No EPC, no disclosures — no lot goes live
Run Traditional unconditional sales on a storefront that's yours — your domain, your bidders — and let the software hold every lot off the catalogue until its EPC and disclosures are attached. Modern Method of Auction is on the way.
A Bidstrap storefront listing for a freehold terraced house, showing tenure, EPC rating and floor-area fields beside a live bid panel with the current bid and a Place bid button.
The pain
Today your legal packs sit as loose PDFs in a folder, and nothing stops a lot going live with its EPC or material-information disclosures still missing. When compliance rests on someone remembering, the gap shows up after the gavel's already fallen.
Your property lots can't go live until the EPC and disclosures are in — compliance the software enforces, not something left to memory.
Quote-only software hosts your legal pack as loose PDFs and still lets a lot go live without them. Bidstrap won't promote a Traditional lot until its EPC and required disclosures are attached — the check runs before the lot reaches your catalogue, not after the gavel.
Live
EPC on the lot, or it waits
The energy performance certificate is a required field at promotion. No EPC attached, no live lot — your catalogue simply won't take it.
Disclosures present, not promised
Your material-information disclosures have to be on the lot before a Traditional sale can be promoted. The gate runs at publish, so a missing disclosure stops the lot — not your good name after the fact.
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Add the fields your sale needs
Type in guide, reserve, deposit, tenure and completion days yourself — no code release, no vendor ticket. You author the fields; there are no automatic portal lookups doing it behind your back.
Roadmap Live today: the EPC and disclosure go-live gate for Traditional sales, your own branded storefront, the no-email calculator, and CSV import of your lots and assets. On the roadmap: Modern Method of Auction, the version-controlled legal-pack module (download audit and acknowledge-before-bid), direct Rightmove, Zoopla and EPC-register links, and a templated bidder import.
Everything else your house needs — in your trade's language.
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Your saleroom, your domain
Your lots live on your own branded site, not a sub-page on the aggregator's domain or a widget bolted into someone else's CMS. Every lot ships schema.org structured data — built to be found by Google and read by AI.
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One public price, never a buyer fee
£99 a month or a take that falls from 1.0% to 0.5% of hammer — whichever is greater, never both, and never a penny of your buyer's premium. And we'll never bolt a five-figure reservation fee onto your buyer either — contractually.
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Your house in its own account
Each house runs in its own AWS account — isolation a shared-tenant platform can't offer, and a straight answer when a client asks where the deposits, AML records and buyer PII actually sit.
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Real interest, not impressions
Built to count a genuine watch or a real bid — never a card that scrolled past the screen.
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Come in while the pool is filling
Join as an early member house and your bidders are built to sign in once across member houses as the network grows — while your contact list never moves and there's no cross-house bidder directory.
Keep your books and your CRM
Connect Xero and your CRM by signed webhook or CSV export, and watch every delivery work — then replay it when it doesn't. Moving across? Import your lots and assets from your current platform as a CSV today.
Roadmap: direct Rightmove, Zoopla and EPC-register links.
See your all-in cost before you sign
Drag the slider and read your exact monthly cost — no email, no sales call, none of the quote-only runaround. The greater-of figure — monthly base or descending take-rate, hammer only — is spelled out beside the calculator as you move it; the more you sell, the less we take, so scale never punishes you. (The take-rate also carries a per-lot cap, so a high-value property is never charged a disproportionate fee.) Stripe fees pass through at cost; Bidstrap keeps nothing of them.
| Hammer band | Rate |
|---|---|
| £0 – £500k | 1.0% |
| £500k – £2M | 0.75% |
| £2M – £20M | 0.5% |
| £20M+ | Bespoke |
Straight answers.
No — hammer only, and never your buyer's premium. We will never charge your bidders a fee of any kind, and that's written into the contract, not a setting we could quietly flip. What you pay is the greater of the monthly base or the descending take-rate as you grow — read your exact figure in the calculator, the whole sum on one screen.
Yes, for Traditional unconditional sales: a lot can't be promoted until its EPC and required disclosures are attached. Modern Method of Auction is on the way. The version-controlled legal-pack module — download audit and acknowledge-before-bid — is on the roadmap; today the gate checks the required disclosures are present before a lot goes live.
Your storefront is your own branded site on your own domain — not a widget embedded in someone else's CMS, and not a sub-page on the aggregator's subdomain. The only place a shared mark appears is the bidder sign-in, where Bidpass is built to carry the bidder's trust across member houses as the network grows.
Bring your catalogue over by CSV — your lots and assets — the day you start. Your contact list stays yours: there's no cross-house bidder directory, and nobody else can see it. A templated bidder import is on the roadmap; until then the list moves on your terms, not ours.
The passport is convenient, but the aggregator owns the login and the audience behind it, and you're one of hundreds of tenants on its platform. Bidstrap is built so a bidder can sign in once across member houses as the network grows — while the relationship, and the list, stay with you, not the platform.
Founding terms for three reference partners — eighteen months
Three reference-partner slots — Enterprise, our top plan — at the indicative founding rate for 18 months for a published case study.
Run a sale where nothing slips live
Open an account and take your next Traditional sale onto a storefront you own — where a lot can't reach the catalogue until its EPC and disclosures are in. Come in as an early house and seed the pool while it's still filling.