Woo Live Auctions by CyberCraft

Crafted by the CyberCraft engineering team, Woo Live Auctions gives merchants a broadcast-quality auction experience without custom development. Realtime AJAX updates, smart proxy rules, and lifecycle automation orchestrate the entire journey—from first bid to final gavel—while admin prompts keep revenue opportunities front and center.

Brief

Woo Live Auctions ignites your WooCommerce catalog with adrenaline-pumping bidding, polished UX, and automation that makes every auction feel effortless.

Features

• Realtime bidding theater powered by AJAX so shoppers never refresh.
• Smart proxy bidding with transparent free-tier limits.
• Automated lifecycle control driven by WP-Cron to start and end on schedule.
• Watchlists, buy now, reserve pricing, and a responsive bid history scroller.
• Targeted email messaging for winners, outbid notices, ending-soon alerts, and proxy wars.
• Admin intelligence with cron health checks, analytics hooks, and premium UI states.
• Live countdown elements with second-by-second urgency designed for conversions.
• Bid history insights that surface manual versus proxy bids at a glance.
• Role-aware permissions so you can gate proxy or guest bidding with confidence.
• Template override support letting designers craft on-brand auction layouts.
• Developer-first hooks to integrate CRM, ERP, or analytics pipelines.
• Localization ready with RTL support and translation-friendly strings.
• Performance tuned queries and caching layers to scale flash-sale auction events.

Why This Is More Than You Need

Most auction plugins list products and walk away. Woo Live Auctions choreographs the full performance: freemium-safe messaging, monetization nudges for store owners, and reliability tooling that keeps every auction fair, fast, and flawless. Launch in minutes, delight bidders for months.

Activation

1. Install and activate the plugin from your WordPress dashboard.
2. Visit WooCommerce → Settings → Auctions to review defaults.
3. Create a product and switch the product type to Auction.
4. Enter start/end times, bid increment, reserve, and optional buy now price.
5. Publish and promote—the countdown begins instantly.

Pro Features For Your Small Investment

• Unlimited proxy wars that never pause until a winner emerges.
• Dynamic bid increment ladders and VIP bidding rules.
• Advanced analytics dashboards with conversion insights and heatmaps.
• White-labeled communications plus SMS/push integrations.
• Priority launch concierge and optimization playbooks from CyberCraft.

Roadmap Teasers

• Live-stream overlays and multi-camera bidding feeds.
• AI-driven bidding tips for sellers and participants.
• Multi-vendor marketplace capabilities with revenue sharing.

Developers & Contributors

• mithublue
• cybercraftit

1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/ or install via Plugins → Add New.
2. Activate through the Plugins screen.
3. Configure settings under WooCommerce → Settings → Auctions.
4. Set up your first auction product and start selling to the highest bidder.

1.0.0

• Initial release with realtime bidding, proxy logic, notifications, and automation.