Auction houses

For auction houses

Each approved house has its professional space: team, consignments, catalogues, live sales, payments and settlements. The house runs its sales and remains responsible for its terms of sale.

You need

An auction house, or an operator authorised to sell.
A Dlala account for the person who applies.

Step 1: Apply

Present your house: legal name, public name, city, contact details and an introduction. You become its owner. The Dlala team reviews the application and answers you. Being approved on the platform is not a licence.

Step 2: Your professional space

Once approved, the house has its dashboard: what is left to do before the first sale, the consignments received, the catalogues in progress.

Site screen: Your professional space — Fictional example

Step 3: Invite your team

Each person gets a role: manager, auctioneer, cataloguer, support or viewer. An invitation is valid for 7 days.

Site screen: Invite your team — Fictional example

Step 4: Receive consignments

Offered objects arrive in the consignments inbox. Ask your questions, estimate, accept or decline, then propose the agreement to the consignor.

Good to know: The house's owner approves the terms before the consignor accepts them.

Site screen: Receive consignments — Fictional example

Step 5: Prepare a catalogue

Create the sale and add the lots: from an accepted consignment or your own, with their photos and condition report. A condition report is approved by someone other than its author.

Site screen: Prepare a catalogue — Fictional example

Step 6: Check, then publish

The checklist points out what is missing before opening, for the house and for each sale. A manager reviews the catalogue before it is published.

Site screen: Check, then publish — Fictional example

Step 7: Run a live sale

Start the video from the computer; a phone can be a second camera by scanning a code. Bids arrive live, and each bid leaves the others at least 30 seconds.

Step 8: Get paid on your own account

Connect your house's payment account (Chargily or Slick-Pay). The buyer pays you directly: Dlala does not hold this money. The secret key is never shown again.

Good to know: Real payments for houses' sales are not open yet.

Site screen: Get paid on your own account — Fictional example

Step 9: Settle with consignors

After a sale, the settlements page shows what each consignor is owed and what has been paid to them.

Site screen: Settle with consignors — Fictional example

Step 10: The Maison Dlala Pro offer

Dlala may offer its Pro plan to your house. Its terms appear in your space, and nothing starts without the owner's agreement.

Site screen: The Maison Dlala Pro offer — Fictional example

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