Now serving US sale barns
Sale Barn Software Built for the Cloud
Run your entire auction from check-in to settlement — your barn, your way. No local servers, no IT headaches, no sale-day surprises.
MartEye is building a US presence in Overland Park, KS
Why sale barns are switching
The problems you already know about
Aging servers that crash on sale day
Legacy on-premise systems fail when you need them most — one hardware crash on a busy Saturday means lost data, delayed sales, and frustrated consignors. Studio runs in the cloud, so there is nothing to crash on your end.
Scale weights re-keyed by hand
Reading weights off the indicator and re-typing them into another system is slow and error-prone. Studio connects directly to weigh heads like Rice Lake and Cardinal, capturing each weight and tying it to the right draft as cattle cross the scale.
Records buried when you need them
When a P&S auditor, a consignor, or anyone else needs numbers, digging through binders and spreadsheets wastes hours. Studio keeps every consignment, sale, and settlement record in one place — pull P&S audit trails, marketing lists, and sale reports in seconds.
How Studio works
From check-in to settlement, all in one platform
Check-in
Consignment check-in
Assign consignors, and build your sale order from the alley or the office. Head counts, lot splits, and health papers, all tracked in one place.
Ring
Ring clerking
Your clerk sees bids, buyer numbers, and lot details on one screen. Price by head, pair, hundredweight (cwt), or pound on the fly, with every sale recorded instantly — no carbon copies to reconcile later.
Settlement
Settlement and proceeds
Generate consignor statements and buyer invoices the moment the sale ends, then print consignor checks on the spot. No more waiting days for paperwork to catch up.
Buyers
Buyer management
Track buyer history, credit status, and purchase patterns across every sale, so you know who your buyers are and how they buy.
Built for sale barns
More than just auction software
Tack auctions
Run small tack auctions where the lot number, seller, and buyer are assigned in one go. Record each lot in a single step — no separate check-in or clerking pass required.
Customer marketing
Send sale-day reminders, market updates, and promotions to consignors and buyers by email and SMS, right from Studio — with built-in list management to reach the right people.
Marketing email campaigns
Build marketing emails straight from your customer lists. Segment consignors and buyers by purchase history, breed, or location, then send targeted campaigns.
State reporting
Every state has its own requirements. Studio generates reports configured to your state agency, so staying compliant does not mean extra manual work.
Custodial accounts
The Packers & Stockyards Act requires you to hold buyer payments in a separate trust account for consignors. Studio tracks proceeds against your custodial account, so you meet USDA deposit deadlines and avoid shortfalls.
Fees and deductions
Apply commission, yardage, trucking, brand inspection, and checkoff charges automatically. Every fee is itemized on the settlement, so consignors see exactly what was deducted.
QuickBooks
Start with a one-time import of your existing customer and account data, then export settlement and transaction data to your books after every sale. Works with QuickBooks — the most common choice in the US — as well as Xero and Sage.
Studio Mobile for yard staff
Give yard staff instant lookup and live sale views from anywhere in the bar. Scan animals in the pen without walking back to the office.
Customizable display boards
Drive your ring and sale barn display boards straight from Studio. Choose what buyers see — lot number, weight, price, consignor — and lay out each board to fit your ring.
Drafting
Draft animals into sale groups straight from their consignments. Combine multiple drafts into one lot, split them back out, or hold animals for reweighing — without leaving the check-in screen.
Commingled sales
Pool animals from multiple consignors into uniform load lots to draw stronger bids. Studio tracks each owner’s share and splits the proceeds automatically at settlement — no spreadsheets required.
Back penning
Track where every animal goes after the gavel drops. Assign sold lots to back pens and load-out groups, so your crew knows exactly what belongs to each buyer.
Works on any connection
Studio runs over any internet connection — office broadband, barn WiFi, or a mobile hotspot out at the scale or in the pens. No dedicated wiring or on-site server required.
Sale access control
Control who can view and manage each sale. Set permissions by role — Owner, Admin, or Editor.
Packers & Stockyards compliance
Custodial account balance checker
Pick any analysis date and Studio pulls your ledger position into a point-in-time snapshot of your custodial account — the figures behind your annual USDA Form PSD 3003 filing, and a PSD 7001 reconciliation ready the moment a Packers & Stockyards auditor asks for one. It reconciles proceeds held against proceeds due consignors and flags any shortage before an auditor does.
- Snapshot your custodial balance as of any analysis date
- Line-by-line mapping to PSD 7001, Sections 4–6, and PSD 3003, Section 6
- Reconciles bank balance, deposits in transit, proceeds on hand, and outstanding checks
- Ages livestock sales past 7 days as accounts receivable automatically
- Flags any shortage in the account so you can act before deposit deadlines
- Export the per-buyer proceeds and receivables detail to CSV
What are PSD 3003 and PSD 7001?
PSD 3003 is the annual report every market agency files on its custodial account. PSD 7001 is the more detailed reconciliation the USDA Packers & Stockyards Division requests on demand or during an audit. Both come down to reconciling your bank balance against everything you owe consignors on a given date.
Instead of rebuilding that reconciliation by hand each time, Studio keeps a running picture of your custodial position and lays it out in the same structure as the form — so your annual PSD 3003, or a PSD 7001 pulled mid-audit, is a matter of reading the figures across.
And because Studio already holds your volume and proceeds history, a PSP 7003 bond-adequacy review is easy to pull together too.
EID compliance
Built for the USDA EID mandate
The USDA final rule on electronic identification is reshaping how sale barns handle cattle. Studio supports 840 tag reading and traceability from the moment an animal arrives.
- Read and record 840 RFID tags at check-in
- Link tags to consignors, lots, and health papers automatically
- Designed to support the Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) framework
- Generate tag-level reports for brand inspectors and state vets
- Cloud-based records accessible anywhere, anytime
What is the USDA EID rule?
Since November 2024, the USDA has required electronic identification (EID) tags for certain cattle moving interstate. Sale barns now need software that can read, store, and report on RFID tags as part of their standard workflow.
Studio was built with electronic traceability at its core — tag reading and animal tracking are woven into every step of the sale, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Cloud vs. on-premise
Why more sale barns are moving to the cloud
Legacy on-premise software served the industry well for decades. But aging hardware, rising IT costs, and the demand for real-time access are pushing sale barns to the cloud — tools that keep independent operators in control of their own sale, without leaning on IT staff or a vendor’s schedule.
| Feature | Cloud (Studio) | On-premise |
|---|---|---|
| Server hardware | None required | You buy and maintain it |
| Software updates | Automatic, no downtime | Manual installs, scheduled downtime |
| Data backups | Continuous, automatic | Your responsibility |
| Access from anywhere | Any device, any location | Office only (unless you set up VPN) |
| IT staff needed | No | Yes, or expensive on-call contracts |
| Sale-day reliability | Built on redundant cloud infrastructure | Single point of failure |
| Disaster recovery | Data replicated across multiple locations | Depends on your backup routine |
Built to evolve
Run your sale today, ready for what comes next
Studio runs your sale barn now — and keeps getting better. We ship new features regularly, built shoulder to shoulder with the barns that use them, so the operators who come on board early help shape where Studio goes next. It is made for barns that would rather set the pace than wait on legacy vendors to catch up.
See Studio in Action
Whether you are upgrading from paper, spreadsheets, or legacy software, we will walk you through how Studio fits your operation.
MartEye is building a US presence in Overland Park, KS, backed by a platform that already powers 70+ auction centers and 120,000+ registered buyers worldwide.