system update includes:
Featured Items & new Wordpress Plugin updates:
In the admin>Auction>Items tab>Add/Edit item page, there is a new 'Featured Item' toggle switch.
If enabled for an item, that item will now become a 'featured item'. In the Items tab of the auction, the admin will see a red asterisk next to the Item Number of items that are marked as 'Featured Items'. The FILTER on the Items tab also has a new 'featured items' filter added.
On the public auction pages, if you click on the title of an auction, there will be a new tab called, 'Featured Items' that will be displayed. The thumbnail images will be clickable directing users into those items. If images are not present for a featured item, the 'item name' or 'description' will be shown here.
For clients using the Maxanet Wordpress Plugin: We have a new WP Plugin version that will be released shortly. This plugin has a new 'shortcode generator' that allows the admin to create custom shortcodes including 'featured items'.
When a bidder does a buynow or make an offer, in the admin panel, a red colored exclamation point will be shown at the end of the auction title. This will be a visual cue to the admin to let them know an action is waiting for them.
Buynow items back into auction - if a bidder commits to purchase a buynow item, but fails to follow through for any reason, from the admin>auction>BuyNow tab, the admin can delete the buynow invoice and the item will go back into the auction and be live and open again for another bidder to purchase.
If the admin had previously generated the invoice for a buynow item: in the admin>auction>invoices tab, they can use the actions menu for that invoice and select the 'delete invoice' option. This will also put the buynow item back into the auction and open it up for another bidder to purchase.
Social Media Sharing to Facebook - an issue was addressed where the terms of the sale were being displayed rather than the item name or description when shared to Facebook.
A rare bidding issue has been addressed which occurred when 2 bidders placed identical max bids on an item which caused the incorrect bidder to be shown as the winning bidder.
Bidder Tax Exemptions: The admin can no longer manually toggle a bidders tax exemption to be on or off. To make a bidder tax exempt, the admin will either need to add the Tax Exemption info or approve the bidders supplied info. To turn off a bidders tax exemption status, they will need to reject an existing exemption.
Multiple fixes to the GoToAuction sharing:
GoToAuction does not accept time zones so now when the admin checks the 'Share on Goto Auction Marketplace' checkbox in the add/edit auction page, a new feature has been added that allows the admin to put the local time of the auction start date and end date. Whatever times are entered into these boxes will be added to your GoToAuction listing - they have no bearing on the auction itself.
In the Add/Edit Auction screen, if the admin adds a ZIP and State in the address information of the sale, the auction when published on GoToAuction will be searchable/findable on their local State pages.
Admin>Auction>Invoices - an issue was fixed where the font size was different between viewing the PDF of an invoice and printing it
Performance increases: For optimal user experience, we have made the following adjustments:
In the Admin>Users>Invoices page, the default will now be 'Last 30 Days' time period for invoices shown. The admin can change this by clicking on the FILTER and selecting a custom time period.
minor bug fixes including:
Admin>Config>Public Page Config> the page background color would sometimes turn black in color