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Trade sales and tenders

Sell vehicles, equipment and stock to the buyers you approve, or put your requirements to approved suppliers. No commission on what you sell.

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  • The registrations page of the dashboard. Each person who applied to take part is listed, and who is approved.The registrations page of the dashboard. Each person who applied to take part is listed, and who is approved.

Use cases

  • Fleet, lease and rental vehicles

    Off-lease and ex-fleet vehicles auctioned to the dealers already on your books.

    Organizations like yours
    Leasing companies, rental fleets, company fleets, manufacturers’ finance arms
    • Approved groups who can bid in every event you open to them
    • An item offered first to a chosen group, until a time you set
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Offers on unsold lots after the close
    Full list

    Admission

    • Approved groups who can bid in every event you open to them
    • An event seen only by the people admitted by your group or domain rule, who sign in to enter
    • Each new bidder approved by you, after your registration questions
    • Events open only to buyers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • An item offered first to a chosen group, until a time you set
    • An event’s audience widened once, at a time you set
    • A bidder excluded from one event or from all of them
    • A cap on what one bidder can win in an event
    • Versioned conditions and each bidder’s recorded acceptance
    • One bidder book, added to from a file or another event, and email invitations
    • Admission on a trade credential that lapses at its expiry Coming soon
    • An event widened in dated steps, such as franchise dealers, then every dealer, then everyone registered
    • Conditions published a set time before an event opens

    Event formats

    • Timed auctions, staggered closes and a soft close
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Buy now on chosen lots
    • Fixed-price items beside the lots
    • Lots of identical units, bid for by quantity
    • Lots of several units won by best unit price, largest total or largest quantity, filled in part or only in full
    • Offers on unsold lots after the close
    • Winning bids you accept one by one
    • Reserves, and how much of each bidders see
    • Documents on each item, for everyone or for approved bidders only
    • A catalog imported from a spreadsheet, checked before anything is created
    • An event cloned with its settings, design and unsold items
    • Recurring events created on a schedule, and saved event templates
    • Item facts you define, such as mileage, hours, grade, breed or species
    • A fixed grading scale for condition
    • Contents lists for bulk lots that buyers can filter Coming soon
    • Bids on many lots in one sheet, from a form or a file Coming soon
    • Catalog imports of any size, run in the background Coming soon
    • Vehicle facts looked up from a registration or identification number, on your provider account Coming soon

    Money and settlement

    • One invoice per buyer per event, and payment recorded by you
    • Banded buyer’s premiums and fixed fees
    • Tax treatment set per lot, and buyers’ exemption certificates
    • A consignor on each lot, their agreed terms and numbered statements
    • Collection slots that buyers book, and a pick list
    • Release papers given to the buyer once paid
    • Unsold items recorded as returned, donated or recycled
    • A claims window after each event, and the seller’s statement held until it closes
    • Trade accounts with payment terms and a credit limit across your events
    • A report for each consignor, and exports of statements and orders Coming soon
    • Reports of items reused, waste diverted and emissions avoided
    • More currencies for your events

    Communications

    • Email to registered bidders, a group, the winners or the unpaid
    • Outbid, closing-soon and results notices
    • An API with machine keys, batch writes and signed webhooks
    • Exports of every bid, result and registration
    • Stock updates from your systems, matched by your stock reference Coming soon
    • Lots withdrawn from your systems when they sell elsewhere
    • Messages to everyone in your bidder book, a group or your followers Coming soon
    • Your bidder book kept in step with your customer system Coming soon

    Your brand and pricing

    • Your logo, colors and stylesheet on every page
    • Your event pages embedded in your website
    • Bidder accounts held on your site
    • A fee per item, whatever it fetches
    • Your content in more than one language Coming soon

  • Repossessions and salvage

    Repossessed and total-loss vehicles and equipment auctioned to the trade buyers you approve.

    Organizations like yours
    Vehicle and asset finance lenders, asset-recovery teams, insurers, salvage agents
    • Events open only to buyers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Exports of every bid, result and registration
    Full list

    Admission

    • Approved groups who can bid in every event you open to them
    • An event seen only by the people admitted by your group or domain rule, who sign in to enter
    • Each new bidder approved by you, after your registration questions
    • Events open only to buyers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • An item offered first to a chosen group, until a time you set
    • An event’s audience widened once, at a time you set
    • A bidder excluded from one event or from all of them
    • A cap on what one bidder can win in an event
    • Versioned conditions and each bidder’s recorded acceptance
    • One bidder book, added to from a file or another event, and email invitations
    • Admission on a trade credential that lapses at its expiry Coming soon
    • An event widened in dated steps, such as franchise dealers, then every dealer, then everyone registered
    • Conditions published a set time before an event opens
    • A buyer’s credential checked against each lot’s category Coming soon

    Event formats

    • Timed auctions, staggered closes and a soft close
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Buy now on chosen lots
    • Fixed-price items beside the lots
    • Lots of identical units, bid for by quantity
    • Lots of several units won by best unit price, largest total or largest quantity, filled in part or only in full
    • Offers on unsold lots after the close
    • Winning bids you accept one by one
    • Reserves, and how much of each bidders see
    • Documents on each item, for everyone or for approved bidders only
    • A catalog imported from a spreadsheet, checked before anything is created
    • An event cloned with its settings, design and unsold items
    • Recurring events created on a schedule, and saved event templates
    • Item facts you define, such as mileage, hours, grade, breed or species
    • A fixed grading scale for condition
    • Contents lists for bulk lots that buyers can filter Coming soon
    • Bids on many lots in one sheet, from a form or a file Coming soon
    • Catalog imports of any size, run in the background Coming soon

    Money and settlement

    • One invoice per buyer per event, and payment recorded by you
    • Banded buyer’s premiums and fixed fees
    • Tax treatment set per lot, and buyers’ exemption certificates
    • A consignor on each lot, their agreed terms and numbered statements
    • Collection slots that buyers book, and a pick list
    • Release papers given to the buyer once paid
    • Unsold items recorded as returned, donated or recycled
    • A claims window after each event, and the seller’s statement held until it closes
    • Trade accounts with payment terms and a credit limit across your events
    • A report for each consignor, and exports of statements and orders Coming soon
    • Reports of items reused, waste diverted and emissions avoided
    • More currencies for your events
    • A proceeds account per loan, and the shortfall or surplus on each Coming soon

    Communications

    • Email to registered bidders, a group, the winners or the unpaid
    • Outbid, closing-soon and results notices
    • An API with machine keys, batch writes and signed webhooks
    • Exports of every bid, result and registration
    • Stock updates from your systems, matched by your stock reference Coming soon
    • Lots withdrawn from your systems when they sell elsewhere
    • Messages to everyone in your bidder book, a group or your followers Coming soon
    • Your bidder book kept in step with your customer system Coming soon

    Your brand and pricing

    • Your logo, colors and stylesheet on every page
    • Your event pages embedded in your website
    • Bidder accounts held on your site
    • A fee per item, whatever it fetches
    • Your content in more than one language Coming soon

  • Used equipment, overstock and returns

    Machines, surplus stock and returns cleared by auction to the resellers you approve.

    Organizations like yours
    Plant-hire firms, equipment dealers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers
    • Lots of identical units, bid for by quantity
    • A catalog imported from a spreadsheet, checked before anything is created
    • Buy now on chosen lots
    • Collection slots that buyers book, and a pick list
    Full list

    Admission

    • Approved groups who can bid in every event you open to them
    • An event seen only by the people admitted by your group or domain rule, who sign in to enter
    • Each new bidder approved by you, after your registration questions
    • Events open only to buyers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • An item offered first to a chosen group, until a time you set
    • An event’s audience widened once, at a time you set
    • A bidder excluded from one event or from all of them
    • A cap on what one bidder can win in an event
    • Versioned conditions and each bidder’s recorded acceptance
    • One bidder book, added to from a file or another event, and email invitations
    • Admission on a trade credential that lapses at its expiry Coming soon
    • An event widened in dated steps, such as franchise dealers, then every dealer, then everyone registered
    • Conditions published a set time before an event opens

    Event formats

    • Timed auctions, staggered closes and a soft close
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Buy now on chosen lots
    • Fixed-price items beside the lots
    • Lots of identical units, bid for by quantity
    • Lots of several units won by best unit price, largest total or largest quantity, filled in part or only in full
    • Offers on unsold lots after the close
    • Winning bids you accept one by one
    • Reserves, and how much of each bidders see
    • Documents on each item, for everyone or for approved bidders only
    • A catalog imported from a spreadsheet, checked before anything is created
    • An event cloned with its settings, design and unsold items
    • Recurring events created on a schedule, and saved event templates
    • Item facts you define, such as mileage, hours, grade, breed or species
    • A fixed grading scale for condition
    • Contents lists for bulk lots that buyers can filter Coming soon
    • Bids on many lots in one sheet, from a form or a file Coming soon
    • Catalog imports of any size, run in the background Coming soon

    Money and settlement

    • One invoice per buyer per event, and payment recorded by you
    • Banded buyer’s premiums and fixed fees
    • Tax treatment set per lot, and buyers’ exemption certificates
    • A consignor on each lot, their agreed terms and numbered statements
    • Collection slots that buyers book, and a pick list
    • Release papers given to the buyer once paid
    • Unsold items recorded as returned, donated or recycled
    • A claims window after each event, and the seller’s statement held until it closes
    • Trade accounts with payment terms and a credit limit across your events
    • A report for each consignor, and exports of statements and orders Coming soon
    • Reports of items reused, waste diverted and emissions avoided
    • More currencies for your events

    Communications

    • Email to registered bidders, a group, the winners or the unpaid
    • Outbid, closing-soon and results notices
    • An API with machine keys, batch writes and signed webhooks
    • Exports of every bid, result and registration
    • Stock updates from your systems, matched by your stock reference Coming soon
    • Lots withdrawn from your systems when they sell elsewhere
    • Messages to everyone in your bidder book, a group or your followers Coming soon
    • Your bidder book kept in step with your customer system Coming soon

    Your brand and pricing

    • Your logo, colors and stylesheet on every page
    • Your event pages embedded in your website
    • Bidder accounts held on your site
    • A fee per item, whatever it fetches
    • Your content in more than one language Coming soon

  • Scrap, by-products and timber

    Lots in tonnes, cubic meters or any unit you choose, for the merchants and mills registered with you.

    Organizations like yours
    Metal recyclers, producers of waste and by-products, estates and forest owners
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Quantities in a unit you choose, fractions included
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • One invoice per buyer per event, and payment recorded by you
    Full list

    Admission

    • Approved groups who can bid in every event you open to them
    • An event seen only by the people admitted by your group or domain rule, who sign in to enter
    • Each new bidder approved by you, after your registration questions
    • Events open only to buyers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a bidder, recorded against them
    • An item offered first to a chosen group, until a time you set
    • An event’s audience widened once, at a time you set
    • A bidder excluded from one event or from all of them
    • A cap on what one bidder can win in an event
    • Versioned conditions and each bidder’s recorded acceptance
    • One bidder book, added to from a file or another event, and email invitations
    • Admission on a trade credential that lapses at its expiry Coming soon
    • An event widened in dated steps, such as franchise dealers, then every dealer, then everyone registered
    • Conditions published a set time before an event opens

    Event formats

    • Timed auctions, staggered closes and a soft close
    • Sealed bids, hidden from you until the close
    • Buy now on chosen lots
    • Fixed-price items beside the lots
    • Lots of identical units, bid for by quantity
    • Lots of several units won by best unit price, largest total or largest quantity, filled in part or only in full
    • Offers on unsold lots after the close
    • Winning bids you accept one by one
    • Reserves, and how much of each bidders see
    • Documents on each item, for everyone or for approved bidders only
    • A catalog imported from a spreadsheet, checked before anything is created
    • An event cloned with its settings, design and unsold items
    • Recurring events created on a schedule, and saved event templates
    • Item facts you define, such as mileage, hours, grade, breed or species
    • A fixed grading scale for condition
    • Contents lists for bulk lots that buyers can filter Coming soon
    • Bids on many lots in one sheet, from a form or a file Coming soon
    • Catalog imports of any size, run in the background Coming soon
    • Bids per unit of weight or volume, settled on the measured quantity Coming soon
    • Quantities in a unit you choose, fractions included

    Money and settlement

    • One invoice per buyer per event, and payment recorded by you
    • Banded buyer’s premiums and fixed fees
    • Tax treatment set per lot, and buyers’ exemption certificates
    • A consignor on each lot, their agreed terms and numbered statements
    • Collection slots that buyers book, and a pick list
    • Release papers given to the buyer once paid
    • Unsold items recorded as returned, donated or recycled
    • A claims window after each event, and the seller’s statement held until it closes
    • Trade accounts with payment terms and a credit limit across your events
    • A report for each consignor, and exports of statements and orders Coming soon
    • Reports of items reused, waste diverted and emissions avoided
    • More currencies for your events

    Communications

    • Email to registered bidders, a group, the winners or the unpaid
    • Outbid, closing-soon and results notices
    • An API with machine keys, batch writes and signed webhooks
    • Exports of every bid, result and registration
    • Stock updates from your systems, matched by your stock reference Coming soon
    • Lots withdrawn from your systems when they sell elsewhere
    • Messages to everyone in your bidder book, a group or your followers Coming soon
    • Your bidder book kept in step with your customer system Coming soon

    Your brand and pricing

    • Your logo, colors and stylesheet on every page
    • Your event pages embedded in your website
    • Bidder accounts held on your site
    • A fee per item, whatever it fetches
    • Your content in more than one language Coming soon

  • Tenders and reverse auctions

    Requirements put to approved suppliers, sealed or live, and awarded on the criteria you set.

    Organizations like yours
    Procurement teams buying from an approved supplier panel
    • Sealed tenders, and your questions and files on every line
    • Reverse auctions, where suppliers bid the price down live
    • Scoring by an evaluation panel, after each member declares any conflict
    • An award with a standstill period, and a debrief for every supplier
    Full list

    Admission

    • One supplier list, added to from a file, and email invitations
    • Each new supplier approved by you, after your registration questions
    • Responses only from suppliers registered as a business
    • The checks you make on a supplier, recorded against them
    • Admission on a trade credential that lapses at its expiry Coming soon

    Event formats

    • Sealed tenders, and your questions and files on every line
    • Reverse auctions, where suppliers bid the price down live
    • Supplier names shown as they bid, or only at the close
    • Scoring by an evaluation panel, after each member declares any conflict
    • An award with a standstill period, and a debrief for every supplier
    • Reverse auctions ranked on price and your earlier quality scores Coming soon

    Communications

    • Documents released to suppliers with each line
    • Email to the suppliers registered for a tender, or to a group of them
    • Closing-soon and award notices to suppliers
    • Your supplier list synced with your supplier system Coming soon

    Your brand and pricing

    • Your logo, colors and stylesheet on every page
    • Your event pages embedded in your website
    • Supplier accounts held on your site

Key features

Admission
Approved groups, events open only to businesses, and the checks you record on each buyer
Formats
Timed and sealed bids, buy now, lots by quantity and offers after the close
Tenders
Sealed tenders scored by a panel, and reverse auctions where suppliers bid the price down
Stock
Catalogs imported from a spreadsheet, or sent from your systems through the API
Settlement
One invoice per buyer per event, booked collection slots and release papers once paid
Records
Exports of every bid, result and registration
All features

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