Watch what 47 sales in 6 minutes looks like with Backstage vs. the old-fashioned way. Scrub the slider — that's what your show feels like.
With Backstage
The whole flow — capture, bin, label — on one device. No mid-show data entry. No 11pm typing sessions. The show ends and you're already done.
Backstage watches the show in the background and captures every sale the moment Whatnot shows it. Handle, item, lot, price, bin — already filled in. You touch nothing.
The first item a buyer wins gets a bin number. Every later win that night drops into the same bin. By end-of-show, your buyer table sorts itself.
Connect a thermal printer once. Backstage prints a sticker per buyer at the moment of sale, with the bin number front and center. No batched end-of-show typing.
Slide three numbers. We'll do the rest. (Yes, this math is real — it's what we hear from sellers running with and without us.)
Other live-selling tools cover some of the flow. Spreadsheets and manual typing cover none of it. Here's what actually fits in your show night.
Backstage
We don't name names. The other live-seller tools out there each cover part of this flow; none of them cover it all. The point isn't to disparage — it's that running a show is a workflow, not a feature.
Drop your Whatnot handle. We'll write you a one-paragraph read on what Backstage would change for your particular kind of show.
The pitch is written on the fly by Workers AI on Cloudflare's edge. We don't store your handle past the cache window. We don't access your Whatnot account.
We're still in private beta — the real quotes are coming as testers come out from behind the curtain. Want yours up here? Send us a line.
We invite sellers in waves. Drop your email and your Whatnot handle (optional) — we'll send your access code when it's your turn.
Whatnot today, with eBay Live and a few others in active development. The capture architecture isn't platform-specific — adding a new one is mostly a UI integration.
iPad and iPhone (App Store, currently TestFlight), Mac/Windows desktop, and a Chrome extension for the laptop-first workflow. One account works across all three.
Any reasonably modern thermal label printer with Bluetooth or USB. We've been tested on Rollo X1040, Zebra ZD410/ZD420, and a handful of Brother models. If you have something unusual, write us and we'll add support.
By default, no. Sales, buyer info, photos, and manifests stay on your device in an encrypted local store. You can opt in to cloud sync if you want backup or multi-device.
Free during beta. When we move to paid plans you'll get fair warning, a chance to review pricing, and the option to keep using or step away. No surprise charges.
Yes. Consignment mode lets you tag items by consignor and produce per-consignor manifests at end-of-show.