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For estate sale companies

Catalogue the house. Print the tags. Run the register.

One tool for the whole sale, from pricing the first item to the report you hand the family after the doors close. Research what things are worth, catalogue a houseful of them, print tags on the label stock you already buy, and run the register when the doors open. Whether you're a veteran in the trade, or just getting started, our platform makes it quick and easy.

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Two minutes, and you will know whether it fits how you work.

Why it exists

Because we felt the pain points

Through years of firsthand experience in the estate sale industry and testimonials from other owners, we've seen the same challenges arise time and again. Estate Sale Buddy was created to streamline the entire process from preparation to post-sale reporting.

  1. Weeks before

    Preparation taking several weeks. Pricing and tagging dragging on for days.

  2. On the day

    Malicious shoppers swapping price tags. Putting lower amounts on high-value items.

  3. At the register

    Chaotic checkout. Customers getting confused about prices and discounts. Cashiers referencing a cheat sheet to remember what certain items cost.

  4. Behind the desk

    Bookkeeping nightmares and a backed up register. Transactions written down on paper and thumbing numbers into a calculator.

  5. After the doors close

    Weeks of reconciling cash, card statements, and what is owed to the family.

  6. Season after season

    Difficulty building a reputation for your company due to no branding or name recognition for shoppers to latch on to.

What it does

The whole job, not one slice of it

Catalogue a houseful

Photograph, name and price an item in one pass, on a phone, standing in the room. Use our AI-assistant to research items and help fill out the catalogue. Price a single item, price a set of items that go together, or price a group of items in a lot.

Print your tags

Price tags are generated automatically based on the items you have catalogued. Print them off onto label stock. The item name, price, ID for the register, and even your own branding are all included on the tag itself. No more hand-writing tags or worrying about malicious tag swapping.

Checkout on sale day

Ring up a customer in seconds. Day-two and day-three markdowns applied automatically based on your company's adjustable preferences. The total is calculated and can pass through to a card reader or be paid in cash. Flexibility at the register and a record of transactions.

Multiple consignors

A sale with multiple consignors or estates is seamlessly handled while you catalogue and at checkout, and commissions are settled automatically at the end of the sale. No more deciphering notes or calculating percentages by hand.

The account for the family

What sold, for how much, what the commission came to and what is owed. Printed at the end of the sale, as soon as the doors close.

Built for the crew you have

Accessibility is prioritized. Large-type, simple screens and workflows. Tested by and developed for the less tech-savvy members of your crew. A simple mode for those that need it, and a denser version for desktop or proficient operators.

See it working

Watch how it works, start to finish

A walkthrough of the whole job: cataloguing a room, pricing what you find, printing a sheet of tags, and ringing up a customer on the day.

VIDEO: the walkthrough
(to be recorded)

Want to try it on a sale of your own? Get in touch and we will set you up with it.

Where it fits

Who this is for

There is more demand for estate sales than there are companies running them, and that demand is expected to grow significantly over the next two decades. The business and the trade itself are learnable. The challenge is the operating side: how to tag, what to price an item for, how to run the register, how to create the account for the family, how to build a following and a reputation for your company. This answers those, so a new company can run like an established one from its first sale. And an established company can scale with newfound efficiency.

A good fit if

  • You are just starting out and would rather run your business properly from your first sale than discover all the pain points we have already identified
  • You have run sales for years on spreadsheets, notebooks and memory, and want that part to stop being the hard part
  • You want to start and finish sales faster than you do now
  • You want to do multiple sales at once
  • You are done with the bookkeeping nightmare
  • Your crew changes between sales and needs something obvious
  • You want the family's account produced quickly, with no guesswork
  • You sell things for other people as well as the estate
  • You just want the whole process to be smoother and easier

Adaptable for

  • Clearing a family member's house as a one-off, rather than doing this as a business
  • A garage sale
  • Permanent shops, malls, and booths

Contact us with questions, or to talk through your specific needs.

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Who is behind it

I grew up in this business

I'm Sam Holleman. When my grandparents started their estate sale company based in Fort Worth, I was a teenager. My brother and I were the helping hands during preparation and on sale day, moving heavy furniture and clearing out hard-to-reach places. Before long, I was helping their friends in the industry and working the floor on sale days. As I got older I stepped back from it, though I would still answer the call whenever they needed a helping hand.

I have always been a systems guy. I like to see how things work, and how they can work better. When I developed an interest in software, I started building tools to solve my own problems, and the ones I kept running into at my various places of employment. When my grandparents asked me to help with another estate sale they were running, the idea for Estate Sale Buddy was born.

When I started building it, I wanted it to fit not just my grandparents and the way they do things, but the industry as a whole. During the research and development process, I visited dozens of estate sale companies and watched how they ran their sales. I sat down with operators and asked them about their work, and how they would like to see the process improved. Along the way, I saw the same pain points come up again and again. Estate Sale Buddy was built to help solve them.

PHOTO: Sam, on site
(to be added)

What it costs

One-time setup, then monthly or yearly

$000 setupto confirm

A one-time investment. It covers your branding, your label stock dialled in, training videos, and guidance through your first sale using it.

Monthly

from $00a monthto confirm

Pay as you go.

Yearly two months free

from $000a yearto confirm

The discount covers your off season.

Either plan keeps your catalogue hosted, your crew in the app, and your support line open.

  • 60 days to change your mind, money back

Shoppers never pay anything.

Coming

The shopper side

Everything you catalogue is already most of a listing. The next stage puts your sales in front of shoppers directly, so the cataloguing you have already done does double duty. Not built yet, and it will not cost you more when it is.

Your sales, findable

PLACEHOLDER: shoppers browsing sales near them.

Photos that earn twice

PLACEHOLDER: the catalogue becomes the advert.

Training and templates

PLACEHOLDER: short videos on getting the most out of it.

Get started

Have a look, then let's talk

Watch the walkthrough, then tell us about the sales you run. If it looks like it would save you the week it is meant to save you, we will get you set up on it.

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PLACEHOLDER: phone number, booking link, or a form. Whichever you will actually answer.