iRostrum

Jewellery, Watches & Luxury Goods Auction Software

iRostrum is a professional online auction platform for auction houses and specialist dealers selling jewellery, watches, and luxury goods. Our fourth-generation software enables fully branded online auctions with complete control over your presentation, bidders, and data—supported by a hardened, intuitive bidding experience.

Purpose-Built for High-Value Auctions

Selling jewellery, watches, and luxury goods online requires more than generic ecommerce or marketplace software. Buyers expect trust, clarity, and a professional auction experience that reflects the value of the items on offer.

iRostrum is built for businesses that need:

With iRostrum, your brand, your rules, and your client relationships remain firmly in your control.

High-Quality Visual Presentation

Professional presentation is essential when bidders are assessing fine jewellery, luxury watches, and collectible goods online. iRostrum enables you to present every lot to the highest standards, giving bidders the confidence to engage and bid decisively.

  • High-resolution image rendering with advanced zoom control
  • Unlimited images per lot
  • Video presentation and interactive 360° imagery

Hardened Bidder Experience, Built for Real Auction Behaviour

iRostrum’s bidding experience has evolved through four generations of auction software, shaped by more than a decade of live auction use. The platform is designed to support how bidders actually behave—across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices—particularly during high-pressure moments as auctions close.

  • Consistent cross-device browsing: Bidders can move seamlessly between devices without losing their place, search results, or applied filters.
  • Stateful navigation: As users navigate forwards and backwards, iRostrum retains key selections—removing frustration and unnecessary repetition.
  • Shortlists and watch lists: Bidders can build shortlists of lots they are interested in, allowing research and comparison before committing to bids.
  • Focused bidding views as auctions close: Bidders can filter directly to lots they are watching or actively bidding on, consolidating them into a single view ordered by lots closing soonest—helping ensure opportunities aren’t missed.

This hardened user experience reduces friction at critical moments, supporting confident bidding and stronger auction outcomes.

A Simpler, More Intuitive Bidding Experience

Many bidders using iRostrum-powered auctions are highly experienced, regularly participating in sales run by leading international auction houses.

Feedback from these bidders consistently highlights that the iRostrum bidding experience feels simpler, clearer, and more intuitive—particularly when managing multiple lots and monitoring activity as auctions approach their close.

By removing unnecessary complexity, iRostrum allows bidders to focus on the auction itself, not the mechanics of the platform.

Key Features for Jewellery, Watches & Luxury Goods

Presentation & User Experience

Run professional auctions under your own brand with full control over presentation and bidder experience. Purpose-built for jewellery, watch, and luxury goods auctioneers, iRostrum is designed to support high-value sales with confidence.

  • Unlimited high-resolution images per lot
  • Advanced zoom, video, and optional 360° viewing
  • Behaviour-led browsing, shortlisting, and bidding workflows

Charges & Tax Management

iRostrum is designed to support the financial and regulatory complexity of high-value auctions.

  • Configurable buyer and seller charges
  • Support for multiple tax schemes on a per-lot basis, including Margin Scheme, Import VAT, and Zero VAT
  • Automated handling of cross-border tax application

Security, Compliance & Trust

Trust is fundamental in luxury and high-value auctions. iRostrum provides the safeguards required to protect both your business and your bidders.

  • AML compliance with secure bidder registration and KYC workflows
  • Enterprise-grade encryption and secure data storage
  • Infrastructure designed to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and reliability throughout the auction process

Run Your Online Luxury Auctions With Confidence

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iRostrum were very thorough in understanding our immediate and long term requirements to ensure that they would provide future proof solutions that would save development costs in the long term. iRostrum are a highly professional and experienced team and have been able to offer valuable insight into best practices on both technical and auction matters.

As well as the auction platform they were able to provide us with a low cost but great looking ecommerce website which integrates seamlessly with the iRostrum auction platform.

Marcus Muller, Design-and-Arts