Pre-Auction

Auctioneeros Hub

Hub is where the auction gets prepared. Create the auction, build lots from bulk photo upload, let Hub identify each item and draft the title, description, and estimate, prepare the images, review and approve the catalog, then export the files your selling platform expects.

The Hub workflow ends in Export. After the sale, FIND runs pickup and Compliance Center keeps the auction record.

What Hub does

From raw photos to an approved, exportable catalog

Hub gives the cataloging associate their time back. AI cataloging is one part of it. The rest is the image work, the review pass, and the export files that follow.

Bulk Lot Input

Upload lot images in volume and use them to build auction lots and catalog records without creating each lot one image at a time.

AI Lot Generation

Use uploaded images to identify items and draft lot titles, descriptions, and pricing guidance from sold-comparable research for operator review.

Image Preparation

Automatically resize and enhance lot images, strip EXIF metadata, and optionally remove or replace backgrounds before the catalog is reviewed.

Review & Approval

Review the catalog lot by lot, edit titles, descriptions, and estimates, work flagged lots, and approve the catalog before export.

Export

Generate the supported platform catalog CSV, complete catalog-image ZIP, HERO-image ZIP and manifest, and image-address CSV.

The Hub workflow

Create, input, review, export

One pass through the Hub takes a sale from an empty auction record to files that are ready to upload.

Create

Start the sale.

  • Create the auction record
  • Set its lot numbering

Input

Build the catalog.

  • Upload lot images in volume
  • Build and commit lots
  • AI item identification
  • Title and description generation
  • Estimates from sold comparable research
  • Image resizing and enhancement
  • Optional background removal

Review

Put your eyes on it.

  • Inspect the catalog lot by lot
  • Inline title, description, estimate editing
  • Work the flagged lots
  • Approve, with approver and time recorded

Export

Send it to your platform.

  • Platform catalog CSV
  • Complete catalog image set
  • HERO image set for advertising
  • Image-address CSV
Export

Export is where the Hub workflow pays off

Export is how a finished Hub catalog reaches the platform you sell on: one catalog CSV shaped for that platform, plus the image sets that go with it. See the full Export page.

Catalog CSV, seven platform profiles

Pick your platform and download the catalog. Hub carries a built-in profile for HiBid and AuctionFlex, BidWrangler, Wavebid, Invaluable and LiveAuctioneers, Auctionology and iCollector, AuctionWorx, and MaxSold.

The CSV holds seven columns: lot number, title, description, quantity, low estimate, high estimate, and consignor. The column headings are set to match each platform's bulk upload template.

For advertising

HERO image from every lot

Download the first image from each lot as its own ZIP, independently of the complete catalog image set. That gives you one ready group of lead auction images for advertising, email, social posts, flyers, and anywhere else you promote the sale, without digging them out of the full set by hand.

The download includes a HERO image manifest, a CSV listing each lot number with the address of the HERO image it contains, so the set can be handed straight to whoever builds the ad.

Complete catalog image set

Download every committed image for the auction in one ZIP, in lot order and position order, with each file named by its lot and position so the set stays in sequence wherever it lands.

Image address CSV

Download a CSV of the hosted address for every catalog image, for platforms and workflows that take image links rather than uploaded files.

What the export checks, and what it does not

Before a HiBid catalog CSV downloads, Hub blocks the export if any lot has no image, and lists the exact lot numbers to fix. That missing-image check is the pre-export validation Hub performs today.

Hub does not currently check titles, descriptions, character limits, or other per-platform field rules, and the missing-image check does not run on the other six export profiles. Image files are not carried inside the catalog CSV. Images come from the separate image downloads above.

Where Hub stops

Hub prepares the sale. It does not host the bidding, take bids, or run the auction itself. It gets the catalog and the images ready for the platform you already sell on.

After the sale, FIND handles pickup and release, and Compliance Center holds the closed auction record.

Put Hub to work for your auctions

Start free with 50 lots, no credit card. Then Hub Standard is $149/month for 1,000 lots, or buy lot credits as you go.

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