Run your own auction night,
without any of the hassle
One evening, a room full of people, everyone bidding from their own phone. No paddles to hand out, no one shouting over the noise, no treasurer adding up slips of paper at midnight. Every euro raised goes straight to you — we take nothing from it.
Setting up costs nothing. Add your lots, print the codes, put the screen on a beamer, and run a full rehearsal with a few items to see how an evening goes. You only pay when you are happy and want to open the real bidding.
How an evening runs
Five steps, and the middle one takes care of itself.
Add what you have
A title, a starting bid, and who donated it. A photo is optional — for a room auction the thing itself is on the table.
It does not have to be art. A weekend in a cabin, a cake a month for a year, a signed shirt, two hours of gardening.
Print the codes
One card per lot with a big QR code, the lot number, the title and the starting bid — put it beside the item.
Or a sheet of small labels if you have forty things side by side. Both come out of the same button.
People bid from their phone
They point their camera at the code, type their name and e-mail once, confirm with one click, and they are in.
No account, no password, no app to install. That confirmation click is also what keeps joke bids out.
The room watches the screen
Current lot, current bid, who is leading, the bids ticking in, and a countdown that takes over the screen at the end.
Before you start, the same screen shows your logo and the story behind what you are raising money for.
You settle up
Winners get an e-mail with what they owe and your payment link. You get one printable sheet per buyer for the door.
The money goes straight to you. We never hold it and we take no share of it.
The things that go wrong at auctions
And what this does about them. Everything below is included, in both prices.
Three ways to run it
Over a few days, with everything open at once and each lot closing on its own time. Or one evening, lot by lot, with a countdown per lot. Or one evening, lot by lot, where every bid restarts a short count and you drop the hammer when the room goes quiet.
Your guests need no account
They scan the code, fill in a name and an e-mail, click once to confirm, and they can bid. No password, no app, nothing to install. And for the one person with a flat battery, you take their bid yourself from your own screen — it counts like any other and the room sees it come in.
Everyone can be there, even from home
Put a phone on a tripod, start a live broadcast on YouTube or Vimeo, paste the link, and the video appears on your auction page. People at home hear the auctioneer while they bid on the same lots at the same time — which is most of what makes an auction an auction. Grandparents, members abroad, the family that could not get a babysitter.
Your evening, not ours
The link you send round opens on your logo and your name, with no menu of ours anywhere. Only a quiet line at the bottom says which tool built it.
Nobody wins by having fast wifi
A bid in the last seconds extends the lot. The highest bid wins, not the quickest finger — and people who feel cheated do not come back next year.
Bid while you sleep
Set a maximum and we bid for you, one step at a time, never more than we have to. People who do not have to watch all evening bid higher.
A hidden minimum
Set a reserve and a lot below it simply does not sell. Nothing goes for four euros because the room was distracted.
Sensible steps
Bidding rises in real increments — five, ten, twenty-five — instead of twenty bids of one euro.
First names only
The screen shows “Sarah from Springfield”, never someone’s full name on a wall. You see the full details.
A buyer’s premium, if you want one
Add ten percent on top of the hammer price. Bidders see it before they bid, and it is broken out on their invoice.
Undo a mistake
Someone typed a thousand instead of a hundred. Void that bid and the one below becomes the highest again. Hammered too early? Put the lot back on the block.
A target that fills up
Put your goal for the evening on the screen and watch the bar rise. Rooms bid harder when they can see how close they are.
The auctioneer’s screen
On your phone while you stand in front of the room: the current bid huge, a countdown, and two big buttons — Sold and Pass.
One payment, one auction
No subscription. No cut of what you raise.
A club or a foundation with a few evenings a year. Need more than 12? Add one for €25.
- · Copy a previous auction, lots and all
- · Export your bidders, results and payments
- · Several auctions running at the same time
You run auctions for other people and bill it on. Need more than 50? Add one for €19.
- · Your own colours and typeface on the big screen
- · Our name off the screen entirely
- · Colleagues on one account
- · One overview across every evening you have run
One evening a year? Pay per auction and keep your money — a subscription only starts paying off from about 7 evenings.
What you are actually buying
- Free until you go liveAdd lots, print the codes, try the screen, run a rehearsal with a handful of items. Nothing is charged and nothing is asked of you.
- You give the dateYou set when the bidding opens and when the last lot closes. Pay once, and it works for that window — one evening, or a week if that is what you planned.
- A week of slack afterwardsThe licence runs until seven days after your last lot. Late payments, a lot that needs reopening, a settlement sheet you forgot to print — all still fine.
- Then it closesAfter that the results, the buyers and the invoices stay readable forever, but the bidding cannot be reopened. Another evening next year means another auction.
- The money is yoursWinners pay through your own payment link. We never hold it, and we take no percentage of what you raise.
The price follows the number of lots you actually have when you pay — no guessing up front.
Try a full rehearsal first
Tick “this is a rehearsal” and you get a working auction with a handful of lots: real bidding, the real screen, the real countdown. Get a colleague to bid against you from their phone and you will know within ten minutes whether this fits your evening.
Every screen says it is practice and no winner e-mails go out, so nobody can mistake it for the real thing. When you are happy, delete it and make the real one.