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Your brand at the front
Your domain, your colours, your catalogue. Bidders browse, register, and bid in your shop window — not ours.
Lot N° 001 — Platform Edition
Your auction house, on the network built for auctioneers.
Live, timed, and Dutch auctions on your own brand and domain. Behind the scenes, a shared bidder pool — verified once, trusted everywhere — turns every other Bidstrap house's bidders into warm leads at yours.
The three guarantees
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Bidders walk in pre-verified
Identity, KYC, and payment details verified once at Bidstrap and reused across every participating house. Less friction, fewer drop-offs at the bid form.
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Trust signals travel
Verified-buyer badges, on-time-payment scores, and a shared fraud blocklist. A bidder's track record at any Bidstrap house counts at yours.
The Network
Bid once.
Bid everywhere.
Every Bidstrap auction house draws from one verified, trusted bidder base. Your house benefits the moment you join.
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Verify once with Bidstrap
A bidder completes KYC at the first Bidstrap house they touch. At the next house, registration is one click — same identity, same verified status, no re-upload of passport scans.
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Reputation that carries
On-time-payment scores, dispute counts, and verified-buyer badges aggregate across every house. Good bidders are recognised everywhere they go; bad actors are blocked everywhere they try.
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Warm leads, not cold outreach
When a fine-art bidder at house A browses the cross-house marketplace and finds your sale, they arrive at your storefront already verified, already payment-ready. Your conversion rate compounds with every house that joins.
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Your VIPs stay yours
The shared pool shares trust signals, not contact data. No other house can list your bidders, market to them, or even see they exist as your customers. Cross-pollination only happens when the bidder themselves seeks it out.
The honest split
Your shop window.
Our trust badge.
We don't pretend the network isn't there. The Bidstrap mark appears at the moments where the network is doing the work — and stays out of the way everywhere else.
Yours
- —Storefront + catalogue
- —Custom domain + branding
- —Marketing email + push
- —Invoices + settlement statements
- —Bidder relationship + CRM notes
Shared
- —Bidder identity + login (passkey, magic link)
- —KYC verification — one prompt, many houses
- —Fraud + reputation signals
- —Verified-buyer badge
- —Cross-house marketplace browse (opt-in)
Migration · Bring your bidders
50,000 bidders on EasyLive?
Bring them on day one.
CSV import with templates for EasyLive, BidSpotter, and Invaluable. Your bidders arrive as first-class network members from the moment they claim their account. KYC status comes across as “imported-attested” — usable immediately for lower-tier bidding, eligible for full verification on next sign-in. Claim emails go out from your domain with anti-phishing interstitials we control.
Manifesto
№ 001 · 2026
“ Auction houses sell historyby the lot. Their software shouldn't feel like a generic webform — and their bidder base shouldn't end at the edge of their own door. Bidstrap hands you the keys, opens the network, and gets out of the way. ”
Ready for your next sale