<p>Auctions for WooCommerce is professional auction plugin that extends your WooCommerce store with a new custom product type: auction – you can have normal, reverse, silent, or proxy auctions. Auctions can be used in conjunction with the Product Vendors plugin to create an eBay-style website where users can auction off their own items.</p>
<p>Auctions for WooCommerce is customizable via templates and Elementor, and supports hooks, shortcodes, widgets, notifications, translations, and WPML. It also includes auction-specific features like anti-sniping, variable bid increments, live ajax bid refreshing, and live bid browser notifications, different types of sorting. Auctions for WooCommerce is a fast, secure, efficient auction plugin that is optimized for high traffic and can handle hundreds of concurrent bidders.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5571456 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/auctions_for_woo_auction_list.png" alt="auctions for woocommerce list of auctions" width="750" height="642" /></p>
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<h2>Auctions for WooCommerce Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Completely integrated with WooCommerce, HPOS support, <a href="https://wpinstitut.com/woocommerce-rest-api-tutorial">WooCommerce REST API support – tutorial</a></li>
<li>Supports auction types: normal, reverse, silent, and proxy.</li>
<li>Seated auctions (bidders can purchase seat in order to participate in auction).</li>
<li>Auto charge for won auctions (if user has stored card number – works only with Stripe payment gateway).</li>
<li>Allow bidding only for users that have stored card (works only with Stripe payment gateway).</li>
<li>Lets you specify the starting bid, bid increments, the reserve price, the “buy it now” price,  auction start and end times, and the item condition.</li>
<li>An anti-sniping (soft close) feature extends an auction’s duration for a predetermined number of seconds if a last-minute bid is placed.</li>
<li>Variable Bid Increment (example $10 for current bid $50, $15 for current bid $100) or by percentage of current bid</li>
<li>Elementor support (from version 2.0) – tutorial <a href="https://wpinstitut.com/auctions-for-woocommerce-elementor-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> – works with any visual builder with <strong>Shortcode that displays every part of the template</strong></li>
<li>Bidders can add auctions to a watchlist and see all auctions they’re participating on a My Auctions page.</li>
<li>Option to display auctions alongside regular products or on auction-only page, and whether to show completed and upcoming auctions.</li>
<li>Includes widgets for ending soon, future, recent / latest, featured, recently viewed auctions, My Auctions, random auctions, auction search, and My Auction watchlist.</li>
<li>Sends automated email notifications — with editable email templates — when a customer is outbid, an auction is ending soon, a customer wins an auction, and many more.</li>
<li>Displays browser notifications when a bid is placed, a new auction is starting, and an auction closes.</li>
<li>Includes badges for auction products and for winning an auction (shown to winning bidder only).</li>
<li>Gives each customer a “My Auctions” page with a list of auctions in which user has placed a bid (both active and won auctions).</li>
<li>Lets customers sort by current bid, date, buy now price, activity, ending date, start date, or auction activity.</li>
<li>Includes ajax live current bid and auction history updating.</li>
<li>Lets you choose from a compact or extended countdown format.</li>
<li>Shortcodes for [auctions_watchlist], [my_auctions_activity], [ending_soon_auctions], [recent_auctions], [featured_auctions], [auctions ids=”1,2,3,4,5″], [auctions_for_woocommerce_my_auctions], [future_auctions], [past_auctions], [all_user_auctions] – see <a href="https://wpinstitut.com/auctions-for-woocommerce-documentation">plugin documentation</a> for details, scroll to List of Shortcodes</li>
<li>Shortcode to display parts of the template – you can use any visual builder that supports shortcodes to design your auction templates – [auctions_templates template=”add-to-cart|pay|bid-form|dates|condition|countdown|max-bid|reserve|auction-sealed|ajax-conteiner-start|ajax-conteiner-end|auctions_seated_progressbar_template”]</li>
<li>Adds administrator features to wp-admin, including:
<ul>
<li>Filter auctions in the WooCommerce product list by status (active, finished, failed).</li>
<li>Icons to describe different auction statuses: active, finished, finished and paid, failed.</li>
<li>Ability to create an auction from any type of WooCommerce product – simple, virtual or downloadable.</li>
<li>Ability to manually delete any bid, and to manually or automatically re-list auctions.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>WPML compatible (note: does not support multiple currencies).</li>
</ul>
<p>Please check screenshots below taken from actual Auctions for WooCommerce demo website:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-4276401 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/auctions_list.png?w=650" alt="" width="650" height="1154" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-4276399 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/auctions_for_woocommerce_livebidnotifications.png?w=650" alt="" width="650" height="438" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-5571449 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/auctions_for_woo_auction_options.png?w=650" alt="" width="650" height="930" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-5571451 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/auctions_for_woo_auctiondata.png" alt="" width="750" height="555" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-5571452 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/auctions_for_woo_ending_soon_reminder.png" alt="" width="850" height="684" /></p>
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<p>Take a look at the complete <a href="https://wpinstitut.com/auctions-for-woocommerce-documentation/">documentation</a> to learn more about all these features and how to use them.</p>

Auctions

<p>A professional Auction solution for your WooCommerce – Build a premier auction website dedicated to timeless antiques, rare memorabilia, collectibles or iconic classic automobiles. </p>

<h2>Create Engaging Competitions and Giveaways for Your Shoppers</h2>
<p>Set your store apart when you engage your customers in prize-winning activities. With the <strong>Competitions for WooCommerce</strong> plugin, you can create giveaways, lotteries, and competitions for your customers. Using the existing WooCommerce workflow, you can add playful elements to your site that increase customer engagement and retention.</p>
<p>The <strong>Competitions for WooCommerce</strong> plugin, can also create stand-alone sites for giveaways, competitions, and lotteries with instant wins. It is easy to install, modify and use. Competitions for WooCommerce is a fast, secure, efficient giveaway tool that is easy on hosting resources and can handle serious traffic.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Offer giveaways, competitions, contests and lotteries</li>
<li>Works with WooCommerce Subscriptions (with Subscription Gifts for WooCommerce your subscribers can receive entries to competitions and giveaways when subscribe or renew)</li>
<li>Instant wins with value and image, import instant win prizes, images and credit value using CSV</li>
<li>Option to group same instant win tickets with info about won and available instant wins</li>
<li>Automatically credit user’s wallet if instant win has been won (works with Wallet for WooCommerce – TeraWallet)</li>
<li>Manage competitions via your Product list dashboard</li>
<li>Award monetary prizes via any WooCommerce Wallet plugin</li>
<li>Special email notifications for competition related events</li>
<li>Automatically assign ticket numbers, allow users to manually choose numbers, or hold a giveaway without tickets</li>
<li>Easy customization with provided shortcodes, including a shortcode to show “My Lotteries” to logged-in users</li>
<li>WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin) compatibility and support</li>
<li>Headless WordPress ready – <a href="https://wpinstitut.com/woocommerce-rest-api-tutorial">WooCommerce REST API support – tutorial</a></li>
<li>HPOS support and optimized for performance</li>
<li>Works on competition sites with millions of ticket numbers</li>
<li>Works on competition sites with millions of instant wins</li>
<li>Works on competition sites with millions of orders</li>
<li>Supports Elementor natively for setting up single competition pages with easy-to-edit templates</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Competition Options</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Create competitions with or without ticket numbers</li>
<li>Create quiz competitions with questions based on text or images, Create skill-based competitions</li>
<li>Create tickets with numbers, numbers with prefix and suffix or numbers and letters (i.e., numeric: #1245 or alpha-numeric: #A1245)</li>
<li>Create instant wins for competition with option to automatically add won credit to winner’s wallet</li>
<li>Create competitions with limited duration with start and end date, or without end date – competition ends when all tickets are sold</li>
<li>Instant wins can be grouped, have image and value to auto credit winner’s wallet</li>
<li>Relist competitions manually or automatically</li>
<li>Option to add a Competition History tab to single competition pages</li>
<li>Add a My Tickets page with a list of active and past competitions under a user’s My Account page</li>
<li>Includes Lucky Dip feature for easier ticket number selection when you have a large volume of tickets</li>
<li>Enter winning numbers manually; useful when you rely on a 3<sup>rd</sup>-party to draw winning numbers like a random number generator or a national lottery</li>
<li>Users can log in at a later stage of checkout (i.e., guest checkout)</li>
<li>Ticket reservations to prevent duplicate ticket problem at checkout</li>
<li>Ticket reservations to prevent duplicate ticket problem at checkout</li>
</ul>
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<h2><strong>Add / edit competition page in WP-Admin</strong></h2>
<p><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cfw-add-competition.png" alt="Add / edit competition page in WP-Admin" width="980" height="2395" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734006179502" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Manage instant wins on edit competition page in WP-Admin</strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734006176659 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/instant-wins.png" alt="Manage instant wins on edit competition page in WP-Admin" width="1000" height="1905" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Competition Settings tab in WP-Admin/WooCommerce settings</strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734006176641 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/competitions-for-woo-settings-1.png" alt="Competition Settings tab in WP-Admin/WooCommerce settings" width="1226" height="3220" /></p>
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<h2>Product List with Competitions in WP-Admin</h2>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734000459869" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/competitions-product-list-wp-admin.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="787" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Single Competition Page with ticket number table and questions / answers</strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734000459910" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/single_competition_page_with_tickets_table_and_question_answers.png?w=479" alt="Single Competition Page with ticket number table and questions / answers" width="479" height="900" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Single Competition Page with Instant Winners and Instant Prizes tabs</strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006176457" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/tab-instant-prizes.png?w=896" alt="Single Competition Page with Instant Winners and Instant Prizes tabs" width="896" height="715" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006176458" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/tab-instant-winners.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="711" /></p>
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<p>Install <strong>Competitions for WooCommerce</strong> and delight your customers with giveaways, lotteries, and competitions. Please review legal issues related to giveaways in your location.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.6<br />
WooCommerce</p>
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Competitions

<p>Create engaging lotteries, raffles, competitions and giveaways for your customers with Competitions for WooCommerce.</p>

Auctions vs Competitions