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.

The Google Product Feed extension allows you to create a real-time feed to supply product information to Google Merchant Center, a prerequisite for setting up Product Ads.
<h3>Why use this?</h3>
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<li>Imports product data to Google Merchant Centre, but gives you full control over your ad setup & spend</li>
<li>Maximize your campaign performance, and minimize your costs by improving product data quality with our extensive list of supported fields allowing you to provide the richest possible data to Google</li>
<li>Improve your product quality scores by mapping existing product data onto Google’s required fields from your site’s taxonomies, attributes or product fields</li>
<li>Capture additional data recommended by Google not normally held in WooCommerce using the plugin’s additional data entry fields</li>
<li>Lower your data entry burden with store-wide defaults, category-level data entry, or product-specific information against products or even individual variations if required</li>
<li>Add rich data more easily with full support for WooCommerce’s importer and REST API for bulk importing data</li>
<li>On-demand feed shows the latest information for your products, maximising product approvals</li>
<li>Integrates with a wide range of <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">common WooCommerce extensions</a></li>
<li>Extensive documentation covering setup and customisation and</li>
<li>Rich set of WordPress filters and actions allowing flexible customisation if necessary</li>
<li>Get your products found more easily with support for Google’s local product feeds, and review feeds</li>
<li>Keep control over your product listings with category-specific feeds and individual product submission opt-out</li>
</ul>
Once your products have imported into Google Merchant Centre they’ll be available to your linked Google Adwords account, giving you the flexibility to set up product ads as you want. Using the full power of Google Adwords – you’re in full control of your ad setup and budgets.
<h3>Product data fields</h3>
The extension supports 50+ feed attributes including all mandatory fields. Simple fields such as link, title, image_link etc are all populated automatically for you. Other fields provide a simple one-click mapping to allow you to map across your product fields onto the feed. You can provide store-level, or category level defaults and the feed will automatically pick the right values to include.
Where you don’t have data, the plugin provides custom fields on your products to allow you to enter richer product data. These fields are all available to the standard WooCommerce CSV import tool, and exposed via the WooCommerce REST API.
Fields currently supported include:
<ul>
<li>Core fields: availability, brand, color, condition, description (main product short/long, variant description or both), google product category, GTIN, ID, image links (including featured images, product gallery images, embedded content images, and support for custom images), link, MPN, price, product type, sale price (including effective date), shipping label, size, size system, size type, title (including ability to provide custom titles), short title</li>
<li>Rich data fields: adult content flag, age group, consumer datasheet, consumer notice, energy efficiency class (including min/max), energy label, gender, lifestyle image, material, pattern, product detail, product highlights, tax category, transit time label</li>
<li>Advanced fields: adwords grouping filter, adwords label, availability date, bundle flag, cost of goods sold, custom labels, disclosure date, expiration date, identifier exists flag, included/excluded destination, instalments, minimum/maximum handling time, multipack, pause flag, promotion ID, ships from country, unit pricing measure & base measure</li>
<li>Shopping actions-specific fields: google funded promotion eligibility, product fee, purchase quantity limit, return address label, return policy label, sell on google quantity, shopping ads excluded country,</li>
<li>Local-inventory-specific fields: pickup method, pickup SLA</li>
</ul>
<h3>Product review feeds</h3>
<img class="alignleft wp-image-3894232" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hoodie-ad-with-product-review.png?w=120" alt="" width="102" height="201" />In addition to the standard product feed, the extension provides a Google Product Review feed which integrates with WooCommerce’s built-in review system to provide a feed of product reviews that Google can cross-link to your products to display more compelling product ads including product ratings.
These ratings can show star ratings on Shopping ads and, in some instances, on product listings on Google. These ratings can help shoppers with their purchase decisions, driving more qualified shoppers to your product pages.
The extension provides full feeds, and incremental weekly, and daily feeds. Review data is automatically linked with your product feed data to allow Google to match reviews to products, and you have the ability to exclude reviews from the feed if required to meet Google’s policies.
<h3>Integrated with other WooCommerce extensions</h3>
The extension includes automatic integration with a wide range of WooCommerce extensions, including:
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<li>Product Bundles</li>
<li>Composite Products</li>
<li>Brands</li>
<li>Product Brands for WooCommerce</li>
<li>Cost of Goods</li>
<li>Multi-Currency</li>
<li>Min/Max Quantities</li>
<li>Product CSV Import Suite</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and more</a>….</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feeds</h3>
The extension provides a number of feeds to help you integrate, including:
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<li>Google Product feed – integrate your products to Google Merchant Centre so you can use them in surfaces across Google, and product ad campaigns</li>
<li>Google Local inventory feed – set up local surfaces, and local inventory ads</li>
<li>Google Product Reviews feed – send product review / ratings data to Google to enhance your product ad campaigns</li>
<li>Google Promotions feed – automatically send supported promotion data & pricing to Google</li>
<li>Bing product feed – integrate your products to Bing’s Merchant Centre so you can use them in product ad campaigns</li>
</ul>

Google Product Feed

Feed rich product data to Google Merchant Center for setting up free product listings, product ads, and local inventory campaigns. Full control over your field mappings, and feed content so you can maximize campaign performance and ad spend.

Auctions vs Google Product Feed