Salvage Auctions

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® supports true single lot auctions as standard, making it easy to run “always on” listings within a continuous auction environment or marketplace format. This enables auctioneers to list individual items the moment they’re consigned — no batching, no bottlenecks, no need to wait for the next full catalogue.

Whether you’re selling plant, salvage, vehicles, trade returns or curated collections, the Single Item Auction format offers operational agility, increased throughput, and a stronger digital footprint.

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.

Speed up vehicle lotting with BidHarvest® numberplate DVLA lookup. Instantly retrieve verified details including make, model,year, engine size, and emissions by simply entering the vehicle registrationnumber. Ensures consistency, saves admin time, and reduces data entry errorsfor car, van and lorry auctions.

Configure deposit rules at bidder registration, first bid intent, auction level, or lot level. Deposits can be paid via card, bank transfer, or open banking links using integrated gateways like Stripe or Opayo.

Automatically track deposit balances, configure payment capture (auth only, capture/release, process as payment, contra), and store card tokenisation for auto payments for winning bidders.

For auctioneers specialising in salvage, ex-fleet, trade vehicles, or vehicle dismantling auctions, managing bidder access isn’t just about convenience — it’s about compliance, liability, and trade-only visibility.

BidHarvest® gives you the tools to configure specialised registration paths for trade buyers, breakers, or insurance-backed accounts, all while streamlining onboarding and automating payment collection.

Assign credit limits to buyers based on history, account status, or auction rules. Automatically restrict bidding above the approved credit line and trigger alerts or top-up requests. Supports manual overrides, reporting, and balance tracking—ideal for trade buyers or recurring accounts.

After the hammer falls, smooth and secure collection becomes critical — both for auctioneers managing site flow and for buyers wanting a hassle-free pickup experience. BidHarvest® makes this easy with automated pass out and collection notices, directly linked to invoice status and buyer verification.

Whether you’re operating a single yard or multiple collection sites, BidHarvest® helps you streamline the release process, reduce disputes, and maintain full visibility over who’s collected what and when.

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.

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.

Build tailored reports to analyse performance across lots, vendors, buyers, and auction types. Export as CSV or view interactive dashboards. Custom fields allow reporting on what matters to your business.

When your auctions span a wide range of categories from vehicles and property to salvage or fine art, flexibility in how you structure and present data becomes essential. BidHarvest® solves this with a powerful, user-friendly system that allows you to define, manage, and apply custom data fields to your lots, without a single line of code.

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.

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.

For any auctioneer dealing in vehicles, checking a lot’s background is non-negotiable. Whether you’re selling to trade, fleet buyers or retail customers, you need to confirm the vehicle isn’t subject to outstanding finance, hasn’t been written off, and is exactly what it claims to be.

With built-in HPI vehicle checks, BidHarvest® delivers all this — automatically.

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.

When you’re running high-volume sales across categories like vehicles, plant, agri or trade stock, every second counts. BidHarvest® gives you the tools to streamline your live webcast auctions with Choice and Parcel Lot functionality, making it easier to move grouped lots, extract more value from each round of bidding, and keep both the auctioneer and bidders in sync.

Whether you pre-define your lot groupings in advance or let the auctioneer direct the clerking team on the fly, BidHarvest delivers a smooth, responsive experience that reduces sale time while increasing competition.

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.

Listing vehicles for auction often means chasing missing specs, guessing condition descriptions, and manually marking damage across dozens or even hundreds of lots. That’s slow, error-prone, and frustrating for both admin teams and buyers.

With the Vehicle Splat Tool in BidHarvest®, that’s all changed.

Our interactive damage reporting tool combines real-time vehicle data retrieval, QR-linked inventory, and visual condition mapping — making your vehicle listings faster to build, easier to audit, and clearer for bidders.

Auction visibility doesn’t have to end at your own website. With BidHarvest®, you can push your lots to specialist marketplaces, high-traffic directories, and vertical platforms bringing your catalogue to the buyers, not just waiting for them to come to you.

Our 3rd party data feeds feature is designed to increase exposure, boost bidding activity, and give your stock a wider digital footprint automatically.