Catalogs and Collections

Catalogs are built in BBZ Catalog, our free catalog program for auction companies. Publish a catalog there, and it shows on BidBuySmart: free marketing for your sale.

• Build: add lots in a spreadsheet-style editor, add photos, or import a spreadsheet. Optional AI writing is there when you want it.
• Publish: a published catalog appears in Collections with every lot and its photos, and on your directory listing. Drafts stay private.
• Get matched to your listing: enter the same company website in BBZ Catalog as on your directory listing.
• Sale date and bidding link: add them, and buyers go straight from your catalog to your sale. Upcoming sales are listed first.
• Download: export the catalog for BidBuyZoom, HiBid, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable or Proxibid.

Catalogs you built on BidBuySmart before stay in My Account > Catalogs, where you can still change them.

Where do the collections on the site come from?

Auction and estate sale companies build them for their sales and choose to publish all or part of them on BidBuySmart.