Auctions Made Easy for WooCommerce is a full-featured auctions plugin for creating and managing online auctions in a WooCommerce shop.
<h2>Benefits of Auctions Made Easy for WooCommerce</h2>
<ul>
<li>Setup and run Auctions easily.</li>
<li>Admin can force their customers to confirm their participation(Register for Auction) before actually participating in the auction. A fee can be optionally charged.</li>
<li>Separate dashboard for the admin and the customers to manage their Auctions.</li>
<li>Customers can contact you directly from the Auction product page.</li>
<li>Admin can Start/End any Auction from their dashboard.</li>
<li>Payments can be made using the existing payment gateways in the shop. Optionally restrictions can be placed on which payment gateways should be available.</li>
</ul>
<h2 align="left">How to Create and Run an Online Auction using Auctions Made Easy for WooCommerce?</h2>
Auctions Made Easy supports five types of Auctions they are Normal, Reverse, Sealed, Proxy and Unique. In this example, we will explain the workflow of a Normal Auction(Highest Bidder will be considered as the Winner).
<ul>
<li>Configure the product by setting up the mandatory fields(Starting Bid Price and Auction Duration).</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Once configured, the product will be available for bidding.</li>
</ul>
<figure style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/auction-page-before-bid.png" alt="" width="1080" height="608" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Auction product page</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li>Any logged-in customer can participate in the auction by placing their bid.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/auction-bid-placed-pt1.png" />
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<ul>
<li>After placing their bid, your customer can monitor the auction from their Auction dashboard.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Your customers will be notified by email if their bid has been outbid.</li>
<li>Once the Auction end date has reached, the highest bidder will be considered as the winner.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>The winner can make payment for the auction directly from the Product Page/Auctions dashboard.</li>
</ul>
a. Winner Payment Button in Single Product Page
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b. Winner Payment Button in Customer Dashboard
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<ul>
<li>Once the user clicks the make payment button, they will be redirected to the checkout page for completing the payment.</li>
</ul>
<figure style="width: 1080px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/winner-payment-completion-page.png" alt="" width="1080" height="608" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Winner completes payment</figcaption></figure>
<h2 align="left">Features Offered</h2>
1. Supported Auction Types
<ul>
<li>Normal Auctions</li>
<li>Reverse Auctions</li>
<li>Sealed Auctions</li>
<li>Proxy Auctions</li>
<li>Unique Auctions</li>
</ul>
2.Register Auction
<ul>
<li>Option for the site admin to allow their users to register themselves for participating in the auction.</li>
<li>Users can register only before the Auction starts so, the site admin should ensure that the Auction product is available to the user for registration before the start date and time(Set as Future Auction).</li>
<li>Enable register for ongoing auctions.</li>
<li>A fee can be optionally charged.</li>
</ul>
3. Option for the admin to charge a Bid fee for one time(only for first bid) or Charge Bid fee for each bid in an Auction.
4. Customers can contact the admin regarding their queries on auction directly from the product page.
5. Auction Dashboard for Customers to see the participated Auctions and Won Auctions.
<ul>
<li>Option to display the Auction dashboard on the My Account page.</li>
<li>Shortcodes to display the Auction dashboard menu details(Ongoing Auctions, Won Auctions, Lost Auctions, Register Auctions, Bid fee Auctions, Watchlist Auctions).</li>
<li>Display the Pay All Won Auctions button on the Auction dashboard(Won Auctions Tab).</li>
</ul>
6. Customers can add products to a Watchlist.
<ul>
<li>Watchlist emails for the customers to notify the watchlisted Auctions(Auction started, New bid, Auction closed, Auction failed).</li>
<li>Display watchlist users count on the Auction product page & Auction dashboard.</li>
</ul>
7. Buy Now price can be set for auction.
<ul>
<li>Option to display the buy now button for guest user.</li>
<li>Hide buy now button once the reserve price is reached.</li>
<li>Hide the buy now button after the first bid is placed.</li>
</ul>
8. Option for the admin to set Bid Increment Value. 
Bid Increment Types,
<ul>
<li>Normal Bid Increment</li>
<li>Variable Bid Increment</li>
<li>Fixed Bid Increment</li>
</ul>
Import and export option for variable bid increment settings.
9. Option for the admin to set the maximum number of bids per user in an auction.
10. Option for the admin to set the maximum number of bids for an auction.
11. Option for the admin to Relist the Failed & Finished Auctions Manually/Automatically.
12. Option for the admin to set the time period for the Winner to make the payment.
13. Option available to force the bidders to add their card details on the site before place the bid
14. Option available to enable automatic charging of the winning bid amount from the the winner using their saved payment details on the site.
15. Option for the admin to charge an extra amount from the winner if payment is not made within the specified time period.
16. Separate Post Table for admin to manage the Auctions.
17. Display auction winner details in the Auction Post Table(Backend) .
18. Filter options are available to find the Auction product based on Auction Types in the Auction Post Table(Backend).
19. Failed Auctions can be relisted automatically any number of times.
20. Email notifications for all auction activities.
21. Option to display a badge for Auction products on shop & product pages.
22. Option to assign the second highest bidder as the winner when previous winner didn’t make the payment on time.
23. Option for the site admin to extend the auction manually.
24. Option for the site admin to send Auction Started Email to all the registered users on the site.
25. Option to display the place bid and buy now buttons based on User Role restriction.
26. Option to mask the bidder details in Auction details tab on product page.
27. Option to mask the winner details on the Auction product page.
28. Option for the user to mark as Anonymous while bidding.
29. Option for the admin to display the estimate price for the auction product.
30. Option for the Site Admin to charge a commission amount(percentage or fixed) from the auction winner.
31. Allow user to place a bid for the auction product on the shop page.
32. Display Buy Now button for the auction product on the shop page.
33. Added the shortcode [ans_auction_products_list_table] to display all the auction products in a list table.
34. Multiple shortcodes are available to customize the Auction based on your needs.
35. Customizable read more button label for Not started, On-going, Closed, Finished and Failed Auctions on the shop page.
36. Live Ajax for shop page, Auction product page & Auction dashboard.
37. Export CSV options available to export the auction bid logs, register and bidding fee.
38. Option to show/hide the countdown timer at the auction product level.
39. Supported Cart and Checkout Blocks.
40. Supported Apple pay and Google Pay for auction products via WooCommerce payments gateway.
41. Supported Currency Switcher(<a href="https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-currency-switcher/8085217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Currency Switcher & multi-currency</a> plugin & <a href="https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-multi-currency/20948446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CURCY – WooCommerce Multi Currency – Currency Switcher</a> plugin).
42. Supports WooPayments multi-currency(<a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woopayments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://woocommerce.com/products/woopayments/</a>).
43. Compatible with Polylang for multilingual. (<a href="https://polylang.pro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://polylang.pro/</a>).

Auctions Made Easy

Auctions Made Easy for WooCommerce is a full-featured auctions plugin for creating and managing online auctions in a WooCommerce shop.
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<h3>Track Once Send Everywhere</h3>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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GTM setup can be time-consuming – this extension comes with packaged presets post popular tools and platforms in the market. that allow you to set up and run the integration in few simple steps without creating every single GTM Variable and Trigger yourself.
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<ul>
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<h3>Benefits</h3>
<ol>
<li>A single plugin to install that tracks all relevant eCommerce events</li>
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</ol>

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