If your organization is running a “live” auction (meaning the bidding is happening live, usually with an auctioneer present), you can still use your Auctions platform to showcase your available items, communicate with your winners, and collect and track payments made for winning bids.
Step 1: Make sure all items created for the auction are set as "Live."
If you need a refresher on how to add a new item, please check out our step-by-step guide here.
When you get to the question regarding the item's "type," you'll want to select "Live."
This will make the item and its starting bid visible for your auction participants – but won’t allow them to place bids through the platform on those items.
Step 2: Manually add winning bids after the auction has concluded.
Once the auction has been held and the winners have been selected, your organization can manually add bids to those live items for the winning participants.
Step 3 (optional): Set the auction's end date for after the live auction has concluded.
We recommend that you set the auction’s end date for after the live portion of the auction is over so that you can add the winners to those live items prior to the auction’s “close.”
This will allow those winners during the live portion to receive a link automatically to check out via the platform once the auction has concluded.
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