How To Reopen Online Bidding
When running an Online Bidding auction event, you may wish to reopen Online bidding for your items.
Typically, you will need to do this if:
- you want to open unsold items again after the online bidding time
- your items closed early because the wrong bidding end time was entered
First, you should change the Online bidding end time in the Online Bidding page to ensure that any changes will not immediately close your Online bidding once you have made them.
An example of the Online Bidding Period component of the Online Bidding page.Remember that the online bidding start and end time affect all items with a type set to Online or for other items with the allow online pre-bidding option set.
Click on Open/Close Bidding in the sidebar from your Online Bidding page to open the Open/Close Bidding page.
The Open/Close Bidding page allows you to open individual or multiple Items.
An example of the Open/Close Bidding option in the Online Bidding page.You can use the Open Selected Items option to pick and choose the items you want to re-open.
An example of the Open Selected Items option from a demonstration event.The Choose Items filters allow you to select some or all of your items based on specific parameters, such as Category, Tags, and Type.
An example of the selection options available in the Choose Items menu.If you only want to select items that do not have bids, you can click on Open All Unsold Items.
An example of the Open All Unsold Items option in the Open/Close Bidding page.
Last reviewed: November 2023
