YITH Auctions for WooCommerce

Name: YITH Auctions for WooCommerce
Brand: YITH
SKU: 798762
Price: 149.99 USD
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Rating: 4.45 (96 reviews)

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The easiest way to
implement an auction system
similar to eBay on your store.

If you are not satisfied with our products, you will receive a 100% refund for any reason.

What the plugin does The easiest way to implement an auction system similar to eBay on your store.

How you can benefit from it:

You will benefit from an effective model business catching the eye of those customers who usually take part in auctions to get products at advantageous prices;
You will sell unique and refined products without diminishing their market value by setting a minimum start price to increase the profit margin;
You will take advantage of the scarcity and competition principles to offer an ad hoc product, such as a custom or out-of-stock item, that your customers will perceive as unmissable.

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This plugin is used by 11,624 customers, with a rating of 4.5/5 and a 97% customer satisfaction in support!

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Manage online auctions to sell your products: the business model users just can’t resist.

Do you know what an online auction is?

I bet you do, and you probably have already considered selling products on eBay, the number one network in this field that built an empire on this kind of sales and got millions of people used to buying online through their bids, taking part in a sort of race to purchase.

Users who are interested in auctions are moved by the chance to get items at low prices and motivated to place a bid which in most cases turns into an immediate price rise as soon as they are outbid.

Auctions are simple: anybody can place a bid for a specific product and if no other bid exceeds the previous one, then they win the item. This allows buyers to grab products for their best price and allows vendors to generate a profit sometimes bigger than anticipated.

Using our YITH WooCommerce Auction plugin, you will not only be able to make auctions for your products but thanks to the integration of our YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor you will have the chance to create a real portal for online auctions, allowing all of your vendors to create auctions of their own and letting you earn a share on each one of their sales.

Set a start price, a reserve price and a “buy now” price

For each auction, you can define a start price, a reserve price (the minimum price you are willing to accept for the product), and a selling price to allow users to purchase the product immediately, without taking part in the auction.

Auction starting price and reserve price

Choose to set the auction with manual or automatic bids.

For every auction, you can decide if users must place their bids manually or if they can enter the maximum amount they’re willing to pay in order to let the system raise bids automatically until reaching the limit they set.

Create a standard auction or a reversed auction where the winner is the user who made the lowest bid

In a classic auction, the highest bid is the one winning the auction, whereas, in the reversed auction, the lowest one wins.

Set secret auctions to hide bids

You can set an auction as “secret” to hide the bids made so far from other users.

Set a “fee” to sign-up and take part in the auction

For each auction, you can set a fee that users have to pay before placing their bid. To pay the fee, they will be redirected directly to the checkout.

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Choose whether to apply an extra commission to the auction winner

Since version 3.0 you can make sure that the auction winner pays an additional commission to cover side costs like taxes, management or legal costs, etc. You can show the commission cost on the auction product page or only on the checkout page when the winner is going to pay for the won item.

Choose from 4 different countdown layouts (or show the auction duration only)

The plugin offers 4 modern and captivating countdowns to show users when the auction ends. You can choose the style that fits your theme better, customize colors, or disable the counter to show only the end date of the auction.

Choose whether to enable the “Watchlist” to let users keep track of the auction they are interested in or not

Let your users choose from signing-up to the auction and receive email notifications or adding the auction to a “watchlist” they can track through the related widget or on their account.

Ask users for confirmation before publishing their bid

Reduce the number of bids made only out of curiosity or without real interest by requesting users a confirmation before publishing their bids and informing them of the obligations if they win the auctions.

Request users to register or log in and set a valid credit card to be able to bid

By integrating our YITH Stripe, you can improve your auction site safety by requesting users to insert a valid credit card in order to make a bid.

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When the auction ends, automatically generate an order with the “pending payment” status to pay for the auction item

Sending an email to the auction winner and asking to pay for the item without giving any reference to how and when could be a double-edged sword: to streamline the payment process for the auction product, you can enable the dedicated option and generate the order to pay for this item in a totally automated way. The generated order will take on the “pending payment” status and the auction winner will be redirected to the checkout page from the link in the email.

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Automatically charge the auction winner’s card

Thanks to the integration with our YITH Stripe plugin, you can automatically charge the auction winner’s credit card when the auction ends. This new feature will make your site much more solid and will dramatically reduce the rate of unpaid auctions.

Decide how to manage auctions not paid for or those that haven’t reached the reserve price

If the winner of the auction doesn’t pay the product, choose whether to send the notification to the second-highest bidder or reschedule the auction and publish it again automatically.

Use widgets, shortcodes, and Gutenberg blocks to show your auctions where you want

Thanks to the shortcodes, you can create custom pages to show active and scheduled auctions or only those belonging to specific categories. Use the widgets in sidebars or any widget area of your theme. If you use Gutenberg, you can benefit from the related blocks to show your auctions on any page.

Keep your users up-to-date with a wide range of notifications

Send notification emails to users who keep track of the auction and to all bidders when there is a new bid, when the auction is about to end, when someone outbids them(encouraging them to place another bid) and when the auction has ended.

1 year of updates, bug fixes and technical support

The official plugin license entitles you to one year of updates (and new features that will be added in future versions), error and bug fixes, and access to our technical support platform.

30-Day money back guarantee

Do you have any doubts about the plugin and don't know if it's a good fit for your project? You have nothing to worry about, you can always take advantage of our 100% money back guarantee and get a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

Features

Auction creation
- Create unlimited auctions in your shop
- Create standard auctions: the user that bid the higher offer win
- Create reversed auctions: the user that bid the lower offer win
- Create sealed auctions: the current bid and the list of bids will be hidden
- Create auctions with fee: users has to pay the fee before to place a bid
- Set a start price for the auction
- Set a minimum increment amount
- Set the reserve price for the product: no one will win the auction below the specified amount
- Set a “buy now” price and let users end the auction by purchasing the product via the ‘buy now’ option
- Set the start/end date and time for the auction
- Hide automatically the “buy now” button after the first bid is placed or when a bid exceeds the auction reserve price
- Enable an option to automatically extend the end date of an auction if a bid is placed a few minutes before its end
- Show an optional countdown in the auction page or loop. Choose from different styles and customize the colors of the countdown.
Bidding options
- Enable the “manual bidding”: when a new higher bid is placed, the bidders will get a notification to push them to bid again
- Enable the “automatic bidding” (Ebay style): the user enters the maximum he is willing to pay for the item. The system will automatically bid for him with the smallest amount possible every time, until the user's maximum limit has been reached
- Enable a popup to ask the user to confirm the bid before it is placed
- Enable a popup to ask the user to pay a fee before to bid
Auction winning & payment
- Force users to add a credit card before placing a bid
- Automatic creation of an order with “pending payment” status assigned to auction winner New Hot
- Automatically charge the winner's credit card when the auction ends through our Stripe plugin integration New Hot
- Option to charge a commission fee to auction winner New
- Show a different badge for the highest bidder and/or winner
- Show a custom message for the winner on the auction page
Auctions rescheduling
- Automatically reschedule an auction when product doesn’t have any bids
- Automatically reschedule an auction when bids don’t exceed the reserve price
- Automatically reschedule an auction when the winner did not pay for the product (you can choose to send a pay reminder to the winner, to send the winning notification to the 2nd higher bidder or to reschedule the auction)
Admin tools
- Choose to show or hide the auction products on your shop
- Hide ended or not started auctions on shop page
- Show the complete list of auction products on any page of the site using the shortcode
- Suggest similar auctions on the ended auction pages New
- Check all bids placed on a specific auction from its product editing page
- Export a CSV file of the complete ‘auction list’
- Set the date and time format for auction products
- Override the global options on each specific auction
- Encrypt or show bidder usernames when they make a bid on the product
- Ban users from bidding
Tools for bidders
- Users can add auctions in a watchlist to stay updated
- Users can follow an auction by entering their email address
- Users can unfollow auctions through an “unsubscribe” link in the emails New
- Users can check their watchlist, current-, past-, future- auctions in the sidebar through the widgets
- Update the auction page and 'my auctions' page automatically with Ajax to show new bids in real time
- Bidders can check the complete list of placed bids directly from the "My auctions" page
Admin notifications
- Receive an automatic email when the auction expired and the product has no bids or the the reserve price hasn’t been reached
- Receive an automatic email when the auction expired and has a winner
- Receive an automatic email when a customer places a bid or a bid has been removed
- Receive an automatic email when an auction is automatically rescheduled
Bidders notifications
- Notify any new bid to bidders
- Notify any new bid to users that follow the auction
- Send an email to bidders when the auction is closed
- Send an email to bidders when they successfully placed a bid
- Send an email to bidders when they won or lost the auction
- Send an email to bidders when their bids are been exceeded or when their highest bids didn’t reach the reserve price
- Send an email to bidders when their bids are been deleted
- Send an email to bidders when the auction ends for “buy now”
- Send a payment reminder to the bidder that won the auction and hasn’t paid yet
- Send a winner email to the 2nd highest bidder if the winner not pay for the item
- Daily Cron Job to resend failed emails to winners
Suggested integrations
- YITH Easy Login & Register for WooCommerce - to allow users to login or register directly from auction page without having to be redirected to My Account page
- YITH Stripe - to automatically charge the user’s credit card after winning the auction New Hot

Plugin integrations

All the products in our YITH catalog are developed on the same shared framework. This grants full compatibility among all our plugins and allows combining them together to get even more powerful results and more complete solutions.

We do our best to also include compatibility with the most popular WordPress and WooCommerce plugins available on the market.

You can use this plugin with*:

YITH WooCommerce Badge Management

YITH WooCommerce Badge Management allows you to show graphic badges on your products to highlight discounts, promotions, or unique selling points.

The integration with YITH Auctions for WooCommerce allows creating badges and automatically assigning them to your auction products set with the status "not started", "started", and "finished".

YITH Easy Login & Register Popup for WooCommerce

The YITH Easy Login & Register Popup plugin makes the login, registration and password reset processes easier during the checkout and reduces the cart abandonment rate.
The combination of the two plugins allows you to force the user to login before placing a bid, using a popup. This way the user can login or register directly without leaving the page.

YITH Frontend Manager for WooCommerce

YITH Frontend Manager for WooCommerce adds a frontend dashboard to your site through which the administrator and shop managers can manage orders, products, and coupons as they would do from WordPress dashboard. Thanks to the integration with YITH Auctions for WooCommerce, you will be able to manage auction products from the frontend.

YITH WooCommerce Customize My Account Page

YITH WooCommerce Customize My Account Page helps you customize your “My Account” page in your website in a few simple steps. You can add new endpoints and edit the default WooCommerce ones. Thanks to the integration with YITH Auctions for WooCommerce, a new endpoint will be added to the ‘endpoints’ section automatically.

YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor

YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor allows you to turn your store into a multistore where vendors manage their own product and earn a commission on every sale.
The combined use of YITH Multi Vendor and YITH Auctions allows you to offer an auction system to all the vendors in your store.
Vendors can create their own auction type product, and will be able to handle:

price
backup price
required amount for a rise
auction length
a chance to automatically schedule the next auction for each product

YITH WooCommerce Stripe

YITH WooCommerce Stripe enables your store to accept credit card payments.

If used with YITH Auctions for WooCommerce, it allows preventing users from bidding if they don't have a valid credit card linked to their account. A message to inform users of this requirement will show on the auction product page. You can also enable the option to automatically charge the credit card of the auction winner, for the winning amount.

* All the plugins listed in this section are not included in YITH Auctions for WooCommerce. In order to take advantage of a specific integration, you need to purchase and activate the premium version of the related plugin.

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5 out of 5

Maribea H. - verified customer April 4, 2025

MaravillosoMe encanta este plugin! Llevo usándolo ya varios meses y no podría estar más encantada con el resultado. Funciona de maravilla y me viene perfecto para mi tipo de negocio.
5 out of 5

Esther L - verified customer January 24, 2025

Muy útil y con muchas opciones, me encanta!Me encanta todas las opciones que tiene para crear diferentes tipo de subastas, recomendadísimo.
5 out of 5

Sandra A. - verified customer December 26, 2024

Excellent!This is the best plugin, I have been running it with Multi vendor from Yith as well and so far everything is going great. My customers and clients are very happy!
5 out of 5

wake-updev19 - verified customer November 29, 2024

Totally recommendedI love this plugin, I was looking for one specifically that had a reverse auction feature and I'm very happy I found this one.
1 out of 5

urumi - verified customer November 1, 2024

Support is the worstSupport for this item is horrible. I have had issues with this plugin and always, the conversation has been like this.
Me: "The system does not work. I have read article ABC, tried to set up X, checked Z and Y. Can you help?"
Support: "Hi, have you tried reading article ABC?"
M: "Yes, I have read it."
S: "Ok, you should set up X to get system to work."
M: "I have set it up."
S: "Please check Z and Y to fix the problem."
M: "I have already done that."
S: "Maybe it could be -new thing-?"
M: "Ok, the system works now."

Why is the support not able to read the messages that are send to them? It always takes 12-24 hours for support to reply so fixing any problem takes atleast 2-3 days because they don't reply to your question and ignore the things you have already tried.

Carla November 6, 2024

Hi Helena,

We're sorry to hear your experience with our plugin hasn't been the best. We understand your frustration, but please consider that our developers need to ask questions and do some checks to understand what the issue actually is, what you've done so far, and how they can assist you. We might not always understand each other instantly. As for the waiting time, we do not offer immediate or live support, all tickets go to a single support queue so you won't get an immediate reply - you can refer to our Support Policy here: https://yithemes.com/support-policy/.

We can confirm one of our developers has already replied to your ticket including a video of the steps you should follow, we are waiting for your feedback on the ticket to know exactly where the problem is and we will be happy to fix it 😃

Best regards!

FAQ

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How can I show out-of-stock auction products on my site pages?

You can use the shortcode [yith_wcact_out_of_stock].

Is the plugin compatible with any currency plugin?

Yes, it’s compatible with WPML Currency Switcher.

Is there a way to increase the amount of time left for bidding after someone’s bid?

The plugin has an option to postpone the expiration if someone makes a new bid some minutes before the auction ends. You can find the option here.

Does it work with both simple and variable products?

No, an auction product is an "Auction product" type, just like a "Simple product" and a "Variable product" are product types. It is therefore not possible to create a simple/variable auction product, as these are all different product types.

Can I remove the countdown timer and have no end time or end date for the auction?

Yes, you can show or hide the countdown option as explained here, and show or hide the end date. Check this page for the settings.

Can an admin generate an order (invoice) after the auction ends, or must it be done by the bidder?

Yes, the admin can generate an order after the auction ends. Another possibility is to enable the "Automatically create a "Pending payment" order assigned to winner" option, that way after winning an auction, the system will automatically create a pending payment order. The auction winner will see the created order on his/her My Account page.

Does the plugin use auto reload for the page or does it use AJAX?

The plugin uses AJAX and you can set a time interval to trigger the automatic page reload, see the settings here.

Can I show an icon on auction products?

Yes, the plugin has the option to customize the icon/badge shown on the auction product, check out this page for more information.

Can a single bidder win multiple auctions and pay for all of them in a single transaction?

Yes, the plugin gives users the possibility to win multiple auctions and pay them with a single transaction.

Is there a way to put a minimum to the bid increase, so that clients don't start overbidding each other one cent at a time?

Yes, it is possible to set a "minimum increment amount" for manual bids from the product edit page.

Where can I see the bidding history of all products?

The user can see the bidding history of a specific product in the related tab on the product detail page while the auction is active. The admin can access the bidding history in the backend, either on the product edit page or from the "Auction list" tab by clicking the "eye" icon as described here.

Once a buyer wins there is a pay button which will appear on the item page, can the customer also pay in any other way?

Yes, the plugin allows paying by:
- Clicking on the "Pay now" button on the product page.
- An email that is sent to the auction winner.
- Going to the My account > Auctions section.
- If enabled, using the "Automatic pending order creation" option, so the customer can pay the order directly from the My Account > Orders section.
- If enabled, using the YITH WooCommerce Stripe integration you can automatically charge the linked credit card of the auction winner.
For more details on auction winner settings, check this page.

Can the plugin only allow the bidder to use the account funds for bidding?

Yes, as the bids are placed without the use of any payment method. The winner of the auction however, can choose to pay the product by using the funds.

Can I add the auction time widget on the shop page?

Yes, the plugin has a widget to show the latest auctions, each of them with a countdown. Note: you can add the widget to the shop page only if the theme you are using allows showing the widget in a specific sidebar only on the shop page.
For more information on all included widgets, check this page.

Is there a shortcode to show auction items on a separate page?

Yes, you can use the following shortcode [yith_auction_products], read more about all shortcodes here.

Can we make something like eBay, where users can submit products and for selling them they get a percentage?

Yes, the plugin will allow you to create a structure similar to eBay if used in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor / Marketplace.

Does the plugin run a log of bids visible to everyone and does it show the exact time the bid went through?

Yes, it does. All bids will be shown for each auction. They will include the time and the users’ names. As a matter of privacy, the administrator could protect users' names by asterisking them, e.g. Anthony will turn into A*****y.

Is there a reserve option so that if bids don't reach the seller's minimum sell price, it doesn't sell?

Yes, this is certainly possible, as you can see in this page of the plugin’s guide.

Does the plugin have overtime capabilities?

Yes, the plugin has this feature. You can refer to the plugin’s documentation here to find them.

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Technical Info

Version: 4.15.0
Released: 2025-07-02
Minimum PHP version: 7.0
Requires: WordPress 6.6 and WooCommerce 9.8
Compatible up to: WordPress 6.8.x and WooCommerce 10.0.x
Supported multilanguage plugins: WPML, Loco translate
Translation ready: YES
Languages 100% guaranteed by YITH: English, Italian, Spanish
Languages provided by users: Portuguese (Brazil) (100%), Turkish (100%), Dutch (89%), Swedish (89%), Romanian (89%), French (58%), Danish (57%), German (56%), Greek (56%)
Support for: YITH Proteo theme. All YITH plugins.
Supported page builders: Elementor

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