Comparisons
Paddle-Up vs Handbid
Handbid is known for mobile bidding and auction experiences. Paddle-Up puts bidding inside a broader campaign hub—ticketing, online sales, pledge drives, and auctions—with Stripe payments and straightforward per-transaction pricing.
Handbid focuses on helping organizations run strong auction and bidding experiences. For their current product scope and pricing, use Handbid's own materials. Below is how Paddle-Up is positioned relative to a specialist bidding platform—not a claim-for-claim audit.
Bidding inside the full season
Mobile bidding solves auction night; many teams still export results into other systems for tickets, donations, and follow-up. Paddle-Up keeps auctions—silent, online, or live sharing data with ticketing, stores, and donor communications in one campaign layer, with checkout and payouts through Stripe. If your priority is one ledger from preview to thank-you, that is the gap we fill compared to a bidding-first toolset.
Pricing model
Paddle-Up uses standard Stripe processing plus 0.1% of each transaction plus $0.15 per successful transaction to Paddle-Up, with full feature access. Handbid's pricing may reflect subscription or event-based models; compare total cost for your auction mix and the rest of your fundraising stack.
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One transparent rate—Stripe processing plus 0.1% + $0.15 per transaction. AI is pay-as-you-go when you use the assistant—purchase tokens per organization. The models we run are not cheap; including unlimited AI in our low per-transaction fee would not be sustainable.
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