Changelog

Published release notes for Auctions for WooCommerce by WPInstitut.

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Version 4.1.0

2026-10-18

• Fix: Restrict seated product search and assignment to simple products
• Fix: Exclude seated products assigned to other auctions from the seated product search
• Fix: Clear the seated product when duplicating an auction while keeping the seated requirement and prompting for a separate product
• Add: Admin setting to hide lot auctions from All Auctions with matching status counts
• Fix: Keep explicit auction and lot lists accessible when hiding auctions from Products
• Fix: Prevent assigning the same seated product to multiple auctions in the product editor and explain the restriction next to the field
• Add: Improvements for Auction Lots with sequential closing and sessions both in backend and frontend
• Add: Better relisting and relist options
• Add: Anti snipping options in lots override per auction anti snipping
• Fix: Column alignment and missing lot data in auction activity and auction winners CSV exports
• Fix: Create order for all won auctions in lot added auctions where reserve was not met
• Fix: Display LOT number in breadcrumbs
• Fix: Problem with buy now and new WooCommerce checkout
• Fix: code cleanup and misc small bugs

Version 4.0.1

2026-09-10

• Add: Auto-stacking when auction/lot and winning/outbid and status badges share same corner
• Add: Interactive live badge preview and WordPress color pickers for badge settings
• Add: Multi-row selection and bulk delete action in auction history table
• Add: Buy Now column in auction list
• Add: Buy Now filter option in admin auctions dropdown filter
• Add: Buy Now status badges in WooCommerce products list and lot metabox
• Add: Contextual search button labels (‘Search Auctions’ / ‘Search Lots’) in admin tables
• Fix: Fix lot base page content showing shop description
• Fix: Issue with countdown timer for auction lots
• Fix: Menu order in wp-admin
• Fix: Buy Now price display when importing via CSV product import
• Fix: Preserve Auctions menu context and custom table columns during search and filtering
• Fix: Lot countdown timer synchronization for guest users and cached requests
• Fix: Lot base page content showing WooCommerce shop description
• Fix: Removed legacy jQuery UI timepicker assets
• Fix: WPCS escaping error for gavel icon badge in product list
• Fix: DataTables layout alignment, column widths, length menu dropdown, and selection compatibility
• Fix: WordPress admin bar ‘+ New’ menu order to place Auction and Lot directly below Product
• Fix: Update bid button text to ‘Max Bid’ for proxy auctions
• Fix: Block theme notice warnings and template compatibility on single auction page
• Fix: Version comparison operator in check_version to prevent recurring install routine

Version 4.0.0

2026-09-07

• Add: Auction Lots custom product type with sequential closing, sessions, and cron automation
• Add: AJAX bidding engine allowing instant bids without page reload, with responsive feedback modal
• Add: option to display bidding forms directly inside shop loops and catalog product cards
• Add: WooCommerce My Account dedicated ‘Auctions settings’ endpoint for user preferences
• Add: dedicated WordPress Admin ‘Auctions’ menu with quick links for Auctions and Lots
• Add: single auction admin controls for instant manual relisting and order generation
• Add: full badge customizer in settings for Auction, Lot, Winning, and Outbid badges (text, colors, position, custom image)
• Add: Lot Auction Results dashboard with summary stats, order generation, and relist controls
• Add: Lot Live email notifications (WC_Email_Auction_Lot_Live)
• Add: multi-vendor support for auction emails (finished, relist, bid note)
• Add: winning and outbid status badges overlay on product thumbnails in catalog and lot grids
• Add: settings to hide/filter lots from shop, category, tag, search, and auction archive pages
• Add: option to hide auctions belonging to a lot from general catalog
• Add: option to hide auctions and lots from WooCommerce products list with dynamic count adjustment
• Add: watchlist link display option in product loop and placement after bid form
• Add: Elementor Archive Auction Lots widget
• Add: shortcodes [auction_lot] and [auction_lots]
• Add: Auction and Lot quick-create links in WordPress admin top bar
• Add: post states for Auctions and Lots pages in admin pages list
• Add: seated auction progress bar option in settings
• Add: sample CSV data for WooCommerce auction and lot product importer
• Fix: block theme (FSE) archive title, breadcrumbs, and template loading
• Fix: badge positioning on single product pages and archives in block themes
• Fix: single product badges styled as eyebrow pill above title
• Fix: outbid and winning badge live updates during AJAX price polling and bidding in the loop
• Fix: dynamic bid input width adjustment and currency formatting with autoNumeric
• Fix: TypeError in getPriceAuction by handling scalar responses and nonces
• Fix: live notification popup suppressed for the bidder who placed the bid
• Fix: duplicate/confusing outbid notice during proxy bidding
• Fix: future lot and auction countdown expiry message showing ‘starting’ instead of ‘finished’
• Fix: buy now price 0 bug
• Fix: display winning badge only when reserve price is met
• Fix: show reserve price info only after auction has started
• Fix: show ‘No Bids’ status when auction finishes with zero bids
• Fix: highlight reserve price status and remove redundant below reserve label in lot results
• Fix: sync auction product dates and automatic closure when lot end date changes
• Fix: sequential lot closing, next auction advance, and manual close handling
• Fix: lot relisting date clearing, session datetime shift, and persistent relist date display
• Fix: term queries optimization and per-request caching for lot status and visibility
• Fix: memory leak and undefined variable error in auction product status checks
• Fix: fatal error on non-auction products in lot results metabox
• Fix: auction creation and CSV import product type in lots
• Fix: replaced deprecated current_time(‘timestamp’) calls with current_datetime
• Fix: switch admin auction date pickers to native HTML5 datetime-local inputs
• Fix: activity and winners list table navigation, taxonomy filtering, and SQL orderby sorting
• Fix: status view counts and filter links on admin auctions list screen
• Fix: active submenu item highlighting on All Lots page
• Fix: settings tabs reordered for better logical grouping
• Fix: removed obsolete noty.js script and deprecated templates
• Fix: updated translation template POT file

Version 3.6.3

2026-07-13

• Fix: translations
• Fix: Stripe filter
• Fix: Stripe autocharge bug
• Fix: code cleanup
• Add: buy now winner shown
• Add: new POT file
• Add: WordPress compatibility check

Version 3.6.2

2026-04-24

• Fix: Stripe automatic payment

Version 3.6.1

2026-02-03

• Fix: shortcode cache problem

Version 3.6

2026-01-05

• Fix: closing soon emails trigger
• Fix: misc warnings and code cleanup
• Fix: replaced get_current_user with wp_get_current_user
• Add: updated translation file

Version 3.5

2025-06-12

• Add: custom outbid message for proxy
• Add: WooCommerce email previews
• Fix: warning

Version 3.4

2025-02-06

• Fix: check for CSV activity export if product exists
• Fix: Stripe auto charge
• Add: Yoast and RankMath support for auction base page

Version 3.3

2024-10-25

• Fix: auction activity to date +1 day by default
• Fix: check if object exists in templating functions
• Fix: type cast

Version 3.2

2024-07-09

• Fix: warning triggered by auctions_for_woocommerce_outbid hook bug
• Fix: template shortcode return instead of echo content
• Fix: db version set to 3.0

Version 3.1

2024-03-26

• Add: seated auctions
• Add: shortcode to display parts of the template, [auctions_templates template=“add-to-cart|pay|bid-form|dates|condition|countdown|max-bid|reserve|auction-sealed|ajax-conteiner-start|ajax-conteiner-end|auctions_seated_progressbar_template”]
• Add: auto charge for won auctions (if user has stored card number - works only with Stripe payment gateway)
• Add: allow bidding only for users that have stored card (works only with Stripe payment gateway)

Version 3.0

2024-03-20

• Fix: DB optimization

Version 2.9

2024-03-11

• Fix: HPOS compatibility

Version 2.8

2023-10-23

• Fix: WooCommerce rest api problem

Version 2.7

2023-09-05

• Fix: POT file
• Fix: deprecated messages
• Fix: declare HPOS support

Version 2.6

2023-07-06

• Fix: bug in proxy bidding function
• Fix: code cleanup
• Fix: DB optimization for auction activity page in wp-admin

Version 2.5

2023-06-23

• Add: option to set bid increment as percentage of current bid value
• Fix: missing woocommerce_after_single_product_summary
• Fix: fatal error
• Add: filter auctions_for_woocommerce_pay_auction_redirect
• Fix: resend won email problem
• Fix: POT file update

Version 2.4

2023-05-04

• Fix: my_auctions_activity timestamp now formatted as per WP setting
• Fix: non-static method Auctions_For_Woocommerce_Cronjobs::send_reminders_email() error
• Fix: bug when marking auctions as paid when order status change

Version 2.3

2023-04-12

• Fix: WPML compatibility
• Fix: autonumeric bug with decimals
• Fix: CSV export
• Add: first and last name in winner report

Version 2.2

2023-03-29

• Fix: countdown template in loop
• Fix: bug which sets default order by in shortcodes
• Fix: double elements in template

Version 2.1

2022-12-20

• Fix: Buy now not showing

Version 2.0

2022-11-30

• Add: Elementor support

Version 1.8

2022-09-29

• Fix: changing auction to simple product
• Fix: WPML issues
• Add: winners report page with export

Version 1.7

2022-06-03

• Fix: bid input js
• Fix: typo

Version 1.6

2022-03-15

• Fix: proxy notification in auction history on edit auction page was missing
• Fix: fatal error on PHP 8.0

Version 1.5

2020-11-30

• Fix: buy now option

Version 1.4

2020-09-05

• Fix: translations

Version 1.3

2020-08-24

• Fix: relist bug
• Fix: translations

Version 1.2

2020-06-18

• Fix: auction finish admin email
• Fix: sql compatibility issue
• Fix: cronjob for reminder to pay emails
• Fix: datatables JS load check
• Fix: problem when live notifications are turned off
• Fix: problem with bid input value

Version 1.1

2020-06-5

• Fix: small bugs and typos
• Add: apply filter to winner display name in history table
• Add: sortable tables, CSV and Excel export for auction history in wp-admin

Version 1.0.2

2020-05-29

• Optimizations
• Versions
• Fix translating bug

Version 1.0.1

2020-01-28

• Optimizations
• Versions

Version 1.0.0

2019-10-29

• Inital release