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User Guide For Wix Product Auction App

Updated 14 November 2024

To increase sales, you can consider having an auction in addition to simply making your things available for purchase. This application will make it easier for you to achieve that.

You may launch an online auction on your Wix store with the Wix Product Auction App. As a result of the app’s numerous capabilities, starting and managing online auctions is made simple.

A product can be auctioned in a few easy steps with the help of the Product Auction application. Undoubtedly, the user-friendly UI will aid in your initial setup.

Features

For each product, an administrator can create and control auctions.

An auction can be applied to both physical and digital products. 

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The auction can be manually started and ended.

Admin can even restart the unsuccessful auctions.

Set a reserve price, which is the lowest price that must be reached to win.

Admin can configure their email settings to send notification emails to the customers.

An admin can set up auctions for several products at once.

Note – If you have any cookies enabled on your website, your customers will need to accept them first. Then auction will become visible.

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App Subscription :  

To Subscribe to the app you need to go to the Wix Dashboard then Apps >> Manage Apps.

In front of the app you will see the option to upgrade your subscription, click on the upgrade button and you are done.

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The Flow of Installation and Configuration

Auction Configuration:-

Admin needs to configure auction settings as follows:–

Email:- Admin needs to insert an email ID on which admin wants to receive emails for the placed bids.

Email Notification for Every Bid:- By enabling this option, Admin will be able to receive notification for every bid.

Show Current Bid:- After enabling this option, the current bid will be visible on the product page.

Show Bid Count:- After enabling this option, the total number of bid counts will be visible on the product page.

Restrict Reserve Price:- Admin can restrict the reserve price so that the purchase will not made if the last bid amount is less than the reserve price.

Amount to be paid by Auction winner:- The amount to be paid by the auction winner can be set here.

  • Winning Bid:- In case the admin selects this option, then the auction amount is the only amount the winner has to pay.
  • Percentage of Winning Bid:- If the admin puts the percentage amount then the customer will need to pay the winning bid amount plus the percentage amount that the admin has applied.
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Auction General Settings

Email template Setting:-

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Email Configuration:-

To know how to configure email settings, please visit the User Guide and follow the required steps.

Note – The above settings are for Gmail, in case you are using any other email service then contact your email service provider for the following details.

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Email Configuration

Add Auction to Products

STEP 1:- After configuring the application, Admin needs to manually sync the data by clicking on “Sync Products”.

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STEP 2:- Click on the plus icon “+” to add the auction on the products.

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STEP 3:- After clicking on the plus icon, it opens up the page where you have to fill in the product auction details.

Click on Select Products on which you want to set the Auctions (You can select a maximum of 10 products at one time).

  • If you want to start the auction on the product automatically, enable the “Automatic Start Auction” button.
  • Now enter the following Pricing details:
    • Base Price i.e. the minimum price from which the bid will get started. 
    • Reserve Price i.e. the minimum auction price below which the admin will not sell the product.

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Auction Setting
  • You need to set the time duration by specifying the auction start/end date and time.
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Auction Setting
  • After applying all the settings you need to click on Save to set the auction.
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STEP 4:- When you add an auction to a product, the auction for that product starts. You can view complete auction detail in the “Auctions” section of the app.

Also, you can edit the auction details as well as stop the auction on the product manually.

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Auction Status

Note – You can delete those products from auction app end on which you don’t want to apply auction via bulk/single delete option as shown below –

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Also you can delete those auction that you don’t want anymore on auction app end.

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Add Auction Page to Homepage :

When the auction app will get installed on your end, it will automatically create an auction category under Store products >> Categories as shown below :

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Now you need to open that category and click on add the category to site option as shown :

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When you will click on Add now option, it will redirect you to create the page.

Click on create page option as shown below :

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Click on Publish site

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Auction Page on Home page :

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Frontend View

When you add auction products and the auction starts, your auction window for the auction products will look like this on the front end :

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Frontend View

Declaration of Winner

After the auction ends, the admin will be able to see information about the bidding and winner details and can also notify the auction winner.

If somehow, notified winner is not purchasing the product then the admin will be able to notify the alternative winners.

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Declaration of Winner

The email is sent when the admin notifies the winner. The mail has the link to purchase the auction product that you have won.

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Support

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

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