Bid Sheet Auctions

AES supports traditional bid sheet auctions by providing pre-event planning assistance, post event analysis and event night management including the following services:

• Professional and experienced staff
• Pre-event planning
• Revenue generation consultation
• Creation of bid sheets
• Event night staff and management
• Volunteer training
• Patron registration
• Live auction spotting and scribing
• Auction tabulation
• Special appeal, cash call and ask collection
• Checkout and cashiering of guests
• Auction item pickup management
• On-site credit card authorizations
• Post event reconciliation
• Post event analysis

AES Service Benefits

• Increases your event revenue 10% to 50%
• Provides innovative ideas to enhance fundraising effectiveness
• Allows you to focus on your patrons
• Streamlines cashiering and item pickup, eliminating bottlenecks
• Drastically reduces walkouts and post event follow-up
• Increases the duration of the silent auction by reducing tabulation time
• Provides 100% secure credit card authorizations that night, not the next day
• Creates detailed summary reports and event night financial reconciliation
• Creates a first class event management experience for you and your guests

This is the

AES Advantage.

Touch Pad Auctions

The AES Service Excellence Package is the only one of its kind offered in the United States. AES provides trained and experienced event staff to manage your fundraiser from start to finish. AES also assigns you a skilled event planner to oversee the planning process and provide event planning expertise during the months and weeks leading up to your event. The AES Service Excellence Package includes AES' technology solution, the Touch-Pad Auction. In addition to world class event services and planning assistance, AES adds wireless, handheld, touch screens that provide a new and exciting way to generate revenue and will make your auction a first class experience for you and your patrons.

The AES Service Excellence Package includes:

• Pre-event planning assistance
• Revenue generation consultation
• New and unique opportunities to lure
  major sponsors
• All computer equipment, installation and monitoring of the system
• Professional and experienced event staff
• Volunteer training and management
• Patron registration anywhere via wireless terminals or traditional lines
• Wireless Touch-Pad bidding devices
• Dedicated kiosks for raffles, wine-pulls,
  surprise boxes, etc.
• Live auction spotting and scribing
• Special appeal, cash call and ask collection
• Checkout and cashiering of guests at tables or traditionally in lines
• On-site credit card authorizations
• Post event reconciliation
• Detailed post event analysis reports

We believe that during your fundraiser you should be meeting and thanking your donors, sponsors and patrons, not tied up in the administrative hassle of conducting an auction.

What is a Touch-Pad Auction?

Envision glowing touch screen kiosks that entice patrons from atop cocktail tables, auction tables and even the bars. With wireless roaming computers, your patrons will no longer have to be in the silent auction area to participate in the auction, they can participate from anywhere in the venue, including right from their dinner tables or live auction.

The colors, excitement and ease of use of the computerized touch-pad experience will boost your auction participation which means more revenue generation. Watch your patrons as they use the "My Bids" feature to see what items they are winning and to easily re-bid on items they are losing. Since your entire auction is automated, there is no post-auction tabulation allowing you to keep your auction open longer, which means more time to raise additional funds. During the auction, big screen projection lures your patrons to auction highlights such as live auction items, current high bids, popular silent auction items, items without bids, auction sponsors, and even streaming video presentations.