Hi. Welcome. Feel free to look around. If you’re here, chances are good that you’re someone who is involved with running a fundraising event, for a school, church, a humane society, a hospital, or another non-profit organization.

Us too. We are a group of parents (and software-industry professionals) who were pulled into running the auctions at our kids’ schools, and realized there had to be a better way of running these things than by keeping track of hundreds of little slips of paper and equipping our volunteers with hand-held calculators.

Of course, there are other software solutions out there. But we were pretty turned off by their limitations, and their pricing. We needed a solution built for a dispersed team of very busy people, who were volunteering their time. And we needed cost-certainty, if we were going to commit to spending money out of the proceeds of our event. I hate paying for the things that seem to be considered “extras” like letting more than one person use the software, or the ability to check guests in and out at the event.

So, we built our own better mousetrap. And a bunch of other schools heard about it, and wanted to use it, and so we formed a company to take it out to the world. We’ve since extended it, so that it is useful in running online auctions, art sales, and golf tournaments. (Without charging anyone anything extra for these features.) Check it out – there’s a lot of information about Tofino here on our web site, and you can fill in any gaps by emailing us at info@tofinoauctions.com.

Thanks,

The Crew @ Tofino Auctions