PHP Pro Bid - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

PHP Pro Bid is self-hosted and cloud online auction software with zero transaction fees on every plan. Whatever your bidders spend, you keep: no per-sale cut, no per-event

charge.

Auction formats

- Timed auctions: scheduled sales with automatic and proxy bidding, reserve prices, buy-now, make-offer, and soft-close sniping protection that extends the clock when a late bid lands.

- Live auction events: cataloged sales with a published schedule and staggered lot closings, per-buyer invoicing, and event-level branding.

- Marketplace and webstore: fixed-price listings and auctions from one or many sellers, with a shopping cart and checkout.

Management and automation

- One admin panel for lots, bidders, orders, invoicing and payments.

- Bulk Lister for uploading many listings at once.

- Cron jobs automate recurring tasks such as closing expired listings and sending notifications.

- 8+ languages with a built-in translation manager

- Paid Add-ons and themes extend and restyle the platform.

Deployment and technical

- Run it fully hosted on Cloud (from £63/month), on a managed VPS, or self-hosted on your own server.

- VPS and self-hosted plans include source code for customization; licensing and security files are ionCube-encoded.

- Integrates with major payment gateways for buyer payments.

- Buyer registration, invoicing and payment records stay in your own database.

Support and maintenance

- Cloud and VPS are fully managed by our team, with automatic or managed updates and backups; VPS adds priority support.

- The self-hosted license is a one-time £399 payment, self-managed, with minor v10 updates included and discounted major-version upgrades.

Built and maintained since 2006, PHP Pro Bid is a complete auction platform that never takes a share of your sales.