Product Auction App for Shopify enables the feature of a bid or auction on your e-commerce website. Moreover, the admin can enable the bidding feature on products he wants to go for auction and can monitor all the bids happening on the store from the app itself and much more.

The app namely auction, which will enable the feature of bidding and auction of products on your e-commerce website. So don’t wait, install the Product Auction app & start Bidding.

Check the introduction video of the product auction app for Shopify:

How to add an auction in the product auction app for Shopify:

After that, you need to select the plan as per your need as shown in the below image.

Currently, we are having three different plans: Basic plan, Executive plan and Pro plan.

Pause plan: If you do not want to use the app for a while, you can pause the plan.

You will be charged 7USD per month for the paused plan.

Once the payment is done for the plan, the Product Auction will be listed here:

Clicking on which you will be redirected to the Auction page.

On the home page itself, you will find few codes to be pasted in .liquid files and other files of HTML/CSS to have the Auction bar displayed at the frontend.

Enter your email and upload your shop logo in this section. The shop logo’s image dimension should be 197 x 52. Extensions Supported: jpg, jpeg, png, JPG, JPEG, PNG.

Configure the auction/bidding configurations like enable/disable start auction automatically, send automatic emails to the bidders to notify their loss.

• Product Auction for Shopify: Proxy Bidding Feature
• Popcorn Bidding Feature: Product Auction
• Product Auction for Shopify: Bid On Multiple Units feature
• Multiple Winner Feature:- Product Auction for Shopify | Multiple Winner & Braintree Autopay

You can now configure the color to highlight the current bid on your auction products. You can have different colors for the bids on the collection & product page for the customer who leads the auction, participated in the auction, or has not yet participated in the auction.

To configure this, you need to visit the Auction Configuration menu of the admin panel>>Configure the color of your choice>>Save the settings.

This is how it appears on the collection page of your store:

This is how it appears on the product page of your store:

You can now have the option to show a confirmation pop-up on the product page when a customer places a bid. Just visit the Auction Configuration and enable this option.

This is how the confirmation pop-up appears once a bid is placed.

CHANGE AUCTION WIDGET LAYOUT

You can now change the layout of the auction widget shown on the product description page.

This is how the widgets look:

You can now configure the format of the “End Date” of the auctions on your products. For this, You just need to visit the Configuration>>Widget Configuration.

Configure the date format and click the Save button.

That’s all.

Change or reset the look of the front end and design by changing the color of the background, themes, button text, label, and much more.

Label Configuration:

Edit the labels of buttons on the front and rename them as per your requirements such as changing the label of time end, bid end date, place my bid and much more.

Mail Configuration:

Configure the after win, purchase reminder, after proxy loses mail content such as mail subject and content. You can also disable these different event’s email status.

SMTP Configuration: 

Click here!

Now, the admin can set the default bid rules for the auctioned products of his store.

From this, you can maintain the gap between the bidding amount.
If there is no rule defined for any particular bid, then we will take the nearest increment rule.

For this, visit Product Auction App > Configuration > Auction Configuration

Once you save the added bid rules, a dialog box will appear. Here, you can decide whether you want these bid rules to be effective on all the auctions or just on future auctions.

The added bid rules will be by default added to all your future auction. Moreover, you can alter the by-default bid rule for any individual auction while adding/editing it.

Once you will click on View Auction section, it will list the products with their auction’s start and end date, current bid, and the auction status. Click ‘view’ to see a detailed structure of product bidding history, bidder details and even the remaining time for auctions in the running phase.

Clicking on add auction button will let you create an auction for that product by filling up auction form containing bid start-end date and time and much more.
After creating auctions, you can view all its entered details.

Add multiple auctions at one go by following these steps:

Product Auction App Backend > Auctions > Add Auctions

Further, on the redirected page, click on the Select Products button.

Now, select the products on which you want to add auction from the product listing pop-up & click on Add. Refer:

Furthermore, fill the add auction form with the required details as usual.

The admin will receive an email once the auction is added successfully to all the selected products. In case any product auction fails to update, the information will be included in the received email with the reason for failure.

Now, if the admin wants to update, delete and finish the auctions in bulk then he can do it from Product Auction App >> Auctions >> select the auctions >> Click on “bulk auctions”

From the bulk actions, you have “Update auction”, “delete auction” and “finish auction” options to select.

Suppose, the admin has clicked on update auction then the admin will enable the update time duration and update the pricing toggle button to update the new time duration and pricing then click update button below.

To know more:

• Product Auction for Shopify: Add Auction to Product
• Product Auction for Shopify: Edit & Delete Bid

Moreover, clicking on view, you will be on a page that contains all the details about the app.

Product Auction for Shopify: CSV Feature

You can now export all the auctions from the app via CSV. You need to visit the App>>Go to Auctions menu>>In the Bulk Action>>Click Export Auction (in the drop-down menu).

This way, you can export the auction CSV from the app and send it to the email configured in the app.

Select if you want to export the selected auctions or export auctions on the basis of auction end date.

Select the Auction type from drop-down menu.

Click the Proceed button and the Auction CSV gets exported and sent to the admin’s email ID.

As per our app’s mail policy, you will be charged for the extra mails in case your mail count reaches the threshold limit. You just need to proceed to the payment page and accept the capped amount.

Note:- You will be charged an additional amount only if you use extra emails.

Important Points:-

• The renewal date will be the last date of each month.
• You will be charged for the emails up to the current date.
• The final charges will be counted up to the last date of the month as per the usage.
• Once your mail count reaches the limit of 2000 free mails, you will get charged an additional amount as per the usage per 1000 mails.
• If the merchant is using his/her own SMTP then, no additional charges will be deducted for the additional emails.

Product Auction for Shopify: How to Paste Codes in Liquid File

To get Auction displayed on the front end for selected products, follow the below process:

• Click on Online Store.
• Go To Themes.
• Click on the Action button on the top right.

• Select the Edit code button.

Then paste the below-given codes in the files as stated below.

product.liquid file

<div id="wk-auction" prod-id="{{ product.id }}" cust-id="{{ customer.id }}"></div>

customers/account.liquid file

<div id="wk-auction" cust-id="{{ customer.id }}"></div>

product.liquid file

{% unless product.tags contains "wk_auction" %}
wrap your liquid file content within this block
{% endunless %}

search-result-grid.liquid file

{% unless item.tags contains "wk_auction" %}
wrap your liquid file content within this block
{% endunless %}

product-grid-item.liquid file

{% unless product.tags contains "wk_auction" %}
wrap your liquid file content within this block
{% endunless %}

In case you are using Online store 2.0 (Example- Dawn), you need to follow the steps to add the codes.

To show auction block on product page, add the below code into main-product.liquid template file:-

<div id="wk-auction" prod-id="{{ product.id }}" cust-id="{{ customer.id }}"></div>

Paste code at the start of template:-

{% unless product.tags contains "wk_auction" %}

Paste code at the end of template:-

 {% endunless %}

To add Auction Configuration to your theme, add the codes to layout/theme.liquid file:-

Add code after <body> tag:

{% render 'wk_auction_config' %}

To hide “Add to Cart” button on product page, add the codes to sections/main-product.liquid file:-

Add attribute: class='wk_hide_element' and style='display: none'

Paste code at the start of block:-

 {% unless product.tags contains "on_auction" %}

Paste code at the end of block:-

{% endunless %}

“View your bids” button on customer account page, add the codes to customers/account.liquid file:-

<div id="wk-auction" cust-id="{{ customer.id }}"></div>

Display auction timer and bids on collection page, add codes to snippets/product-card.liquid file:-

Paste code at the start of template:

{% unless product_card_product.tags contains "wk_auction" %}

Paste code at the end of template:-

{% endunless %}

<div class="wk-category-auction" data-prod="{{ product_card_product.id }}" cust-id="{{ customer.id }}"></div>

The bidders menu provided the list of all the customers who have placed their bids on the auctions.

Here, we have provided the following options for the admin –

The admin has the option to ban the bidders which he seem unfit to place bids on the auctions set up by them.

The admin has the option to remove the card for the bidders in the case of auto-pay

Initially, only the customer had the option to remove their card from their customer Account page.

However, they could not remove their card while they have placed their bid for a running auction.

The bidders can now request the Admin to remove the card while they have placed their bid in a running action.

Once requested, an e-mail will be sent to the Admin to remove the card.

Once you enable this configuration, the Admin’s store will create the current bid for the auctioned product as a metafield.

The Admin can view the meta field on their Shopify store

Once an auction ends the last current bid’s value for the auctioned product will be stored in the metafield. While once a new auction is created on the product the value of the metafield will be updated to the current bid value of the new auction.

Purpose – This meta field can be used by the Admin to create a filter on the collection page.

Note – The functionality will exclusively cater to clients who are subscribed to the Shopify Plus plan and have opted for the pro plan of the Product Auction application

A brief history of bids made can be viewed by the bidder by click on a number of bids section just above place my bid.

History of all the bids made by bidders can be viewed by visiting my account section of the eCommerce store.

Clicking on View your bids button on my account page of the customer will make him view the history of bids made along with current bids, lost bids and won bids in separate dedicated sections.

Winning flow is simple for product auction product. As soon as Auction is finished then Winner is declared automatically based on admin configuration. Winner gets the automatic email from admin that “You have Won an Auction. Proceed further and buy this product”. Admin can modify winner email content from configuration.

As soon as Winner click on Buy Now button he/she is redirected to customer accounts page. From Customer account page they can check the winning auction. Buy now button is added in-front of Auction Product.

Once winner click on Buy Now button he is redirected to cart page where he can proceed with checkout.

Note: Winner Product at Shopify Back-end

When Admin creates the Auction Product, our app creates a product having name shopify auction while initial configuration. As an admin never delete or put that product in Draft state otherwise product auction will not work. Also this product should be available on online store sales channel. Moreover, if this product is not Active or Disabled, then the auction winners will get an Out of Stock error at the checkout page.

Auction Product is created as a variation but Auction Widget is applied to the actual product that customer sees on the front-end. As a result customer placed the bid on actual product and received the mail if declared as winner to buy variation product.

Now, the admin can place bids on behalf of customers using a CSV file.
for this, go to the AUCTIONS section >> click on “Place bid”

Now, you will have the option to upload a CSV file to bid place on behalf of the customer and you will find an option to download a sample CSV file but go through instructions for the CSV file then upload the CSV file to place a bid.

DEMO

Moreover, Use the below-given links for the demo of this app: https://auction-10.myshopify.com/pages/demo

Support

If you need any kind of support/consultancy then please raise a ticket at http://webkul.uvdesk.com/ or drop a mail at [email protected]

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