Creating Sponsor Levels

With the Auctions app, sponsor levels are the tiers you group your sponsors into — Gold, Silver and Bronze, or whatever names suit your event. A level does two jobs: it groups sponsors together on your auction's Sponsors page, and it sets how large their logos appear, so your most generous supporters are shown most prominently.

Set your levels up before adding sponsors, because every sponsor is assigned to one.

Note: The Sponsor Levels and Sponsors tabs appear only when Sponsors is set to Yes under What's in this auction on the auction's Details tab. It is Yes unless someone has changed it. Once the auction has a sponsor level or a sponsor, Sponsors can't be set to No. If you try, the rest of your changes are saved and you see "Sponsors" can't be cleared: this auction has sponsors or sponsor levels. See Choosing what's in an auction.

Important: Your auction's Sponsors page also needs Show Sponsors Menu Item set to Yes on the Menu & Pages tab. Without both, the Sponsors link is gone from your auction site and the page's address opens the auction home page instead. Setting Sponsors to No also sets Show Sponsors Menu Item to No, and setting Sponsors back to Yes does not turn it back on. Set Show Sponsors Menu Item to Yes again yourself.

To add a sponsor level:

1. Open the Auctions Manager.
2. Click the title of the auction you want to manage.
3. Click the Sponsor Levels tab.
4. Click New.
5. For Name, enter the name of the level as your supporters will see it — for example, Gold.
6. For Logo Size, select Small, Medium or Large. Larger sizes give that level's sponsors more prominence on the page.
7. For Published, select Yes to use the level, or No to keep it out of the way for now.
8. Click Save.

The Sponsor Levels list

The tab lists your levels with their Id, Name, Logo Size, Order and Published state.

Ordering your levels

The Order column sets the sequence levels appear in on the auction's Sponsors page, top to bottom. Drag a level using its handle to move it, then save.

Most organizations put their highest tier first and work down, so the order usually matches the logo sizes — Large at the top, Small at the bottom. Nothing enforces that pairing, so check both when you add a level partway through planning.

Unpublishing a level

Setting a level to Published — No removes it from the front end along with every sponsor assigned to it, even sponsors that are published themselves. It is the quickest way to hide a whole tier, and the easiest way to hide sponsors by accident.

Important: If a sponsor is missing from your Sponsors page, check the level's published state before checking the sponsor's.

Editing and deleting

Click a level's name to edit it. To delete one, select it and use the toolbar.

Deleting a level leaves its sponsors without a tier, so reassign them first — see Adding and managing Sponsors.

Related articles:

• Adding and managing Sponsors
• Where your sponsors appear
• Creating and managing an Auction
• Choosing what's in an auction