Text to Register – USA events can now text their keyword to 56651 and the response will include a link to use to register for a bidder number (if the register to bid feature is enabled and the event date has not passed). The message also allows the user to reply with a donation amount to receive a donation link. Only the donation message is present if register to bid is not on or the event has passed.
Event Starting and Closing dates – events now have both a starting date/time and a closing date/time. When the starting date/time is reached, the auction will be open for bidding. Item closing times cannot exceed the closing date/time. Default is 12:00am for start dates and 11:55pm for closing dates (last possible time to set an item to close on a given date). Signing up the first time for a ClickBid account will default the starting and closing dates to the same date. Existing accounts were updated to keep their starting date/time and closing date was selected based on the later of starting date or the furthest future item closing date.
Merchant changes
We now also send the merchant transactions email to the admin email address instead of just to CB Accounting.
Added info bubble instructions on how to use the page
Submit button is greyed out until transactions are available to submit
Default order of transactions is by last name.
Reports >> Bidder Statements now include the last name of the bidder in large bold font in the upper right corner for ease of use during checkout.
Appeal Settings – a link to the appeal display page was removed as irrelevant
Landing Page Content – an on/off toggle was added for the ‘sharethis’ social media icons – default on new (and existing) events is ‘yes’ to showing them.
Revised format of many links sent out by the system to our new “Bidly” style: https://cbo.io/1tE4sG – all of the following types of links will follow this format and therefore will always be 21 characters, regardless of the length of the keyword
Butler & Manage Bidder Welcome text and email
Butler Check in text
Mass message [u] and [chk]
Custom welcome message [u]
Guest update email from a ticket purchase
Text to Give / Text to Register
A new date format tool was established for editing items and batch updating items
A new page with various links to support articles appears after a secondary (2nd/3rd/4th) event is initiated.
Issues addressed
View Ticket Sales >> Download Ticket Sales CSV file was displaying ticket purchase date/time in UTC instead of the native timezone of the admin.
Revisions were needed for the scenario of a previous full license account renewing to a fund-a-need only account