For UK auction houses

Stop rentingyour bidders.

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.

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Running live sales at a UK saleroom today · iOS, Android and web · From £250 a month · Free demo built from your last catalogue in 48 hours

The catalogue in the app, a grid of lots with estimates and hammer prices

The gap

Marketplaces rent you an audience you already earned.

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.

A heavy cut of hammer. Portal fees taken sale after sale, on lots you sourced and catalogued.
Bidders you cannot contact. The relationship belongs to the portal, so your next catalogue reaches their list, not yours.
Someone else's brand on the screen at the moment the buyer decides to trust the sale.

Where most salerooms are

Bidders sign up with the portal, not with you
A fee on every online lot, sale after sale
Your catalogue shown next to your competitors'
No way to tell last month's buyers about next month's sale

Where MegaBid puts you

Bidders sign up with you, in your app and on your website
£250 a month and 1% of online hammer
Your lots, your brand, nobody else's sale beside them
Every bidder's details in your own list, ready for the next catalogue

Work out what the portal costs you

The platform

Everything a live sale needs, under your name.

One system for the saleroom, the office and the bidder, built to work as a single piece rather than four tools bolted together.

Live simulcast bidding

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.

Pre-bids and absentee bids

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.

Your own iOS and Android apps

Published under your name, with your logo on the home screen. We handle the store submissions, the review process and every update after that.

Clerking console

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.

Catalogue site and CMS

Lots, photographs, estimates and condition reports in one place, with a photography workflow your team can run from a phone in the warehouse.

Push alerts and marketing emails, in your name

Unlimited, customised push notifications and marketing emails to your own bidders: sale starting, outbid, lot won, next catalogue. Sent from your app and your list, with opt-outs handled.

See the platform in detail

See it with your own lots

We build your saleroom on MegaBid before you spend a penny.

Send us your house name. Within 48 hours you get four screens built from your last catalogue: your real lots, photographs and estimates, in your colours, under your name. With a short brochure and a walk-through video. Free, and no commitment.

1 · Website home page

Your saleroom, online, in your colours

Your next sale and your best lots at the top, with your logo, address and buyer's premium. Bidders register with you, on your domain.

LogoColoursFontsMenuFeatured lots

2 · Sale catalogue

Your last catalogue, as bidders would see it

Photos, descriptions and estimates from your own listing. Bidders filter by your categories and leave commission bids before the sale.

CategoriesBuyer's premiumSale details

3 · Live bidding

Room, telephone and online bids on one screen

One of your own lots during the sale: the current bid, the next increment, the bid history and the lots coming up next.

Bid incrementsLive videoColours

4 · iOS and Android app

Your name and icon on both stores

Bidders download your app, not a portal's, and follow the saleroom live from their phone. We handle store submission, review and updates.

App nameIconStore listingAlerts

Push alerts and email

Unlimited and customised push notifications and marketing emails to your own bidders.

Sale starting, outbid, lot won: sent under your own name, from your own app. Email your own list whenever you choose, with opt-outs handled.

Get my free demo

Four screens from your last catalogue, within 48 hours.

In production

Built in a working saleroom, not a boardroom.

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.

1,745

lots in a single three-day sale

3 days

run back to back, one catalogue

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from rostrum to bidder's phone

iOS + Android

both stores, own brand

How it works

Live in weeks, not quarters.

You keep running sales the whole time. Nothing is switched off until you are ready.

Bring your catalogue

We import your existing lots, images and bidder list, from a spreadsheet or straight from the system you use today.

Make it yours

Your colours, logo, terms and premium structure across the site and both apps. Your name is the one bidders see, throughout.

Rehearse a sale

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.

Go live, with us in the room

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.