Auctioneer Software vs Fish Auctions

Auctioneer Software provides online auction, live simulcast, multi-parcel real estate, and live clerking tools for auction companies. Online bidding includes registration, watchlists, bidder approval settings, refreshed bidding information, invoices, and reporting. Simulcast features include YouTube Live Stream integration, pre-bidding, messaging, live registration, and immediate invoices; events can be live-only or accept in-person and online bids together, with audio or video streaming. Staff can load items, print clerking sheets, and clerk from a computer or iPad or tablet. Its iOS and Android cataloging app supports barcode scanning, photos and media, and editing auctions and lots, and is included at no additional cost. AScribe can use item photos to suggest lot titles, descriptions, and details for user review and editing. Auction companies can use custom themes and their own site and domain. Hosting is included, and pricing is available on request. The company describes the platform as commission-free and says customers keep 100% of auction profits without hidden fees.

Fish Auctions is a free web service for clubs running auctions for fish, reptiles, amphibians, food cultures and other pet-keeping supplies. Clubs can hold traditional in-person auctions or run them online. Online bidding supports proxy bids, and an auction can extend when bids arrive in its final 15 minutes. Organizers can manage lots, set reserve and buy-now prices, add labels, and project lot pictures during in-person events. Auction creators can give other users admin permissions to add users, edit lots, and view or export invoices. The site generates invoices automatically, but clubs handle payment collection themselves. Square payments are available to approved accounts, and invoices can be exported for PayPal import. CSV exports include breeder-point information, and lot images can include YouTube links. The site says online auctions can accommodate 200–300 simultaneous users without slowdowns in practice; larger use may slow it. Direct person-to-person sales outside a club auction are not permitted.