One appointment, the whole estate, your own storefront
Office furniture, plant, stock and vehicles, catalogued in one sale — each lot carrying its VAT status, case reference and collection deadline. Your buyers stay yours, and the storefront sits on your own address, so Google and AI find it there — not a marketplace that keeps them.
A Bidstrap storefront listing from an insolvency disposal, showing VAT treatment, case reference and collection-deadline fields beside a live bid panel with the current bid and a Place bid button.
The pain
A receiver hands you a mixed estate — office kit, a forklift, pallets of stock, three vans — and your catalogue software has fields for one of them. So you split it across separate sales, force it into the wrong boxes, or list on a marketplace that keeps the bidder and never publishes its own fee.
One appointment catalogues the whole estate.
Model the fields an insolvency disposal actually needs — VAT status per lot, case or appointment reference, asset source, sold-as-seen, collection deadline — and add them yourself, without waiting on a code release or a vendor ticket. The same catalogue holds office furniture, plant, stock and vehicles together, instead of a blank box that fits none of them.
Live
VAT status on every lot
Mark each lot standard, margin-scheme or exempt. The buyer sees the treatment before bidding, and the status is recorded against the lot as a typed field, not buried in the description.
Case reference and sold-as-seen, built in
Tie every lot to its appointment or case reference and carry "sold as seen, no warranty" as a field on the catalogue — not a line someone has to remember to paste before the sale opens.
- Live
Collection deadline the buyer reads first
The collection cut-off rides on the lot where the bidder sees it before the hammer falls — so the estate clears the site on time and you are not chasing uncollected goods after settlement.
Roadmap Live today: the multi-category catalogue with tenant-authored fields (VAT-per-lot, case ref, sold-as-seen, collection deadline), the seller-side pricing calculator, the contractual no-buyer-fee, per-lot schema.org data, per-tenant AWS isolation, and CSV lot/asset import. On the roadmap: named Xero and CRM connectors, templated bidder import, the verified-buyer network reaching a populated pool, and the engagement-measurement dashboards — built to exclude impressions at source, not yet emitting. We market the roadmap as the roadmap.
Everything else your house needs — in your trade's language.
- Live
A published fee, not a phone call
Every rival in this trade quotes seller commission down the phone — quote-only legacy software that publishes a buyer's premium but never its own fee. Bidstrap publishes the house's: £99 or a falling take-rate, whichever is greater — never both, never your buyer's premium. Drag the slider; no email.
- Live
Confidential and seized stock, walled off
Disposals carry sensitive, public-sector or seized goods and data-bearing IT. Each house runs in its own AWS account — isolation a shared-tenant platform can't offer — so a framework or confidential instruction stays inside its own walls.
- Live
Exposure you own, not audience you rent
The whole trade sells "widest possible audience" by renting you a marketplace that keeps the bidder, or a widget bolted into someone else's CMS. Your storefront is your own branded site — every lot shipping schema.org data, built to be found by Google and read by AI — exposure on your address, not theirs.
- Roadmap
Built to count a real bid, not a card that scrolled past
The trade asserts "widest audience" and shows the practitioner nothing. Bidstrap is built to count a genuine watch or bid and leave the card that merely scrolled past uncounted — honest exposure by design, never a padded number.
The buyers an insolvency network brings
List on a marketplace and the trade buyer registers with the marketplace, not your room — you rent the audience for one sale and start from zero on the next. Bidstrap is built the other way: a shared pool of verified trade buyers that every member house feeds and every member house can reach. Insolvency demand spills furthest of any trade — the dealer who took the forklift this week wants the pallet racking next. Come in as one of the first houses, seed the pool while it fills, and the warm demand grows with the network. Your contact list never moves; there is no cross-house bidder directory.
Pre-launch: the pool is filling now. We don't claim a populated audience today — join as an early member house and seed it first.
List on a marketplace and the trade buyer registers with the marketplace, not your room — you rent the audience for one sale and start from zero on the next. Bidstrap is built the other way: a shared pool of verified trade buyers that every member house feeds and every member house can reach. Insolvency demand spills furthest of any trade — the dealer who took the forklift this week wants the pallet racking next. Come in as one of the first houses, seed the pool while it fills, and the warm demand grows with the network. Your contact list never moves; there is no cross-house bidder directory.
Keep your books and your CRM
You already run Xero and a CRM. Keep them. Connect by signed webhook or CSV export, and watch every delivery work — then replay it when it doesn't. Switching in? Import your lots and assets by CSV today, including from the marketplace you're leaving. Your contact list stays yours.
Webhook and CSV today; named Xero and CRM connectors on the roadmap.
See your fee before you quote the practitioner
When an IP weighs panel firms on cost, "request a quote" loses to a published number. Bidstrap charges the house £99 a month or a take-rate that falls as you sell more — the greater of the two, never both — on the hammer only, never your buyer's premium. We never charge your bidders a fee, contractually. Drag the slider against a real estate and see your all-in cost; no email, no call.
| Hammer band | Rate |
|---|---|
| £0 – £500k | 1.0% |
| £500k – £2M | 0.75% |
| £2M – £20M | 0.5% |
| £20M+ | Bespoke |
Straight answers.
Yes. The house pays the greater of £99 or the descending take-rate, on the hammer only — see the calculator for your exact all-in cost with no email, so you can put a real figure in front of an IP comparing panel firms. We never charge your bidders a fee, contractually.
Yes. VAT status per lot, case reference, asset source, sold-as-seen and collection deadline are typed fields you author yourself, without a code release or a vendor ticket — so one catalogue takes office kit, plant, stock and vehicles in the same sale. There are no automatic VAT or valuation lookups; you set the fields.
Yours. The storefront is your own branded site on your own address — not a widget inside a marketplace, not a sub-page that ranks instead of you. Bidpass appears only at the sign-in and identity moment, the way a card network shows at checkout; the saleroom, the catalogue and the buyer relationship stay the house's.
Import your lots and assets by CSV today, including from the marketplace you're leaving. Your contact list stays yours — there is no cross-house bidder directory, and nobody takes your buyers when you go. A templated bidder import is on the roadmap; lot and asset import is live now.
Exposure is the whole trade's pitch because the practitioner's duty is to obtain the best price reasonably obtainable and to evidence proper marketing to creditors. Your storefront is built to be found — every lot ships schema.org data for Google and AI assistants — so the exposure accrues to the house, not a marketplace. The verified-buyer network is filling now; come in as an early member house and seed it. We don't claim a populated audience today, and we don't certify SIP-16 — the platform carries the fields you require and keeps the record; the best-value judgement stays yours.
Three reference houses — founding-rate Enterprise for 18 months
Three reference-partner slots — Enterprise, our top plan — at the indicative founding rate for 18 months for a published case study.
One appointment. The whole estate. Your address.
Open an account and catalogue the next instruction — office, plant, stock and vehicles in one sale, each lot carrying its tax treatment, case ref and collection cut-off, on a storefront you own. Say yes to whatever the practitioner brings, without a code release and without renting the audience.