Maxanet lets an admin charge a custom amount to a bidder's saved credit card at any time through the bidder's Payment Methods page — useful for collecting registration fees, deposits, damage charges, reorder fees, or anything else outside a normal auction invoice. Maxanet automatically emails the bidder a receipt through the Bidder: Registration Fee Received email template, which you can customize or fully disable if you want to charge silently.

From your Maxanet Admin panel, open Users → User Profile → Payment Methods for the bidder you want to charge. On the row showing the bidder's credit card details, click the Actions menu to the right and select Collect Registration Fee. Enter the exact dollar amount you want to charge and confirm. Maxanet immediately runs the charge against the bidder's saved card through MaxanetPay.

When you collect a registration fee, Maxanet automatically triggers the Bidder: Registration Fee Received email template, which sends the bidder a confirmation of the charge. You can customize the subject line and body of this email template under Admin → Configurations → Email Templates — for example, to thank the bidder personally or explain what the fee is for. If you want to charge a bidder without any automatic email going out, deactivate the template under Email Templates; Maxanet will still process the charge but skip the email.

Yes. The Collect Registration Fee action runs against the card stored in the bidder's Payment Methods section. The bidder must have a saved card before you can use this feature.

Any amount. Enter the specific dollar figure when you run the action — there is no fixed fee.

The charge appears in MaxanetPay Merchant Track and in the bidder's payment history. It is recorded as a registration fee, not as an auction invoice.

Yes. Deactivate the 'Bidder: Registration Fee Received' template under Admin → Configurations → Email Templates and Maxanet will charge silently.