--- title: Text2Bid Reviews meta_title: 'Text2Bid Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Text2Bid works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.3 review_count: 3 scale: '5' date_modified: '2025-10-30' parent_category: name: Nonprofit url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nonprofit --- # Text2Bid Reviews **Vendor:** Maestro Software **Category:** [Other Nonprofit Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-nonprofit) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 3 ## About Text2Bid Text2Bid Mobile Bidding is a full featured mobile bidding for any budget, It allows bidders use any mobile phone to place bids, and AuctionMaestro Pro downloads the winning bids for instant statements. ## Text2Bid Reviews ### 1. Charities lose **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jill A. | User, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Text2Bid?** Nothing. There are so many better online options like bidding owl or handbid **What do you dislike about Text2Bid?** Do not use the text 2 bid system. The charities running the platform LOSE so much potential earnings. They set not only high minimum bids but also insist on ridiculous bidding increments rather than allowing bidders to outbid with their own amounts. I skipped bidding on several items because the next higher bid would result in an unrealistic final bid. Ie one month membership was at $53 but the only way to outbid was to select the option of $86 which put this beyond what it's worth. I would have totally bid 60 but that wasn't an option so the charity lost out. The owner contacted me and told me that it's up to the charities to set those increments and that he would have a better conversation with them so they understood what setting bid increments meant but I have a suspicion it was just a lot of double talk and it's still the way their system is run. Plus if they have other employees I'm sure they're not going to do anymore than sign people up. Also, the system is not very user friendly and can be very frustrating to bidders. When you're at a charity you don't want to have frustrating experiences. You can only view items on mobile, not desktop, once you "watch', you cannot 'unwatch' and if you want to go back to the catalog of items after viewing a specific item, it takes you all the way back to the top. The system also charges a user fee. You've already donated by bidding there's no reason to add more fees. To facilitate, most charities want you to use a credit card and yet charges should not be passed on to the bidder unless they agree. **Recommendations to others considering Text2Bid:** Look at other options. You want ones that are easy to register for, have a desktop interface as well as mobile, easy to watch and unwatch items, bidding increments that makes sense and allow for users to compete for an item. **What problems is Text2Bid solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. Creates more. wastes so much time and loses charities money. ### 2. Brilliant, quick and easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emilia M. | Student Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Text2Bid?** Super fast, easy to use software. Perfect addition for people who have never used auction websites or have less experience **What do you dislike about Text2Bid?** Depend on internet connection and if you have technical issues the software could slow down **Recommendations to others considering Text2Bid:** Try using it from your mobile, laptop or desk computer. There are plenty of beginners tips and advice when you start, so that's helpful. I love how user friendly it is, definitely give it a go! **What problems is Text2Bid solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding quickly and accurately the lowest winning bid and comparing a large volume of flowing information at real time ### 3. Text2Bid is an amazingly easy system for my business and for our users! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DeAndra M. | Health Sciences Program Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Text2Bid?** This system allows our users to participate in bidding events directly via texts on their mobile devices **What do you dislike about Text2Bid?** Some of our users' report that their intended messages are lost in some instances. **Recommendations to others considering Text2Bid:** Very helpful for increasing the number of bidders to your events! **What problems is Text2Bid solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able get fast and increased number of bidding participants ## Text2Bid Discussions - [What is Text2Bid used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-text2bid-used-for) - [How do I trouble shoot the missed messages from certain bidders?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26075-how-do-i-trouble-shoot-the-missed-messages-from-certain-bidders) - 1 upvote - [View Text2Bid pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/text2bid/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-05+01%3A42%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e5ce5ef1-ddc9-47be-af8f-f0bd0e612e65&secure%5Btoken%5D=001f36fe084875398aa55c92df5d5cc23964b17bb53e12d956dabd7e148686a2&format=llm_user) ## Top Text2Bid Alternatives - [Boardable](https://www.g2.com/products/boardable/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (277 reviews) - [Chezuba](https://www.g2.com/products/chezuba/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (36 reviews) - [Feathr](https://www.g2.com/products/feathr/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (30 reviews)