Manage Guests

Under Event Tickets – Manage Guests, you will see a list of all the guests that have been registered to the event through purchasing online tickets. This is a collection of everybody you anticipate to be at your event. Ticket purchasers automatically turn into guests before becoming bidders. Before your event, you will manually convert your guests to bidders. When someone purchases a ticket to your event they will be listed under Manage Guests. When you are ready to convert your guests to bidders, you can select their name or names and scroll down to the Batch Update section and make them a bidder using the Make Bidder toggle. Once you make them a bidder, they will be automatically assigned a bidder number and will now be able to see this guest under Bidders – Manage Bidders.

A note about turning guests into bidders. If you’ve gathered a majority of your guest information and have a high percentage of phone and/or email addresses, I highly recommend using our mass messaging system to invite your guests to start bidding in the auction. The mass messaging has a filter that will let you include a link that when opened gathers the rest of your required information (address, credit card) and drops you directly into the bid site. This is a huge time saver when you open your event and want to get as many people bidding as possible.