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: Confirm 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 asked to specify the item's "type", select 'Live'.
This will make the item and its starting bid visible for your auction participants but will not allow them to place bids through the platform on those items.
Step 2: Manually add winning bids after the auction
Once the auction has concluded 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 end date for after the live auction
We recommend you set the auction’s end date for after the live portion of the auction is over so you can add the winners to those live items before 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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