AuctionWorx Events Edition Features

Auction Sale Features

• Unique to each individual Auction Event
• Upload event image icon and banner image
• Auction Event PDF attachments
• Preview Auction Event (optional)
• Custom Auction Event attribute fields
• Minimum bid increments per event
• Buyer's Premium (optional)
• Auction Sale Details
• Event Description
• Terms & Conditions
• Auction Summary
• Shipping/Pickup information
• Managed By
• Search within the Auction Sale
• Per-event homepage display options for summary text or lot images
• Select Primary Active Auction Sale as the homepage
• Back to Catalog anchors to last viewed lot
• Quick Jump to Lot Number
• Google Maps for auction events and individual lots

Bidder Experience and Notifications

• Proxy bidding per Event (optional)
• Previous Lot and Next Lot buttons for bidders
• Follow Auction Live - Bidders can auto view next up closing lot (optional)
• Closing event option to auto hide ended lots show new lots
• SendGrid event closing notification to active bidders
• New auction event posted email to opted-in users
• Event closing reminder email to all opted-in users
• Users can manage event-related notification preferences

Auction Sale Management

• Lot CSV Export
• Automatic lot numbering (optional)
• Copy or move lots between events
• Draft, published, closed, and archived event workflow
• Create new event from existing live or closed event
• Consignor per event or lot
• Validate event drafts and draft lots before publishing
• Bulk CSV lot import
• Reset Lot Numbers based on current lot order
• Quickly move lots to the top or bottom of lot order groups

Reporting and Billing

• Invoices per event
• Consignment statements per event
• Sales report per event
• Consignment sales report per event
• Event activity reports
• Admin approval required to publish event (optional)
• Change event ownership to different user account
• Auto-charge after auction closing
• Buyer's Per Lot Fee (optional)
• Event Activity Report status filters for active lots

Closing and Lot Order Controls

• Staggered closing for lots or groups of lots
• Auto-extend lots or lot groups
• Automatic closing time calculations
• Pause/Resume Closing Auction Events
• Reactivate Closed Lots
• Manually extend individual or all lots
• End lots or events early
• Default event closing group and auto-extend increment settings
• Extend all lots in same auto-extend group
• Start scheduled event early

Advanced Administration

• Automatically hide an event once ended (optional)
• Options to hide auction events and lots when closed
• Reactivate Closed Events
• View closing groups and auto-extend groups on closed events
• Content management:
• Closed Auction Event
• Hidden Event Not Viewable
• Listing/Lot Not Viewable
• Events and lots can be archived separately from visible or hidden status

Auction Features

• Proxy bidding
• Reserve price
• "Next Bid Meets Reserve" (Admin Option)
• Buy Now price
• Auto-extend (Sniper Protection)
• Minimum bid increments
• "Whole dollar" bidding option
• Auto relist
• Quick bid
• Large bid confirmation
• Make Offer add-on option

Ecommerce Functions

• Fixed Price Sales
• Sales invoicing with checkout options
• PayPal Standard payments
• Credit card payments:
• Stripe (Payment Intents, Setup Intents, and Payment Methods)
• Small dollar credit card authorization for Stripe verification
• Auto charge credit cards option
• Optional credit card fee
• Automatic surcharge option
• Flat rate shipping options
• Additional item shipping cost
• ShipStation Custom Store integration
• Sales tax options
• VAT support
• Custom tax rate support
• Taxable shipping option
• Tax exempt user option
• Credit card requirement exempt user option
• Buyer's Premium option (paid to seller)
• Void sales option
• Print and email invoices
• Large-batch sales invoice print workflow
• Bulk generate sales invoices
• Tax-exempt sale line item indicators on printable invoices
• Declined credit card payment email notification
• Sales reports with export
• Consignment management

Consignment

• Consignor statements with net proceeds
• Assign consignors to items
• Auto-Generate consignment statements
• Manage consignors:
• Global consignor list
• Per-seller consignor accounts
• Email statement to consignor
• Print statements
• Consignor listing fee per item
• Consignor commission fee percentage
• Set fees per-consignor
• Tiered consignor fees option
• Aggregate commission fee tiers option
• Void consignment option
• Consignor statement logo image
• Consignor statement credit/debit adjustments
• Show custom item attribute fields on statements
• Show buyer payment status on statements
• Recalculate consignor statements after sale, void, or fee changes
• Remove and void unpaid consignor statement line items
• Send listing questions to consignors option
• Change consignor on closed listings or lots
• Consignor user role:
• View active/completed consignments
• View consignor statements
• Consignor Statement Report (Admin)
• Consignment Sales Report with CSV export

Complete Auction Website

• Single Seller:
• Private branded auctions
• Multiple Vendors:
• Charge listing or sales fees
• Real-time data updates
• Mobile-friendly responsive design
• Unlimited categories, listings, users

Listing Formats

• Standard Auctions
• Fixed Price Sales
• Classified Ads
• Make Offer add-on option

Listing Options

• Add to Watch List
• Watchlist icon toggle browsing listings
• Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC)
• Specify end date/time
• Schedule listing start date/time
• Lightbox image viewer
• Rotate image tool
• Google Map option for listings
• Allow listing formats by category
• Draft listings
• Descriptions can be optional for listings and lots
• Live countdown time remaining options
• Public Q&A messages
• Multiple image uploads
• Custom attributes
• Custom field input locations for registration, account details, consignor details, and consignor preferences
• HTML text area, plain text area, clickable link, and multi-column list custom field types
• Automatic, dropdown, and radio button option-list custom field types
• YouTube video support
• Upload PDF documents
• Bulk relist
• Featured and decoration options

Browse and Search

• Categories
• Regions
• Advanced Search
• Browse sort and filter
• Default display - list or gallery
• View seller's other listings
• Classified Ads

User Features

• Registration
• Login with Facebook option
• Buyer/Seller feedback
• Custom user attribute fields
• "My Account" buyer/seller controls
• Internal messaging system
• New message indicator
• Unpaid invoice indicator for buyers
• User controls to choose or disable individual email notifications
• Contact form

Localization Support

• Multiple language support
• Multiple currency display option
• Set time zone
• Support for custom currencies

SEO

• Clean, semantic HTML
• Friendly URLs
• Canonical URLs for listing and lot detail pages
• Open Graph tags
• Sitemap
• Dynamic Meta Keywords
• Dynamic Meta Description
• Custom Meta tags for categories

Site Control

• Responsive web-based administration
• Header color selector
• Users - Edit and assign Roles
• Users - CSV export
• Category management
• Make categories optional or disable categories
• Transfer all lots/listings from one category to another
• Optional seller & buyer fees:
• Flat
• Percentage
• Tiered
• Aggregate
• Seller final fee minimum and maximum options
• User exemptions for seller fees, buyer fees, or credit card requirements
• Enable fees by category
• Banner ad system
• Reports - Sales Transactions
• Reports - Sales Invoice
• Flexible report views with applicable custom fields
• Reports - Listing Fees
• Automatic batch payments
• Bulk upload listings (CSV)
• Custom Field permissions: View/Edit
• Upload Site Logo and Mobile Logo
• Data maintenance:
• Delete old listing data options
• Retain primary listing images
• Phased data maintenance execution
• Upload site Favicon
• Maintenance mode
• Add custom fields to invoices
• Add custom fields to reports
• Site content HTML editor

Notifications

• Email notification templates
• Advanced CC & BCC configuration options for email notification templates
• Twilio SendGrid site announcement emails
• Daily watchlist summary emails
• Listing closing soon reminders for active bidders

Security

• Full SSL support
• AntiXSS
• External authentication with Identity Framework
• reCAPTCHA V3 options for sign in, contact form, and registration
• Forgot password reset
• Impersonate user (Admin function)
• Role based permissions
• Require Admin approval (optional)
• Require authentication to access website (optional)
• Email verification system
• Event logs

Content Management

• Add new custom content pages
• Homepage Content options
• Site Header
• Terms & Privacy Policy
• Social Media content
• Footer and Header Scripts
• File Not Found (404) page
• robots.txt CMS content area
• Sub-Navigation Links
• Maintenance Mode content
• No Results Returned search content
• HTML enabled comments on invoices and statements