You shoot the lots. You write every description. You run the bidding, chase the buyer who won’t pay, and settle up with each consignor — hoping the math holds when one of them questions it six weeks later. That’s a lot for one person. Hammerwerks does the typing and the math. You still call every lot.
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It’s Sunday night. Three hundred lots, a sale Thursday, and it’s just you at the keyboard. Point a phone at the lot and Hammerwerks does the retyping — the part that eats the whole evening. Not the judgment. That stays yours.
Snap the lot; AI drafts a title, description, category, condition, and a value range — each with its own confidence score. You read it, fix what’s wrong, approve. It does the typing, not the deciding.
Coins, jewelry, art, anything with a thin market — instead of inventing a number that costs you at the podium, it says it doesn’t know and hands the call back to you.
One AI drafts, another checks it — the wrong category, the condition that doesn’t match the photo, the description that runs long. You still approve every lot.
Year, make, model, trim, engine, drivetrain — decoded and filled in. AI can’t drift off a real VIN.
ISBN and UPC lookups fill in the title, author, and edition before you’ve set the phone down. Maker’s marks get looked up the same way.
Consumer goods and vehicles cross-check active CPSC and NHTSA recalls automatically. You decide whether it goes in the sale.
It’s just you — until the estate walk. Send a helper a link and they shoot lots straight into your workbench. No login, no account. Revoke it the minute the job’s done.
No bespoke setup. No spreadsheet exports. No clicking through fifty lots at 11pm on Sunday.
Drag a batch, or shoot them right from your phone on the auction floor.
Type it, or let AI start it from your photos. Either way, you approve.
Kanban review. Tweak any field. One click to publish.
Absentee, proxy, max bids. A soft-close so a last-second bid extends the lot instead of stealing it.
Invoices send. Cards charge. Statements settle against the contract they signed.
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No. No commission on hammer prices, ever — no cut of what the gavel brings. You pay a flat monthly price by your lot volume (Solo $99, Growth $299, Scale $799, with 50¢/lot above your tier), plus a one-time $499 setup that’s waived with a promo code. What you sell for is yours, down to the dollar.
That’s the fear, and the answer is no. It drafts a value range with a confidence score, and a second AI checks the first. On coins, jewelry, art, and thin markets — where a made-up number burns you at the podium — it tells you it doesn’t know and hands the call back. You approve every lot before it lists.
Yes, and you probably should. Their bidder pools are huge and ours is small — we won’t pretend otherwise. Hammerwerks isn’t trying to out-reach them. It handles your cataloging, your branded bidder list, and your settlement, and sits underneath whatever marketplace you list on.
You do. Every bidder registers in your house — your subdomain, your name, your from-line. Export the whole list to a spreadsheet whenever you like. We never market to your bidders. Leave someday and the relationships leave with you.
You can’t, and that’s on purpose. Settlement won’t release a consignor’s money for a lot the buyer hasn’t paid for. If a buyer pays for some lots and not others, the payout settles on what’s actually been collected. No fronting money you don’t have yet.
The settlement statement runs against the consignment agreement they signed — at the rate you set for that seller. The signed document is fingerprinted and the signing is recorded, so it’s tamper-evident: you can show later that nothing changed. The commission can’t drift between the handshake and the check.
Every sale reconciles — money in equals payouts plus your commission and premium plus tax plus whatever’s still owed. See how much consignor money you’re holding, get a per-consignor 1099 worksheet at year-end and a sales-tax remittance report, and export the whole ledger to a spreadsheet. (That’s CSV export — we don’t claim a QuickBooks sync we haven’t built.)
Month-to-month, cancel anytime. 30-day money-back if it hasn’t saved you time after your first auction. And your catalog, bidders, and ledger export any day you want — you’re never locked in.
Yes. Run a live sale from the clerk console with real-time bidding, buyer’s premium, and hammer. Online and timed sales run the same way with absentee, proxy, and max bids — or run both at once. Whatever you charge as sales tax gets figured in.
You already hand a percentage to the marketplace. Hammerwerks never takes one — you pay a flat monthly price by how many lots you run, and what the gavel brings is yours down to the dollar.
No commission on hammer prices, ever. · 50¢/lot above your tier · Unlimited bidders & users. · $499 one-time setup, waived with a promo code.
30-day money-back after your first auction. Export everything — catalog, bidders, ledger — any time you want.
Every bidder who registers on the marketplace registers with the marketplace. Their list grows; yours doesn’t. You bring the consignments and the reputation, and their name is the one that compounds. We won’t out-reach HiBid — their pool is huge, ours is small, and we’ll say so plainly. So keep cross-listing there for reach. But the bidder who buys from you signs up under your name, on your subdomain, onto a list you can export any day. Bring the relationship home.