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BidHarvest®: Unified Auction Software to run your Plant/Machinery/Salvage auction business from one platform

2nd October 2025

Save time, increase revenues, enhance your brand, own your data and expand your reach with BidHarvest®.

Handle heavy equipment sales with ease. BidHarvest® streamlines cataloguing, bidding and payments, whether you’re selling excavators, dumpers, livestock, farm machinery or damaged vehicles.

Take a look at the modern cloud-based software solution built in conjunction with auctioneers to address their pain points out of the box.

  • Easy on and offline user creation for buyers and sellers

  • KYC and AML checks hardwired in with secure ID uploads

  • Security checks via card tokenisation and deposit payments

  • Registration supports breaker and trade insurance uploads

  • Multi factor authorisation for admin and auction users

  • Single or bulk consigning, inventory and location management tools

  • Bulk image uploads with their QR code tools

  • Choice and bundle lotting options

  • Easy digital contracts, pre and post-sale paperwork, client invoicing, settlement statements and pass-outs

  • Invoice, settlement and tax summary reporting

  • Secure credit card and open banking payment options

  • Complete user my account section with all bid history and paperwork in one place

  • Easy to edit mobile responsive website and mobile apps

  • Timed online and live webcast bidding, with buy now, make offer and marketplace options.

Finally, a unified modern software platform ready to work with any auction vertical!

Background

BidHarvest® is part of a technology business that has supported auctioneers worldwide since 2006. It was created to solve a common problem; auctioneers relying on multiple apps and platforms for different tasks. Instead, BidHarvest® brings everything together in one platform, supporting multi-vertical auction businesses across Livestock, Farm Machinery, Plant, Property and Chattels.

With their software processing over £25 billion in bid volumes and £1.5 billion in hammer annually, Auction Marketer know how to partner with clients to drive growth through the successful adoption of technology into their business. Developed in close collaboration with auctioneers over the past two years, BidHarvest® has been built from the ground up as a modern, unified, cloud-based platform. It enables auctioneers to operate seamlessly across multiple auction verticals without the need for multiple software applications.

Technology

Auctioneers told them their biggest frustration was managing multiple platforms that restricted workflows, required double entry or forced detailed lot information into clumsy, hard-to-read descriptions. BidHarvest® removes these pain points with smart technology that unifies every auction vertical into one fully featured back office. From fine art to salvage, it delivers the depth, flexibility and efficiency you need without the errors, wasted time and manual checks that come with juggling multiple systems.

Empowering Inventory & Cataloguing

BidHarvest® was built to give auctioneers ultimate flexibility in both inventory management and cataloguing, ensuring every lot has the best chance to stand out. With intelligent categories, sub-categories and attribute groups, lots become fully filterable and highly searchable, making it easy for buyers to find what they want and for search engines to index effectively. Auctioneers can create and customise unlimited categories and attributes without technical support, guaranteeing catalogues and inventory display exactly as intended.

Ease of Use

Their parent–child–grandchild consigning structure is designed around consignments at the top level, with a middle layer for totes or containers such as boxes and pallets, and receipt lines representing the individual item lines. This gives auctioneers a flexible and organised way to manage stock within a receipt. Consignment structures can be created in seconds, exported for onsite cataloguing and then bulk-imported back into the parent consignment, complete with images, all before lots are assigned to an auction.

This collaborative approach is part of the DNA of BidHarvest®. The platform is feature-rich, built around auctioneer pain points and a demo is recommended to see its true potential for any auction business.

Unified My Account Experience

Their clients wanted to give bidders and sellers a truly unified ‘My Account’ experience. BidHarvest® delivers this with a secure online portal that brings everything into one place, from active bids, bid history and watchlists to marketing preferences, invoices, digitally signed contracts, pre- and post-sale paperwork, settlement statements, and collection dockets. It’s a single, streamlined hub for every part of the auction journey.

Smart 3rd Party Connections

BidHarvest® was built with the intention of being as open as possible to working with complementary technologies. The platform offers hard-wired API connections to DVLA look-up and HPI checking software, enabling vehicle listings to be created quickly and comprehensively. Integrations are also available for property clients through RightMove and Zoopla, as well as payment integrations with Stripe, Worldpay and Opayo. Additional features include address lookup tools, various marketing integrations and, above all, a fully documented API in Swagger for clients wishing to feed the auction platform directly from their existing back-office technologies.

Search Engine Effectiveness

BidHarvest® build on the history of Auction Marketer’s search engine effective technologies. They give teams the tools they need to make every page on their website search effective, users can modify auction listings as required and attributes can be added to the Google schema for even better indexing. BidHarvest® are actively introducing further features to support client viability in AI tools and there are exciting releases in the pipeline.

Customisation

Auction Marketer knows every auction business operates differently. That’s why BidHarvest® is built with a modular architecture, allowing custom features to be added on top of the core platform. This flexibility means businesses with unique requirements can tailor the system while still benefiting from the strength of the core product. With quarterly feature enhancements for all users, and clear updates every time you log in on what’s new and which issues have been resolved. Their proactive approach to ongoing development ensures BidHarvest® continually evolves to meet client needs.

Support and Onboarding

BidHarvest® provides all users with a comprehensive onboarding experience, including train the trainer sessions and a complete product knowledgebase to ensure auctioneers can get up and running quickly. A 24/7/365 online technical support channel is available, allowing tickets to be raised whenever assistance is required. For new clients migrating from other platforms, BidHarvest® also offers a dedicated data migration service, helping to transfer data such as user information and auction catalogue history with ease.

Discover More

Auctioneers worldwide are choosing BidHarvest® to simplify and transform their day-to-day operations. Their team is ready to partner with you to explore your needs and deliver a solution that works for your business. To get started, request a discovery call on +44 (0)1604 695802 during office hours or complete the enquiry form on their website - www.bidharvest.com.

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