Buy It Now Only Items
Any Paper Bidding, Live Bidding, or Online Bidding item can be set up as a fixed price item by making it a Buy It Now Only item.
Buy It Now Only items are most commonly used for items you want to sell multiple of, for example, a dinner party. They are configured as follows:
- Buy-It-Now Price and Starting Bid are set to the same value;
- Allow multiple winners set to yes; and,
- Quantity set to the number available or blank (the same as
0) for unlimited.
For Sale vs Buy It Now Only
For Sale Items are used for Tickets in Auctria because they often require immediate payment, or assurances of payment, by the purchaser while Buy It Now Only Items will go "on account" for the participant (aka purchaser) to be paid for at a later time -- generally during Checkout By Organizer or via an online payment link from a Won Item Notification.
| Item Concept | For Sale Item | Buy It Now Item |
|---|---|---|
| In-Person Events | Not required first | Required first |
| Introduction To Tickets | Admission to the in-person event | Admission to another event, venue, etc. (not the in-person event) |
| Participant Statements | Displays under Purchases | Displays under Won Items |
| Sponsorships | Sold prior to event | Use Donation Items during events for sponsorships |
| Raffle Tickets | To sell with Tickets | To sell during event / via mobile app |
| Online Payments | Immediate payment required | Item "winning bid" value added to participant balance, immediate payment may not be required |
Under the For Sale Items approach, items added to the cart may be removed by participant.
Under the Buy It Now Only Items approach, items are immediately added to the participant balance and cannot be removed by the participant. This would require an organizer use the Remove Bid function.
Both For Sale Items and Buy It Now Items have the ability to limit quantity by setting a value for the Quantity field (leaving blank or using 0 would be considered as unlimited).
By default, For Sale Items are not displayed in the website Item Catalog while Buy It Now Only Items appear in Auction Catalogs as they are Paper Bidding Type, Live Bidding Type, or Online Bidding Type.
Bid Sheet
If you use the Paper Bidding type item, the Bid Sheet will be generated as a 'sign up' sheet showing the number of rows to match the quantity available and each having the fixed price printed on each row.
Online Bidding
On the website, or mobile app, bidders will have a "buy-it-now" button rather than a "bid" button and can choose to purchase multiples in a single transaction.
WARNING
The Buy-It-Now price acts as a maximum bid for items online. If a bid is placed that is higher than the Buy-It-Now price the system will cap the bid at the Buy-It-Now price of the item.
IMPORTANT
Buy It Now buttons only appear for logged-in bidders registered for the event and after Online Bidding has started.
Item Closing
A single winner item is closed as soon as someone clicks on the "buy-it-now" button. With a buy-it-now item that supports multiple winners, the item will not be closed until the end of the auction or the last one is sold. However, buy-it-now bids will still appear as final bids in the bidder's account immediately even though the item is still open.
Example: Premiere Movie Night
As an example, your Premiere Movie Night item allows 6 winners at a fixed price of $15. Using the following will accomplish this:
- Starting Bid = $15
- Buy It Now Price = $15
- Quantity = 6
- Allow multiple winners = Yes (enabled)
INFORMATION
The Buy It Now Price is the maximum bid value accepted for an item, if a bidder enters a higher value the bid will be reduced to the Buy It Now Price and the bidder will be acknowledged as having the winning bid.
Last reviewed: November 2024