Online auctions bring benefits to your business
Whether you’re brokering cars, boats, property or even industrial equipment, your fixed overheads can really eat into profits.
Running an online auction can help you reduce costs and realise an item’s full value by reaching buyers from across the world. Sensible Development creates robust online auctions systems that make it:
- easy for buyers to bid for lot items
- quick for your staff to upload product details beforehand and reconcile payments afterwards
- clear for buyers to know when their goods are ready to pick up.
If you’re new to online auctions, call Alan on 01273 621110 for some sound advice on using this powerful technology for your business.
May be you would like to have a play with our demonstration auction website to get a feel for what we can do?
Or perhaps you wish to have a look at some of our work? Take a look at some of our auction sites:
- Buy Once Give Twice fundraising online auction
- MachineBidder, machinery sales online auction sales
- James Allen Girls’ School fundraising auction
We have also developed the Apex Auctions own web site and auction technology.
Six reasons to run an online auction
An online auction can help you:
- Achieve higher prices by reaching a global audience of interested buyers.
- Earn more commission through lower transaction costs.
- Entice visitors to view certain items – by monitoring website traffic figures.
- Get early bids placed before the auction begins – through wise marketing.
- Win buyers’ trust that the equipment they have bid on has been inspected so they won’t have any nasty surprises.
- Save on storage space because buyers can pick up goods directly from sellers.
What makes a good online auction system?
Sensible Development’s online auctions system gives you all this and more:
- Real-time bidding – buyers needn’t refresh the web page to see the latest live price and whether they’re winning or losing.
- Real-time ‘profit and loss’ monitoring for you via the back-end.
- Consistent branding with your own site. So buyers are more confident that the site is secure, and impressed with your professional image.
- Secure payment - crucial for both buyers and sellers.
- Options to set start prices, bidding increments, buy it now, and reserves.
See the full feature list for our online auction software
Custom options for our online auctions system
We can customise our system to give staff exactly what you need for your staff, customers and sector
- Integration with finance systems We can take the drudge out of reconciling payments with auction lots.
- Online sellers’ accounts Updating your sellers on auction news, messages and special offers.
- Tracking items The seller’s account stores a history of items listed and sold.
If you’d like to discuss your vision for online auctions, call Alan for some sound advice on 01273 621110.
