EstiMint Alternative: A Flat Monthly Plan vs. Paying Only When You Sell

If you catalog items for estate sales, auctions, or a consignment shop, you have probably come across EstiMint. It turns item photos into titles, descriptions, tags, condition notes, and price estimates, and its higher plans add consignor tools, auction clerking, and settlements. It is a capable cataloging tool.

FindA.Sale works differently, and the biggest difference is how you pay. This page lays out both models side by side, with real numbers, so you can pick the one that fits how you run sales. All EstiMint figures below come from EstiMint's own website, checked on October 25, 2026. Prices change, so confirm on their site before you decide.

How EstiMint is priced

EstiMint sells monthly plans, billed month to month with no contract or setup fee:

• Free: $0 for 30 days, 200 listings, up to 3 photos per item.
• Standard: $29 a month, 300 listings per month, up to 12 photos per item.
• Pro: $89 a month, 1,500 listings per month. Adds consignor tools and e-signatures.
• Auction Pro: $149 a month, 3,500 listings per month. Adds live clerking, invoices, and settlements.

A few details worth knowing:

• The free plan is a 30-day trial. No card is needed. After 30 days your existing listings stay viewable and editable, but creating new ones needs a paid plan.
• The monthly price is set by listing volume, not by sales. A slow month and a busy month cost the same, as long as you stay under your plan's listing cap.
• Card payments run through your own Stripe account. EstiMint states it takes no cut of payments. Stripe's standard 2.9% plus $0.30 per payment applies, and in EstiMint's own sample invoice that fee comes out of the amount the seller receives.

How FindA.Sale is priced

FindA.Sale does not charge you to list. You pay when something sells through FindA.Sale, and the fee already includes card processing.

• Simple: free. 8% in person, 9.5% online.
• PRO: $29 a month. 6% in person, 7.5% online.
• TEAMS: $79 a month. 6% in person, 7.5% online.

What that means in practice:

• Simple is always free to publish. There is no trial clock. It includes photo to listing, unlimited items per sale with 5 photos each, 100 auto tags a month, one active sale at a time, QR codes, and a built-in point of sale.
• One fee, card processing included. There is no separate Stripe or Square charge on top. Card sales have a $0.75 minimum fee per transaction.
• No fee on sales made outside FindA.Sale. If you sell something through your own card reader, Venmo, or a handshake and never run it through FindA.Sale, we don't charge you for it. Cash you ring up on the FindA.Sale register is a sale through the platform and carries the same percentage fee (with no $0.75 minimum).
• One big sale, no subscription. From your second sale on, Simple organizers can add a one-time $9.99 upgrade to a single sale for 10 photos per item, 500 extra auto tags, the Flip Report, and the Virtual Queue. It is optional.
• Shoppers come with it. Every published sale and item shows up for shoppers browsing sales near them, so the listing work also does the job of getting the word out.

The numbers on two real-world sales

Here is what each model costs on two example sales. We assume all payments are by card, since that is where both models charge a processing fee.

A small sale: $500 in card sales from 20 buyers

• EstiMint Standard: $29 subscription + Stripe (2.9% of $500 = $14.50, plus 20 x $0.30 = $6.00) = $49.50
• FindA.Sale Simple, in person: 8% of $500 = $40.00, card processing included, no monthly bill

A big sale: $15,000 in card sales from 300 buyers

• EstiMint Pro: $89 subscription + Stripe (2.9% of $15,000 = $435.00, plus 300 x $0.30 = $90.00) = $614.00
• FindA.Sale Simple, in person: 8% of $15,000 = $1,200.00
• FindA.Sale PRO, in person: $29 + 6% of $15,000 = $929.00

We would rather say this plainly: on a large, card-heavy sale, a flat subscription plus Stripe costs less in fees than a percentage. Where pay-when-you-sell comes out ahead is in the months you run small sales, the months you run none, and the sales where a good share of items sell outside the platform. You never pay for a month you didn't use.

One more point on fees: FindA.Sale charges no fee on sales made outside the platform, even if you mark the item sold here to keep your inventory accurate. The platform fee applies to sales paid on the FindA.Sale website or rung up on the FindA.Sale POS.

What else is different

The fees are only part of the picture. The two tools are built for different jobs.

• EstiMint is a cataloging and back-office tool. It is strong on detailed item records, consignor paperwork, CSV export to auction platforms such as AuctionFlex, Proxibid, LiveAuctioneers, and HiBid, and (on Auction Pro) live clerking and settlements. Getting buyers to the sale is up to you.
• FindA.Sale covers cataloging, selling, and getting found. Items go from photo to listing, sell through the built-in point of sale or online checkout, and appear for local shoppers browsing sales near them. It is built for estate sales, yard sales, auctions, flea markets, and consignment alike.

If your business lives on exporting catalogs into an auction platform, EstiMint's export tools may matter more to you than how fees are structured. If you want one place to list, sell, and reach shoppers without a monthly bill, FindA.Sale is worth a try.

Related reading

• Why a free trial is not the same as a free plan
• What a season of sales costs under each pricing model

Try it on your next sale

Publishing on Simple is free, so you can run one sale and see how it fits before you spend anything. Start at finda.sale.