Estate Auction Software for Collections and Single-Owner Sales
From the first phone call with the executor to the settlement statement they can read.
Catalog a lifetime collection in days, sell it on your own website, and account for every lot.
Why Estate Auctions Need Different Software
An estate arrives all at once: a thousand coins in albums, a library, a lifetime of stamps, a wall of paintings. The consignor is an executor, attorney or family member who has never sold at auction and needs to account to beneficiaries. The sale has to be cataloged fast, sold well and settled transparently.
Estate Auction Features, From Intake to Settlement
Everything an estate sale needs, on the same platform that runs the rest of your calendar
Is Circuit the Right Estate Auction Software for You?
A good fit
Auction houses whose estate consignments are collections: a numismatist's coins, a philatelist's albums, an artist's studio, a collector's library, a family's silver and paintings. Circuit's category tools were built for exactly this material, and the estate is sold as a single-owner sale or alongside other consignors.
Not a fit
Auction houses whose estate business is household contents, vehicles, tools and equipment sold weekly on a general marketplace. Those sales are better served by marketplace-first tools built for that volume and audience; see our guide to HiBid alternatives for an honest comparison.
Your website, your bidders
Circuit installs as a WordPress plugin on the site you already have and runs the sale under your brand. Estate buyers register with your auction house, not with a marketplace, and come back for the next sale through your own CRM.
Common Estate Sale Problems Circuit Solves
Frequently Asked Questions
Both, where they overlap. Circuit is built for auction houses selling collectibles: coins, stamps, art, antiques, books, cards, watches, militaria and similar. Most estate consignments in those fields are collections assembled over a lifetime, and Circuit handles them as a single-owner sale or as part of a mixed sale. It is not designed for general household clearances, vehicles or equipment.
Photograph the lots, upload the images in bulk, and Circuit's AI cataloging matches photographs to lots and drafts a title, description, category and estimate for each one, in your auction house's style. Specialists review and approve. Reserves, estimates and condition grades can be adjusted across the whole collection in one pass rather than lot by lot.
Yes. The consignor record holds the agreement, the lot list and every result. The settlement statement shows each lot's hammer price against its estimate, the commission and deductions applied, and the net due, so an executor who has never attended an auction can follow it.
Yes. Every lot is linked to its consignor, and each consignor receives their own statement with their own agreed commission rate and deductions, even when the lots sold in the same sale.
Yes. Timed auctions run with staggered closing, automatic bid extensions and maximum bids, which suits large estates with many mid-value lots. Live auctions run with a clerk console, real-time online bidding, phone bidder cards and absentee bid execution for the sales where the highlights deserve a room. Bidders use one account for both.
With your auction house. Circuit runs on your own website and domain, so every bidder who registers for an estate sale is in your CRM, with their interests and bidding history, for the next sale.
Yes. Circuit's shipping integration generates labels for FedEx, USPS, DHL and UPS from the invoice, and tracks payment and dispatch on the buyer's record.
Have an Estate Coming In?
Bring the lot list to a demo. We will show you the intake, run a sample session with staggered closing, and produce the settlement statement the executor will receive.
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