Your bidders aren’t tethered to mahogany desks or office workstations. They are on the move, at job sites, in transit, or multitasking between meetings. The success of your sale depends entirely on the “thumb-factor.” If your online auction platform feels like a desktop website “shrunk down” to fit a mobile screen, you aren’t just frustrating…
Stop Managing Spreadsheets. Start Managing Relationships. An auction is only as good as its bidders. But managing registrations, verifying identities, and chasing down payments can turn into a full-time job. Selling Lane’s built-in Auction CRM software eliminates the “admin tax” by giving you a centralized hub to manage every buyer interaction from registration to the…
How to Fire the Middleman and Keep 100% of Your Auction Profits If you hired a cashier at your business, and they demanded 5% of every sale you made, plus charged your customers an extra 10% just for walking through the door, you would fire them immediately. You would call the police. You would call…
No Condition Report and The High Cost of Missing Detail In an online auction, mystery is the enemy of profit. When a buyer cannot physically touch an item, they naturally hedge their bets. If they suspect a flaw might exist, they lower their bid to cover that risk. and without a condition report the buyer…
Stop doing math at the checkout counter. You need auction fee software to automate your Buyer’s Premiums, Seller Commissions, and Doc Fees. In the auction business, fees aren’t just “settings”—they are your paycheck. Yet, most auction software makes setting them up a nightmare of complex menus and rigid rules. Selling Lane’s Fee Engine is designed…
Are you an Auctioneer or the Auctionpreneur? Hint: you can be both! By Jude Campbell, CEO Language is important. It frames how we see the world. For the last 50 years, the auction industry has been defined by a single word: Auctioneer. When you hear that word, you likely picture a specific archetype: Someone on…
Technology used to be a barrier. We turned it into a bridge. Meet the new standard for Affordable Auction Software. Do you remember what it was like to buy a coffee at a small independent café in 2008? If you didn’t have cash, you were out of luck. Why? Because the “Point of Sale” (POS)…
Second Chance Offers & Deal Management Did the high bidder flake? Did an item miss reserve? Don’t let it go unsold. “Hand Sell” it instantly to the runner-up. In a perfect world, every high bidder pays, and every item meets reserve. In the real world, you need a backup plan. Selling Lane’s “Hand Sell” feature…
If you are tired of losing margins, it is time to switch to no commission auction software that charges a flat monthly rate instead of a percentage. It was a tough year for the auction industry, margins are down. Supply is tight. So why are you still paying a ‘Success Tax’ on every Auction sale?…
Look, we’ve run hundreds of auctions, build three separate auction software platforms and took thousands of photos of items. We’ve seen it all: the electrifying energy of a bidding war that drives prices through the roof, and the absolute technological despair of a server crashing with two minutes left on the clock. We know that…
