Sablot runs the whole back office in one place. Intake and stock, cataloguing with automatic descriptions, results import, buyer invoicing, consignor settlements, aftersales. No manual needed.
Every specialist house we talk to is running on a patchwork. Cataloguing in one tool, invoicing in another, settlements in a spreadsheet, stock in someone's head. Sablot is the version where it's in one place.
Cataloguing in one tool. Invoicing in another. Settlements in a spreadsheet. Stock in someone's head.
One system, one login. A consignor record that follows the lot from intake to settlement. Built for auctions, not bent out of a generic CRM.
A third of lots passed on Friday. Most won't be re-offered properly. The bidders who almost bought them have gone by Monday.
Every unsold lot becomes inventory with one click. Every underbidder captured. Re-offer them, or sell privately. 5 to 15% of auction revenue lives here.
Cataloguing eats your specialist's week. Each lot description is a slow, manual write-up. The longer it takes to publish, the less time you have to market the sale.
Sablot writes the description for you from the lot image and your field data. Auction-grade prose, not generic copy. About 60 seconds a lot.
The bidders who fought for Lot 14 belong to the marketplace. Year after year, your house gets less of the relationship.
Every results import adds winners and underbidders to your buyer book. Addresses, platform of origin, bid history. An asset that compounds.
Fill in the lot fields. Click Generate. Sablot reads the main image and your field data, then writes a publish-ready description in the style of the major specialist houses.
It will not invent provenance, citations or dimensions. It identifies iconography, explains material significance, and closes with a thesis paragraph naming what the object exemplifies.
Drop in the results file from any auction platform you use. Lots auto-match to buyers. Premium and VAT calculate. Branded PDF invoices go out by email, with payment instructions and an optional card payment link.
Per-consignor settlement records calculate commission, charges and net payable for you. Branded PDF statement. One settlement per closed auction, full audit trail.
Examples of supported platforms: Invaluable, LiveAuctioneers, The Saleroom. Whatever else you use, we add it on Tailored.
Every passed lot moves into stock with one click. The image, description, consignor and history travel with it. The bidders who almost bought it are captured at the same time.
Re-offer the lot in the next sale, or pursue a private treaty offer directly to the underbidder. This is where aftersales income lives, and the workflow no other specialist auction system does properly.
Cashflow forecast. Sell-through by category. Vendor performance. Stock ageing by 30, 60, 90-day bucket. Balance sheet by payment method. Profit by consignor. Trade stock P&L itemised by lot. Branded PDFs, generated against your real data.
As part of Professional onboarding, we tailor the report set to your business: your VAT scheme, your settlement cadence, your reporting calendar.
When you import results, Sablot doesn't just record winners. It captures every registered bidder who didn't win. Email, address, country, AML risk class, full purchase history.
Year one, you have a list of qualified specialist buyers. Year two, it's a marketing asset. You own the relationship, not the marketplace.
The compliance picture for any UK auction house: data residency, current encryption standards, isolated databases, and full UK GDPR. Built to match what your buyers and HMRC expect.
One-off setup, then a flat monthly subscription. No percentage of hammer. Ever.
We configure the workspace, import your existing data, set up your branded subdomain, and walk your team through the system. Live within a week for most houses.
All plans include your own subdomain, single-tenant database, daily backups, and full UK GDPR compliance. No percentage of hammer. Ever.
20 minutes. We'll walk you through the full system live. No pitch deck, no pressure.