Platform Bid User Guide
  • Introduction
  • Auction Management
    • Overview
    • Preparing to create an auction
    • Types of auction
    • Creating an auction
    • Managing Lots
      • Types of lots
      • Lot Attributes
      • Bulk upload
      • Image upload
      • Publishing lots
      • Archiving lots
    • Reporting
      • Bidding Report
      • Buyer Bidding Report
    • Invoicing
      • Creating Invoices
      • Viewing Invoices
  • User Management
    • Viewing bidders
  • Bidding Experience
    • Home Page
    • Auction Listing Page
    • Lot Page
    • Applying to Bid
    • Watchlist
    • My Account
    • My Invoices
  • Site Settings
    • Site Settings
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  • Auction Listing Details
  • Auction name
  • Start and end dates & times
  • Auction description
  • Collection details
  • Viewing details
  • Special instructions
  • Buyers premium
  • VAT
  • Number of lots
  • Lot Listing
  • Order by lot number
  • Order by time left
  • Pagination
  • Watchlist
  1. Bidding Experience

Auction Listing Page

The bidding experience from the point of view of the buyers

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The bidders can access the auction listsings from the home page. You may also decide to provide a link to auction listings directly in your email marketing and ther promotional work.

This show the buyers the full details of the auction, including the start and end date and times, as well as the lots themselves which are listed down the page.

Auction Listing Details

Auction name

The title for the auction is clearly shown at the top of the page

Start and end dates & times

These are shown in the coloured panel the right at the top of the page

Auction description

An overview of the auction and any promotional details you wish to display to the buyers.

Collection details

This will tell the prospective buyers, where and how they will be able to collect the items should they win the auction

Viewing details

This will tell the buyers how, where and when they view the items for sale in the auction.

Special instructions

Any specific information about the auction that needs to be known by the bidders before taking part. This might include information about lift out fees or any special contactual arrangements they need to agree to before taking part.

Buyers premium

The fees that will be charged to the winning bidder in addition to the hammer price.

VAT

The value added tax charged to the buyers on buyers premium and hammer price.

Number of lots

The number of lots in the auction.

Lot Listing

We will look at the bidding form in the next page and examine the details of the bidding process.

There are a small number of tools and filters the buyers may use to change their view of the listings on the page.

The screenshot above shows the following:

Order by lot number

This will show the lot in lot number order as intended by the auctioneer

Order by time left

This will show the lots ordered by time left. When the lots have been staggered or have fallen into overtime, the positioning on the page of the lots finishing the soonest ids helpful to the buyers.

Pagination

The user can decide how many lots they wish to see on the page, and therefore the number of lots on the page itself

Watchlist

The buyers can added items to their watch list by tapping the heart symbol. It show in green when the lot has been added to the watchlist. To remove it, tap the heart again and it will be removed. All lots in this current auction on their own watch list will be shown in the Watchlist tab.

Auction Listing page showing the lots on sale and other important auction information.
The lot listing and filters for the buyers to view the lots how they wish.