Your bidders are on their phones — and a browser tab is easy to close and forget. A branded iOS and Android app puts your auction on their home screen and buzzes them the moment they're outbid, so they come back and bid again. Built on your platform, published under your name.
Request a quoteSomeone finds your auction on the train, means to come back, and never does. They don't get the outbid alert. They lose track of the closing time. Once a bidder swipes away from a browser tab, you have no way to reach them — and that's revenue walking out the door, lot after lot.
A native app closes that gap. It lives on the home screen, sends the alert that pulls people back, and turns one-time browsers into regulars. The platform you already run stays the engine — the app is how you stop losing the phone audience.
Browser bidding gets people in the door. Keeping them — and bringing them back — takes three things only a real, installed app can deliver.
Push notifications are the one thing mobile web simply can't do. The instant a bidder is outbid — or wins a lot — their phone lights up, even with the app shut. That's the nudge that brings them back to bid again before the clock runs out.
Your logo sits between their bank and their email, a single tap away — not a bookmark they'll never find again. An app makes you look like the established operation you are, and "is there an app?" stops being a reason to doubt you.
When the same people come back week after week — a charity's supporters, a dealer's regulars — an installed, branded app builds the habit. It's loyalty infrastructure for the audience you've already won.
A custom auction app is a serious piece of engineering — a complete, white-label product for iOS and Android, carrying your name, your logo, your colors. Not a stripped-down viewer, but the full bidding experience, built to hold up under a live auction. Here's what comes in the standard build.
Featured listings carousel, full browse, search and filters, and category navigation — with a fixed bottom nav bar for quick access.
Account creation, sign-in, and password recovery, all native in the app. New bidders can join without leaving it.
A logged-in home for each bidder — their activity, addresses, and account, with an address book for billing and delivery.
Place bids, make an offer, or buy now — the full set of ways to transact, exactly as they work on your live site.
Bidders track everything they're winning or watching, then browse invoices with payment links to settle up.
Save lots to a wish list that syncs across the bidder's devices and account, so nothing gets lost between sessions.
Outbid and auction-won alerts delivered through Firebase, straight to the lock screen — the reason most apps earn their keep.
Secure checkout with PayPal built in. Other gateways can be added to the build when you need them.
An in-app delete-account option, so your listing meets Apple and Google's store requirements out of the box.
A custom app is a complex build, and we treat it like one. One modern codebase compiles to two native apps — React and Capacitor at the core, Tailwind for the interface, Google Firebase driving notifications — so a single, properly engineered project ships to both the App Store and Google Play.
The app isn't a separate system you have to keep in sync. It's a front end for the platform you already run — it talks to your live site through the PHP Pro Bid RESTful API.
That means a bid placed in the app and a bid placed in the browser are the same bid, hitting the same database in real time. Listings, members, invoices — one source of truth, behind both. You manage everything from the same admin you use today, and the app simply reflects it.
Wiring a native app to live auction data — bids landing to the second, no stale lots, no double-spends — is the genuinely hard part of a build like this. It's also the part we've already solved, because we wrote the auction software it connects to. The app is the next step on your platform, not a second system to maintain.
Bids, lots, and accounts stay current across web and app — no imports, no nightly jobs.
The app goes live on your own Apple and Google developer accounts. It's your listing — we just build and submit it.
Your name, logo, and colors on the icon, the splash screen, and every view. Nothing says "PHP Pro Bid" to your bidders.
Every app is scoped and quoted individually. Here's the path from your first message to a live listing your bidders can download.
You tell us about your auction business and what you want the app to do. We agree the modules and the scope.
We apply your branding — logo, colors, icon, splash — and map the screens to how your bidders actually move.
We build the app against your live platform's RESTful API, so it's wired to your real listings, bids, and members.
We set up the App Store and Google Play listings, configure Firebase, run QA and TestFlight, and submit for review.
Stores change their rules; we keep the app compliant and working as your platform grows.
A custom app is a complex build, so every one is scoped and quoted to fit your branding, your modules, and your store setup — and you get a fixed price before any work begins, with no surprises. Tell us about your auction and we'll show you what's possible.
Already running on PHP Pro Bid? An app is the natural next step — see where it fits alongside your plan on the pricing page.
Tell us about your auction business and what you'd want the app to do. We'll get back to you as quickly as possible.