WooCommerce Simple Auctions - WordPress Auctions 3.0.9
Wordpress Plugins Codecanyon 4.8 (651 reviews)
WooCommerce Simple Auctions is a WordPress plugin that adds an auction system to stores already running WooCommerce. Instead of building a separate marketplace, you keep your normal product catalog and add auction listings alongside it. The plugin supports three auction formats. Normal auctions work like standard online bidding, with offers rising until the scheduled end time. Reverse auctions flip that idea, allowing the price to move downward as sellers or bidders compete. Sealed auctions, also called silent auctions, keep each bid hidden from other participants until the auction closes, which suits private or high-stakes sales. All three can coexist with regular fixed-price products, so a single store can offer instant purchases, traditional bidding, and the more unusual formats without duplicating inventory. Because it is built on WooCommerce, the plugin uses familiar product pages, cart behavior, and payment processing, which limits the learning curve for existing store owners. It also suits sellers who want to test auction sales without abandoning their current setup.
The auction controls are placed inside the standard WooCommerce product editor. You can set a starting price that opens the bidding, a minimum increment that defines how much each new bid must raise the current offer, and a reserve price that lets you keep the item unsold if bids fall too low. A buy-it-now price allows shoppers to skip the auction entirely and purchase the item immediately, as long as no qualifying bid has been placed yet. You also define the opening and closing times for each auction listing down to the minute, giving you full control over when bidding starts and ends. These settings are stored per product, so one store can run a sealed auction with a low starting price, a reverse auction with a built-in reserve, and a normal auction with a generous increment at the same time. The configuration process follows the same pattern as other WooCommerce product settings, and most fields are straightforward.
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Display settings give you say over how auction information appears on the front end. You can choose how the current bid, countdown timer, and bid history are shown on product pages, and you can control how much detail is visible before someone places a bid. The plugin also lets you decide whether auctions appear alongside standard products or in separate views, depending on how your store is organized. You can assign different auction types to different categories or tags, which keeps the storefront tidy when you have a mix of fixed-price items, normal auctions, reverse auctions, and sealed auctions running at once. For shoppers, the experience stays simple: they see a countdown, the current price, a bid button, and clear feedback when they have been outbid. Store owners manage these display options from the plugin settings without editing template files, so the entire setup remains inside the WordPress admin area.
The plugin is distributed as a WordPress plugin package through Codecanyon, and the delivered file is an exact copy of what the original author releases. It does not require any modifications to WooCommerce core files, and it works with products you create using the standard WooCommerce product type settings. Customer accounts, bidding, and checkout all run through the existing WordPress user system, so the same credentials used for normal purchases apply to auction listings without creating a second login. The auction engine handles the bidding logic, and the checkout process remains WooCommerce-based, which means payment gateways and shipping methods that already work in your store continue to function for auction winners. This plugin is aimed at store owners who want to introduce auction-based selling without moving to a dedicated auction platform, and it offers enough flexibility to cover simple listings and more complex auction setups within the same WooCommerce dashboard.
- Last updated
- August 11, 2026
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- Digital
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- In stock
- Version
- 2.3.16
- Category
- Wordpress Plugins
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- plugin
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