WooCommerce Simple Auctions

WooCommerce Simple Auctions adds an auction product type to WooCommerce, so auctions can sit alongside your normal products or on their own page. First released in February 2014, it runs normal, reverse and sealed (silent) auctions, with proxy (automatic) bidding. Each auction has its own start price, bid increment, reserve price, buy-it-now price, and start and end times.

Bidders get a watchlist, a My Auctions list of everything they've bid on or won, winning badges on thumbnails and an Auction History tab on each product. Widgets and shortcodes cover ending-soon, future, recent, featured and random auctions, plus auction search. Email notifications with editable templates handle outbids, wins, payment reminders and auctions closing soon.

Winners pay through a normal WooCommerce order, and unpaid auctions can relist automatically after a set number of hours. With Stripe, bidding can require a stored card and won auctions can be charged automatically. It includes Elementor widgets and runs its timing on real server cron jobs, so auctions close on schedule even when the site is quiet.