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.
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.
<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" />
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<h2>Auctions for WooCommerce Features</h2>
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<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 Shortcode that displays every part of the template</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:
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<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>
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<li>WPML compatible (note: does not support multiple currencies).</li>
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Please check screenshots below taken from actual Auctions for WooCommerce demo website:
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<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" />
<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" />
<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" />
<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" />
 
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.

Auctions

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

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