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📝 Item Management: How to Print Bid Sheets

Learn how to generate printable bid sheets in ClickBid for your silent auction. This guide walks you through customizing layout options, character limits, and entering winning bids after your event using Event Central.

 

👀 What are Printable Bid Sheets?

Printable Bid Sheets allow you to create physical bidding sheets for silent auction items. These can be customized and printed for in-person bidding environments where guests write down their bids manually.

⚙️ How to Access and Print Bid Sheets

  1. Navigate to the Items tab in the admin.

  2. Click Printable Bid Sheets.

Bid Sheets

🛠️ Customize Your Bid Sheets

You can customize the layout by selecting:

  • Which items you’d like to print

  • Whether you want 1 or 2 items per page

  • How many bid lines to display

  • Whether to include the item number

  • Whether to include starting bid or minimum raise

 

Character Limit: Item descriptions are limited to ~237 characters on bid sheets. If your description is too long, you’ll need to shorten it manually.

👀 Preview and Print

  1. Once you’ve customized your settings, click Display to preview the sheets.

  2. From the preview page, print directly from your browser.

💰 Adding Winning Bids After the Event

If you used printed bid sheets and need to manually enter the winning bids:

  1. Go to Event Central

  2. Click Butler > Add A Bid

  3. Enter the item number, bidder number, and winning amount.

 

Have a volunteer record winners during the event, so entering winning bids after is quick and accurate!