AuctionMethod vs Bidpath

AuctionMethod is white-label auction software for setting up events and managing lots, consignors, bidders, and sales. It supports timed online, simulcast, blind timed, catalog-only, fixed-price, and perpetual events. Management tools cover cataloging, bidder registration, invoices, taxes, payments, and reports. The Auctioneer Toolbox app for Android and iOS supports item cataloging, photos, and pickup management. Payments can use Fiserv, Stripe, Authorize.net, or eWay, with proceeds going to the customer's own merchant account. Users can export bidder, listing, and report data, upload by CSV, or connect through APIs. Named integrations include Mailchimp, GA4, Google Tag Manager, Avalara, EasyPost, Smarty, and UserWay. Plans include unlimited auctions, bids, lots, items, photos, and admin users. Growth costs $100 a month with a one-time $250 account activation; Scale is $750 a month with a one-time $2500 activation. Custom Solutions starts at $1,500 a month with a one-time $5000 activation. There is a 30-day trial, and subscriptions are month to month and cancelable at any time. The company says it charges no commissions or per-lot, event, or photo fees.

Bidpath provides customizable auction management and online bidding software for auctioneers, retailers, and manufacturers. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in California, it supports live, timed, and hybrid auctions alongside eCommerce. Its back-office tools cover clients and inventory, sale-day and post-sale work, finance, compliance, and business reports. SAM live webcast auctions offer audio and video, customizable bidder screens, chat, absentee bids, invoicing, and reporting. Timed auctions can use hard or soft closes, extensions, staggered closing, automated bidder emails, outbid notifications, and Buy Now sales. Bidpath says the platform is responsive on phones and tablets and provides iOS and Android apps. An API suite and data feeds connect its technology with other providers. Payment gateway integrations include Authorize.net, Paytrace, and NMI; SagePay provides 3D Secure bidder verification for UK and EU markets. The platform supports multiple languages, currencies, and time zones, plus VAT, GST, and sales tax handling for auction portals. Its named audiences include commercial, industrial, and fine-art auctioneers and businesses in insolvency, aerospace, electronics, consumer returns, mining, and automotive. Pricing is available on request.