Horse auction software for production and ringside sales

Run sport horse, thoroughbred, warmblood, and livestock auctions on your own platform — with pedigree, video, health records, and simulcast bidding. No per-horse fees. No marketplace commission.

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From sale barn clipboard to simulcast ringside bidding in one afternoon.

Horse auctions carry a commission tax nobody questions

Sport horse sales routinely take 8–15% commission off the hammer. A $45,000 Warmblood clears the ring and $5,400 disappears before the consignor sees a check. Thoroughbred and livestock auctions add catalog fees, video fees, simulcast fees, veterinary intake fees, and buyer premium splits. The economics are stacked against both the house and the consignor.

Selling Lane is flat-fee horse auction software: $995/month or $9,995/year. Run a quarterly production sale or a year-round online consignment — the price never changes. Every commission dollar stays in the house.

Three things generic platforms get wrong

1

No real pedigree support

Generic auction software lets you paste a string of sire/dam/sire-of-dam lines into the description. Selling Lane treats pedigree as structured data — searchable, filterable, and formatted into a proper four-cross page on every lot.

2

No video as a first-class feature

Nobody buys a horse from a single photo. Selling Lane supports unlimited video per lot — under-saddle, free-jumping, in-hand, conformation. YouTube, Vimeo, or direct MP4. Embedded right on the lot page, mobile-friendly.

3

No simulcast ringside bidding

Live production sales need the ring, but phone and online bidders want to bid alongside in-room buyers. Selling Lane runs simulcast bidding from a single iPhone — no $4K encoder rig, no per-event broadcast fee.

Selling Lane handles all three out of the box

Pedigree fields, unlimited video, and simulcast ringside bidding — on a flat-fee subscription. Purpose-built for how horse people actually buy.

A 60-horse production sale, catalogued and run

Kentucky warmblood sale, 60 sport horses, mixed disciplines. Here's how it runs on Selling Lane.

1 Catalog with pedigree and health records

Each lot gets sire, dam, dam-sire, breed registry, foaling date, sex, height, discipline, training level, show record. Pre-purchase exam PDFs attach per lot. Microchip and passport numbers recorded. All searchable, all filterable on your public sale page.

  • Structured pedigree fields (4-cross)
  • PPE / radiograph PDFs attached per lot
  • Registration & microchip tracking

2 Video that closes horses

Unlimited video per lot: under-saddle over fences, on the flat, conformation, free-jumping, loose video, trot-up. YouTube or Vimeo embeds, or direct upload. Mobile-optimized so bidders can watch on a phone barnside.

  • Unlimited video per lot
  • YouTube / Vimeo / direct MP4
  • Full-frame mobile viewer

3 Timed online pre-bidding, live ring on sale day

Open online bidding a week before the sale to warm up interest and capture absentee buyers. On sale day, switch to live simulcast — online bidders click to bid alongside the in-ring crowd. Your announcer calls the ring; online bids pop live with a delay-adjusted clock.

  • Hybrid timed + live simulcast mode
  • Online + phone + in-room, one ledger
  • Reserve not-met handling built in

4 Simulcast from a phone, not a broadcast truck

Your sale ring gets streamed from a single iPhone on a tripod. Or run a Simulcastless™ mode for rural barns with no bandwidth — real-time bid pops with no video. Either way, no $4K encoder, no broadcast fee, no IT person on call.

  • Phone-based simulcast (no encoder)
  • Simulcastless™ low-bandwidth mode
  • In-ring clerk + remote bid operator view

Settle the sale, pay consignors, move horses

A Automated buyer invoicing

Invoices fire at sale close with line-item detail: hammer, buyer premium, stall fees, shipping coordination options. Card, ACH, wire, Venmo, PayPal. No chasing checks, no post-sale chaos.

B Consignor settlements

Per-consignor settlement statements generate automatically. Hammer minus commission split, minus stall fees, minus transport. Export to QuickBooks or pay via ACH from the platform. Transparent ledger every consignor can verify.

C Buyer & consignor CRM

Every bidder registers with your sale. Every consignor is tagged by breed, discipline, volume. Your next sale isn't a cold invite — it's a segmented email to the 300 jumper buyers who bid last time and the 40 trainers who consigned.

Built for every discipline and sale format

If you're running a production sale on spreadsheets, paying 10% to a sale company, or broadcasting through expensive streaming hardware — this is built for you.

Features horse auctioneers rely on

FeatureWhy it matters for horse sales
Structured pedigree fields4-cross pedigree pages buyers actually use — searchable by sire line.
Unlimited video per lotUnder-saddle, free-jumping, conformation, trot-up — the footage horses sell on.
Health record attachmentsPPE PDFs, radiographs, Coggins, health certificates — right on the lot page.
Simulcast ringside biddingOnline bidders bid alongside in-room buyers. Single iPhone runs the stream.
Simulcastless™ modeRural barn with no bandwidth? Skip video entirely — live bid pops still work.
Reserve & RNA handlingReserve-not-met negotiation workflow baked in. Recover sales post-ring.
Buy It Now (for online pre-sale)Capture the impatient buyer without waiting for the ring.
Consignor settlement statementsAuto-generated per-consignor checkouts. Transparent, auditable, exportable.
Buyer & consignor CRMSegment bidders by breed, discipline, price band — market your next sale to the right list.
Mobile-first biddingBuyers bid from the ringside, the barn, or a plane — Progressive Web App, no download.
Branded sale siteYour logo, your domain. Consignors and buyers follow you, not a marketplace.
Flat-fee pricing$995/month or $9,995/year. No commission on hammer. Ever.

One flat fee. Any number of sales per year.

Run two production sales a year or a 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-horse fees. No per-auction charges.

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"We used to run one production sale a year. Now we run quarterly online consignments between live rings — and we kept every dollar of every hammer."
โ€” Sam R., Midwest Equestrian Auction

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  • โœ… Unlimited bidders
  • โœ… No per-horse fees
  • โœ… Simulcast from a phone
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