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BidHarvest® is the unified auction software solution empowering fine art auctioneers with a powerful, cost-effective, but fully featured out-of-the-box solution designed for precision and scale. At BidHarvest®, our front-end engineering team specialises in creating elegant, high-performance websites that reflect the prestige of the fine art world. Every interface is carefully designed to mirror your brand ethos — refined, trustworthy, and visually exceptional.
BidHarvest® removes the friction from managing fine art auctions, and we've got years of experience, partnering with auctioneers in the back office, in the auction room on auction day, and with the team post auction to get invoices out and payments in. Our approach has been to observe, listen, consult and develop software that addresses your pain points across all areas of the business with a modern unified auction technology product.
At BidHarvest®, our UI/UK designers and front-end engineering team specialise in delivering elegant, high-performance websites that capture the prestige and individuality of your fine art brand. Built on our flexible PageBuilder CMS, homepages and catalogue listings can be easily customised with our extended design toolsets, allowing your team to update layouts, showcase upcoming auctions, and highlight signature collections without developer input.
Our triple-level receipting simplifies the management of complex consignments and empowers your business getters to add fine art and chattels assets at scale, quickly and remotely. Our QR code bulk image upload tools speed up cataloguing, and our unlimited categories and attributes manager helps your experts to describe every piece in detail, the way they want.
Combine this with the streamlined vendor workflows, powerful buyer management, and real-time financial reporting, BidHarvest® gives you the tools to focus less on admin and more on presenting collections, building trust, and achieving higher hammer prices. Feature rich out of the box, see some of them below, but rest assured, if you have customisation requirements, BidHarvest® has been built to allows the addition of custom modules too.
BidHarvest® is built to stand up to the day to day reality of running a fine art auction business. Jump on a discovery call and see how it could transform your business.
BidHarvest’s live bidding platform lets you run professional, high-performance auctions with real-time video and instant bid capture. Whether you’re hosting from a yard, rostrum, or remote office, you get full control of the sale, complete with bidder dashboards, hybrid-ready tools, and automatic invoicing. Designed for both scale and simplicity,
BidHarvest’s timed bidding feature gives auctioneers the tools to run automated online auctions that attract more bidders, generate faster sales, and reduce admin. With flexible closing rules, responsive design, and integrated payments, you can list and sell lots 24/7 – perfect for high-volume, trade-focused sales.
BidHarvest® provides flexible, configurable tools to meet your legal obligations for Know Your Customer (KYC) andAnti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. From secure ID uploads to advanced checks for PEPs, sanctions, and fraud history via Stripe Identity, we help you meet regulatory standards and reduce risk without slowing down your bidders.
Digitally manage vendor onboarding and consignment agreements with paperless tools. Capture and sign contracts online, assign vendor codes, and track items per vendor. Increases efficiency and cuts paperwork in fast-paced environments.
Drive instant engagement with BidHarvest® live streaming directly on your homepage and auction catalogue pages. Give bidders one-click access to live auctions, boosting registrations, visibility, and bidder confidence. Reduce auction-day support calls, increase dwell time, and deliver a standout vendor experience.
BidHarvest® simplifies auction photography with powerful QR code integration. Enable your team to batch capture and auto-upload images into the correct lots using a mobile-friendly, high-speed workflow perfect for consignor intake and streamlining auction preparation.
Extendable attributes are custom fields linked to yourauction categories and sub-categories, enabling precise filtering and structured data output. Unlike traditional systems that require developer support, BidHarvest® gives you full control via our intuitive AttributeManager, no coding, no delays.
BidHarvest® transforms how you manage auction documentation. From digital consignment contracts to automated invoicing, vendor statements, collection dockets, and tax reporting, every stage of the process is streamlined, traceable, and accessible to both your team and your clients.
Not everything needs to go to auction. Whether you’re dealing with unsold stock, fixed-price vendor consignments, or opportunistic one-offs, the ability to sell outside the auction format is essential.With Buy Now and Make Offer functionality built directly into BidHarvest®, you can give bidders a fast, familiar retail-style experience while maintaining your auction platform, vendor processes, and reporting structure.
BidHarvest® supports a wide range of auction types from traditional timed multi-lot formats to marketplace-style peer-to-peer bidding and full-featured live webcast sales. Built for flexibility across all auction verticals, BidHarvest® gives you the freedom to run the auction formats that suit your business best.
Access comprehensive Swagger-based API documentation for your developers. Easily connect your systems, custom tools, or partner apps into the BidHarvest ecosystem with detailed reference materials.
Modern auction businesses don’t just run timed or live events. Many also need the ability to sell stock directly, particularly when handling trade inventory, fixed-price clearances, retail overstock, or vendor-specific items that aren’t best suited to an auction format.
With BidHarvest®, you don’t need Shopify, WooCommerce or any third-party plugins. Our Buy Now ecommerce module is built in, giving you everything you need to list and sell stock directly without leaving the platform.
Managing money in an auction business isn’t just about hammer prices and buyer premiums — it’s about tracking every penny in and out, across dozens or even hundreds of transactions. That’s why BidHarvest® comes with built-in financial ledgers and seamless Xero integration, giving you real-time visibility into customer payments, vendor settlements, fees, VAT, and margins all in one place.
No more juggling spreadsheets or chasing finance teams for manual reports. With BidHarvest®, your financial backbone is automated, auditable, and ready to scale.
Auctioneers need payment tools that are secure, fast, and frictionless, designed for the realities of selling online to global bidders.With BidHarvest®, you get a complete, out-of-the-box integrated payments solution, offering card payments, open banking, and even marketplace escrow, with the option of compliance tools built in. That means invoices can be paid instantly, money flows faster, and your team spends less time chasing payments or managing risk.
Your bidders and vendors expect more than just a bidding interface, they want data transparency, self-service, and control. The BidHarvest® My Account area delivers on this, giving your clients a modern, easy-to-use portal to manage every aspect of their auction activity.
Accessible via your branded BidHarvest® website or mobile app, ‘My Account’ empowers users with real-time access to their auction data, documents, preferences, and payments all under one secure login.
It’s not just user-friendly. It’s auction-winningly smart.
Automate all critical buyer and seller communications with transactional and triggered emails. From registration confirmations to bid notifications, winning alerts, invoices, and collection reminders, BidHarvest keeps your audience informed without manual input. Emails are fully branded, event-aware, and support dynamic content such as lot links and bidder details. Helps reduce support tickets, improves professionalism, and ensures timely bidder engagement.
The BidHarvest® Consignment Tools give auctioneers unprecedented flexibility and precision in how items are received, structured, tracked, and prepared for sale. Whether you’re dealing with a single item, a box of mixed goods, or an entire container of assets, BidHarvest® lets you manage everything seamlessly, from intake to invoice through to collection or return.
Fine art auctions demand precision, transparency, and efficiency and BidHarvest® delivers all three. Our back office is designed to simplify the complexities of consigning, contracting, cataloguing, and invoicing, giving auctioneers a powerful command centre for their operations.
Triple-level receipting makes it easy to manage estates, collections, and lot packages with total clarity. Powerful inventory management lets you see where assets are at any time, and our live and timed software solutions have easy clerking and auctioneer screens so that your team can get realtime updates on auction progress and profitably. Work alongside third party platforms such as the GAP Toolbox with our powerful API, and benefit from the complete integration to an easy to use auction website too.
Financial workflows are equally seamless: with easy invoicing, receipts, and vendor payouts reducing stress and time for the auction team, while built-in reporting tools, and lifetime values, give you full visibility across buyers and vendors. Combine this with SEO and marketing tools that amplify reach, BidHarvest® empowers fine art auctioneers to save time, build trust, own their data and brand and achieve stronger results.
BidHarvest powers collectable auctions for coins, stamps, and memorabilia with flexible sales formats, attribute cataloguing, and complete vendor-buyer workflows.
BidHarvest simplifies property auctions with live, timed, and hybrid sales, solicitor portals, compliance tools, and automated workflows for agents and auctioneers.
BidHarvest is trusted across Plant, Agri, Salvage & Retail Returns.Book your free demo and see why professionals are moving to a platform built for control, speed, and results.
