Pay-as-you-go at 10%, or Pro at $249/month flat with unlimited auctions and zero seller fees. No setup, no floor, no contract.
Backyard tier: 10% per sale, no monthly fee, no setup, no per-sale floor, no contract. BackyardAuction absorbs Stripe processing on Backyard auctions.
Backyard Pro tier: $249/month flat. Unlimited auctions per month. Zero seller fees — no platform commission, no per-auction floor. Pro sellers handle standard payment processing (Stripe 2.9% + $0.30) through their own Stripe Connect Express account. Becomes cheaper than Backyard above $2,490/month in sales.
Volume. Backyard is 10% per sale with no subscription — pay only when you sell. Backyard Pro is $249/month flat with zero per-sale fees and unlimited auctions. The calculator above shows which is cheaper at your specific volume.
When your monthly sales exceed about $2,500. Below that, Backyard's 10% beats Pro's $249 flat. Above it, Pro saves you money — and the savings grow the more you sell. At $10,000/month in sales, Pro saves you about $750/month versus Backyard.
No platform commission, no per-sale fees, no per-auction floors. The only cost beyond the $249/month subscription is standard payment processing (Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction), which Pro sellers handle through their own Stripe Connect Express account. That's the same processing rate every other professional auction platform charges.
Yes, both directions, any time. Pro is month-to-month — cancel and you revert to Backyard instantly with no penalty. Mid-cycle Pro cancellations don't get prorated; you keep Pro pricing through the end of the month you've paid for.
AuctionNinja charges 2.35% per sale with a $75 minimum per auction, plus $19.19/month, plus a $250 one-time setup fee. Pro is $249/month flat with unlimited auctions, no per-auction floor, and no setup fee. Above ~$10K/month in sales, Pro wins handily — and it's a flat number you can budget against, not a percentage that scales with success.
MaxSold's Self-Managed plan takes 30% per auction with a $99 minimum, pays sellers in 15 business days, and locks your items to their platform for the entire contract term (TOS §2.1(a)). Backyard takes 10% per sale, pays out via Stripe in ~2 business days, and only locks items during the active auction window — you can cross-list elsewhere between auctions. On a $1,000 cleanout, Backyard runs $100 in seller fees; MaxSold takes $300. The casual segment in the calculator above shows the head-to-head.
Stripe deposits your seller payout directly to your linked bank account, typically within ~2 business days of an auction closing and the buyer's card being charged. Backyard sellers use BackyardAuction's Stripe Connect; Pro sellers use their own Stripe Connect Express account. New sellers may have a brief hold for the first 3 clean auctions while we verify everything works.
No setup fees, no minimums, no commitments — month-to-month on either tier, cancel any time. Items are locked to BackyardAuction during the active auction window (otherwise concurrent sales elsewhere would invalidate live bids), but outside of that you're free to cross-list anywhere — no contract-term exclusivity.