Case Study: Christmas Bureau of Edmonton boosts silent-auction participation and raises nearly $8,000 (over $1M to date) with ARC Business Solutions' Bid Beacon app

Christmas Bureau of Edmonton - Customer Case Study

The Christmas Bureau of Edmonton, a long-standing charitable organization coordinating holiday meals and giving, was dissatisfied with low silent-auction engagement at its breakfast fundraisers and wanted a cost-effective mobile solution to boost participation and revenue. ARC Business Solutions answered with the Bid Beacon mobile app to provide a simple, self-serve silent-auction experience for guests and admins.

ARC Business Solutions delivered the Bid Beacon app in under two months (built with Ionic and hosted on Azure) with real-time updates and push notifications, admin self-serve tools, and later integrations for Stripe, Square and PayPal plus Buy Now, Donations and Live Items. About 120 guests registered, placing over 400 bids on 30 items and raising almost $8,000 at the event; the platform has since been used for hundreds of auctions, raising over $1,000,000.

Christmas Bureau of Edmonton