Pricing
A one-off setup fee, £250 a month, and 1% of hammer on lots sold through your app and website. Nothing on lots sold in the room.
Apps only. For houses that want their own app in front of their bidders.
then £250 a month + 1% of app hammer
Apps and website. One bidder account across both.
then £250 a month + 1% of app and web hammer
Apps, website and back office. The whole platform.
then £250 a month + 1% of app and web hammer
Add-on
Manage lots, sales, pages and exports yourself, without moving up to Full.
£1,000 setup
£150 a month
| Feature | Basic | Standard | Full |
|---|---|---|---|
| Own-brand iOS and Android apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live bidding in the app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live video of the sale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-bids | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watchlist and bid history | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| App alerts: sale live, outbid, won | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clerking screen for live sales | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lot import from other platforms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bidder list owned by the house | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Website with catalogue | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bidding on the website | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| One account across app and website | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marketing emails to bidders | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Back office: manage lots, sales, pages and exports | + | + | ✓ |
| Setup, one-off | £1,500 | £2,000 | £3,000 |
| Subscription | £250/mo | £250/mo | £250/mo |
| Commission on app and web hammer | 1% | 1% | 1% |
included not included available as an add-on
Prices in GBP, excluding VAT. App Store and Google Play developer fees are paid by the house at cost.
We launch a few auction houses at a time. Every launch includes a rehearsal sale with your clerk and auctioneer and someone from our team on your first sale days, and that only works if we are not stretched across too many at once. A demo is how you get into the next launch.
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Most salerooms keep theirs at first. MegaBid runs alongside the portals you already list with. Salerooms typically start by moving their regular buyers across, keep the marketplace for reach on the lots that need it, and let the numbers decide the rest.
You do. Names, emails and bidding history are yours, exportable in full whenever you ask, and your buyers hear from you alone. That is the entire point of the exercise.
Someone is reachable on sale days, and the room can always keep selling: the auctioneer's book does not depend on the internet. Bids already placed are recorded, so a bidder who drops off does not lose their position.
Yes, published to the App Store and Google Play under your auction house, with your icon and your listing. We handle submission, review and updates, which are the parts nobody wants to learn.
Weeks, not months. Setup covers importing your lots, your branding across the apps and website, and a full rehearsal sale with your clerk. Own-brand apps also need Apple and Google review, which is the one part of the timeline we do not control.
No. The 1% applies only to lots sold through your app and website. Room, telephone and commission bids taken by your own staff carry no MegaBid commission.
A one-off setup fee of £1,500, £2,000 or £3,000 depending on the package, then £250 a month and 1% of hammer on lots sold through your app and website. Lots sold in the room carry no commission. The back office can be added to Basic or Standard for £1,000 setup and £150 a month. All prices exclude VAT. See Packages for what each one includes.
The scorecard recommends one in two minutes. Or bring your questions to a demo.