User Guide For Wix Product Auction App

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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.

The auction can be manually started and ended.

Admin can even restart the unsuccessful auctions.

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.

The Flow of Installation and Configuration

Auction Installation:-

To install the app, follow the following steps –

Go to your Wix store, then click on Apps >> Manage Apps as shown.
Now, click on Get More Apps.

Now, you’ll be redirected to the app market page from where you need to search for “Product Auction”.
Click on Add to site button to add the app to your site, as shown below.

Click on Agree & Add to move forward after reading the terms and conditions of the application.

Click on Add to site button again to add the app to your site, as shown below.
Then, to save the changes, click on publish.

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, the Admin will be able to receive a 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.

Email template Setting:-

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.

Add Auction to Products

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

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

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.

You need to set the time duration by specifying the auction start/end date and time.

After applying all the settings you need to click on Save to set the auction.

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.

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 –

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

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 :