BCA Buyer

British Car Auctions

About this app

Please note: you need to be a registered BCA Trade Buyer to use this app and are for UK vehicles only. If you want to register with BCA as a trade buyer, please visit bca.co.uk/buy/register

BCA Buyer lets you search for stock, track the vehicles you are interested in, bid in live sale and purchase vehicles 24/7 with BCA Buy Now. Take the guesswork out of auction timings with real time vehicle tracking so you know when the stock you want to bid on is going under the hammer. As well as book collections or request delivery for your purchased vehicles.

Here’s what you can do:

• Quickly search for vehicles by make, model, auction centre, sale date and/or vendor

• Create and apply saved searches to save time with regular searches

• View Sale Catalogues for Today and Tomorrow with an overview of sale sections and easy access to lots

• Never miss the vehicles you want to bid on with an up-to-date timeline and vehicle notifications

• Place concealed proxy bids in advance of the live sale

• Join and take part in the live sale with audio and video

• Access detailed vehicle information including guide pricing, vehicle grades and supporting BCA Assured reports (where applicable)

• Track and keep personal notes on vehicles you’re interested in

• Purchase vehicles in the BCA Buy Now & Bid Now sales channel

• Check details of tracked and purchased vehicles in MyBCA page

• View the status of your purchased vehicles and review any outstanding and paid invoices

• Pay for outstanding invoices

• Book and easily manage your vehicle collections

• Request a delivery booking for your purchased vehicles, with the ability to view and track your delivery bookings. * Eligible vehicles only

The app is the smartest way to select and buy your stock, never missing the opportunity to bid and buy the vehicles you need.

We are continuing to develop the app and will be adding more features based on your feedback.

Getting Started:

Sign in using your BCA One Login username and password that you use for Search (Auction View) and Live Online. There is a simple tutorial to help you get started.

Your feedback is important to us.

We want to keep improving the app for you so please share your suggestions. Just go to My BCA and then leave you feedback within the app.

Ratings and reviews

Great app, but they should add permission for the app to stop the phone going to sleep. Really annoying when you're watching an auction and the screen goes dark because you haven't touched the screen for a short time. Also need to be able to delete a saved search, trying to deselect the heart symbol does nothing. Notifications for watched vehicles tend to arrive after the vehicle has been sold. Even when connected to reliable WiFi networks. So it is not a connection issue.

At the moment it is only any good for searching for vehicles and setting up auction reminders. You cannot bid; hopefully that will come soon. Two irritations are: 1) When you track a vehicle on the app, that car isn't tracked when I log into my account on my desktop computer. 2) Although there is a 'saved search' tab, there doesn't seem to be any way of actually saving searches. Keep on developing; this will end up being an invaluable tool.

Continuous spinning cog. It appears that you need to login everytime you go back in, but it doesn't log you out, just displays the cog. When you do log out, (the button is hidden off the bottom of the screen!) it takes 5+ attempts to login again. Same on Samsung phone, and Samsung Tab.

What's new

In this update we’ve redesigned the search results feature making it easier to view the vehicle's service history, V5 status and previous owners. We've also added push notification alerts for suspended proxy bids and retained notes and tracking for vehicles which are re-listed.