Overview
Instead of simply offering your products for a purchase, you may run an auction to earn more revenue. This app will facilitate you in doing so. The Bigcommerce Product Auction application introduces an auction feature to your e-commerce site. Moreover, the admin can enable bidding on the products that the admin wishes to auction, as well as monitor all bids on the store from the app itself.
Using the Product Auction App, you can start an online auction on your bigcommerce store. Because the app includes several features that make it simple to start and manage online auctions. The Product Auction application will make it possible to auction a product in a few simple steps. The user-friendly interface will undoubtedly assist you in getting started.
Features
- Admin can create and manage auctions for any product.
- The option to manually start and end the auction available.
- Admin can even restart the unsuccessful auctions.
- Set reserve price – The minimum price which must be reached, to be the winner.
- Admin can configure their email settings to send notification emails to the customers.
- Admin can use batch action to create auctions on various products at once.
The Flow of Installation and Configuration
Setup:-
After installing the application, You need to add a few codes to your theme files as per the instructions provided.
Click on the Embed button to add the Auction list page and Customer bids list page on the storefront.
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.
Display Current Bid:- After enabling this option, the current bid will be visible on the product page.
Display Bid Count:- After enabling this option, the total number of bid counts will be visible on the product page.
Store Currency:- Store currency will be selected from this option.
Amount to be paid by Auction winner:- Here the admin can select the amount to be paid by the auction winner.
- Winning Bid:- If the admin selects the winning bid then only the amount on which auction got completed will be paid by the customer.
- 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 Configuration:-
To configure email on your application you need to enter host details, port, username, password, and encryption and click save.
Add Auction to Products
STEP 1: Real-time product syncing is available in the app, You need to only select the product from the list on which you want to add the auction from the “Products” section of the application.
STEP 2: After selecting the product, You will be redirected to the page where you need to fill in product auction details.
- If you want to start the auction on the product automatically, enable the “Automatic Start Auction” button.
- Need to enter the Base Price i.e the minimum price from which the bid will get started and 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 3: Once you add an auction to a product an auction gets started on that product. 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.
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 :
Existing customers must need to log in to view the auction product details. Also, the customers who don’t have an account (guest customers) will be redirected to the Sign-in page, where they can create an account to register on the website, and then they can log in to view auction product details.
Logged in customers can view the information related to the auctioned product and are able to place bids.
Bidders can check the history of all their bids by going to the My Bids section on the auction page. By clicking on the My Bids button on the auction page, the customer will be able to view their history of bids.
Declaration of Winner
When the auction is completed, the admin will be able to see the bidding and winner information of the auctioned product and can notify the customer through email.
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