We've always believed that the best product improvements come straight from listening to our users. Over the past year, you've told us about the challenges you face running events—from the chaos of managing live auctions with clipboards to the frustration of complicated peer-to-peer registration flows that lose participants halfway through.
Your feedback has been clear: You need event tools that work seamlessly together, reduce administrative headaches, and help you capture every fundraising opportunity without missing a beat. That's exactly what we've been building.
We're excited to share major updates that expand our suite of event tools based on what you've asked for most. The timing couldn't be better, with fall event season approaching and many nonprofits gearing up for their biggest fundraising walks of the year. These integrated solutions are designed to work together under one roof, so you can spend less time juggling platforms and more time connecting with your community.
Easily Record Winning Bids With Live Auction
Running a live auction shouldn't feel complicated. We've all seen it: Auctioneers trying to keep energy high while volunteers scramble with bid sheets, and then the inevitable hassle of figuring out who owes what after the event ends.
Our new Live Auction feature eliminates that stress entirely. You can now capture winning bids in real-time and automatically add them to winners' tabs for immediate checkout. This means no more chasing down donors days later when their excitement has worn off. You can process payments while they're still buzzing about their winning bid.
This results in cleaner event logistics, faster payment collection, and donors who actually follow through on their auction commitments because you're striking while the iron is hot.
Fund a Need Captures Every Pledge Without Losing Momentum
Fund a Need is a powerful fundraising approach where organizations present a specific funding opportunity and ask donors to contribute different amounts toward that goal. For example, at your annual gala, the executive director takes the stage during dinner to share an urgent need—maybe funding a new program, purchasing equipment, or supporting families in crisis. They'll ask for pledges at different levels: "Who can give $1,000? $500? $250?" and guests raise their hands or bid paddles to show their commitment.
The challenge with traditional fund-a-need processing is timing. When multiple donors want to pledge simultaneously, you're forced to handle contributions one by one while everyone else waits. This stops the momentum right when donor enthusiasm is at its peak.
Our new Fund a Need feature solves this by letting you capture contributions from multiple supporters at once and then automatically route them to individual tabs. Each supporter gets their own digital tab where all their event purchases—from tickets to auctions to donations—accumulate in one place.
You can keep the energy high while donations pile up, then handle checkout when it makes sense for your event flow rather than when the system forces you to.
New Leaderboard By Team Size Brings Friendly Competition Without the Manual Work
Many of our customers wanted a way to highlight and recognize fundraising teams with the most members, not just the most donations.
The new team size leaderboard shows real-time rankings automatically, displaying your top teams from largest to smallest right on your campaign page. Participants can see who's leading the pack and get motivated to recruit more members, creating that friendly competition that naturally grows your community.
Best of all, it updates itself—no more spending hours maintaining displays or manually tracking who has the biggest team. The camaraderie happens organically while you focus on other aspects of your event.
Flexible Minimum Fundraising Commitments
Fundraising minimums are baseline dollar amounts that people must raise (e.g. $500, $1,000, or $2,500) to participate in charity events, races, and campaigns. If participants don’t hit the minimum, they typically need to make up the difference or forfeit their spot. It’s a common strategy to ensure events generate meaningful revenue while engaging supporters as active fundraisers.
But fundraising minimums can get complicated when your fundraisers have unique situations—they might be participating in multiple events, fundraising for different programs within your organization, or managing team and individual goals at the same time. When your platform can't accommodate these scenarios, you risk losing engaged participants who simply can't make the system work for their situation.
Campaign Managers now have the flexibility to adjust minimum fundraising commitment amounts on the fly. Whether someone wants to combine multiple commitments or needs their goal adjusted for specific circumstances, you can now accommodate these requests without technical limitations getting in the way.
Keeping participant experience top of mind, we’re also continuing to make improvements to the P2P registration flow to create a smoother signup process so that supporters can start raising funds for your mission even faster.
Limited Raffle Entries Mean Higher Engagement and Easier Planning
Managing raffle inventory shouldn't be guesswork. Whether you have 100 prizes or 1,000, you need to know exactly how many entries you can sell and when to stop taking orders.
This update lets you set caps on raffle entries, so you never have to worry about overselling. When people see limited availability, they're more likely to jump in right away rather than putting it off, which means higher participation rates and more excitement around your raffle.
What This All Means for Your Events
These updates are part of Pledge It’s unwavering commitment to nonprofits—building comprehensive event management tools that simplify your work while giving you better fundraising opportunities.
Most importantly, every single one of these features came directly from listening to you. We built them because they solve real problems you face. Your feedback continues to shape what we work on next, because your success drives our success.
Ready to see how these updates can transform your next event? Get in touch to learn more about how these features work together to make your fundraising events more successful and a lot easier to manage.
