How to Raise More with OneCause AI™
As a nonprofit, you work hard to plan fundraising events with the purpose of furthering your mission. Leveraging artificial intelligence can enable you to elevate the quality of your online and event fundraising and drive incremental revenue to power your mission.
Let’s explore how OneCause AI™ can help your nonprofit maximize its resources, save time, deliver a better user experience, and create greater impact at your next event.
What is OneCause AI™?
By analyzing bidding patterns and historical data from over 40,000 auctions and 4 million auction items, OneCause AI™ is a groundbreaking, first-to-market innovation that helps nonprofits achieve greater success.
OneCause AI™ leverages the power of artificial intelligence to increase fundraising revenue and save time.
OneCause AI™ is made up of multiple features and capabilities:
Boost Engagement with Recommended Lots
As the industry’s leading silent auction software provider, OneCause offers practical tools to increase item visibility during your charity auction. With Recommended Lots, your bidders are presented with AI-generated auction item recommendations, similar to those items they’ve already viewed, to drive engagement and help you reach your organization’s revenue goals.
How does the AI in Recommended Lots work?
As guests browse your auction lot and click on an item, OneCause AI™ looks for commonalities to present the bidder with three of the most closely related items in that auction catalog.
How can I activate Recommended Lots?
There is no coding or configuration needed from your end, as the OneCause Fundraising Platform automatically features these recommended items for your guests. That’s the value of platform; it makes it easier for your organization to raise more for your mission by tapping into modern software capabilities that consumers are used to experiencing on sites like Amazon.
Recommended Lots begin to work immediately, even before you have bids because the software looks for related items based on category, keywords, and description. This seamless OneCause AI™ feature is based on the item the supporter is currently viewing and is not based on their bidding or viewing history. If you have more auction items, guests can click more, view more, bid more!
Create Unique User Experience with Suggested Sort
The longer your supporters browse your auction page, the more likely they are to continue bidding and supporting your cause. The Suggested Sort feature enables you to automatically create unique auction experiences for each guest by highlighting the auction items most likely to draw attention to the supporter toward the top.
How does Suggested Sort work?
OneCause AI™ learns guest behavior as they browse and favorite items in your auction. It adjusts the order of the auction for the bidder to see things that they’re most interested in at the top of the list. This is a default sort order, so there’s no need to do anything on your part!
Is Suggested Sort the best practice for auction lists?
Yes! The option to sort your auction items using AI can help boost engagement and drive your revenue.
If your guest views your auction orders by item number, then they may only make it through the first few categories without getting to the end. Suggested Sort is an especially valuable tool for medium to large auctions, which may have an extensive list of auction items.
Along with deeper engagement, we’ve seen that nonprofits are driving 25% more revenue since introducing the modern and flexible OneCause AI™ features to our OneCause Fundraising Platform – making it a game changer for nonprofit fundraising.
Save Time with AI-Generated Description Generators
Imagine if you had a powerful tool that saved you up to 8 hours of auction planning! The good news… it exists! Save time and efficiently allocate your organization’s resources by using OneCause AI™ to effortlessly craft descriptions for your auction, raffle, and fixed-price items.
How do Description Generators work?
OneCause offers AI-generated descriptions to help you get started in the planning process. All you need to do is provide a few details about the item, and the AI generator will write a marketing-worthy description in seconds.
Your organization still has the power to edit, rewrite, or delete the copy before publishing, but this makes the planning process easier and quicker for you.
How can nonprofits use description generators?
Stronger descriptions attract more people, drive more engagement, and elevate your revenue. There are endless opportunities for your nonprofit to take advantage of this tool to raise more.
Here are a few examples of where to use it on OneCause Fundraising Platform:
- Silent and live auctions: Generate item descriptions based on item name, category, and any additional details when auction planning.
- Fixed prices and raffles: Drive sales by creating descriptions on name, price, and any item details entered.
- Targeted achievement and impact levels: Hit your fundraising goals with descriptions that inspire giving and show the impact of their contribution.
- Fundraising and event page stories: Craft a compelling message for your fundraising campaign to generate more donations.
- Event and online campaign stories: Ignite anticipation for your upcoming event with captivating content and key event details.
Whatever task you decide to utilize Description Generators, your organization will save a significant amount of time and end up with wow-worthy descriptions that ignite bidding.
Explore Event Readiness Powered by OneCause AI™
Plan, develop, and execute successful events with Event Readiness tools that help your organization prioritize tasks to maximize donations.
How does Event Readiness work?
Event Readiness uses OneCause AI™ capabilities and historical event data to forecast your organization’s preparedness for a successful event. It then provides a roadmap of tasks and milestones to complete throughout the process.
Tasks are an action or group of actions that must be completed as you build your event, and milestones are important checkpoints in event planning, such as the beginning of your silent auction. Both tasks and milestones are prioritized by the following event details:
- Site promotion date
- Ticket sales date
- Raffles date
- Silent auction date
- Event date
If you update any of these dates, all tasks and milestones will automatically reflect the new date to ensure your organization is aware of its priorities. Leveraging these types of AI tools will enhance your experience in planning a memorable fundraising event.
Receive Instant Support with AI Guide
Having trouble figuring out how to maximize the OneCause Fundraising Platform? Our AI Guide is the newest enhancement to the customer support experience at OneCause.
How does AI Guide work?
The AI Guide feature provides real-time assistance that guides users through the software. The AI tool learns and adapts with each interaction, continuously learning from the OneCause knowledgebase articles and video courses, relevant information on the specific user, nonprofit organization, and event or online fundraising campaign.
When can I use AI Guide?
AI Guide is available 24/7 for all your OneCause Fundraising Platform needs. The OneCause AI™ feature provides instant answers to your questions, helps you with troubleshooting issues, and offers guidance at any time.
Beyond our award-winning support analysts, our AI Guide can serve an unlimited number of organizations simultaneously. Our goal with this AI feature is to strengthen the OneCause customer experience by extending the support and guidance to make our software even more user-friendly.
Dive Deeper into OneCause AI™
With artificial intelligence becoming more accessible, there is a powerful opportunity for nonprofits to utilize modern technology to boost revenue. OneCause AI™ is the future of fundraising that meets the expectations of today’s donors while empowering nonprofits to effortlessly adapt to AI.
Explore other OneCause and AI resources for nonprofits:
- Key Updates and Enhancements: OneCause Fundraising Platform: Learn how to leverage new tools in the OneCause Fundraising Platform with our on-demand customer webinar.
- 10 Ways to Use Your OneCause Fundraising Platform Subscription: Maximize the potential of your OneCause Fundraising Platform subscription beyond the day of your event.
- Complete Guide to AI Adoption for Nonprofits: Gain insight on everything you need to know about incorporating AI into your organization with a downloadable guide.
- 10 Ways OneCause Makes Fundraising Events Easy for Your Small Nonprofit: Check out how OneCause can support small nonprofits in making a big impact.
