Everything KreonBid does.

The full guide, from creating an auction to sharing the team posters. Each area below links to a closer look where there is one.

Accounts and access

Who can do what.

A super-admin who creates auctions and organisers
Organisers who can run only the auctions assigned to them
Team logins for owners, co-owners and captains: mobile and PIN, or a QR code
LED and public views need no sign-in and are read-only
Each auction is fully separate from every other

Auctions

One server, any number of auctions.

Status for each: Setup, Live, Completed, Archived
Copy an auction’s rules, sets, sponsors and optionally teams for a new season or category
Archive and restore; delete only by typing the auction code
Quick links to manage, console, LED and public view

Rules and setup

Everything a league decides before the day.

A closer look

Purse per team, minimum and maximum squad size
Sets (grades) with base price, minimum and maximum per team, colour and order
Bid increments as a table of steps
Money unit, such as lakh with the ₹ symbol, used on every screen and report
Bid timer, purse protection on or off, live bid shown or hidden
A readiness check that flags setups that cannot work

Teams and owners

Teams, the owners who play, and logins.

Team name, short name, colour and logo
Pre-assigned owner with a purse deduction
A login and QR code per person; print all QR codes on one sheet
A new PIN or QR signs out every phone using the old one
Purse adjustments with a reason, such as a penalty

Players

From a registration sheet to the pool.

Import from Excel or CSV with column matching and a preview
Duplicates skipped and listed; serial numbers kept unique
Bulk photo upload matched by serial number or name
Search, filter by set and status, mark absent
Fields: name, serial, set, mobile, age, role, batting, bowling, area, notes, photo

Console

Running the auction.

A closer look

Random draw by set, or pick a player
Final price entry or live bidding
A hotkey per team; undo, unsold, sell from the keyboard
Edit or revert recent sales
Unsold round, and assign without bidding
Full control of the LED, breaks and countdowns

LED screen

The big display.

A closer look

Draw sequence, spotlight for Icon players, SOLD and UNSOLD stamps
Current bid in team colours, bid ladder, timer
Team strip with max bid and purse left
Scenes: welcome, purse table, squads, top buys, upcoming, sponsors, summary, break
Sound effects, sponsor ticker and rail, QR code
16:9 and 4:3 layouts; a 20-step guided tour

Owner screen

Every owner’s phone.

A closer look

Purse left, players and max bid, live
Your limit for the player on the block, and “after this buy”
Rival purses and how high each can go
Wishlist with priority, target price and notes
Squad, set slots and a plan against the purse
Team poster and squad contacts; a 21-step guided tour

Public live view

For players, families and the audience.

No sign-in
Player on the block, current bid, latest sales
Every team’s squad with prices
Set-by-set progress, standings and top buys

Results

Reports, posters and the audit trail.

A closer look

Team squads, full results, summary and audit log as PDF
Everything as Excel
A 1080×1350 poster per team
Rehearsal reset for a full mock auction

Photos

Good-looking player cards without the work.

Uploads shrunk on arrival, with a thumbnail under 10 KB for lists
Face framing for screenshots, full-body and group photos
Photos shown whole in an upright frame, so no face is cut off
Original files, which can carry location data, are never served

Venue internet and offline

Built for a hall full of phones on one connection.

Live updates compressed about 5×
Phones receive a trimmed copy of the live data
Data saver for every phone at once
LED offline cache after Sync LED
The LED fetches upcoming players’ photos in advance

Security and privacy

Protecting logins and players’ details.

Wrong PINs limited to 10 per mobile number per 15 minutes; only wrong tries count
Passwords and PINs stored as bcrypt hashes
Mobile numbers never reach the LED, public or other teams’ screens
A content security policy, HTTPS-only cookies and HSTS
An audit log of every action, with who did it

Reliability

Nothing left to chance on the day.

Every auction action is a single database transaction
Clocks use the server’s time, so every screen shows the same numbers
Screens reconnect and heal themselves after an error
Phones never reveal a player before the LED does
Automated tests for the auction rules

Keyboard shortcuts

Run it from the keyboard.

Where	Key	Does
Console	`N`	Draw the next player
Console	`1–9, 0, Q…P`	Pick a team, or bid for it
Console	`Enter`	Sell
Console	`U`	Unsold
Console	`Z`	Undo the last bid
LED	`F`	Full screen
LED	`M`	Mute or unmute
LED	`T`	Guided tour

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What features does KreonBid have?

KreonBid covers the whole auction: accounts and access, auctions, rules and setup, teams and owners, players, console, led screen, owner screen, public live view, results, photos, venue internet and offline, security and privacy, reliability.

Does KreonBid support an unsold round?

Yes. When the pool is empty the operator starts an unsold round, which brings every unsold player back. Leftover players can also be assigned to a team without bidding.

Can KreonBid import players from Excel?

Yes. It imports Excel and CSV sheets, matches the columns to player fields, skips duplicates, keeps serial numbers unique, and matches bulk-uploaded photos by serial number or name.

Is there a guided tour for first-time users?

Yes. The LED screen has a 20-step tour and the owner screen a 21-step tour. Both use a pretend auction, so the real one is never touched.

Book a demo

See a full auction running, before yours.

We will run a demo auction on the LED screen, the console and your phone, and talk through your league’s rules.

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