Auction Back Office Software Options
Choose the Right Solution for Your Business
Lightweight Solution
Easily import and export user, auction, and bid data via file upload or API connection to your existing back-office system.
This popular solution among our clients offers an affordable, all-in-one front and back office auction package with a fixed monthly fee and seamless integration with our live and timed online bidding tools.
Mid-Weight Solution
Effortlessly manage users, consignments, contracts, auction creation, and invoicing, streamlining essential auction processes for small to medium-sized businesses. Ideal for start-up ventures, this solution integrates seamlessly with our front-end bidding tools and auction CMS/CRM, providing a unified system with no sub-domains or multiple logins required.
It can be packaged as a fixed monthly fee or a percentage of the hammer price achieved, offering flexible options to suit your business model.
Enterprise Solution
Take full control with comprehensive features including:
• Vendor and client management
• Item receipting from valuation
• Online pre-sale approvals
• Detailed descriptions and photography
• Inventory and location tracking
• Auction release and clerking
• Invoicing and post-sale paperwork
• Shipping and collection management
• Seamless exports to third-party accounting systems
Available as a standalone back-office solution, this package can be seamlessly integrated with our full front-end auction management system. Alternatively, using our custom APIs, you can connect it to your own auction front-end development or a 3rd party aggregation platform.
Used by leading auctioneers, this package can be scoped and customised to meet specific requirements, ensuring seamless vertical integration and a competitive advantage.
Integration with Microsoft Business Central ERP Tools
Unlock the Full Potential of Evo Auction with our Bidstream™ Integration
For clients implementing the BCN Group’s Evo Auction back-office system powered by Microsoft Business Central, our unique Bidstream™ integration is the key to transforming it into a fully functional, web-based auction platform.
Bidstream™ brings Evo Auction to life online, enabling seamless management of:
• User registration and approvals
• AML/KYC compliance checks
• Real-time bidding
• Auction approvals
• Auction paperwork display
• Secure online payments
All in real time, ensuring a smooth and efficient auction experience.
Industry-leading auctioneers such as Forum, Roseberys, Fellows, Ewbank’s, Adam’s, Vectis, and William’s Plant have successfully leveraged Bidstream™ to unlock the full potential of Evo Auction, delivering a seamless, comprehensive online experience for their bidders.
If you’re considering Evo Auction from BCN, contact our team today to discover how Bidstream™ can transform your auction operations.
Client Management Tools
We've made it easy to add vendors and bidders to the auction back office, each user record has a series of useful tabs to view bidding and selling activity, inventory and contracts/paperwork along with auction lifetime values and an easy to use CRM tool.
With address look up tools built in as standard you can set users up in seconds.
Every time you log into the auction back office you will be presented with a dashboard of to do items prompting you on important jobs that need doing.
Consign Auction Items, Easily Manage Inventory
Once you have vendors onboarded, its easy to manage consignments by generating digital signature contracts, adding items into inventory, and clearing them for sale once contracts are signed.
Managing inventory locations is made easy, as is managing media on your consignments. You can take photos directly on a mobile device while consigning, or add professional imagery and video with drag/drop and easy reordering tools.
Describing is made easy with our highly flexible attribute tools, allowing you to create as many categories and attribute sets as you need to effectively manage stock.
Lotting cleared items couldn't be easier, and reordering and lotting can be done right up to the point that you wish to publish your sales. Choose from Buy it Now, live or timed auctions, or make offer at the auction or individual lot level.
Auction Management Tools
Easily manage all of the important details during and after the auction such as the post sale seller reports that are auto-emailed to users showing what has sold. If you are linked to our BidStream auction software your users will see all of their paperwork in their 'my account' section of the website.
Run post-sale bidder invoices and vendor payout statements along with pass out and release documents for collections/deliveries, all of which are stored against the relevant user cards.
Keep a record of all of your user interactions with the simple to use CRM tools and run custom reports on buyer and seller activities.
Our back office also supports the auctioneers VAT margin scheme and can output paperwork and VAT reporting accordingly.
Take advantage of our optional Stripe Connect integration to manage payment collection and vendor payouts using open banking, and make use of our live API connectors with Xero to keep your financial reporting up to date.
Smart Tools
The auction back office comes with some smart configuration tools, empowering different auction verticals to simplify repetitive tasks.
For vehicle auctioneers we offer a full vehicle look up system using DVLA data, and optionally HPI data and checks. We can also output HPI reports and window stickers for every lot.
For Plant and Salvage auctioneers we have tools to store breaker certificates and take deposits for users.
For property auctioneers we have simple address look up tools and integrations to Stripe Identity to perform the necessary AML checks.
If you are working with your own developers, we have a fully documented 'Swagger API' that can be utilised to push and pull data from the back office between other corporate systems or web assets.
We also have a 'Swagger API' integration with the ATG that can be used with the-saleroom.com, Live Auctioneers and Lottissimo. The back office can also work with other well known platforms as well.
Auction Software Options
We can ship our auction back office as a standalone solution or as a complete solution including an easy to use mobile friendly web site with auction catalogues, commission bidding and our BidstreamTM timed online and live webcast video bidding software.
This allows you to move in and start running your own private label auctions from day one. It really is the one stop shop for auctioneers serious about growing their business.
Combining our auction back office with our affordable auction management software gives you total control and certainty of cost with no platform fees to pass on to your clients.
We recommend a no obligation demo of our back office and auction management software as part of your decision making process.
Please contact sales for more information and a demo
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Ready for a discovery session? Unhappy with your current solution? Worried about changing solution? Get in touch with us to experience the power of Auction Marketer and join some of the fastest growing auction businesses already using this auction technology.
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Email: info@auctionmarketer.co.uk
Money Laundering
With the new 10K limit, are you sure that you have made the necessary checks and store data to back these up?
Ongoing Compliance
Can you track the lifetime value of a client to see whether there are any buying trends that might trigger an AML investigation?
Vendor Management
Do you have protocols in place to manage vendors and understand their position in relation to AML5 over time?
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