Most auction software makes you commit before you’ve sold a thing. Not here. Open your doors on Hammerwerks for $0 a month and pay just 1% of your hammer — only on the sales you actually run. Selling every month? A flat plan from $99 is almost always cheaper — switch any month. Nothing locks you in either way.
Which is cheaper? Pay-as-you-sell if you sell occasionally or want to start with zero commitment. A flat plan once you’re selling regularly — past a sale or two a month it usually wins. Switch any month.
50¢/lot above your flat tier · Save 15% with annual prepay · Stripe pass-through on card processing
$499 one-time setup includes founder-led onboarding — waived with a promo code (ask for one on your intro call).
It’s a software fee, metered on your sale’s hammer gross because that’s the fairest measure of how much the platform carried for you. It is not a commission — it never reaches into your seller’s commission or your buyer’s premium. Those stay yours, in full, exactly as before.
The 1% pays for the software — the same thing a flat plan pays for, just metered by what you sell instead of by the calendar. Your commission and your buyer’s premium are untouched. We don’t sit between you and your seller.
No sale, no fee. A quiet month costs you $0. No contract, no minimum, no per-bidder charge — and you can cancel or switch plans any month you like.
Selling enough that a flat plan works out cheaper? Take it — plans start at $99/mo and you can switch any month. Run the two side by side and pick whichever costs you less. Nothing’s locked in.
Credits meter the AI features. Everything you can do by hand is unlimited on every tier — the AI is just the speed-up you buy on the weeks you're buried. Set a monthly cap and we throttle when you hit it, so it never runs up a bill behind your back.
A la carte credit packs: $49 for 100 credits · $199 for 500 · $799 for 3,000 (volume discount)
No feature gating. The one-person shop paying as it sells runs the exact same software the multi-location outfit on Scale does. Pay-as-you-sell or flat, every feature’s in the box — you’re only ever paying for the platform and the AI you use.
Drag in photos, type the lot, done. The workbench fits your hands, and doing it by hand never spends a credit — unlimited on every tier.
A branded bidder site under your name, closing-soon emails, buyers vetted with a card on file. And the list stays yours — export every bidder any time you want. It was never ours to keep.
Buyer invoices and collection, a funds-available gate so you never pay out a lot before its money is in, statements that settle against the contract your seller signed. Pay them by check or electronically — recorded either way.
Run the room and the online bidders at once — clerk console, absentee and max bids, and a soft-close so nobody steals a lot in the last second.
Before a lot goes live we check it against NHTSA and CPSC recalls and look up the VIN, ISBN, UPC or maker's marks — so you're not the one who finds out later.
Most days it's just you. Hand a helper — or the consignor — a no-login link and let them catalog from their phone. No account, and you can cut it off the second the job's done.
Start on pay-as-you-sell if you sell occasionally or just want to try with $0 down: you pay 1% of your hammer, only when a lot sells. Once you’re selling most months, a flat plan from $99 usually costs less. Run them side by side, pick the cheaper one, and switch any month — nothing’s locked in.
No. It’s a software fee, metered on your hammer gross the way a flat plan is metered on the calendar — a fair read on how much the platform carried for you. It never touches your seller’s commission or your buyer’s premium; those stay yours in full. And it’s optional: sell regularly and a flat plan is almost always cheaper.
The AI features run on credits — drafting a lot from your photos, comp research, bulk photo triage. Everything you’d do by hand is free and unlimited on every plan. Growth includes 500/mo, Scale includes 3,000/mo, or buy a la carte from $49.
On a flat plan, lots run 50¢ each over your tier; pay-as-you-sell has no lot limit. Out of credits? Buy more from $49 for 100 — or set a monthly AI cap and we throttle at the line. Either way, no bill you didn’t see coming.
$499 one-time, and it buys you me walking you through setup myself. Waived with a promo code — ask for one on your intro call.
Month to month — cancel any time. If it hasn't saved you time by the end of your first auction, 30-day money-back, no argument. And you leave with everything: catalog, bidders, and the audit log, exported as CSV + JSON. Your list was never ours to keep.
No. Bidders are free, and the bigger your list gets the better — it never changes your bill. You pay your plan — 1% of what you sell, or a flat monthly — and the AI credits you use. That’s the whole invoice.
Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction passes straight through — the same rate you'd get walking up to Stripe yourself. We don't add a penny on top.
Pay for the year up front and save 15%. It renews yearly unless you tell us otherwise.