What STRAND does

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Before the Auction

• Enter details of lots as received from vendors
• Extract unsold lots from an earlier auction
• Produce a catalogue sorted in your chosen order. This is available for printing and can also be output in a format for web-publishing
• Maintain a Customer list and produce address labels for sending catalogues or invoices
• Produce a marking up list for a room auction (i.e. a list showing the auction lot number for each vendor's lots.)

After Distributing the Catalogue

• Enter postal bids as they are received.
• For a postal auction allocate the lots to the highest bidders
• For a room auction produce a "bid book" before the auction. This shows brief details of all lots and the correct opening price to the room taking into account the postal bids received. You use the "bid-book" to record the prices realised in the room.

During and after the Auction

• For a postal auction STRAND allocates each lot to the highest bidder at a sale price of one bid step above the 2nd highest bidder. If a bidder has a purchase maximum STRAND will allow for this in the allocation.
• Print an invoice for room bidders during and after the auction with a description of each lot bought and the hammer price.
• Produce a similar invoice for postal bidders with the hammer price of the lots bid for and whether the bidder secured them.
• Print a report of the sales for each vendor and the charges payable
• Track the bidders payments, prepare banking lists and view outstanding balances
• Print a list of sold and unsold lots
• plus many other reports and useful features

At any time

• Backup in a trouble free way for secure working

Documentation

• STRAND comes with a printed manual describing in detail how it should be used and the definitions of the different functions of the program.
• Extensive on-line documentation is also available.

To see what STRAND looks like in use, click on the first button below. The pictures that will follow are cropped and compressed as much as possible to speed downloading.