Your auction house online, under your own name
Auctionomy is the software behind an independent auction house: your own website, catalogue, timed and live sales and bidders, in one place and on your own domain. No marketplace in between, and no commission on the hammer price.
Briarwick Cellar Auctions, Bristol; Blackspur Motor & Touring Auctions, Melbourne; Alderwick Fine Art Auctioneers, Bath. Demonstration houses built on Auctionomy.
Why change how a good house sells
Your judgement has not changed. Where your bidders sit has.
Your bidders are no longer only in the room
Collectors and dealers who know your name follow sales from wherever they are. A house that cannot take their bids online either loses them or sends them somewhere else to find you.
A marketplace rents you an audience
It lists your lots under its own name, keeps the bidder's account and charges a share of what you sell, with fees for each sale and lot on top. The relationship you built becomes theirs.
Your name is the asset
Consignors come to you for your eye, the honest condition note and the estimate you will stand behind. That reputation should be the first thing a bidder sees, on your own address.
Auctionomy is the third way: your own house online, with the software to run every sale yourself.
The whole house, in one place
Your website, your catalogue, your sales and your bidders work from the same records. What you enter once is everywhere it needs to be, and nothing is copied across by hand.
Your website
On your own domain, in your own colours and type, with your own pages and a layout chosen from the library.
Your catalogue
Lots with photographs, descriptions, estimates, reserves, condition and provenance, in categories you define.
Timed and live sales
Timed, live, timed-live and Dutch sales, each prepared from the same catalogue and run under your own terms.
Your bidders
Bidders register with you for each sale. You approve them and assign paddles, as you would at the door.
Prepare each lot once
Write the entry the way you always have. It appears on your website, in your timed sale and on the rostrum exactly as you wrote it.
Catalogued once, in the dashboard.
Published as the lot page on your own website.
Written your way
Heading, description and a details table you label yourself, in the words your trade uses.
Estimates and reserve
A low and high estimate on every lot page, and a reserve the lot will not sell below.
Condition and provenance in their place
Each has its own field and shows on the lot page, so the questions bidders ask most are answered before they ring you.
Photographs and a specialist
Every view a bidder needs, captioned and full screen. Each lot names the specialist for its department, with a way to write to them.
One sale, seen from both sides
Keep your rostrum and your regulars. You or your clerk run the sale from one console, and every bid, from the room, online or left in advance, lands on the same lot.
The auctioneer's view: the lot on the block, bids from the room and online, and the next increment. Live video to online bidders is in development.
Clerk or solo
A clerk enters floor bids while you take the room, or one person does both. Lots advance only when you say so.
Absentee bids, both ways
Bidders leave a maximum online, and your staff enter the commission bids taken by email, so the console bids for them up to their limit.
Your increments, your premium
Bid in the increment table your house already uses, with your own buyer's premium shown to bidders before they bid.
Your bidders bid with you
On a laptop, a tablet or a phone, your bidders follow the same lot and the same bid as the room, in your colours and under your name.
The bidder's view of the same lot, on a laptop, a tablet and a phone.
Registered with your house
Bidders register for each sale with you. You approve them and assign paddles, as you would at the door.
Timed sales that close fairly
A late bid extends the close, so a lot is not lost to a last-second bid.
A reason to come back
A watchlist with reminders before a sale ends, and your prices realised kept as a public record of what sold.
Every trade, and every house its own
Pictures and motor cars, coins and wine, stamps and dolls: each market has a page in its own trade's words and a demonstration house built for it. Every house runs on Auctionomy, and no two look alike.
Fine and decorative arts
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Fine Art
Pictures sold under your name, catalogued the way you write them
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Furniture & Design
Period furniture and modern design, catalogued by form and timber
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Ceramics & Glass
Porcelain, studio pottery and glass, with every hairline declared
- harrowmere-finch-auctioneers.auctionomy.site
Silver & Metalware
Silver catalogued by maker, assay office, date letter and weight
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Rugs, Carpets & Textiles
Carpets and textiles described by origin, weave and wear
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Asian Art
Asian art catalogued with the precision your bidders read for
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Indigenous & Ethnographic Art
Material culture presented with its people, place and history
- marwick-hales-auction-rooms.auctionomy.site
Antiquities & Archaeology
Antiquities offered with their provenance where bidders can read it
- harrowby-fenn-auctioneers.auctionomy.site
Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Ephemera
Books and manuscripts catalogued with edition, binding and collation
Specialist collecting
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Stamps & Postal History
Run your stamp and postal history sales under your own name
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Coins, Banknotes & Medals
A numismatic catalogue your bidders can read like a reference book
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Militaria, Arms & Armour
Arms, armour and militaria, catalogued with the care the material needs
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Historical & Political Memorabilia
Campaign buttons to signed documents, catalogued for the collector
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Watches & Clocks
Watches and clocks, described down to the calibre
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Jewellery & Gemstones
Jewellery catalogued the way a gemmologist would
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Musical Instruments
Instruments and bows, catalogued for players and collectors
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Natural History, Science & Curiosities
Minerals, meteorites and instruments, catalogued by specimen
Popular culture, luxury and motor
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Toys, Models & Dolls
Toy and doll sales where the box matters as much as the toy
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Comics, Comic Art & Illustration
Graded books and original art, catalogued the way collectors read them
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Trading Cards, Games & Modern Collectibles
Slabs, sealed boxes and sets, sold under your own name
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Sports Memorabilia
Game-used, signed and documented, sold on your own website
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Entertainment, Music & Popular Culture
Costume, props and stage-worn pieces, with their story attached
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Fashion, Handbags & Luxury Accessories
Handbags and couture, presented as carefully as you catalogue them
- briarwick-cellar-auctions.auctionomy.site
Wine & Spirits
Fine wine and spirits, with fill levels and cellar history in every lot
- blackspur-motor-touring-auctions.auctionomy.site
Motor Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
Collector cars, motorcycles and automobilia, sold under your own banner
- silvergrain-camera-photograph-auctions.auctionomy.site
Photography, Cameras & Optical Equipment
Cameras, lenses and photographs, each described the way specialists check them
Demonstration houses built on Auctionomy; their names, looks and lots are fictional.
Your name and domain. Your bidders and records.
Auctionomy is the platform behind your house, never in front of it.
- Your website stays on your own domain, in your own colours and type.
- Bidders register with you, and their records stay yours.
- Your buyer's premium and your conditions of sale are your own.
- Bidders see your house. Auctionomy stays out of sight.
A flat subscription. No commission on the hammer.
Auctionomy is paid for by the house, not taken from the sale, so a strong sale costs nothing more than a quiet one. Founding partner pricing is available while the platform is young.
From first conversation to first sale
- 1
Talk to us
Tell us how your house sells today: timed, live or both, and what you want online.
- 2
We set up your house
Your website, catalogue, increments and terms, set up with you.
- 3
Run your first sale
Your team runs it, under your own name and on your own domain.
Bring your house online
Your website, your catalogue, your sales and your bidders, under your own name.