Online ordering for auction houses
Your a bidder places the order at 9pm on a phone instead of ringing at 8am, sees their own prices, and reorders from history. The order lands in your system, not in someone's inbox to be retyped.
What is included
- Trade accounts with per-customer pricing and minimums
- Catalogue and live stock from your back-office system
- Reorder from history, saved lists, delivery or collection
- Integration to your accounts package
In practice, for auction houses
Online ordering barely applies to property, but timed bidding does for salerooms: deposits, identity checks and a bidder account before a bid is accepted, and settlement afterwards. For letting agents it is the application and holding-deposit flow.
Why auction houses in particular
- The bidding platform takes a cut of every hammer and owns the bidder list.
- Your catalogue is a PDF and your site cannot search it.
- Consignors want to see results and buyers want to see what is coming, and neither can.
Typical ticket in your trade: €50 to €50,000 a lot. One enquiry that comes to you instead of to the live-bidding platforms covers a lot of website.
Questions auction houses ask about this
- Deposits and identity checks are a legal requirement.
- Built in: ID capture, a card deposit through Stripe, and a full audit trail per lot or application.
Check your own site first
Free, no call. The first findings come up in a few seconds and the full result in about half a minute. We load your site in a real mobile browser the way Google measures it, read your inner pages, your DNS, certificate, email records and sitemap, follow your stock list to the pages for the things you actually sell, and show you the three worst things on screen.
Fixed price, fixed date, in writing
Fifteen minutes about what you sell and how your stock moves today. A quote within two working days.