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, on screen in about ten seconds, no call. We fetch your homepage once, the way a visitor's browser does, and nothing else.
Fixed price, fixed date, in writing
Fifteen minutes about what you sell and how your stock moves today. A quote within two working days.