PrestaShop AuctionX - Product Auction & Live Bidding

Store owners can run an auction on a specific product or on a particular combination, such as a size or colour variant, rather than the entire product listing. Moreover, customers are taken to the correct product variation from auction listings, account pages, emails, and winner links in prestashop auction extension.

Admins can schedule an auction to start at a specific future date and time. Once the auction is scheduled, the configured cron job checks the scheduled auctions and automatically makes the auction live when its start time is reached. This allows store owners to plan and launch auctions automatically without manually activating them.

Store owners have the PrestaShop bid increment settings to configure the starting price of the initial bid and what the least amount is that the next bid should be. You can set the initial bid as high as the set minimum, while all other bids should beat the highest one by the set bid increment.

Store owners can also set an optional maximum bid to cap how high an auction can go, stopping activity once that ceiling is reached in the PrestaShop Live Bidding Add-on. A reserve price can also be set and kept hidden from customers; if the highest eligible bid doesn't reach it, the auction won't select a winner, protecting you from selling below an acceptable value.

Store owners can add a short waiting period between bids placed by the same customer. This feature limits rapid repeat bidding from a single account and gives other bidders a fair window to respond before the same person can bid again.

The PrestaShop auction module for live bidding shows the status of the product page as either scheduled, live, paused, finished, won, or lost, along with the countdown to the closing time. The bid price, ranking, bidder numbers, and status update automatically without any reloading of the page.

Store owners can choose to show customers their own rank, the total bid of auction by all bidders, the current highest bid, the number of active bidders, and how long it's been since the last bid was placed. This gives shoppers enough context to decide whether to stay in the auction or raise their bid.

Logged-in users have an ability to create watch lists where they can include various auctions. Moreover, there is an opportunity to see the past auctions in this list. Users do not have to bid in order to get access to the watch list.

A dedicated auction listing page displays All, Upcoming, In Progress, and Expired auctions, complete with product images, status badges, pricing (where visible), countdown information, and pagination. It gives customers one place to browse everything currently or soon to be up for bidding.

Live and upcoming auctions can optionally appear on the store's home page, and auction status, countdowns, and pricing can also show up on category product cards. This surfaces active auctions to shoppers browsing normally, not just those who visit the dedicated auction page.

A cron job protected by a token takes care of the mundane processes involved in conducting an auction such as activating scheduled auctions to live, terminating auctions after their expiry, automating winner selection when specified, and processing empty winner slots. In case the winner fails to make payment in time, the module automatically transfers the winner slot to another buyer.

Choose automatic winner selection, which ranks eligible bidders by their highest qualifying bid, or manual selection from the Live View, where an administrator reviews bids and chooses (and orders) the winners directly. Both approaches respect reserve price rules, so a winner is only confirmed when the reserve has genuinely been met.

After a winner is determined, he or she gets a configured order deadline for their purchase. Winner action opens sets customer-specific price that corresponds to the user's winning bid on the product combination he/she won, and the order will be matched back to the winning user's record.

Notifications about new bids, auctions starting, winners/losers determination, placing orders, cancellations, bid blocks/unblocks, closure of the auction due to no bids received and max bid fulfilment can be sent out by the module. The email subject and body of all notifications can be edited per language in the administration section.

Display an upcoming auction block with a countdown timer on the product page, allowing customers to see when the auction will begin. During the auction, admins can hide the product price and Add to Cart button. Once the auction ends, the product automatically resumes normal selling.