With Webtron 9AI, we’ve paired up the power of AI with the ease-of-use of VendorPlus to give you the fastest Auction Cataloging system ever.
The Descriptron will scan 3 of your nominated photos and generate richly detailed Titles, Summaries and Descriptions for all of your Lots, speeding up your cataloging and saving you and your team a ton of time.
Traditional Cataloging
If you don’t want to use AI assistance, you can also fill in all of your Item details manually. Whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer, VendorPlus scales to fit any screen, enabling you to be as portable with your cataloging as you need to be.
Express Mode and Full Mode
Don’t have all of your Item details sorted yet? Haven’t received the Reserves or Pickup Locations? No problem, with Express Mode, all you need is:
Lot Number (Auto Lot Numbering is on by default)
Lot Title *
Lot Summary
Lot Description
Item Type – Lot or Listing * (Lot only for Webcast Auctions)
Category List * (pre-filled with your default Category)
Vendor List * (pre-filled with your default Vendor)
And you can always come back later and fill in the missing details, you don’t even need photos to get started with Express Mode.
If you’ve got the time or want to get everything out of the way from the start, Full Mode opens up every field available for your Items, such as:
Lot Details section
Lot Number * (Auto Lot Numbering is on by default)
Lot Title *
Lot Summary
Lot Description
Item Type * – Lot or Listing (Lot only for Webcast Auctions)
Purchase Option * – None – Valid for Lots only, fields for None listed below:
For Lots
Opening Bid – Optional but recommended.
Bid Increment * – Required only if Auto Increments is disabled
Reserve – Timed Lots only
Quantity * – Pre-filled as 1, do not change unless using Bidding Type – Per Item.
Purchase Option * – Make Offer – Valid for Timed Auction Lots and Listings only, fields for Make Offer listed below:
For Listings
Minimum Offer Price – Optional and hidden from your Portal. Offers made below the amount will be auto-rejected.
Display Price – Optional, used to list an RRP or visible minimum.
For Lots – Using Make Offer on Lots will add the Make Offer button alongside the Bid and Place Auto Bid buttons.
Minimum Offer Price – Optional and hidden from your Portal. Offers made below the amount will be auto-rejected.
Opening Bid – Optional but recommended.
Bid Increment * – Required only if Auto Increments is disabled
Reserve – Optional, Timed Lots only
Quantity – Pre-filled as 1, do not change unless using Bidding Type – Per Item.
Purchase Option * – Buy Now – Valid for Timed Auction Lots and Listings only, fields for Buy Now listed below:
For Listings
Buy Now Price * – The purchase price for this Listing
Display Price – Optional, used to list an RRP.
For Lots
Buy Now Price – The purchase price for this Lot.
Opening Bid – Optional but recommended.
Bid Increment * – Required only if Auto Increments is disabled
Reserve – Optional, Timed Lots only
Quantity * – Pre-filled as 1, do not change unless using Bidding Type – Per Item.
Bid Type * – We advise leaving this as Per Lot
Category List *
Vendor List *
BP and Tax Details section
This section is pre-filled by the Buyer’s Premium and Tax percentages you set when creating this Auction. If you need to change it on a per-Item basis, untick the Use Sale Tax Settings checkbox at the top of the section:
Use Sale Tax Settings * – Enabled by default, untick the checkbox to edit each of the fields below:
Buyer’s Premium * – Set your Buyer’s Premium %, whole number and two decimals only, set to 0.00 to disable your Buyer’s Premium.
Hammer Tax – Optional Tax Percentage on the final Hammer Price (commonly used for GST, VAT and State Sales’ Tax)
BP Tax – Optional Tax Percentage on the Buyer’s Premium amount (derived from Buyer’s Premium on final Hammer, commonly used for GST, VAT and Services Tax)
Charges – Optional Flat Fee on this Item, whole amounts only.
Charges Tax – Optional Tax Percentage on the Charges amount you set above.
Documents section
This section contains an Upload Documents option, enabling you to attach relevant documents directly to this Item, which your Bidders can then download from your Portal, inside the Item Details page for this Item.
If you’re using an iPhone or iPad, Upload Documents will open your Files app, which you can transfer documents to via your iCloud account. Android devices will open your default File Management app (Device Storage, Google Drive, OneDrive etc.).
Upload Documents
Supported File Types – Adobe PDF (.pdf), Word Doc (.docx), CSV Spreadsheet (.csv)
Maximum File Size – 20MB per file.
Maximum Number of Documents – Uncapped, there is no limit on how many Documents can be attached per-Item.
Uploading Documents is optional, feel free to skip ahead to the Videos or Location and Contact sections.
Videos section
This section contains a YouTube URL field that you can paste links to Item videos you have uploaded to your YouTube channel. Embedding YouTube videos is optional, if you are having difficulties with YouTube Shorts links, you can paste your link into our AI Chatbot and ask it to fix it for you, and it will return a corrected link.
YouTube URL
Supported YouTube Videos – Videos only, YouTube Shorts are not embeddable.
Maximum Number of YouTube Videos – Uncapped, but YouTube caps uploads per day at approx. 10 videos.
Embedding YouTube videos is optional, feel free to skip ahead to the Location and Contact section.
Location and Contact section
This section contains two checkboxes that enable and disable certain default features for your Auction:
Use Sale Address * – Ticked (Enabled) by default, unticking this checkbox will unfold the following fields:
Autofill Address – We can create
And it’s available now!
Go truly portable with your Auction Cataloging with VendorPlus, get in touch with us at support@webtronoa.com to arrange no-cost setup and training.
Creating Items in VendorPlus
With VendorPlus’ Auction Manager, you have the power to create new Items for your Auctions from any device.
It’s the power of the Webtron Dashboard, but even more portable.
AI-Assisted Cataloging – Introduction Webtron Descriptron*
With Webtron 9AI, we’ve paired up the power of AI with the ease-of-use of VendorPlus to give you the fastest Auction Cataloging system ever.
The Descriptron will scan 3 of your nominated photos and generate richly detailed Titles, Summaries and Descriptions for all of your Lots, speeding up your cataloging and saving you and your team a ton of time.
Traditional Cataloging
If you don’t want to use AI assistance, you can also fill in all of your Item details manually. Whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer, VendorPlus scales to fit any screen, enabling you to be as portable with your cataloging as you need to be.
Express Mode and Full Mode
Don’t have all of your Item details sorted yet? Haven’t received the Reserves or Pickup Locations? No problem, with Express Mode, all you need is:
And you can always come back later and fill in the missing details, you don’t even need photos to get started with Express Mode.
If you’ve got the time or want to get everything out of the way from the start, Full Mode opens up every field available for your Items, such as:
Lot Details section
BP and Tax Details section
This section is pre-filled by the Buyer’s Premium and Tax percentages you set when creating this Auction. If you need to change it on a per-Item basis, untick the Use Sale Tax Settings checkbox at the top of the section:
Documents section
This section contains an Upload Documents option, enabling you to attach relevant documents directly to this Item, which your Bidders can then download from your Portal, inside the Item Details page for this Item.
If you’re using an iPhone or iPad, Upload Documents will open your Files app, which you can transfer documents to via your iCloud account. Android devices will open your default File Management app (Device Storage, Google Drive, OneDrive etc.).
Uploading Documents is optional, feel free to skip ahead to the Videos or Location and Contact sections.
Videos section
This section contains a YouTube URL field that you can paste links to Item videos you have uploaded to your YouTube channel. Embedding YouTube videos is optional, if you are having difficulties with YouTube Shorts links, you can paste your link into our AI Chatbot and ask it to fix it for you, and it will return a corrected link.
Embedding YouTube videos is optional, feel free to skip ahead to the Location and Contact section.
Location and Contact section
This section contains two checkboxes that enable and disable certain default features for your Auction:
And it’s available now!
Go truly portable with your Auction Cataloging with VendorPlus, get in touch with us at support@webtronoa.com to arrange no-cost setup and training.
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