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Lotdesk is where an auction house writes up what it is going to sell. The cataloguer stands at the piece with a phone, photographs it, writes the description and the condition note, puts an estimate on it and files it against a lot number. The record is saved on the phone first and goes to the house's book when there is signal. Back at the desk the same book holds every lot, every section and every consignor.

What comes out of it is a catalogue ready to print, lot by lot in the order the room is worked, and a file for each sale in the format of the platform you sell on, with the photographs: see Exporting a sale for your platform, or Exporting the CSV for the plain one. A sale that already exists in a spreadsheet or another system comes in the other way: see Bringing a catalogue in.

Lotdesk keeps to lot intake and the catalogue. It does not take bids, send invoices, hold card details, settle with consignors or run the sale on the day. It does not list your sale anywhere or reach into a bidder's account, and it does not post into your cataloguing software: it hands you the file and you bring it in. The site's page on why there is no bidding says why.

The first 25 lots are free, with no card. After that one price covers the whole house: $79/month, whatever the number of lots, sales or cataloguers. The plan explains what is free and what is not.

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