WooCommerce Simple Auctions

WooCommerce Simple Auctions is the first auction plugin created for WooCommerce, originally launched in February 2014 and actively developed for over a decade. This add-on transforms a traditional WordPress store into a complete online auction platform, allowing you to manage regular, proxy, sealed (silent), and reverse auctions alongside the store's conventional products, without the need for external platforms.

The plugin is designed for entrepreneurs, online stores, and marketplaces that want to replicate the bidding sales model of sites like eBay, integrating the entire flow within the WooCommerce ecosystem. With a setup that can be completed in approximately 30 minutes, it is an accessible solution even for those without advanced programming knowledge.

Among its most notable features is seamless integration with WooCommerce through a custom auction product type. It allows you to set the starting price, bid increment, reserve price, and buy-it-now option, as well as set start and end dates for each auction. It includes an anti-sniping system that automatically extends the closing time when a bid is placed in the final seconds, preventing buyers from taking advantage of the last moment.

The plugin offers live Ajax updates of the current price and bid history, widgets to display auctions ending soon, upcoming, recent, featured, and random auctions, as well as a personalized "My Auctions" page where users can see all auctions they have participated in. It also includes email notifications with editable templates to alert about outbid, won auctions, payment reminders, auction failures, and more.

For administrators, it includes winner and activity reporting tools with CSV export, complete auction history with CSV or Excel export, filtering and sorting of auctions in the admin panel, and the option to relist auctions manually or automatically when payments are not completed. It is compatible with WPML for translations, supports PHP 8 and the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce, and works with all WooCommerce payment gateways.

Additionally, it offers compatibility with Elementor and any visual builder that supports shortcodes, allowing you to display any part of the auction template using custom shortcodes. It is also possible to enable penny auctions through additional add-ons, as well as credit card verification before allowing bidding.

In short, WooCommerce Simple Auctions is a mature, proven, and constantly evolving solution for those who want to add a professional and reliable auction system to their WooCommerce store.