Farm & heavy equipment auction software for ag dealers and liquidators

Tractors, combines, skid steers, backhoes, planters, and attachments — catalog with hours, PTO, serial numbers, and full inspection reports. Simulcast ringside bidding from a phone. Zero commission on hammer.

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From retirement sale yard to simulcast ringside bidding in one afternoon.

Ritchie Bros and Purple Wave charge like it's 2004

Consignment auction companies charge 6–12% of the hammer for taking your equipment to their yard and running it through the ring. A $180,000 combine clears and $18,000 disappears. The farm retiree who spent 40 years building the fleet watches two weeks of hammer prices pay for somebody else's billboard budget.

Selling Lane is flat-fee farm equipment auction software: $995/month or $9,995/year. Run a retirement sale, a dealer clearance auction, or a year-round online consignment — the price never changes. Every commission dollar stays with the house or goes back to the consignor.

A $1.2M farm retirement sale

30 lots: two combines, four tractors, a sprayer, planters, wagons, attachments, shop tools. $1.2M gross hammer.

Traditional consignment house

~$96,000 gone
  • 8% commission on $1.2M gross
  • Plus catalog, photo, and yard fees
  • Plus buyer premium split to consignor
  • Cash leaves the farm, not stays

Selling Lane

~$995 flat
  • One month of subscription
  • Run from the farm yard, not a distant site
  • Buyer premium kept 100% by you
  • $95,000+ back to the retiring operator

Numbers reflect typical large-equipment consignment commission structures. Your actual savings depend on volume and format. We publish real dealer case math in the Auction School.

Three things equipment auctions actually need

1

Equipment-specific catalog fields

Hours, PTO, hydraulic flow, fuel type, serial, VIN, transmission, loader included, Cab/ROPS, 3-point category. Generic software dumps it in the description. Selling Lane treats it as structured, searchable data on every lot.

2

Inspection reports that buyers trust

Mechanical walk-through, oil sample results, leak check, tire tread depth, warranty status. Selling Lane attaches full PDF inspection reports per lot — what TractorHouse listings wish they could do. Confident buyers bid higher.

3

Simulcast ringside without a broadcast truck

Live equipment auctions still draw a yard crowd. Selling Lane simulcasts the ring from a single iPhone, with online bidders competing alongside in-room buyers in real time. No $4K encoder, no per-event streaming fee.

Selling Lane handles all three out of the box

Equipment-specific fields, inspection report attachments, and phone-based simulcast — on a flat-fee subscription. Built for how the trade actually sells iron.

A 30-lot retirement auction, catalogued and run

A row-crop farmer in Iowa retires after 40 years. 30 major lots + 80 shop items. Here's how it runs on Selling Lane — from the farm yard, not a consignment site.

1 Catalog with equipment-specific fields

Walk the fleet with a clipboard or tablet. For each major lot, record: year, make, model, hours, PTO, transmission, loader, serial, condition. Photos go from phone to platform in one upload. Optional inspection-PDF attached per lot.

  • Structured hours, PTO, serial, VIN fields
  • Inspection-report PDFs per lot
  • Bulk CSV import for shop-tool sub-lots

2 Video walk-arounds drive bids

Unlimited video per lot. Walk around the combine, start it, engage the unloading auger, show the cab, scroll through the monitor — all embedded on the lot page. Buyers two states away bid the same as the farmer's neighbor across the road.

  • Unlimited video per lot
  • YouTube / Vimeo / direct MP4
  • Mobile-optimized for phone viewing

3 Pre-auction online bidding + live ring day

Open online pre-bidding 10 days before the sale to build buyer momentum. On sale day, switch to live simulcast from an iPhone on a tripod in the yard. Online bidders click-bid alongside the in-person crowd. Clerk tracks both on one ledger.

  • Hybrid timed + live simulcast mode
  • One ledger for online + in-yard bids
  • Reserve handling per lot

4 Simulcast from a phone (or skip it)

Simulcast your yard ring from a single iPhone with a cellular connection. For rural locations with no bandwidth, run Simulcastless™ mode — real-time bid pops with no video stream. Buyers at a distance still compete in real time.

  • Phone-based simulcast (no encoder)
  • Simulcastless™ low-bandwidth mode
  • Clerk app + remote bid operator

Settle the sale, pay consignors, coordinate transport

A Automated buyer invoicing

Invoices fire at sale close with full line detail: hammer, buyer premium, sales tax (or exemption certificate), wire/ACH instructions. Large-ticket buyers pay by wire, mid-ticket by ACH, small items by card or Venmo. All on one checkout.

B Consignor settlements

Per-consignor statements generate automatically — hammer minus commission split, minus prep fees, minus transport-to-yard. ACH payout from the platform or export to QuickBooks. Every consignor gets a clean, auditable ledger.

C Transport & loadout coordination

Buyers self-serve book a loadout window at the yard. The TV display at the scale house queues the next rig. Bill-of-sale, pickup-authorization, and release-of-lien documents print automatically for each buyer.

Built for ag and heavy-equipment operators

If you're paying Ritchie Bros, Purple Wave, or IronPlanet 8–12% of every hammer — or trying to sell iron through TractorHouse classifieds — this is the move.

Features ag & equipment auctioneers rely on

FeatureWhy it matters for farm & heavy equipment
Equipment-specific fieldsHours, PTO, hydraulic flow, serial, VIN — searchable, filterable, structured.
Inspection report attachmentsPDF walk-throughs, oil samples, leak checks. Confident buyers bid higher.
Unlimited video per lotWalk-arounds, start-ups, and in-cab video sell iron across state lines.
Simulcast ringside biddingOnline + yard bidders compete live. Phone-based stream, no encoder.
Simulcastless™ modeRural yard with no bandwidth? Skip video, keep real-time bidding.
Reserve pricingProtect high-dollar iron on retirement sales and estate liquidations.
Buy It NowTurn attachments and shop items into fixed-price sales without waiting for bids.
Deal desk / second-chance offersUnsold lots route to second-high bidder with a time-limited counter.
Consignor settlementsAuto-generated statements with split rules and prep-fee deductions.
Loadout schedulingBuyers self-book pickup windows. Scale-house display queues next rig.
Wire + ACH checkoutLarge-ticket buyers pay by wire, mid-ticket by ACH, small items by card.
Flat-fee pricing$995/month or $9,995/year. No commission on hammer. Ever.

One flat fee. Run iron every weekend if you want.

Retirement sale, dealer clearance, or rolling online consignment — same price.

Monthly
$995/mo

Cancel anytime. No long-term contract.

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Annual
$9,995/yr

$833/month equivalent. Lock in today's price.

No commission on hammer. No per-lot fees. No per-auction charges.

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  • โœ… Simulcast from a phone
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