Ultimate Auction for WooCommerce – Excellent WP Auction Plugin Plugin

Want to quickly add auction product on your woocommerce website.

We have Ultimate Auction for WooCommerce which will allow easy and quick way to add your products as auctions on your Woocommerce store. You can read its core features below.

We also have PROFESSIONAL AUCTION SOFTWARE with fabulous features to suit your every need.

BEST CAR AUCTION SOFTWARE

Are you a Car Trader who want to auction car and earn Buyer Commission use Car Auction Software to create an awesome CAR Website and earn commissions from potential buyers.

🔥🔥🔥 **Use Ultimate Car Auction Software ** 🔥🔥🔥

BEST WP AUCTION THEME

Are you looking to create a professional auction website to sell your art, collectible, stamps etc?

🔥🔥🔥 Use Ultimate Auction Theme 🔥🔥🔥

WANT AUCTION FOR YOUR EXISTING WEBSITE

Do you have an existing WordPress or WooCommerce website? Use our PRO PLUGIN to auction your products on your existing website.

🔥🔥🔥 **Use Ultimate Auction Pro Plugin ** 🔥🔥🔥

Here’s What Users Say about Ultimate Auction – Best WordPress Auction Plugin

👨 100% recommended!!

Nitesh and his team is wonderful! They reply quick and take actions according to the customers wishes. I am really happy with the support so far. You can tell that customer satisfaction is important to them. Strongly recommended to anyone who wants the premium option. They wont let you down 🙂
– By @Gert Maetze

👨 Excellent software, excellent support

We had some problems with initial configuration, and there is one plugin that is required which is currently suspended, but Nitesh and his team were able to resolve our problems in extremely short order, and our charity auction is running perfectly. Definitely fit to purpose.
– By @Charles W

👨 Amazing Customer Support

Honestly, customer support are so helpful! I cannot rate them enough for the support I received. The issue wasn’t even with their plugin – it was a theme issue and they still supported me and offered great advice.
– By @storageauctionsnearme

💁 Worked well and quick and helpful support

We needed to run a one-off auction, so couldn’t justify a paid extension. Even though we used the free one, we got very quick and helpful support with some questions. Auction went well and we may do more in the future because it went well.
– By @bobr666

👨 You won’t find a better support team

Excellent product, excellent support. I’ve been using this auction software for 3 years, and I couldn’t be happier.
– By @cprocious

Let’s take a look at the features of CAR AUCTION SOFTWARE built over this wonderful WordPress auction plugin.

FEATURES OF CAR AUCTION SOFTWARE

= CAR AUCTION SOFTWARE=

1. SELLER FEATURES a. Seller Registration and Dashboard b. Seller Add Car Listing Page with all Car Fields c. Seller gets Payment to their Bank Account (Powered By Stripe) d. Listing Review Workflow - Seller and Site Owner 2. BUYER FEATURES a. Buyer Dashboard. b. My Favorite Cars (Wishlist feature) c. Saved Searches - Software stores user search d. Timed Auction Events with Lots e. Registration with Credit Card (Powered By Stripe) 3. OFFLINE DEALING a. Site Owner gets Buyer Commission from Buyer Credit Card b. Seller gets Buyer's contact details via email. c. Buyer gets Seller's contact details via email. 4. PAYMENT FEATURES a. Hold Bid Amount on Credit Card (Powered By Stripe & BrainTree) b. Debit Bid Amount from Credit Card (Powered By Stripe & BrainTree) c. Bidding Fees from Users d. Buyers Commission e. Buy Now 5. SITE PAGES a. Home Page b. CAR Detail Page c. CAR List Page with Filters (New listing, Ending Soon) d. CAR Photo Gallery - Internal View, External View, Mechanical View. e. Blog f. Contact Us g. About Us 6. AUCTION FEATURES a. Soft-Close or Anti-Sniping feature to extend time. b. Variable Bid Increment c. Live Bidding without page refresh d. Proxy Bidding e. Hide User Name and Bidding Price 7. EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS a. WON b. Place Bid c. Ending Soon d. Outbid e. Lost Bid f. Payment Confirmation g. Payment Reminder h. Email Customization 8. WhatsApp & SMS Notification (Powered by Twilio) a. Outbid b. Won c. Ending Soon d. Message Customization. 9. WPML and LocoTranslate Compatible 

Let’s take a look at the features of PROFESSIONAL AUCTION THEME built over this wonderful WordPress auction plugin.

Our Theme can be used to create a new auction website.

FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL AUCTION THEME

= ULTIMATE AUCTION THEME=

1. SELLER FEATURES a. Seller Registration and Dashboard b. Seller Add LOT with custom fields of your choice. c. Seller gets Payment to their Bank Account (Powered By Stripe) d. Lot Review Workflow - Seller and Site Owner 2. BUYER FEATURES a. Buyer Dashboard. b. My Favorite Lots (Wishlist feature) c. Saved Searches - Software stores user search d. Timed Auction Events with Lots e. Registration with Credit Card (Powered By Stripe) 3. PAYMENT FEATURES a. Hold Bid Amount on Credit Card (Powered By Stripe & BrainTree) b. Debit Bid Amount from Credit Card (Powered By Stripe & BrainTree) c. Bidding Fees from Users d. Buyers Commission e. Buy Now 4. SITE PAGES a. Home Page b. AUCTION EVENT LIST PAGE - Shows all events. c. AUCTION EVENT DETAIL PAGEith Filters (New listing, Ending Soon) d. AUCTION PRODUCT LIST Shortcodes e. AUCTION PRODUCT DETAIL PAGE e. Blog f. Contact Us g. About Us 5. AUCTION FEATURES a. Timed Auction Events - Put Lots in it. b. Soft-Close or Anti-Sniping feature to extend time. c. Variable Bid Increment d. Live Bidding without page refresh e. Proxy Bidding f. Hide User Name and Bidding Price 6. EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS a. WON b. Place Bid c. Ending Soon d. Outbid e. Lost Bid f. Payment Confirmation g. Payment Reminder h. Email Customization 7. WhatsApp & SMS Notification (Powered by Twilio) a. Outbid b. Won c. Ending Soon d. Message Customization. 8. WPML and LocoTranslate Compatible 9. OFFLINE DEALING a. Site Owner gets Buyer Commission from Buyer Credit Card b. Seller gets Buyer's contact details via email. c. Buyer gets Seller's contact details via email. 

Let’s take a look at the features of PROFESSIONAL AUCTION PLUGIN built over this wonderful WordPress auction plugin.

Our PRO PLUGIN can be used to add auctions to existing WooCommerce website.

FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL AUCTION PLUGIN

= Ultimate Auction PRO PLUGIN =

1. Collect Credit Card and Automatically Debit Winning Amount 2. Users can add auctions using WCFM Marketplace 3. Automatic or Proxy Bidding 4. SMS Notification 5. Soft-Close or Anti-Sniping feature to extend time 6. Automatic and Manual Relisting of Expired Auction 7. Add Auction for Future Dates. 8. Add Silent auctions 9. Variable Increment 10. Buyer's Premium 11. Reverse Bidding Engine 12. Bulk Import 13. Live Bidding without page refresh 14. Delete User Bids 15. Support Virtual Products 16. WPML and LocoTranslate Compatible 17. Widgets - Expired, Future 18. Custom Emails 19. Many Shortcodes & Filters 

Let’s take a look at the features of FREE PLUGIN

Free Features

1. Registered User can place bids 2. Ajax Admin panel for better management. 3. Add standard auctions for bidding 4. Buy Now option 5. Show auctions in your timezone 6. Set Reserve price for your product 7. Set Bid incremental value for auctions 8. Ability to edit, delete & end live auctions 9. Re-activate Expired auctions 10. Email notifications to bidders for placing bids 11. Email notification to Admin for all activity 12. Email Sent for Payment Alerts 13. Outbid Email sent to all bidders who has been outbid. 14. Count Down Timer for auctions. 15. Ability to Cancel last bid and Much more...<h3>WHY SHOULD YOU USE ULTIMATE AUCTION FOR WOOCOMMERCE - THE BEST WORDPRESS AUCTION PLUGIN</h3> 

👉 Awesome Support: Our plugin has been around for quite sometime with over 3000+ happy customers who rate us 5/5 in the community and on TrustPilot.

👉 **** Easy to Install and Get Ready – Inside your WooCommerce store, you can quickly install and add our plugin and add an auction product and invite bids from your existing users.

👉 **PRO SOFTWARE EXTENSIONS – We offer three professional software for varied needs. If you want to create a car trading website then you can use our CAR AUCTION SOFTWARE. If you want to create a new auction website for arts, painting, horse, wine etc, use our ULTIMATE AUCTION THEME. No other plugin has such professional extensions.

Minimum Requirements

• PHP version 5.2.4 or greater (PHP 7.2 or greater is recommended)
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater (MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended)
• Latest WooCommerce Plugin

Automatic installation

1. To do an automatic install of our plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.

2. In the search field type “WooCommerce Auction” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found “Ultimate WooCommerce Auction Plugin” by “Nitesh Singh”, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.

3. Once installed, simply click “Activate”.

4. After you have setup WooCommerce and activated our plugin, you should add a product. You can do it via WordPress Dashboard, navigate to the Products menu and click Add New.

5. While adding product, choose “product data = Auction Product”. Add data to relevant fields and publish it.

Your auction product should now be ready and displayed under “Shop” page. If you have problems please open discussion in support forum.

Manual installation

The manual installation method involves downloading our plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here. Kindly follow these instructions for WooCommerce Plugin and then for our plugin.

Then kindly follow step 4 and 5 from “Automatic Installation”.

Updating

Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.

If on the off-chance you do encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting ‘save’. That should return things to normal.

1. 

   Admin: Create auction product

2. 

   Admin: Create auction product with data

3. 

   Admin: Main Plugin Settings

4. 

   Admin: Live Listing

5. 

   Admin: Expired Listing

6. 

   Frontend: Shop Page

7. 

   Frontend: Single product page example

2.4.0

1. Fix:

   Reviewed and updated all functions and WP_Ajax calls to include nonce verification and user permission checks.
   Updated the function names and class names to ensure uniqueness and prevent conflicts with other plugins or themes.
   Reviewed and corrected the SQL queries to use wpdb::prepare() properly, ensuring protection against SQL injection vulnerabilities.

2.3.9

1. Fix:

   All variables and options are now properly escaped when echoed to ensure security and prevent potential vulnerabilities.

2. Improvement:

   Improved accessibility features for better usability.

2.3.8

1. Fix:

   All variables and options are now properly escaped when echoed to ensure security and prevent potential vulnerabilities.

2.3.7

1. Fix:

   All functions utilizing POST/GET/REQUEST/FILE calls have been sanitized, validated, and escaped to meet WordPress.org security guidelines.

2. Improvement:

   Enhanced security by restricting direct file access to plugin files.
   Removed non-permitted files to improve overall security.
   Eliminated the unused action-scheduler library.

2.3.6

1. Fix:

   The translation problem with the email heading and subject has been resolved. Consequently, both the email heading and subject are now shown in the translated language. We’ve modified the string for the email’s subject and heading. As a result, the administrator will need to re-translate it after updating the plugin.

2.3.5

1. Improvement:

   We have removed the “Powered By Ultimate Auction” text from the footer.

2.3.4

1. Improvement:

   We have implemented a “nofollow” attribute to our software’s links.

2.3.3

1. Fix:

   We have fixed the PHP Warning – Undefined array key “customer-logout” into the Ultimate Auction for Woocommerce plugin.
   We have fixed the translation issue for the below strings. Now it is translated successfully.
   -> Congratulations! You are the winner! of the auction product %s.
   -> Auction has Expired!

2. Improvement:
   We have added the support for woocommerce’s HPOS functionality.

   The “View list” link on auction detail page will redirect to my-account watchlist page.

2.3.2

1. Fix:

   The errors were displayed with PHP 8.2 into auction plugin. We have fixed it.

2. Improvement:

   We have added the new settings to hide/show the login-register message for non-logged in users.

   We have added the support for the elementor plugin, auction product can be displayed using
   elementor product template.

2.3.1

1. Fix:

   The error was displayed with PHP 8.2 into auction plugin. We have fixed it.

2. Improvement:

   We have disabled the “Ending Date” of the expired auction while editing the auction product. So, the admin can not change the End Date after the auction expires.

2.3.0

1. Fix:

   We have fixed the warning “Undefined array key uwa-new-redirect” which was displayed after user logged in to the site.

   Error “Undefined variable $notices” was displayed on auction detail page. This issue has now been fixed.

2.2.9

1. Fix:

   We have fixed the empty bid button issue. When a bidder places a bid with an empty bid box, the plugin will display a notice for “Please enter a value greater than 0!”.

   We have fixed the translation issue for the “Do you really want to bid” string. Now it is translated successfully.

2. Improvement:

   We have added the options in reference to the Ultimate WooCommerce Auction Pro plugin.

2.2.8

1. Fix:

   When bid increments were in decimal the actual bid was still rounding off to integers. This has been fixed.

2.2.7

1. Improvement:

   Bid Increments can be in decimals.

2.2.6

1. Fix:

   We have fixed the flatsome theme related issues on auction detail page and myaccount page.

2. Improvement:

   The new attribute “category” is added in auction shortcode which will display particular category related auction products.

2.2.5

1. Fix:
   While converting an auction product into a simple product, there was an issue. It has been fixed now.

2.2.4

1. Improvement:

   When an auction product is trashed then we have now made sure that under my-account -> my auctions and my auctions-watchlist menu that specific auction product is not visible.

2.2.3

1. Fix:

   Error was displayed when polylang plugin is activated. This issue has now been fixed.

2. Improvement:

   Any user can view bidder name in bids list of auction detail page. Previously the bidder name was masked in asterisk

2.2.2

1. Fix:

   Error was displayed on My-account -> My-auctions page with PHP8. This issue has now been fixed.

2.2.1

1. Fix:

   Buy Now will now expire an auction product – There was an issue when user clicks buy now and buys an auction product then the auction product was not expiring. This has been fixed.

   Few Strings were not translation ready. We have now fixed them so that they can be translated.

2.2.0

1. Fix:

   Few Strings were not translation ready. We have now fixed them so that they can be translated.

2.1.9

1. Fix:

   We have fixed deprecated meta issue. Replaced deprecated “WC_Order::get_item_meta” with latest function wc_get_order_item_meta.

   We have fixed Pro plugin banner dismiss issue. When this notice is dismissed from one page, it will be dismissed from all pages and it will not be displayed again even after refreshing the page.

2.1.8

1. Fix:

   In their latest update of WooCommerce plugin, CSS code of it was conflicting with our plugin’s css and due to it the design of Cart page was not proper in mobile view. We have fixed this issue.

2.1.7

1. Improvement

   When any auction product is added in the cart using “Buy Now” and if it is “deleted from cart” then the product will return back to its original auction state. We have made sure that this happens now.

2. Fix:

   Adding and removing Watchlist functions have been updated to use Nonce functions such as wp_create_nonce

   Place Bid button when clicked without any bid was throwing critical error in PHP 8. This has been fixed now.

   HTML has been properly escaped including the echo’d code.

2.1.6

1. Fix:

   We had observed that plugin was not installing properly on PHP 8. This has been resolved now.

2.1.5

1. Fix:

   Delete Bid option was not working. This has now been fixed.

2.1.4

1. Fix:

   We have fixed the issue where auction product was going in “Pending” state if it was saved as draft or added as a duplicate.

2.1.3

1. Fix:

   We have sanitized, validated, and escaped all functions using POST/GET/REQUEST/FILE calls for meeting security guidelines of WordPress.org

   We have also renamed our plugin from “Ultimate WooCommerce Auction Plugin” to “Ultimate Auction for WooCommerce” to avoid any trademark infringement.

   Text Domain of the plugin has been changed from “woo_ua” to “ultimate-woocommerce-auction”. This change was made to match the permalink of the plugin as this was required as per the guidelines from WordPress.org.

2.1.2

1. Fix: Winner email’s “Pay Now” button was earlier redirecting to WordPress default login Page. It has been rectified and is now redirecting to “My Account Page”.

2.1.1

1. Fix: The count inside My Account > Auctions > Watchlist was incorrect. We have fixed and tested this.

2. Fix: SKU given for “Auction Product Type” is now searchable. We have fixed this and Product search by SKU will show auction products.

3. Fix: We had received an issue of multiple email though we were not able to reproduce this problem in-house. We have introduced a flag in the code which will ensure that email function is called only one time and if any customer has experienced multiple email then this fix should solve it too.

2.1.0

1. New Feature: We have added a new setting where admin can choose to enable a “Bidding Confirmation Modal”. When enabled then a confirmation pop-up will be displayed to the bidder when he will attempt to bid.

2.0.10

1. New Feature: We have added a new configuration for admin to restrict admin’s bidding on the auction product.

2. Fix: Plugin now supports latest Time and Date functions introduced in WordPress 5.3.2 version.

3. Fix: Converting simple product to auction product and vice versa was causing issue with the product. This has now been resolved.

4. Fix: There was an issue with duplicating an auction product. This has now been resolved.

5. Fix: WordPress Notice of Undefined Error has been resolved.
   Notice: Undefined index: action in E:\xampp\htdocs\UWAFREE\wp-content\plugins\ultimate-woocommerce-auction\includes\admin\class-uwa-admin.php on line 203 (done)

6. Improvement: We have removed “bid value” text and included “currency” symbol for a more cleaner look.

7. Improvement: We have added pagination to the shortcode. Here is full shortcode with parameters [uwa_new_auctions days_when_added=”100″ columns=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”desc/asc” show_expired=”yes/no” paginate=”true/false” limit=”4″]

8. Improvement: Wrong English Grammer has been rectified for few texts.

2.0.9

1. New Feature – Plugin is now compatible with WPML and also with “My WP Translate” plugin.

2. New Feature – Redirection to Auction Detail page – When any visitor (without logged in) used to visit auction product detail page, they were prompted to login/Register which upon click opens “My Account” page. And then after login or registration, it did not redirect back to Auction Product Detail page. We have now included that feature.

3. Fix – HTTP POST request was being called with each page load to check expiration status. This was redundant and not required and thus have been removed.

2.0.8

1. Fix – Removed unwanted echo left inside plugin.

2.0.7

1. New Feature – Timer on auction product detail page can be shown H:M:S format too. New setting is added under Settings > Auction Detail Page > Enable the Checkbox for hiding compact countdown format.

2. Fix – Few emails have incorrect English sentences. This has been rectified.

3. Fix – Error was happening when both PRO and FREE were active together. This has been fixed.

2.0.6

1. New Feature – Plugin is now multi-site compatible

2. Fix – Warnings were appearing when first bid was placed in an auction. This is now fixed.

3. Fix – Few texts were having translation issue. We have added them.

4. Fix – Plugin will now appear inside WP Admin Dashboard on LHS as “Auctions” instead of “Ultimate Woo Auction”

2.0.5

1. New Feature – Added two new HTML CLASSES which developers can use for CSS.
   Expired Auction class = uwa_auction_status_expired
   Live Auction class = uwa_auction_status_live

2. New Feature – WooCommerce compatibility versions have been added inside our plugin description to show it inside Admin Panel -> Installed plugins

3. Fix – For expired auctions, if we were browsing to Admin -> WC -> Products page and editing the end date to future date for a specific product then it wont change state of auction to Live. We have now fixed this problem by disabling the end date for editing.

2.0.4

1. Fix – Plugin will display message to login/register when any non-logged in visitor tries to place bid. In few themes we received queries that “Login/register” message was not being displayed when non-logged in visitor tries to place bid. This problem is now fixed.

2. Fix – Description tab will be displayed in 1st position of auction detail page.

3. Fix – Shop Manger Role was not able to see user’s full name. This issue has been fixed.

4. Fix – GOTMLS.NET was detecting malware in 2 files due to code commenting style (/* …*/). We have changed the commenting style just for the sake of no detection as we think its a false positive.

5. New Feature – Added a new filter “ultimate_woocommerce_auction_pay_now_button_text”. Details of its usage are mentioned in FAQs.

2.0.3

1. New Feature – Added hooks & filters. Full documentation available in README FAQ section.

2.0.2

1. New Feature – Plugin now allows to add your “buy now” and “won by bids” item to checkout page. So, if a user has added simple products to his cart and also won products via auction then all his products will be added to his checkout page.

2. New Feature – New Shortcode to display “Latest Auction”. Shortcode format is [uwa_new_auctions days_when_added=”10″ columns=”4″ orderby=”date” order=”desc/asc” show_expired=”yes/no”].

3. New Feature – User can hide their names from bidding page. User can go to their My Account Page -> Auction Setting to access this setting.

4. Fix – Bid Value field now accepts amount in same currency format as defined in WooCommerce.

2.0.1

1. Fix – Decimal pricing is now supported for auction products. Also, WooCommerce normal products will have decimal pricing.

2.0.0

1. New Feature – Plugin has a new layout and is accessible from WP Admin -> LHS bar -> Ultimate Woo Auction. It has Settings page and auctions list which shows live and expired auctions.

2. Fix – My Auction / My Auctions Watchlist are now added to plugin’s text domain i.e. woo_ua. Previously they were in “woocommerce” text domain.

1.0.6

1. Fix – Customer noticed an issue that when we translate using WPML then Viewing Auction Watchlist slug does not change. This has been fixed.

1.0.5

1. Fix – End Date Issue where date picker was not working with latest WP has been fixed.

1.0.4

1. New Feature – Layout for Settings page has been changed for better readability and more configurations have been added.

2. Fix – Configuration for Ajax update of bid information was not working previously. This has now been fixed.

1.0.3

1. New Feature – New column “Auction Status” added under Products -> All Products. This shows whether auction is “Live” or “Expired”.

2. Fix – Edition in bidding logic where in user can now increase their bid. Previously if any user had highest bid then he was not able to increase his bid. This modification will help user to reach reserve price.

3. Fix – “Add to Watchlist” was not working. This has now been fixed.

1.0.2

• Fix: Text Domain added which will enable to work with LocoTranslate.

1.0.1

• Fix: Bid field’s width has been increased to handle 9 digits in auction detail page.
• Fix: Plugin’s settings are now consolidated under single link.
• Fix: Minor design changes has been done in Auction Detail page for better representation of data.

1.0

Initial Release