Your own branded bidding app and website, running your live sales under your name. The bidders, their details and their next bid stay with you, not with a portal.
Running live sales at a UK saleroom today · iOS, Android and web · From £250 a month
The gap
Third-party bidding portals put your catalogue in front of buyers, and take a cut of every lot for doing it. The harder part is what you never get back: the bidder's email, their bidding history, and any way to tell them about the next sale.
Where most salerooms are
Where MegaBid puts you
The platform
One system for the saleroom, the office and the bidder, built to work as a single piece rather than four tools bolted together.
Room, telephone and internet bids on one screen. The auctioneer sees every bid as it lands, and online bidders follow the rostrum with sub-second latency.
Bidders leave a maximum before the sale and can change it until the lot opens, so their bid is already in the book when the auctioneer reaches it.
Published under your name, with your logo on the home screen. We handle the store submissions, the review process and every update after that.
Built for the person actually clerking a fast sale: one keystroke per bid, instant undo on a misheard paddle, and a running record of who bid what.
Lots, photographs, estimates and condition reports in one place, with a photography workflow your team can run from a phone in the warehouse.
Sale announcements and highlights sent to your own bidder list, with opt-outs handled. Every catalogue lands with people who already buy from you.
In production
MegaBid runs live, three-day general sales week in and week out: jewellery, watches, militaria, coins, Asian works and general antiques, with room and internet bidders in the same book and the clerk keeping up at forty seconds a lot.
Every feature on this page exists because a saleroom needed it on a sale day, which is a different thing from a feature list written to win a tender.
How it works
You keep running sales the whole time. Nothing is switched off until you are ready.
We import your existing lots, images and bidder list, from a spreadsheet or straight from the system you use today.
Your colours, logo, terms and premium structure across the site and both apps. Your name is the one bidders see, throughout.
We run a full dress rehearsal with your clerk and auctioneer on real lots, so the first live sale is not the first time anyone has used it.
Someone from our team is on hand for your first sales. After that you have support on sale days for as long as you need it.
Where to next
2 minutes
Ten yes-or-no questions. See how much of your online audience you own, and which package fits.
Take the scorecard →Your figures
Put in your online hammer and portal rate, and see what you would keep each year.
Work out the cost →Pricing
From £250 a month
Three packages, a one-off setup fee and 1% of app and web hammer. Nothing on room sales.
See the packages →Find out where you stand in two minutes, or see the platform run a sale.