. Note: The donation listing WILL be presented on the full page bid sheets as it contains important information including who the item is donated by, the title of the item and any restrictions.

• Changed the column heading on printed bid sheets to "Donation Title" rather than "Description" when an auction item top level description is being used. The Donation ID, Donated by, Donation Title and Restrictions (if any) will still show on the bid sheet. The actual donation description is hidden.

• Fixed a bug that caused the check number in the invoice notes to show up twice. [SAP-1121]
• Fixed a bug that prevented editing of contacts when there was not a current event. [SAP-1123]

• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when trying to print an online ticket purchase receipt from the Attendee Payments page. [SAP-1120]

• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong message to be sent to guests after purchasing a ticket regarding availablity of online bidding. Prior to this bug fix, if a group had not purchased online bidding and a guest purchased a ticket online, the guest would be sent messages implying that online bidding was available when it was not. This bug was introduced earlier this month with the PayPal integration release and has been fixed. [SAP-1089, SAP-1112]

• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong message to be presented on the ticket reciept when a person was waiting to be reconciled / approved for online bidding. [SAP-1104]

• Updated the credit card reader request page to detect Vantiv vs. PayPal configurations and respond accordingly. Also updated the online help with information on ordering credit card readers for PayPal customers. [SAP-1074]
• Added help balloon for password requirements when creating an account in Silent Auction Pro. [SAP-1036]
• When manually reconciling contacts, Silent Auction Pro will now ignore text case when highlighting possible matches. [SAP-1103]

• Changed the label shown when creating auction items from "Bid Online" to "Show in online bidding". The Bid Online label was misleading as it only caused the item to be shown in online bidding. [SAP-1102]

• Updated the Company Fact Sheet to include PayPal [SAP-1082]
• Fixed a bug that caused a database error when attempting to print a ticket receipt while viewing all payments. [SAP-1100]

• Fixed a bug that prevented processing an invoice from AuctionDay when NO merchant account had been configured in the system. [SAP-1097, SAP-1098]

• The footnote was missing from the online ticket purchase receipt. [SAP-1095]

• Updated the half page bid sheets include the list of items along with the custom description if provided. This makes the formatting of the half page bid sheets consistent with the full page bid sheets. [SAP-1092]

• Fixed a bug that prevented payments over $999 from processing because the comma was being passed to the processors [SAP-1091]

• The option to update a guest ticket holder was missing when just the ask for names option was set on a ticket type. This has been fixed. [SAP-1088]

• Fixed a bug that was failing to show the 'custom' description (if any) for auction items listed in the print version of the Program Guide. [SAP-1084]

• Emailed receipts from online ticket purchases were broken as a result of the PayPal release. This has been fixed. [SAP-1083]

• Added support for PayPal processing. You may now choose between Vantiv Integrated Payment and PayPal for your choice of payment processors. If you choose PayPal your customers will also have the option to pay from their own PayPal account. For a comparison between the different processing options, please see the Credit Card Fees Comparison help page
• Duplicate transaction handling. We have added functionality that will detect when a possible duplicate transaction is attempted to be processed and will alert the user of the possible duplicate transaction allowing them to choose to proceed with the payment or cancel.
• Individual transactions blocked during batch processing. In addition to catching duplicated transactions when they occur, we have added functionality that will prevent individual payments either by a member assisted check-out or by self check-out from running when a batch check-out is running. Also, only one batch process may run at a time.
• Ability to delete an individual credit card on file (Vantiv ONLY)
• Credit cards on file now show on the Contact page. If a bidder has a credit card on file, that will now show up on the Edit a Contact page making it easy to know if that bidder has a card on file and if so which one.

• Added option to turn off QR codes from display sheets. [SAP952]

• Fixed a bug where the timezone was getting reset to Pacific time when adding the AuctionMobile+ component. [SAP1016]

• Fixed a problem with tickets where if there were tickets with promo codes but no public tickets available, entering the promo code would not show the promo code tickets. [SAP1013]

• Fixed a bug on the mobile site that prevented it from showing the number of items left for multiple winner type items. [SAP1007]

• Added option to choose the number of items to show on the scrolling marquee leaderboard. [SAP998]
• Restricted the batch process invoices feature to Auction Administrators and Group Administrators. [SAP997]

• Added option to allow collated bidder numbers and info sheets to be printed on a single page. [SAP702]

• Added the ability to show the high bidder and/or all winners of items when using online and mobile bidding. We added an option to Auction Types where you can choose to show bidder names in the online bidding detail pages. This is helpful when you have multiple winner items and people want to know who else is going, or if you would like bidders to know who is the high bidder on an item and who they are bidding against. This option is set individually for each Auction Type and defaults to No.

• Fixed a bug where ampersands in URLs were being replaced with the HTML equivalent causing the URLs not to work. [SAP917]

• Added Status field to the Donations Export to CSV file
• Sort by Contact Owner Name on the Show All Contacts page now sorts by last name then first name. Previously the sort was by last name only causing problems when there was more than one contact owner with the same last name.

• Tickets that only have includes no longer mention entering guests names. Previously if you created a ticket that did not "Ask for names" but had included items, the online ticket page would include a message asking the purchaser to enter guest names. This has been fixed. [SAP918]

• Online ticket sales end date. Ticket sales ending date now allows tickets to be purchased through the specified ending date in the timezone specified for the event. Ticket sales will now end at 11:59:59 pm in the timezone set for the event, on the ending date specified. Previously the timezone was not taken into consideration and ticket sales would end based on the UTC timezone - which meant that ticket sales would end from 4-8 hours early in the continental US.

• Receipts now show declared value of auction items regardless if the amount paid is greater than the value. Previously receipts only showed the declared value if the value was less than the amount paid.

• Type-ahead look-up of bidders by name on the AuctionDay page. When looking up a bidders invoice, you may now enter the bidders name in the input field and Silent Auction Pro will perform a type-ahead look up of matches to the characters you are typing making it easy to look up a bidders bidder number if they don't remember it. [SAP871]

• Password requirements. To comply with new PCI credit card processign requirements we have strengthened our password requirement for new accounts. Passwords must now be 8-15 characters long and contain at least one uppercase letter, one lower case letter and one number.

• Travel and Experience Consignment Items Now Available. Silent Auction Pro is proud to partner with Mitch Stuart, Inc. the industry pioneer and leading travel and experience company. Mitch Stuart provides amazing risk free travel packages to our customers. Their extensive knowledge, fanatical attention to detail, and passionate commitment to customer service sets them apart. [SAP872]
• Added additional text to the "Delete Multiple Auction Items" functionality to clarify that SOLD auction items will not be deleted in that process. [SAP869]
• Added the group logo / banner to the printed invoices pages [SAP868]
• Donations listed on bid sheets now sort descending by value. Highest value items are shown at the top. [SAP867]

• Batch checkout now shows all outstanding invoices. Previously you had to choose to see either all invoices or just express check-out attendee invoices. Now all invoices show up together. Express check-out attendees will have a credit card icon and a checkbox to allow the batch processing. [SAP866]
• The print individual bidsheet page accessed from the bundle 3 step and edit auction items did not include custom description update. This is fixed. [SAP865]
• Fixed a bug that allowed the value of donations to be changed without updating the value of the associated auction item. [SAP857]

• The Time Stamp when exporting ticket sales and view all payments pages are now timezone adjusted to the local time zone. [SAP861]

• Previous fix [SAP-845] broke notifications to winners. Fixed again...

• Bidder received notification that they won an item that they were only watching and no other bids were placed on that item. [SAP845]

• Modified code to more consistently strip the [Company] field from printing letters if it is blank.

• Added email address to the Export Tickets report

• Fixed a bug where people who had placed a watch "bid" on an item would receive an outbid notification when that item was finally bid on. [SAP-834]

• Clicking OK on Add Affiliation on the Add Person page didn't work. [SAP832]

• Fixed a bug that prevented people from completing the online ticket purchase flow if no tickets were available to purchase. This flow would be appropriate when you just want someone to put a credit card on file and you are not using the mobile bidding option. [SAP621]

• Fixed a bug that prevented changing the name of an Auction Type to the same name, different case. [SAP830]

• Fixed a problem where when entering contact, the system would occasionally think the contact already existed in the system and show a warning about entering duplicate contacts.

• Added credit card processing error codes to help and quick link to the help page from the batch processing page. [SAP797]
• Trying to print a bid sheet from the Edit Auction Items page results in a database error. This was happening primarily on multiple winner type items or items that would be handled through a tracking sheet and a regular bid sheet was not appropriate. We removed the link to print the individual bid sheet and the user should print either a multiple winner bid sheet or tracking sheet from the Auction Admin page. [SAP820]

• Auction items missing from the View Auction Items page (available only to members). This was due to a bug in our code that handles grouping of items and has been fixed. [SAP809]
• Banners associated with the AuctionPromoter now also show on the mobile website. [SAP172]
• Updating the Edit Event page deletes the banner. Fixed. [SAP786]

• Added special interest categories to mobile bidding - Most popular, No Bids, Bargains - Added three new categories to the List page on the mobile website to allow bidders to quickly see items that are the most popular, items that have no bids and items that are bargains (bid is less than 50% of the value). Similar functionality will be added to the full browser interface. [SAP434]
• Proxy bidding has been renamed to "Bid for me!". - We found that most people did not understand what proxy bidding meant. Hopefully Bid for me! will be more obvious... [SAP805]
• Added search link to home page of the mobile bidding website.
• Trying to purchase a fixed price item failed with a dialog that just says OK. Fixed. [SAP806]

• On mobile devices clicking on the Watch button on an item you were already watching would sometimes place a bid. This has been fixed. [SAP771]
• Mobile checkout - adding an additional donation caused rounding errors in the final payment amount causing errors when trying to submit a payment. [SAP803]

• "Online bidder" membership level renamed to be "Guest". - The Online Bidder membership level has been renamed to Guest since groups who are not offering online bidding may still have guests who have purchased tickets and therefore have "guest level" access to a group.
• "Oops, we don't have an email address on file" shows up on emailed receipts. This is fixed. [SAP754]

• Added End and Notify button to the Manage Online Bidding page - Allows an Auction Administrator to immediately end bidding for a section or all sections and send out notify winners messages. [SAP792]
• All times now presented as local time - Previously time stamps on receipts, bidding logs, etc., were presented as logged in the server which is UTC. Silent Auction Pro now converts those times back to the appropriate local time stamp. [SAP217]
• The bidders area code did not show up on the printed receipt.

• In special situations multiple winner bid sheets were printing with the wrong description. [SAP787]
• Winners notified when using section closes and notify not checked. Fixed. [SAP789]

• Batch processing of invoices has been restored.

• Changed export mailing list so that it can export Bidders or Donors from any event. [SAP573]

• Overall proceeds leader board barchart improvements. The leader board barchart which can be used to display the current proceeds raised for each different auction type (Fund-A-Need for example) has been updated so that if you choose "overall proceeds" the chart will omit bidder names and will show proceeds from each auction type in use with a non-zero value. This is a great chart to project at your event showing people how much money has been raised. It also shows the total proceeds from all auction types. [SAP493]
• When adding a credit card surcharge, the payment amount was not always formatting to two decimal points. This is fixed.

• Ability to skip search when adding a donor - You may now skip searching for a contact when entering a donation if you know that contact doesn't exist in your contacts. In addition, if Silent Auction Pro does find a duplicate when you are entering a new contact, it will give you the opportunity to click directly to that contact.

• Auction item top level description field added to the Auction items CSV export to spreadsheet and Write Letters, Emails, Texts and Reports functionality.

• Electronic bidding (online and mobile) "Make a donation" button changed to "Donate / Check-out" - We changed the button label on member home pages that used to say "Make a donation" until the bidding ended and then switched to "Check-out" to be "Donate / Check-out" until bidding ends and then it switches to "Check-out / Donate". Hopefully this is clearer to bidders and it works better when using the multiple closing times support added a couple months ago.

• Proxy bid links were going to the demo group - Fixed a bug where the superscript proxy bid links were going to the demo group and not to the bidders group.
• Updated the View Auction Items page available from the Event tab to show appropriate column values based on the Auction Type settings. For instance - if the assigned Auction Type for an item does not have Buy-It-Now turned on the page will no longer show a BIN Price. If the item is a fixed price item the Bid Increment will no longer show nor will the minimum bid.

• Max bid amount shows on member's home page - If a bidder has placed a max bid (proxy bid) on an item, that max bid now shows up as a superscript amount next to their current bid on that item. On mobile devices, the page must be viewed in landscape mode to see the max bid amount. In addition bidders may now update (raise or lower) their max bid amount. As a result of this change it is also now possible for a bidder to outbid themselves on an item, but hey, it's a fundraiser - maybe they are just being generous.
• The mobile home page was erronously left set to refresh after 1000 seconds rather than 5 seconds as a part of a debugging exercise. This has been fixed.

• Hitting cancel on the Edit Payment page submitted the form. This is fixed and cancel simply cancels the form and returns to the Payment History page. [SAP745]

• Tickets that were purchased for a user by a group member BEFORE the user created their Silent Auction Pro account did not show up on the users home page. This is fixed. [SAP699]
• When reconciling ticket or online bidding requests a dialog warning that the user had already been reconciled was presented when that was not true. This has been fixed.
• Fixed an obscure bug that caused the wrong person to get an outbid notification. If someone had bid on an item and then that bid was rescinded - that person would get an outbid notification rather than the correct person getting the notification. This is fixed [SAP741]
• If the filtered results for online bidding on the full browser resulted in no items being shown, the message incorrectly said to click the Clear Filtered Results button. The button is Show All Items. Changed the message.

• Fixed issues with formatting of the online tickets purchase receipt.

• Eased the restrictions on what HTML attributes can be used in the write letters functionality. [SAP739]
• After previewing an email clicking edit doesn't retain the message format - Fixed. [SAP737]

• Added a complete walk-through video / demo to the Silent Auction Pro YouTube Video Tutorial Channel.
• Fixed a problem with formatting and odd characters showing in emailed receipts. [SAP732]
• Placing a bid on the full browser bidding kiosk resulted in duplicate bids. [SAP724]
• Filtered out $0.00 transactions from the View All Payments page. [SAP734]
• Addition of the code to prevent cross site scripting caused problems with sending emails. This is fixed. Emails sent via the Write Letters, Emails... form or scheduled on Feb 6th or 7th probably didn't send. Our apologies... [SAP729]

• Ability to disable mobile bidding kiosk for online bidders and members. Added an option to allow Group Administrators to restrict access to the mobile bidding kiosk to Auction Assistants or higher level members. Default is to allow access to all online bidders. [SAP728]
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly showed a span of donations for grouped auction items. [SAP730]

• Fixed a problem where the mobile bidding kiosk was not showing a $0 value for priceless items and also was not showing current bids. [SAP720]
• Fixed a problem where when a credit card surcharge was added at checkout it caused the credit card processing to fail if the total was greater than $1,000 because of the comma in the value.
• Added code to prevent cross browser scripting attacks. While to the best of our knowledge this has never happened it was an important addition from a security perspective. [SAP708]

• Temporarily disabled batch process of credit cards. We are investigating a minor bug that caused problems with this process. We hope to have the feature back soon. In the meantime you can process invoices individually by clicking on the icon on the batch processing page or by entering the bidder's bidder number on the AuctionDay page.

• Improved online bidding status checking on the AuctionDay page - You may now enter a username or email address to check the bidding status. In addition if the user is found and reconciled to a contact, that contact's bidder number will be displayed in the results.
• Unreconcile feature - It's now possible to unreconcile a User (a person with a Silent Auction Pro user account) from a contact (a person listed in your group's contacts list). Reconciled contacts are indicated by a image which also prevents that contact from being deleted. Auction Administrators or higher level members may click on the warning icon to see more information about what user to which that contact is reconciled and may also undo that reconcilation.

• The "Is Biddable" attribute for Fixed Price items was incorrectly being forced to No. [SAP696]

• Tickets from previous events did not show data when clicking the edit button. Page will now show data but you are prevented from editing the old ticket info. You may clone the ticket for the current event.

• Support for a separate description for the auction item. You may now specify a unique top level description for an auction item when using the Create Auction Bundle flow. This description is then presented on the online bidding detail page, online program guide page, display sheets, printed bid sheets, etc.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the ability to have a item that was fixed price available online. The default fixed-price item worked fine. The issue was when somone created their own fixed price Auction Type.

• Top level auction item picture support - You may now upload a top level photo for an auction item that is separate from the donation photos when an auction item consists of more than one donation. This photo is then used for the online bidding page, display sheets, and online program guide. [SAP670]
• Added code to prevent deleting the Unassigned Parties table.

• Better UI experience when editing tickets - Added code to allow changing a ticket price and the "counts as" value for a ticket if no tickets of that type have been sold. If tickets of that type have been sold the price and counts as values are now disabled and a message is presented on the page explaining that you can't edit those values and to create a new ticket type if you need to do so. [SAP673]

• Added seating party code to the member assisted ticket purchase page plus reveal of party name - Group members may now add a seating party code when entering tickets from the AuctionDay page. In addition, if a valid seating party code is added either on the online ticket purchase page or the member assisted page, the first and last name of the party associated with the party code will be shown.

• Reset on the online bidding grid page now resets the Section Number as well as Category and AuctionType. [SAP609]
• Pushed code to present new pricing on Jan 1, 2017. The Features Grid and Company Fact Sheet already reflect the new pricing.

• Credit card surcharge support - We now support the ability to add a credit card surcharge rate on a per-event basis. The credit card surcharge amount is added as an additional donation during check-out when a non-zero rate has been specified and the user is paying by credit card. [SAP581]

• Changing donation value for fixed price item automatically updates the auction item MinBid and Buy-It-Now price - Prior to this update if you had converted donations into fixed price auction items and then decided to change the price of those items, you would have had to delete and recreate the auction items. Now just changing the value of the donation will update the MinBid and Buy-It-Now price so that those items may now be purchased online at the new price.

• Added the ability to filter this help page by new features, enhancements, bug fixes or all changes.

• Bidders report was not showing the correct bidding status - Specifically, people who were granted full online bidder status were showing as kiosk bidders. This has been fixed. [SAP651]
• Bidders report showed incorrect number of bids for a bidder - This was happening because "watch" type bids when people were simply watching items was being counted as bids. This no longer happens. [SAP661]
• Notify winners notified people who had already paid and had a zero balance - This has been fixed [SAP659]

• Online bidding multiple now supports multiple opening and closing times by section - Silent Auction Pro now supports different opening and closing time by section number. Note: Bid Extend is not supported with multiple closing times. [SAP-89]
• Bidding status columns on the member home page are now sortable if you are using online bidding
• Presentation order of categories and auction types changed on mobile bidding - The List page which presents different categories and auction types (Live, Silent, Fixed Price, etc.,) has been changed to present categories first, then auction types and finally sections if multiple section closing times has been enabled.
• Items may now be posted on the online bidding page but not be biddable - The auction type attribute "Has a bid sheet" has been changed to "Is biddable" as this applies more appropriately to both paper and electronic bidding. If an auction item is assigned to an auction type in which the "Is biddable" option is set to No and that item is enabled for online bidding, the item will be presented but will not be able to accept bids. This is primarily helpful for items such as live auciton items where you want to show bidders the item but on which you do not want to accept bids.
• Event date updates if online bidding ending time is set to a greater future date - The event date shown in the banner area of Silent Auction Pro should be set to the last day of your event if you are holding the event over multiple days. Often people would set the event date to the starting date of their event and then set the online bidding to end several days to weeks later. This caused problems for our billing department as they use the event date as a key to know when to send out invoices. Now if you change the online bidding ending date to something beyond your event date, the system will automatically update the event date to match the greatest ending date for online bidding.
• The "List" view for online bidding has been removed

• Fixed a bug that caused only the first credit card number put on file to show on the Bidders Report page. The page now correctly shows the last credit card put on file which is the credit card that is used to process payments. [SAP618]

• Fixed a bug where the bought by Buy-It-Now was not being recorded when using the Enter Bid Results page.

• Deleting auction items did not delete bids on that auction item - Deleting an auction item now deletes all bids associated with that auction item. You still cannot delete auction items that have been marked sold. Fixing this problem also solved a problem where printing bid sheets did not show any bid spaces. [SAP626]

• Fixed a problem with the Register for Online Bidding page not showing the AuctionPromoter banner

• Updates to the manage table assignment functionality - Added abilty to change individual table sizes, start over and rebuild the table view in cases where people go missing.

• Presentation of max bid | Buy-It-Now price - When creating auction items or reviewing auction items on the Edit Auction Items page, the Max Bid / Buy-It-Now price now accurately reflects the meaning of that value. For instance, when bidding online, if an item does not have a Buy It Now price the value of max bid has no meaning and bidding may go as high as bidders care to bid. Previously the max bid amount was presented to auction administrators when creating or reviewing auction items which lead to confusion.
• Numerous updates to the online help

• Added link from the "Edit a Donation" page to quickly go to the contact (donor) record - Link is presented in the sub navigation next to the "Other donations by this contact" link.

• Batch processing of invoices function has been restored.

• Added the abilty to sort group members by last name, member level and last login

• Temporarily disabled batch processing on the View and batch process outstanding invoices. Some customers experienced problems batch processing multiple invoices. We are investigating the issue and will turn batch processing back on one the issue has been resolved. You may still individually process invoices. We apologize for the inconvenience.

• Removed the ability to delete a party from the Manage Online Bidding page. [SAP613]

• When creating a new user account on mobile devices, if a user entered an invalid cell phone number, on submit the page would simply refresh and not present the user with an error message. This is fixed. Silent Auction Pro will also remember the user name and password when a person is creating an account on a mobile device on the create login page in cases where an error occurs (such as the login already taken). This prevents the user from having to type a user name and password in a second time. [SAP288]

• Donation date column added to the donations export to CSV file.

• Changed timezone references from cities to time zone names. For example, Los Angeles is now Pacific.
• Removed the "Sign me up for online bidding" checkbox from the online ticket purchase page as there's no benefit in purchasing tickets and not being signed up for online bidding.
• Updated the Edit Event help page to include time zone and extend archive date help.

• Added "Not for auction" donation status for donations that are not intended to be converted to auction item. This would include in kind donations such as advertising of your event in a local newspaper, items that will be used in a raffle or other giveaway items that are not going to be auctioned off.

• Donor's email address added to gift certficates
• Bidders can now scan the QR codes on display sheets and their browser will be redirected to the online bidding page for that item WITHOUT being a registered bidder and signed in. Prior to this fix unregistered bidders were either redirected to sign in or the page remained white. [SAP-567]
• Bidders will no longer receive an outbid notification if they outbid themselves. [SAP-562]

• Fixed a bug where for some groups with very large numbers of donations and auction items the write letters feature was timing out when trying to print donor thank you letters. [SAP-568]

• Under certain circumstances the last item in the auction items list did not display.[SAP-544]

• Editing a group of Auction Items now allows the user to select any Auction Type." - Please note that changing the Type to one that does not have a 'fixed price' or 'bid sheet' attribute will cause the Auction Items to no longer group together for display purposes.

• Auction Items with Types that include a Fixed Price or Tracking Sheet should be grouped, provided that they are not associated with multiple Donations. [SAP-553]

• Print all results page now has an option to stop the automatic refresh. The Print All Results page produced from the AuctionDay page, Section Close Functions automatically refreshes every 30 seconds. We added parameter to stop that page refresh in situations where you may want to display the results and the results extend to more than one page. You can stop the refresh by setting the refresh option to 0. Do this by copying the URL and opening the page in another browser window and set the refresh option to 0. In this case you will need to reload the page to get it to refresh.
• Fixed a problem where some email addresses were duplicated in the system as a result of the [SAP-511] update on Sept 15th.

• Kiosk Sign-In link added to the AuctionDay page - check-in functions table.
• Fixed a problem where the photo got lost when editing a group of auction items. [SAP-541]

• Fixed a rare case where a multiple winner item bid sheet didn't show the item details. [SAP-552]

• Backed out "Smarter grouping of auction items on the edit auction items page" as it created a new bug presenting live auction item.

• Priceless items were showing the value on member home pages for online bidding. This has been fixed. [SAP-549]

• Changed "Edit auction items" link on the Auction Admin page to "Edit or delete auction items" where the word delete will take you to the bottom of the page where you can bulk delete auction items.
• Added back the capability to print things like Display Sheets using the "Write Letters, Emails, Reports, etc.," page. This was broken when we switched the "Reports" functionality to automatically export a CSV file. Also changed the name of the button to export a CSV file from Save Report to Save CSV File.

• Auto-create auction items category defaults to "Same as the donation" - Setting the category to "Same as the donation" when using the Auto-convert Auction Items option sets the max bid percent (buy-it-now) price to the value that is appropriate for each category. This value was available but had to be selected by the user. We made this change since it really is the default behavior.

• Sending a receipt will now allow the user to enter the attendee's email address if one does not exist. - note that the contact record is also updated. [SAP-511]

• Fixed a problem where online bidding was showing categories and auction types that were in use but not online. [SAP-535]
• Fixed a problem where the auction item would lose the title or selected picture when creating the item and adding a new Auction Type or Category. [SAP-536]

• Donation notes were missing from the Donation Status report. [SAP-534]

• Dollar amounts in online bidding are now formatted appropriately with commas if they are greater than $1,000

• Changing the "Has a Buy-It-Now" option when bulk editing types causes an error. This has been fixed. [SAP-507]

• Auction item picture automatically updates when a donation picture is added - Previously, if you entered a donation without a picture and then converted that donation to an auction item and then added a picture for the donation, the picture would not show up and you had to resave the auction item to get the picture to show up. This has been fixed. Note that any time you change or add a picture for a donation that is already bundled into an auction item, that picture will now become the primary picture. If you want to choose a different picture you may do so by editing the auction item.

• Grouping of donations doesn't take donor into consideration - produces wrong grouping - fixed. [SAP-519]

• Notify winners by section included items outside the section - When using electronic bidding and closing items by section, the "Congratulations, you won..." text and email that was sent out included items in other sections that were not yet closed. This has been fixed. [SAP-518]

• Scroll to top feature - Added a scroll to top feature that appears at the lower right corner of the page on sevearl pages that will automatically scroll you back to the top of the page.

• Text notifications granting access include instant log-in link - Text notifications that are sent to new users when they are approved for bidding no longer require the person to log in. They are logged in as part of the link they are sent.
• On mobile devices, when publically viewing auction items, the menu link returning the user to the auction items list was missing. This was fixed. Also the "Home" link was changed to "Exit" as that more closely describes what happens when you tap that link. [SAP-413]

• Apostrophe's included in list selections truncated the selection when purchasing tickets - Fixed a bug where if an apostrophe was included in a included list selection option such as "Ladies' T-shirt..." the option would be truncated to be just "Ladies". Apostrophes are now handled correctly. SAP[501]
• Repeated guest names across multiple ticket types was flagged as an error - Fixed a bug where if you repeated a guest name across different tickets, Silent Auction Pro would flag that as a problem. It's perfectly legitimate and likely common to buy two different types of tickets for the same people. This is handled correctly now.

• Write reports now exports directly to a csv file - When generating reports using the AuctionPromoter's write report feature, the resulting report will automatically be saved as a CSV file rather than being output to the screen.

• Out bid text notifications work on Droids - Due to a annoying quirk in the Android implementation of the Chrome browser, links provided in our text messages to Android customers failed to keep the person logged in which essentially rendered those links useless. We've implemented a new strategy that ensures out bid text notification links work on iOS and Android devices and have reistated links in text outbid notifications.

• Clone an auction item - Added the ability to easily clone an existing auction item from the AuctionDay page or from the search auction items results page. This will create an exact copy of the auction item by first creating copies of the underlying donations and then bundling those donations into a new auction item. If the auction item is already won it DOES NOT assign the auction item to the same bidder but will leave the bid winner blank. This feature is very helpful if while at an event you need to duplicate an auction item. Live auctioneers will often sell a second item if there are two bidders interested in one item such as a trip to Cabo.

• Group member invite form - Silent Auction Pro now provides a simple pre-written form you may use to send out invitation to other volunteers to join your group. This is accessible from the Group Admin > Invite Group Members link.

• User managed tickets - Users may now manage the tickets they have purchased from their Silent Auction Pro home pages. Tickets may be assigned to other people and include choices may also be changed by the purchaser for their guests. (Ex. Meal choice) Tickets purchased for guests will also show up on the guests' home pages after they have created a Silent Auction Pro account and have been reconciled by a group member (if necessary). Appropriate email notifications are sent to guests who have been assigned tickets. Emails are also sent to the previous ticket holder if the purchaser rescinds the ticket and gives it to someone else.

• Bulk editing of Category and Auction Type attributes - Added a feature on the Auction Admin > Create and Manage Categories / Auction Types / Donation Tags table to allow bulk editing of categories and auction types. This makes it easy to see all categories or auction types at once and to edit them in one place. [SAP-360]
• Fixed a bug preventing the enabling of the Text Mobile Sign-up Link and Text Mobile Website Link buttons after entering a phone number.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the enabling of the Enter button on the Enter Bid Results page when using Auto-increment option.
• Fixed a bug where people who were outbid by a Buy-It-Now bid were not notified that they were outbid. [SAP-460]

• Bidder name did not show up on kiosk bidding page after bidder number was entered. [SAP-463]
• Bidder numbers are shown to ticket purchasers and person's signing up for online bidding - The system now includes the person's bidder number on the payment receipt when signing up for online bidding or purchasing tickets. If the person must first be reconciled, then the bidder number is included in the text when they are notified that they have been approved for bidding. Note: The bidder number is really only important for kiosk bidding and if you are having a live auction or paper based silent auction. [SAP-462]

• Removed service provider requirement for text notifications - We switched to a native SMS text messaging service that doesn't require the cell provider and will more reliably send text messages as well as provide text messaging support for Canada.

• Automatically reconciled attendee/bidders marked as a bidder - Fixed a bug where people who had been a bidder in a previous event and who did not need to be reconciled were not being marked as a bidder when signing up for a new event.
• Removed link in text to return to online bidding because Android devices don't support it. - On IOS devices when a person received a text outbid notification you can tap on the link to go back to the browser and continue from there. On Android devices when you switch back to the browser you are left in an unknown state and have to log out and log back in again. This link was removed to eliminate that frustration.

• Scheduled notifications were not resolving fields - Scheduled notifications were not resolving the substitution fields like [FirstName]. This has been fixed. [SAP-436]

• Donations sorted by value in online bidding pages - If an auction item contains more than one donation, the donations are now presented in order of value with the most valuable items presented first. [SAP-444]

• Changed online bidding "Reset Filters" button to "Show All Items" - This change was made to make it more apparent how to clear all the filters and show all auction items from the full browser online bidding pages.

• Turn on and off online bidding by section number - We added the ability to filter the Manage Online Bidding table by section number making it easy to turn on and off auction items by section.
• Bidders report - Modified the Online Bidders Report available from the Event tab to be a generic bidders report to support groups who are not using online bidding. Report also now shows the credit card type for each bidder as well as if they are a full online bidder or may only bid using the bidding kiosk.

• TransactionID and approval code missing from ticket purchases - Fixed a bug that was introduced with the batch processing of invoices where the TransactionID and approval codes were not being captured for ticket purchase transactions. Transactions were being processed correctly, but if you needed to do a refund against that ticket purchase the system would issue an error because the TransactionID was unknown. This has been fixed going forward for all ticket purchases. Other payments were unaffected. If you need to issue a refund against a ticket purchase and the TransactionID is missing please call technical support at 888-691-5993 x2. [SAP-407]
• No receipt sent for zero dollar transactions - Silent Auction Pro will no longer send receipt for zero dollar transactions. (Transactions such as signing up for online bidding or comp ticket purchases) [SAP-406]

• Don't show bidder names for fund-a-need bar chart - Added the ability to NOT show the bidder names on the Leaderboard Bar Chart. Default is to show names, but if that option is unchecked, names will be replaced by "Thank you!" as each bid is displayed. This allows everyone to see how many people have pledged, but obscures the names of those bidders. Also removed the ability to show the dollar amount for each bidder. [SAP-404]
• Extend event archive date - By default, Silent Auction Pro automatically archives events after 60 days. For organizations that require more time to finalize details with their event, we have added the ability to extend the 60 day closing date by 7 to 60 days. This option is presented on the Edit Event page after the event date has passed.

• Duplicate bidder numbers - Fixed a bug where duplicate bidders / bidder numbers would show up when printing bidder numbers , in the bidder number drop-down list on the AuctionDay page and a few other places.

• Manage Table Assignment page loads much faster - We made changes to the database that decreased the loading time of the Manage Table Assignments page in some cases by 800%. Largest page load times we saw were about 60 seconds. That same page now loads in less than 7 seconds.
• Credit card types show up - When persons purchased tickets using the online ticket purchase page, or signed up for online bidding, the credit card type was not being captured. This is fixed and the credit card type will show on the person's invoice as well as on the new Outstanding Invoices page.

• Printing gift certificates - Added the ability to specify and print gift certificates in a series or range from the Auction Admin page - Auction Day Printed Material table.
• Clearing a cloned donation now clears the photo too.

• Batch processing of outstanding invoices - Purchasers of the AuctionDay™ component may now batch process multiple invoices at one time using the Outstanding Invoices page. After invoices are processed you may quickly print all or some invoices from the same page. [SAP-257]
• Auction Type and Section Number remembered - When creating auction items either through the bundling flow or using auto-create, the previous choice of Auction Type and Section Number is remembered by the form. This speeds up the auction item conversion process as you are typically creating auction items of the same type and in the same section consecutively. [SAP-364]
• Donation Tag and Donated by Ref not saving fix - When entering or editing donations and uploading a photo, the Donation Tag and/or Donated by Ref values would sometimes not be saved. This is fixed. [SAP-320]
• Cloning donations takes the most recent one - When cloning donations, if multiple donations existed with the same title but different content, Silent Auction Pro would clone the first donation found with that title rather than the last (or most recent) donation found. This has been changed to clone the most recent donation with the same title. [SAP-304]

• Grouping of like donations and auction items as well as the ability to edit grouped items - Like donations and auction items with sequential donation or auction item numbers are now automatically grouped together and presented in a single row saving sometimes pages of scrolling. In addition grouped items can be edited in bulk.
• "Ticket Parties" are now called "Fixed Price Items(s)" - Silent Auction Pro provided a default Auction Type formally called "Ticket Party" that was used to offer multiple winner / fixed price items. With the ability to group and edit like items as described above, it makes more sense to change the terminology and call the Ticket Party Auction Type "Fixed Price Items(s)" as that can really apply to single or multiple items, grouped or not. The Add Auction Type and Edit Auction Type forms also now use this new terminology.
• Donation photos now show up when cloning a donation - When cloning a donation, the photo previously used for that donation will now show up on the form.
• It is no longer possible to delete auction items that have been sold
• Adding multiple donations submits the page after the warning - If you enter more than 20 in the "number donated" field, Silent Auction Pro asks you to confirm that you want to add that many items. Previously if you clicked OK the system would immediately submit the page. This now simply dismisses the warning and allows you to continue editing the page before submitting using the Add Donation button.

• Added footer to online ticket purchase page - If provided, the information in the Footer attribute on the Edit Event page will now show up at the bottom of the online ticket purchase page. This footer is supposed to be presented on generally all attendee/bidder facing pages and printed material.
• Editing an event caused database error - Customers who had not purchased the AuctionPromoter and who tried to edit their event would receive a database error message. This was caused by invalid settings for the Promo Code and/or Seating Party code which are features of the AuctionPromoter and are not available if that component is not purchased.
• Repeated images in Leaderboard Marquee - Fixed a problem that caused pictures to repeat in the leaderboard marquee on item where no picture was provided.

• More information link on online bidding detail page - If a link was provided to a website in the donation form, that link was available by clicking on the donation title which was not obvious. We moved the link to the bottom of the description and now provide the link through a "More information..." linked text.
• Removed trailing hyphen from donated by reference - The default setting for the donated by reference is name and company. If this is left as the default and no company name is provided, the donated by reference used to have a trailing hyphen which was there to separate the first and last name from the company. We added code to drop the hyphen if no company name is provided.

• Changed the late payment policy on the Services Agreement.
• Donation Tags and/or Categories not cloning properly - Fixed a bug that caused donation tags and/or categories to not clone correctly when cloning a donation. This was happening when archived donation tags or categories existed for the group.
• Auto-create success message - Fixed a problem where the success message did not display properly after auto-creating auction items.

• Link to other donations by the same donor - Added a link in the sub navigation area of the Edit a Donation page to provide quick access to other donations by the same contact.
• Better formatting of prices on online ticket purchase page - Prices on the online ticket purchase page now are formatted to include comma's if over $999 and no longer include cents in the number format.

• New attributes added to ticket export spreadsheet - Added ticket used by cell phone, label and affiliation fields to the export tickets report.

• Included item choice not remembered when existing ticket used by a contact This one is difficult to explain but occurred when a group member was assigning tickets bought by one person to another person and there were included items like a meal choice. I won't waste your time trying to explain it in more detail.

• During check-in when using an existing ticket for an attendee, the "Use Ticket(s)" button is disabled until a ticket to use is selected. Previously you could click the Use Ticket(s) button without selecting a ticket which was confusing as then no ticket was used/added to the attendee. Also, if the ticket used is an attendance ticket then the "Bidder" radio button is automatically set to Yes

• Removed code that stripped out commas from various fields (description, restrictions, etc.,) when exporting the data to a CSV file format. This is removed in the Donations Export to CSV. The code was originally added to ensure that the embedded comma's were not treated as new columns in the exported file. With proper quoting of the fields it appears that we no longer need to strip out commas.

• Duplicate titles removed - If the donation title is the same as the auction item title, then the donation title will no longer be shown in the Online Program Guide.

• Added sub navigation to the invoice and payments pages to be able to quickly switch between those pages for a single bidder.
• Added code to prevent the creation of duplicate auction items. This was previously possible by using the browser's back button after step 3 during the create auction item bundle flow.

• Bidder status mysteriously changing - Fixed a bug that was causing the bidder status for contacts to mysteriously change when entering new contacts into the system. This happened when the person entering the contact was already a reconciled contact themselves in the system and marked as a bidder for the event.

• Auction Type filter added to online bidding list view
• Promo codes automatically enabled - Added code to automatically turn on promo codes if a ticket is created that has a promo codes. Promo codes may be turned on or off manually from the Group Admin > Edit Event page.
• Removed the promo code option from the check-in ticket purchase page so that it now shows all tickets available. This is available only to members of the group so forcing them to remember and enter a promo code didn't make sense.
• Fixed an issue where the announcement times would change if you changed your time zone but did not exit and restart Silent Auction Pro.
• If a user who is already signed up for online bidding attempts to log in to sign up for online bidding again in kiosk mode, the system will display a success message. Previously the page returned to the same page with a message.

• Online bidding grid view now shows Auction Type filter.
• Fixed a bug that caused double counting of payments when printing all invoices.

• Filtering Printed Invoices - Added the ability to print invoices for bidders who do not have a credit card on file from the AuctionDay page Check-out Functions table. Previously you could print either All Bidders or Bidders with a credit card on file (Express Check-out Bidders).
• For certain bidders the amount paid was incorrectly reported as doubled on the Event History - Outstanding Balances section. This has been fixed.

• Promo Codes for tickets - Added the ability to create promo codes for different ticket types. This lets you create special ticket types that are only available to people with the promo code. Multiple codes can be entered separated by commas if you have multiple ticket types with different codes. You may also have the same promo code for multiple ticket types.
• Bid Entry for Fund-A-Need - The Bid Entry page now includes a checkbox that will automatically increment the auction item number making it much faster to enter Fund-A-Need results and live auction results or any results where the auction item numbers are sequential.
• Invoices sorted by table name - Invoices may now be printed from the AuctionDay page sorted by assigned table name. Bidders who are not assigned to tables will print first and then invoices will print sorted alphabetically by table name if this option is chosen.

• AuctionDay page will now load significantly faster for groups with a large number of contacts.

• Added company name to the "Use Existing Ticket" drop-down list to make it easy to find where tickets were purchased by a company. Also added the purchased by Company column to the export tickets report.
• Updated the Filter by Title feature on the Manage Online Bidding page to do a broad match when filtering. Results will now contain anything includes the word or phrase you enter. Previously the title had to match exactly.

• A new version of the online bidding sign-up page can now be used as a kiosk sign-up page at your event. After a person signs up the page will return to the online bidding sign up page to allow the next bidder to register. The link to this page is available from the Auction Admin > Links, Reports and Export area. In addition the page where the user enters their credit card information will now allow the user to swipe their card. Note that currently card swipers are only available for laptop devices.
• Silent Auction Pro no longer automatically sends out a receipt for $0.00 transactions. The most common scenario is authorizing a person's credit card. In the past Silent Auction Pro would email the person a receipt showing the authorization for zero dollars. Some found this confusing and asked that the system be changed to no longer automatically send those receipts. If you want to send a receipt you can click on the Email Receipt button to force the receipt to be sent.
• Element Payment Services is now part of Vantiv Integrated Payments. This is largely a name change only for Silent Auction Pro customers though our customers now benefit for Vantiv's added security and the fact that they are one of the largest processors in the US. Batch transactions are now processed and deposited into your bank account within 2 business days - slightly faster than with Element.

• Names may now include numbers. This change was made primarily to allow entry of company names including number such as Pier 39 in the Last Name field following the best practice of putting "Community Supporter" as the first name and the company name as the last name for donors where you do not know the actual donor's name.
• Fixed a bug on the public donations list page that was preventing donation images from showing.
• Changed the display order field for list options to an integer so that number based included items lists sort correctly.

• Added "Express Check-out Bidder - Card on file" to the top section of the print all invoices report for those bidders who have a credit card on file.

• Added Donations column on the Edit Auction items page that allows you to see what donations are bundled into an auction item and also to be able to click directly on the donation number to edit and make changes.
• Fixed a bug that was causing auction item images to repeat on the online program guide and online bidding pages for items that didn't have a picture.

• Section numbers for auction items now print on the payment receipts. This makes it easier for runners to find auction items when looking at a customer's receipt
• Increased the number of available section numbers from 30 to 50

• Fixed a problem with session handling on pages that load data in the background. Previously these pages would fail in an ugly way if the session expired and the page was still trying to access data. Pages now fail gracefully telling the user that the session has expired and then automatically logging them out so they can log back in again.

• Added an option to the leaderboard marquee to show only those items with no bids. Note: If this option is used the page will initially show only those items with no bids. As bids are placed on those items, the page will update with current bid status but those items will continue to display. If you want to reduce the list to only those items without bids you must refresh the page.

• Archived contacts will no longer show in the Donated by drop-down list or on the My Donations page.

• Table top "Display Sheets" now include QR codes to take mobile bidders directly to an auction item if AuctionMobile has been purchased. The format of the Display Sheets was refined slightly to allow the incorporation of item number QR codes.

• Added warning dialog to hopefully prevent two people from adding tables to the seating management page at the same time. If more than one person adds tables at the same time, duplicate table numbers get entered and the page will not function correctly.

• The timestamp presented on the View All Payments page was changed from Month Day, Year H:M:S such as January 23, 2016 10:04:23 am to the numerical format such as 2016-01-23 10:04:23 so that time stamps matched what was presented on the receipts. For some reason converting to the more friendly date format was introducing a discrepancy in the time stamp. Note that Timestamps are generally not adjusted for time zone.

• Silent Auction Pro now sends forgotten password information via email as well as text (if cell phone and service provider information is provided as part of the users profile).
• When adding new labels, categories, etc., from the AuctionAdmin page the system would occasionally return to an invalid page. 403 - page not found. This has been fixed.
• The MultipleWinner attribute of a Ticket Party AuctionType was not correctly being set when new groups were being created. This caused Ticket Party auction types to not present correctly in online bidding or paper bid sheets. This is been fixed.

• Included choices from ticket sales are now shown on the customer's receipts. For example, if you are offering a choice of meal type: Chicken, Steak, Fish and the purchaser selects a meal choice when they purchase their ticket, that choice will now be printed on their receipt.

• Added table assignment number to the info sheets.
• Fixed display / inclusion of attributes: [EventFootnote], [ContactLogo], [ContactLogoThumb] in the Write Letters, Emails, Text and Reports form.

• Public Donations List Page - With the purchase of the AuctionPromoter, you may now make a list of selected donations viewable to your potential guests so that they may preview the types of items you will have for auction at your event. The presentation is similar to the online program guide but unlike the online program guide, it will list donations that have not yet been converted into auction items. Viewers may filter the list by category and title. The link to the donations list is available from the Auction Admin page in the Reports, Links and Export table. Here's an example from the demo group.
• Fixed a problem with filtering by title in the online program guide.

• Image Cropper / Editor - When adding a donation image, Silent Auction Pro loads the image into an image editor that allows you to resize, crop and rotate the image before uploading.
• Edit/Delete Contact Labels and Contact Affiliations. You may now add, edit or delete contact labels and contact affiliations from the Auction Admin - Create and Manage area. If you edit a label or affiliation all contacts with that label will be updated with the new label. If you delete a label or affiliation the label or affiliation will be removed from all contacts using that label or affiliation.
• New features, enhancements and bug fixes are now color coded in the change history page making it easier to scan the page for different types of updates.
• Added code to prevent the ability to delete ticket types where tickets of that type have already been sold.

• Changed the invoice handler code so that emails are NOT sent if the contact has an email opt-out in place.

• Scrolling Leaderboard - Added a scrolling leaderboard display that will refresh every 10 seconds. Items scroll every 7.5 seconds.
• New redesigned User Interface for the full browser online bidding pages. Includes larger images and easier to read text descriptions. Also on the grid view the images no longer get distorted if they are not in the proper aspect ratio for the view of the page.
• Added the ability to watch items by essentially placing a $0 bid on that item. You may now also remove items from your home page if you are losing or have lost that item and no longer want to track it. Do so by clicking the X under the watch column.
• Modified the filtering of categories on the online bidding pages to only include categories in which item exist.

• Added the ability to show all the auction items from a previous event in the Event History section of the Auction Admin page.
• Changed the default terminal ID to 0001 when configuring a merchant account.

• Modified the error checking on the Enter Bids form, AuctionDay page to warn when a bidder number has been entered that is not currently marked as a bidder, but to allow automatically marking that person as a bidder and enter the bid or view the invoice.

• Updated the scheduled notifications form to exclude notifications that are older than one month. Also added error checking to prevent adding notifications that have already past.
• Added a help button on the member home page of the demo group to allow users to bring the help dialog back up after dismissing it.

• Scheduled Email, Text and Announcements - Added the ability to schedule email, text and announcements using the Write Letters, Emails and Texts templating feature. This is available only with the purchase of the AuctionPromoter.
• Transition to HTML based informational and warning dialogs. This will allow the system to present cleaner and more easily understood alert, confirmation and informational dialogs as part of the error checking when entering data.
• Added information about why images sometimes do not apparently upload. The issue is almost always browser caching - your local machine serving up the old image rather than the Silent Auction Pro servers. Use the <Shift> combination to refresh your browser cache and see the correct images.
• Added a new feature when people are evaluating Silent Auction Pro for the first time. This brings up an informational dialog telling them where they are and things they may do next.
• When viewing the details of an online bidding item, pictures expand and then go away when the mouse leaves the thumbnail. You used to have to click the picture to make it go away. We had complaints from some customers saying they didn't know how to make the picture go away.

• Added "auto notify" feature that will automatically notify online bid winners and mark items as sold after bidding ends. Previously auction administrators needed to click the Notify Winners button on the AuctionDay page.
• Added the ability to set a starting time for online bidding. Previously you could only set a starting date and bidding would start at 12:00am on the morning of the date you set.

• Group administrators may now specify a default minimum bid percentage to be used for all auction items. This is done from the Edit Group page. They may optionally have Silent Auction Pro update all current auction item minimum bids to the new percentage.

• Added a new tutorial video on running Fund-A-Need type reverse auctions with Silent Auction Pro.
• Added the ability to archive an event earlier than the normal 60 days after the event date. This allows groups who wish to run back-to-back events the ability to close one event and immediately open another without waiting the 60 days

• When printing all bid sheets, bid sheets for items marked as sold will no longer print. This is important if you are transitioning from online bidding to paper bidding. Silent Auction Pro automatically prints the highest bid on the paper bid sheet for you, but in the case of sold items, you do not want to print a bid sheet. We also modified the code for the SOLD sheets to include the winning bidder's number for those items already marked as sold.
• Fixed a bug where whenever you deleted a ticket from a contact, the "bidder" status would change to "No". The bidder status will now only be set to No when that person no longer has any attendance tickets assigned to them.

• When printing bidder numbers from the Auction Admin page you can now choose to print bidder numbers for everyone marked as attending your event, only those who are marked as attending and who have a credit card on file, those marked as attending who are assigned to table, or those marked as attending who have a credit card on file AND who are assigned to a table. These options are helpful if you require that people have a credit card on file before bidding, or if people must be assigned to a table before entering your event.

• Added a filter capability on the Manage Online Bidding page to allow users to quickly filter down auction items by auction type and/or title to easily change the online bidding status. This makes putting items on or off line by auction type or title very easy.
• The first letter of a person's first name, last name and company name of users and contacts are now automatically capitalized when the data is saved to the database.

• Changed the option to print an attendee info sheet to allow the user to enter a bidder number directly. This is easier and also helps speed up the page load for groups with a large number of attendees.
• Removed the "Select an express check-out attendee with a current balance" from the Check-out Functions table. This was done to speed up the page load. You can find all attendees with outstanding balances on the Auction Results page along with a graphical indication if they have a card on file or not. The drop-down that lists all bidders with outstanding balances remains on the AuctionDay page.
• Fixed a problem on AuctionMobile where a group member trying to sign up for online bidding was led to a bad link.

• Added an Edit Donation feature to the My Donations page that allows you to type in a donation number and immediately edit that donation. Also added a find feature to quickly jump to a donation number on the page. This does not work for Internet Explorer because Microsoft plays by its own set of rules. We recommend using Chrome or Firefox for your browser.
• Added a find feature on the Edit Auction Items page to quickly jump to an auction item. Direct editing by number is not available because grouped auction items cannot be edited individually.
• Fixed a bug in the manage seating assignments reconstruct nodes to make it faster.
• Fixed tracking sheets so the max proxy bid will print out when printing sheets with existing bids.

• Updated the leaderboard display to refresh the data without reloading the whole page. This stops the annoying blinking on reload but the data refreshes every 5 seconds. Also adjusted the layout to provide a better presentation. Finally, a new option allows you to set the goal amount which will be the top amount displayed on the column chart.

• Added a roll-up count of ticket included choices on the Tickets Reports page. Table only shows if there are included choices.
• Fixed a bug where table names were not printing on the "All bidder info sheets collated with bidder numbers" report.
• Fixed a bug where included choices with tickets sometimes were duplicated for contacts.

• Bidders home page now automatically refreshes in the background every 10 seconds to update the bid status.
• Added HTML editor to the payment and pickup instructions text area on the Edit Group form to make it easy to format the email message.

• Donations on the Event page are now sortable by the column titles

• Fixed a problem with the Contact Search Results page to allow members to edit contacts who they already own.
• Removed the ability to delete a ticket from the Seating Management Page. Tickets should be deleted from the contact page instead.

• Fixed an issue when exporting donation data via the "Donations CSV file export to spreadsheet" and "Show CSV Donor Data" where embedded commas in attributes like Address, Address2, Notes, Description, etc., caused a problem with the columns lining up in the exported file.
• Added Donation Status to the Event roll-up page.

• New AuctionCore feature allows group members to quickly send an email or text message to an individual contact from the Edit Contact page.
• New AuctionPromoter allows Auction Administrators and Group Admins to send mail-merged bulk text messages to targeted contacts.

• Clone tickets functionality now includes tickets from previous events.

• Added a message to the Ticket Preview page to alert users when they have not yet configured their merchant account in Silent Auction Pro. A merchant account is required before you can sell tickets through Silent Auction Pro.

• Added a new "Data Export" report to the Write Letters, Emails and Custom Reports that makes it easy to dump all the transactions from an event into a CSV file that can be imported into other systems.
• AuctionMobile now only presents a field for entering the credit card, expiration date and CVV rather than including other information that is shown on the full browser version. This was done to clean up the credit card process on the mobile platform and to eliminate scrolling on that page.

• Fixed a problem that prevented kiosk bidders from being able to purchase Ticket Party or multiple winner items.
• Fixed a problem where in rare circumstances users ended up with a blank white screen when signing in via AuctionMobile.
• Updated all Ticket Party auction types to have a Buy-It-Now price.

• Changed the print all section results page so that it would refresh automatically after 30 seconds so it could be used as an alternative to the display bidding results page as a leaderboard.

• Changed the refresh time for the leaderboard from 30 seconds to 15 seconds.

• Added a count of authorized online bidders to the Online Bidders Report.

• Added a diagnostic check to validate online bidders by username to the AuctionDay check-in functions. This allows check-in staff to quickly validate if a person is signed up for online bidding and provides helpful suggestions if any steps have not been completed. Note that you can see a list of all the approved online bidders from the Event > Online Bidders Report page.

• Added submenu to the Auction Admin page to quickly get to various places in that page such as the Create and Manage Auction Items section, AuctionDay printed material, etc.

• Fixed a problem with the help search that was a result of the switch to SSL.
• Added autocomplete options to search
• When using online or mobile bidding, the self check-out button on member home pages is now labeled "Make a donation" until the auction ends at which time it changed to "Check-out".

• When editing auction items from the Edit Auction Items page, you may now skip the "Edit Auction Item Bundle" (Step 2) by clicking the link under the Bid Inc (Bid Increment) column. This was done to simply the process when adjusting bid increments (or starting and max bid) typically done to make an auction item fit on a single printed page.
• Potentially long pages like the My Donations page, Edit Auction Items page, Online bidding (grid and list views) and the search results pages will now remember your last scroll position making it easier when editing items.
• Added SSL functionality to the website for additional security

• Modified auction types to allow users to create their own named multiple winner types like ticket parties. This enhances the reporting and also allows the leaderboard to work for online bidding for Fund-A-Need type items.
• When creating auction items, the bundling page and auto-convert pages will no longer show items marked as Traded, Item missing, Donor declined or Rejected. All other status types will show up for bundling or converting.
• Added two new donation status options. Rejected and Donor declined.
• Print tracking sheets now prints existing bids if present on items. This makes it easy to see existing bids when transitioning from online pre-bidding to a physical event or live auction.

• When adding or editing contacts coming from the AuctionDay page, the list of attributes for the contact is reduced to just first name, last name, email, cell number, service provider and the event section. This was done to streamline the check-in / check-out process even further. If you need to add or edit the other attributes there is a button in the upper right corner of the table to show all fields.
• Added an Online Bidders Report page available from the Event tab that shows all online bidders, the number of bids placed, last login and last four of the credit card they have on file.

• When transitioning from online bidding to printed bid sheets, Silent Auction Pro will now pull the max proxy bid as the highest bid for an item. Previously it would pull the current bid which might not be the most someone is willing to pay.
• Added code to prevent the deletion of contacts who are current or past ticket holders. This preserves the integrity of the ticket status for current and past events.

• Fixed a bug that was resulting in blank emails being sent for receipts for ticket purchases, etc. This happened because we switch hosting providers last night and didn't update a part of the code that was required for emailing receipts. Apologies...

• Implemented a fix for a bug where in some cases tickets purchased for people where the guest name was not provided would end up creating a reconcile issue. This would manifest by showing an unreconciled user name on the tickets report page but when you would go to the reconcile page that person's name was not there to reconcile. This fix DOES NOT retroactively fix that problem. If you are seeing it, please email support@silentauctionpro.com with your group number.

• Ticket party items will now show a single item, (0 left) and SOLD when all items of that type are sold. They used to disappear from online bidding completely when sold out.

• Set a max limit of 1000 on the number of auction items that can be auto-created at one time. If you are creating more than 1000 of the same item you are probably doing something the wrong way.

• Changed default online bidding to be placed bids instead of proxy bidding. If bidders want to use proxy bidding they now have to check that box.

• Added warning message to the edit ticket types page to warn people if they are changing the price of an existing ticket.
• Changed code on the Event Results page so people with a negative balance due will now show in the Outstanding Invoices table. If a refund is due the link from their bidder number will go to the refund page and the appropriate refund amount will auto-populate in the refund amount box. Note: Negative balances only show if the tax rate is set to zero.

• Added additional information on how to reconcile charges processed through Silent Auction Pro and Element Payment Services to deposits into your bank account. Please see the Viewing Payment Records / Reconciling deposits to your bank account help page.

• Added self check-out capability to the full browser version of Silent Auction Pro. The mobile version has had self check-out for a couple months.
• Removed donor addresses from gift certificates.

• Fixed a bug that prevented correct recording of the sale of zero cost tickets.

• Added new templates to the Write letters, emails and forms feature of the AuctionPromoter. New templates include an email that could be sent to potential online bidders, a customizable display sheet and program guide.

• Moved the seating party code field from the top of the tickets area to a separate location after a customer specifies which tickets they want. We received feedback from several customers that people were not noticing the seating party code in the header area of the ticket purchase table.

• Fixed a problem with the bid online grid layout where gaps were occurring for ticket party items with longer titles.
• Relaxed the username requirements to allow the @ and . symbols and up to 30 characters so people can use their email address if they want for their username.

• Changed the starting contact number from 1 to 100 because we received significant feedback that professional auctioneers prefer three digit bidder numbers.
• Removed the additional instructions for using Buy-It-Now from the bottom of the bid sheets. The information was really more to help those doing data entry than the bidders. We decided to keep it simple for the bidders.

• Changed the flow from the Enter Donations menu option to skip editing the contact and go directly to entering a donation.
• Changed the Manage Online Bidding page to only allow Group Administrators to set or change online bidding options.

• Added a "leaderboard" as a new feature of the AuctionPromoter that can be projected during a live auction special appeal (a.k.a. paddles up, raise the paddle, fund-a-need, etc.) that will show the top bidders and a column chart showing how much money is raised. Bidder names are ranked by amount pledged and the font size gets progressively smaller with each lower pledge amount. The page refreshes every 30 seconds.
• Added an export to Excel link on the View All Payments page.
• Added code to eliminate the ability to delete a contact who's record has been reconciled to a user account. This is important to ensure those relationships do not get broken.

• Added three new training videos on creating auction items.
• Added code to prevent defining tickets as multiples unless the admission option is checked.
• Made slight changes to the user interface on the online ticket purchase page to make it more clear that the first ticket purchased is the buyers ticket and that subsequent tickets are for guests. Note - if a person wants to buy tickets but give their own ticket away to someone else, a group member will need to release that ticket after it is purchased.

• Fixed a bug in the reconciliation page where in rare cases people were not showing up to be reconciled.
• Added a FAQ on EMV (embedded microchip verification) readers support.

• Updated the My Donations page to only show the gift certificate icon when an item is marked as having a gift certificate.
• Added code to prevent the system from sending out online bidding requests granted (both text and email) to people who have already been granted online bidding for an email. This situation occurred when someone who had previously signed up for online bidding returned perhaps to purchase tickets and left the "Sign me up for online bidding" check box checked.

• Added new capabilities to the Write Letters and Emails feature to now include customized Auction, Donation and Transaction reports. Virtually all the attributes for contacts, donations, auction items, the event and group tables are now available to create custom reports. Examples might include a data export of transactions by attendee including what they donated, what they bought and any cash donations that could be imported into another system (Raiser's Edge, Constant Contact, etc.) You could also create your own look for display sheets or even a printed program guide.

• New video tutorial on Writing Letters and Emails using Silent Auction Pro on our Tutorial Video Channel

• Fixed a problem where very large photo files were failing to upload. This was a server configuration issue that limited the file upload size to 2Mb. Modern cameras are creating files of 3Mb or more. The new limit is 16Mb. NOTE - Silent Auction Pro will reduce the resolution to a max size of 400px in any dimension which results in file sizes less than .5Mb. Uploading larger files will simply take longer. Best bet if you are taking pictures is to reduce the file size / resolution your camera takes BEFORE taking the pictures. This will make uploading photos to Silent Auction Pro much faster.

• Fixed an issue with mobile bidding where bids entered as floating point numbers were not accepted. The software will now convert $60.00 to 60 which is a valid bid. Any amount specified in the cents is truncated / ignored. For instance a bid of 60.99 becomes 60
• The order of auction items presented in the online bidding was changed from sorting alphabetically to sorting by bidding number. This was showing up on the mobile bidding.
• Added credit card icon to the listing on the event history page for those bidders who have a credit card on file
• Added the number of items left in a ticket party to the display on the online and mobile bidding.
• Changed the default page for online bidding to the grid view.

• Added the ability to quickly send a preformatted text message with the online bidding sign-up page to a cell phone number from the AuctionDay page.
• Added an outstanding balances table to the Event History report.

• Added proxy bidding support for AuctionOnline and AuctionMobile. This allows a bidder to place a maximum bid on an item and let the system automatically bid for them up to their maximum bid amount. Bidders may also place immediate bids of any amount and use the Buy-It-Now option to buy items immediately if Buy-It-Now is an option for that item. Buy-It-Now bids will take priority over proxy bids. For more information on the different type of bids, please see the online help topic: Placing Bids.

• For online bidding, ticket party items (multiple winner items with a fixed price) will now only show ONE unsold item of that ticket party type until all items are sold. This reduces clutter in the online bidding presentation. Previously if there were 100 ticket party items of one type - for example - a bus trip to the zoo, all 100 items would show in the online bidding. Note that once all ticket party items have been bought, none will show in the online bidding. This is unlike other items that show up even after they have been sold

• Added the ability for a Group Administrator to quickly reassign one or more contacts owned by a group member to another group member. This is done from the Show All Contacts page. A icon will appear to the right of a contact owner's name. Clicking on that icon will bring up a dialog where you can reassign that contact or all contacts to a new group member.

• Updated the auto-reconcile feature to automatically reconcile people where there is an exact match between the first name, last name AND email address. Previously, this feature was really an "auto insert" feature that would copy over a user's record into your group's contact database if there were NO matches for the person's last name. With this update, if there IS a match on the last name AND the first name and email also match, the users data will be reconciled with the existing contact record.

• Added option to turn off Party Code in tickets purchase page

• Modified Silent Auction Pro to automatically "reconcile" people who purchase tickets or sign up for online bidding where there is no match for that contact's last name already in your group's contacts list. As an example: If there are no contacts with the last name "Smith" in your contacts and Bill Smith purchases tickets and/or signs up for online bidding, his user data will automatically be copied over into your contacts list and he will be automatically approved for online bidding. Then, if William Smith purchases tickets and/or signs up for online bidding, the system WILL NOT automatically reconcile / approve William Smith because there is already a person with the last name Smith in your contacts. An Auction Administrator will have to reconcile William Smith into your group and decide if he is the same contact as Bill Smith or not. The same would hold true with anyone named Smith going forward. Please note that once a person has been reconciled into your group, in any subsequent events, that person will never need be reconciled again.
• Added session timeout timer. Sessions expire after 12 hours. You will now get a three minute warning when your session is about to expire.

• Added an HTML editor to the forms where you create the online ticket purchase message, footnotes and announcements.

• Ticket purchase receipt is now also sent to each group administrator providing detailed information on each ticket purchase
• Deleting a bid from the Manage Online Bidding page no longer marks the item as sold but preserves the sold status of that item
• Fixed a problem with the print invoice page that was not picking up ticket purchases

• Added self check-out to AuctionMobile. Users may now make their own payments by credit card from their mobile device. They can also make an additional donation.
• Payment records are now automatically emailed to the buyer if there is an email address on file.
• Changed the session time-out from 24 minutes to half a day This allows you to be logged in to Silent Auction Pro for up to 12 hours without having to log back in.
• Fixed a bug in the code where outbid text notifications were only being sent to people who had a Silent Auction Pro account. Now text notifications are sent to any contact in your group for whom you have entered a cell phone number.

• Updated the HTML editor used to write emails and letters to work with IE, Chrome, FireFox and probably any browser you are using.

• Receipts for ticket purchases only will now show the full ticket purchase details including guest names
• Receipts are now automatically emailed to the purchaser when an invoice is processed if there is an email address on file for that person

• Added code to remove the tickets header from the online ticket purchase / online bidding sign-up page if no tickets are available.

• Added table names to the bid number pages, invoices and tickets report pages. The Table Number is the number assigned by Silent Auction Pro, the table name is a name chosen by the user. The default table name is the same as the table number.

• Temporarily removed the "buyers ticket" checkbox from ticket purchases to address a problem where tickets purchased where at least one ticket was not used by the buyer were getting lost in the system. We are working on a fix for this and will add the checkbox back when a fix is implemented. Until then, if someone wants all the tickets they purchase to be available to be used by others, simply go into that purchaser's contact record and release any tickets assigned to him/her by clicking on the unlock icon next to the ticket.

• Added links to the "My" pages in the drop-down menus. These were accessible by clicking directly on the menu button - for instance, you could get to My Home Page by clicking on the Home menu option, or My Donations by clicking on the Donations menu option. Feedback from users suggested that they were confused by this and sometimes didn't realize there was another page available by clicking directly on the menu option. Now the first link under the menu takes you to the same place as clicking on the menu does. While redundant, we think it is better to expose these pages in the sub menu.

• Added the ability to delete an includes list. Because an included list may have already been used in a ticket purchase the delete function really archives the list to maintain the data integrity of existing ticket purchases. To remove the list from existing tickets you will need to delete it as an included item as well.

• When cloning a donation either from a previous event or your current event, if a photo was provided previously for that donation, Silent Auction Pro will automatically copy the previous photo for use with the new donation.

• Added the ability to specify a starting date for your online auction.

• Added the footnote and buyer's premium messages to the online bid detail pages and kiosk bidding pages. A buyer's premium is an optional mark-up percentage you can use to help recover the costs of running your event. For more information on the buyer's premium, please see the events fields table on the Events help page.

• Changed the dates presented on certain pages in Silent Auction Pro from showing as Year-Month-Day to Weekday, Month Day, Year. The new format is more typically used in North America. (The previous format was used for direct compatibility with the database and you may see instances when selecting dates where it is still used.)

• Added the ability for an Auction Administrator or higher level member to edit tickets from the Tickets Report page. This simplifies the process and number of clicks required to edit a ticket.
• Added a Clone Ticket button on the Edit Ticket form. Allows quicker creation of similar ticket types.

• QR codes are now included on the display sheets if a website is specified for a donation. This allows guests at a gala to quickly scan the display sheet QR code to get more information about a particular donation.

• Advanced Ticketing - Added significant new functionality to the AuctionPromoter that lets you define arbitrary ticket types as well items that are included in those tickets.
• Advanced Table & Seating Management - New feature of the AuctionPromoter that allows you to manage complex table and seating requests. Introduced the concept of a party code which allows people purchasing tickets to request seating with an existing party.
• New feature added to the invoice where if you update the invoice amount and it will automatically calculate the donation amount. During check-out this makes it easy for you to ask a person if they would like to round up their purchase to some "even" number.
• Added scrolling headers to pages where you may get a long list of items and the header / column information scrolls off the top and disappears. Those table headers now scroll with the page.
• Added QR code sheet for mobile bidding.
• Modified the online bidding detail pages so that they can be referenced directly by a link. This allows you to promote an individual item and provide a link directly to the detail page.
• Completely reworked the demo group and added new users, content, examples, etc.
• Changed the term used for donation and auction item "Classes" to Categories to avoid confusion for schools who use Silent Auction Pro and often have donations that are directed to a particular grade or class.
• Changed the term Attendee to Bidder since people don't have to be attending an event to bid using AuctionOnline though they do need to be marked as a bidder. This change is reflected through-out the system though existing groups will still see the term Attendee Template when writing letters or emails. For the purposes of Silent Auction Pro the term bidder and attendee are exchangeable.
• Fixed a problem with the formatting of text messages that included header information making the text messages difficult to read.
• Fixed a long standing problem where if the online help was already open and you clicked on a help link, the window would stay potentially hidden in the background
• As part of this update we changed the pricing of the AuctionPromoter from $99 to $149 and also increased the AuctionDay percentage fee from 1% to 1.5%.

• Added mail merge options to the AuctionPromoter's write letters and email feature that allows you to include the name, address, phone numbers, email address and winning bid on items in email and letters to donors. This makes it easy to notify donors who won the items they donated.

• Added option to the Configure Merchant Account form to allow groups who accept American Express to indicate that on their ticket purchase pages.
• Added several tags that were missing from the Auction Promoter's "Write letters and emails" but were shown in the online help.

• Added donation restriction [DonationRestriction] as an available tag for the AuctionPromoter "Write letters and emails".

• Added the Bid Extend feature to online bidding that allows online bidding to be automatically extended by 1-5 minutes if a bid is placed in the last 10 seconds of bidding.
• The online bidding time is now dynamic and will count down to zero. Once the timer reaches zero the page will automatically be refreshed and will show the extended bidding time if that option is set.

• Fixed a bug that allowed people to bid online on items after the item was marked sold or taken off line. This only happened when a bidder had the bid detail or kiosk bid set up ready to bid on an item and the online bidding status was changed for the item.

• Fixed a bug that allowed matches on blank values (address, email, phone number, etc.) when reconciling tickets. Matches should be narrowed down now to specific matches based on what a person entered, not on what they didn't enter.

• Bid History: Added the ability to view the bidding history of each auction item including the origin of the bid (Online, Mobile, Kiosk, etc.) This is offered as part of AuctionOnline and AuctionMobile and is available from the manage online bidding form.
• Mobile Bidding: Changed users home page to refresh every 30 seconds to show the latest bidding results for their items.

• Added the ability to delete (archive) a contact that has previous history (made donations, won auction items, etc.). To delete a contact, simply click on the trash can icon in any of the pages showing the list of contacts. If the system detects previous history for that contact it will automatically mark the contact as archived and the contact will be excluded from any future searches or use in the system.

• Added a confirmation dialog to the AuctionDay page when notifying winners. Notifying winners marks all items in that section as sold and sends an email and text message to all winners. It is not easily undone, hence the confirmation dialog...

• Fixed a problem that prevented the Filter by Title feature from working on the online bidding pages. Also changed the interface to make it clearer when the online bidding results are filtered.

• Added donation titles to the printed donation descriptions for bid sheets, sold sheets, display sheets, printed program guide and the first page of the online bidding page. These changes help more clearly present the donations contained within an auction item and are consistent with the presentation of auction items in other areas of Silent Auction Pro.
• Updated the donated by list on the Edit Donation page to include the Company name.
• Updated the Best Practices to suggest using a first name combination such as "Community Supporter" if the first name of a donor is not know. In this instance, the last name should be the Company name

• When entering bids using the Bid Entry form from the AuctionDay page, Silent Auction Pro will look up and display the winning bidder's name in the Bid Entry form. This helps you cross check the bidder number against the person's name.

• Added a group email address that is used as the "from" address when notifications or emails are sent from Silent Auction Pro.
• You can now add a customized payment and pick-up message at the end of the standard notification that is sent from Silent Auction Pro when bidders win items.
• System correctly handles when donation photos are added AFTER the donation has been converted to an auction item. Photos will now show up without resaving the auction item.
• Fixed minor bug in the notify winners that caused people who didn't win anything but who had an outstanding ticket purchase to be notified.

• Added a donations cost totals table to the event history that shows all donations that have a cost.

• Show all event attendees now shows whether each attendee is an express checkout attendee with a credit card on file.

• Added ability to print outstanding invoices for just express checkout attendees on AuctionDay page.

• Added ability to rescind a request to join a group. If user has requested access to incorrect group, they are able to rescind request and then request access to correct group.

• Write letters and emails is now formally only available to groups who have purchased AuctionPromoter. It was available to all through 2012 because of the change in our pricing structure at the end of 2011.

• Removed the requirement to enter a cell service provider for a contact if a cell phone number is entered. The system will now allow this but warn that text notifications will not work for that contact until a cell service provider is selected and the contact record is updated.

• Changed the font for printed bidder numbers to bold to make them more readable in larger rooms.
• Added "Show in program guide" option to the Auction Types to allow certain types of items such as Raffle Tickets, or Paddles-Up to be excluded from the program guide. The default is all items are included.
• Added automatic notification of new features or enhancements on the member home page that points to this file. Message will show if this file is newer than the users last login date.

• Event receipts now show the declared value on items where the declared value is less than the price paid. The difference between declared value and price paid might be used as a tax deduction. (Please consult your local tax advisor). This allows the event receipt to be used as a tax receipt.

• Added four new merge attributes when writing letters or emails; [GroupId], [ContactId], [EventId] and [EventDateNumeric]. Combinations of these attributes can be used to create a unique number for each letter or email as is required in some states or countries for tax receipts.

• Added the ability to sort printed letters by Last Name or Company

• Added mobile optimized site - AuctionMobile. Initial release is targeted for online mobile bidding. The website is http://m.silentauctionpro.com but if you go to the full-browser website www.silentauctionpro.com using a mobile device, the system should ask if you want to switch to the mobile version.
• Added a Bidding Kiosk page which allows people to bid at an event using a kiosk computer or tablet. This is enabled by purchasing AuctionMobile but can be launched from the AuctionDay page.
• Added a database flag indicating an item is sold. This prevents items from showing on individual invoices when a bidder has placed a bid and is the current high bidder but the item is still open for bidding.

• Added tally of table assignment count on the Show Attendees page.

• Added automatic feature that sends a text message to people when they have been granted access to online bidding.
• Added Donation Class and Donation Tag to the "Show CSV Donor Data" output.

• Added a new printed program guide option as part of the AuctionPromoter. Link is available from the Reports, Links and Export table on the Auction Admin page. Auction items may be sorted and then opened in Word or other compatible word processors to facilitate the creation of a printed program guide.
• Added new menu item in the Group Admin menu to allow users to change the credit card stored for Silent Auction Pro payments.
• Improved the organization of the Auction Day Printed Material table on the Auction Admin page.

• Added Notify feature on AuctionDay home page that will notify winners of auction items via email and text messages.
• Changes to a Users profile (email, address, city, state, zip, phone numbers) will now be updated in all reconciled Contact records.
• Added Reference Number Contact fields that can be used to map Contacts in Silent Auction Pro to other systems
• Added CellPhone and Carrier fields to Contacts to allow Text notifications as well as tracking of Contact cell numbers.
• Modified delete bids functionality on the Enter Bid Results page to allow you to revert to a previously entered bid. (typically the previous online bid)

• Added Tracking Sheets for Live Auctions, Raffle Ticket sales, Direct Sales, etc.

• Added Buy-It-Now support for online bidding.
• Added Ticket Party support in online bidding

• Added the ability to print lists and ranges of bid sheets, sold sheets, display sheets.
• Added section number to the print section results output from the AuctionDay page.

• Added the ability to bulk delete donations and auction items.
• Added the ability to sort the Print All Invoices option by bidder number, last name or table number.
• Added a new report on the Auction Admin page that can be used to provide donors with information on who won the items they donated.

• Added an online form for requesting credit card readers. The form is accessible from the Group Admin menu tab.

• Changed the bid entry form to automatically insert the value of an item in the Final Bid textbox for Ticket Party auction items. Since all Ticket Party items are bought at the same price, this will speed up the data entry for Ticket Party items.

• Changed Bundle Auction Items link on the Auction Admin page to Create Auction Item Bundle to accurately reflect what this link does.

• Added the ability to print out Display Sheets for auction items where there is not a physical item to present at the auction.

• Added address and phone number fields to the donations export report.
• Added the ability to create and print display pages for tables - also known as table tents.
• Fixed a minor problem where the system would present a blank screen after editing a donation from the Auction Admin - Donations Status report

Complete UI overhaul of Silent Auction Pro plus the enhancements outlined below:

• New Fields:
  • Contacts:
    • Company Logo
    • Company Website
    • Address2
  • Donations:
    • Website
  • Event:
    • Online Ticket / Bidding Sign-up Message
• Added Bid Winners as an option to the Write Letters or Emails "To" field. This allows users to target letters or emails to just people who won items.
• Delete All Stored Credit Cards button on the Auction Admin page is now only available AFTER the day of your event and only to group administrators. This will prevent accidental deleting of stored credit cards during the event.
• Added [AuctionType] field for writing letters or emails to attendees or bid winners
• Easily add, edit and delete Donation Tags, Categories and Auction Types from the Auction Admin page.
• Auction Assistants and administrators my now edit payment details. This allows users to delete or change donation amounts that were entered at check-out time.
• Administrators may now filter unbundled donations when bundling. This makes it possible to pare down the list of donations making it easier to locate items during the bundling process.
• New printable Online Program Guide design includes company logos, and external company website and donation details links.
• New payment receipt format.
• Ability to email a receipt to an attendee who has an email address in the system.
• Completely new online bidding page designs including List, Grid, and Detail views.
• New, simplified, online bidding sign-up flow.
• Removed automatic dash in phone numbers. This caused some problems when trying to back-up and delete numbers. Numbers may be entered in various formats but will be reformatted and stored in the database as ###-#### with optional extension characters or numbers following.
• New count-down timer feature to the AuctionDay™ page.
• Emails sent through Silent Auction Pro are now queued by the system to ensure mail server load does not impact system performance. This also means that all emails are logged in the system individually.
• New pricing model with optional AuctionDay, AuctionOnline and AuctionPromoter components.

• Added Company name to Ticket Paid By field and on the Show Attendees page to help identify where tickets are paid by Companies.

• Modified the Online Bidding functionality so that the items available for online bidding may be viewed without having an account. Persons still need an account and have a credit card on file to bid on items.
• Fixed minor formatting problems with the headers / logo placement various "customer facing" pages such as the Online Bidding Center, Program Guide, etc.

• Fixed a problem where in rare instances ticket counts were being doubled for individual attendees.
• Corrected the Event History cash donations calculations. The May 2nd update was double counting the donations made at invoice time.

• Updated the Event History to include rows for the cost of donations and cash donations made at invoice time.

• Enhanced the ability to send emails so that it has the same capabilities as sending letters to draw fields from the database.
• Added opt-out capability for contacts to opt-out of mass emails by groups.

• Removed the requirement that billing addresses be entered for credit card charges.
• Added Footnote capability to print messages on the bottom of printed material such as Bid Sheets.

• Added Group Announcements.

• Added ability to print Barcode values on bid sheets for users wishing to use barcode scanners at their event.
• Added the ability to print old transaction receipts from the payments page and payment history pages.

• Added user sort capability to the online program guide.

• Added support for 1/2 page bid sheets.
• Added table numbers to printed receipts.
• Added notes to the mailing list export fields.
• Added an option when editing categories to automatically update all existing auction items Max Bid (Buy It Now) prices.

• Added support for French and Spanish accented characters.

• Online Bidding: Silent Auction Pro now includes an optional online bidding component allowing your contacts to bid on auction items before or during your event. You can even run the entire event as an online auction if you want. There are several enhancements directly related to the online bidding component including:
  1. Donation Photos - You can now upload photographs of your donations that will be displayed in the online bidding center.
  2. Text and Email Notifications - Bidders can be notified if they are out-bid on an item via a Text message to their mobile phone or by an email or both.
  3. Bid Sheets Changes - If you are using the online bidding component and then hosting a physical event, the bid sheets you print will automatically start with the highest bid placed on that item online.
  4. Complete Management of Online Bidding - Auction Administrators or higher have full visibility into the status of the online bidding including number of bids on each item, highest bidder and bid amount. Each item may be put on-line or off-line individually or on-line bidding may be suspended for all items at a click of a button. You may also set an ending date and time for online bidding.
  5. Register for On line Bidding Access - Persons who wish to bid online are required to place their credit card on file with your group ensuring you will get paid for items won online. Group Administrators have the ability to grant or deny online bidding access on an individual basis.
  6. Online Bidding Center - Each bidder has their own individual online bidding center showing the items on which they are bidding along with the bidding status.
• Clone and Move Donations - You may now easily move a donation from one contact to another as well as quickly clone an existing donation.
• Online Ticket Purchases Store Credit Card Data - Prior to this release of Silent Auction Pro online ticket purchases did not store credit card information so that you could offer those attendees Express Check-Out without re-swiping their card. Now online ticket purchases and requests for online bidding access automatically store credit cards so that you may charge those cards later during check-out.
• User Customizable Letters - You can now generate your own user customized letters using several fields in the Contacts and Donations tables.
• Simple Export of Data - Data exports to spreadsheets are now automatic and don't require an intermediate step of saving the data as a text file.
• Control the Donated By Reference - When entering donations you may now choose how you would like the Donated By reference to show up on bid sheets. You may select from "Name", "Company", "Name - Company" and "Anonymous".
• Edit your Profile - Users may now easily edit their profile, change their password as well as add a Text number for Text based online bidding alerts.
• Donation Descriptions on Payment Receipts - Donation descriptions are now included on the Payment Receipts to help runners identify items during the check-out process.
• Bid Value Rounding - When creating auction items, values such as the Max Bid, Min Bid and Bid Increment now round to values ending in 0 or 5 meaning you won't see bid increments like $13. This would be rounded to $15.

• Added support for printing Ticket Party Bid Sheets.
• Added Print All Gift Certificates capability to the Auction Administrator page.
• Enhancements to the Add Donation page that catch and fix invalid entries in the Donation Value, Cost and Reserve fields.
• Added Help page on Ticket Parties
• Added Ticket Parties as default item in the Auction Types.

• Changed Bid Sheets so that the word Restrictions is not printed if there are no restrictions on the donation.

• Added Bidder Name and Item Title to the Print Section Results pages.

• Added code to prevent Buy-It-Now / Max Bid percentages of less than 51% being entered for Categories.
• Turned off Buy-It-Now default for Silent Auction auction type.

• Added concept of Donation Tags.

• Added concept of Donation Tags.
• Added code to prevent donation costs or reserves greater than the donation value.
• Added ability to enter bids less than the minimum bid after confirming with the user.

• Added Auto-convert functionality for creating auction items.

• Improved sorting of all tables.
• Added alternating row colors on all tables to improve table readability.

• Added integrated credit card processing.