Custom Auction House BigCommerce Theme
Dealer previews, lot detail fields and catalog uploads
Dealers and pickers are the bidders who show up to every sale and they like knowing what's coming before the general public does. BigCommerce can show a private category to one customer group and hide it from everyone else, which makes an early preview for registered dealers simple to run. Foxco builds a custom auction house BigCommerce theme around that idea, with lot pages carrying custom fields for lot number, estimate, provenance and condition, a dealer preview area behind the login, a fixed-price section for post-sale pieces plus a consignment form for estates, collections and single pieces. Catalogs load from a spreadsheet through bulk import and gift certificates make a nice thank-you for a top consignor. You get it for $999, installed and configured on your BigCommerce store.
Your regulars see the catalog first.
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Built for Auction Houses
- 01Dealer-only preview category behind login
- 02Lot fields for estimate, provenance and condition
- 03Catalog upload from a spreadsheet
- 04Department categories with lot filters
- 05Fixed-price section for post-sale pieces
- 06Consignment request form with photos
Auction House theme questions
Template or custom theme?
Custom. Foxco starts from its BigCommerce framework for auction houses and builds it out with your brand, departments, catalog layout and pages.
How long does setup take?
Count on 7-10 days once we have your logo, photos and a sample catalog. Rush jobs are possible ahead of a big sale, depending on what our bandwidth looks like that week.
Can bidders bid online through the theme?
The theme handles catalogs, previews and fixed-price sales out of the box. Live or timed online bidding runs through apps from the BigCommerce app marketplace or your bidding provider and wiring that in is a custom project.
How do dealers get early access to the catalog?
Registered dealers go into a BigCommerce customer group that can see a preview category the public can't. Your BigCommerce plan and any paid apps are billed by BigCommerce and the app makers, not included in the $999.
Giving dealers a first look is an old auction house habit. The theme moves it from a phone tree and a stack of emailed photos to a login, which frees up your week before a sale for the work only you can do.
Previews for the people who buy most
A BigCommerce customer group for registered dealers can open a preview category the public can't see, with the full lot list, photos and estimates days ahead of the sale. When the public catalog goes up, the lots are already built and the dealers have already planned their bids, which tends to make for a livelier room.
Lots with the details buyers check
Each lot page carries custom fields for lot number, estimate range, provenance, dimensions and condition notes, laid out under large photos. Categories follow your departments, from furniture and art to coins, jewelry and tools. Filters let a buyer narrow a three-hundred-lot catalog to the pieces they care about before preview day.
After the gavel
Foxco sets up a fixed-price section for passed lots and post-sale pieces, with pickup windows and shipping notes on every page. The consignment request form collects photos and a short inventory of the estate. A past sales section shows future consignors the kind of material your house handles.
A catalog that draws the right bidders.
Let's get to work.
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