10 Best Shopify Auction Apps – [2024]

This app is less about bidding and more about quotes. The essential elements of the app adds a button to product pages, email templates and more that allow visitors to negotiate the right price with you. Therefore, what you would need to do is to tell customers of a deadline and ask them to send in their best price. You can then choose the best price.

The good thing about this app is that it does allow customers to bid on several items at the same time. Other options don’t allow for this. You can also send counter offers to improve revenues and get a fairer price for products/services that are on auction.

The app doesn’t require any specific technical skills to install or configure, making a great option for those who are new to website designing or Shopify.

Request A Quote Highlights:

• Customers can make request and bids on products on your store.
• You can reject bids and stop certain products from having bids made against them.
• Easy to install and use, perfect for those who have no technical experience.
• Can be used on multi-vendor websites as well.

This app allows you to hide your prices of products on your site and then get the customer to send you a ‘bid’ on the product. You can then accept, reject or negotiate with the customer. With the bid you’ll also receive the customer’s details which will include their contact details, the products and the price they’re willing to pay for the items.

If you agree to the price, then the bid is turned into an order. Again this app allows you to manually have auctions on your website. You can set an item for sale over a 24 hour period, invite visitors to provide their best bid and at the end of it, select the winning bid.

To prevent spam from filling your email inbox, the system is protected with Google’s re-Captcha code.

In addition to the prices, you can also hide other elements on the site including ‘add to cart’ button, quick view, wishlist and more. If you operate in more than one country, then you can translate the app into the appropriate language.

Request A Quote & Hide Prices Highlights

• Hide specific website elements on your product page to encourage them to make a bid.
• Manage all quotes within a dashboard.
• Connect directly with bidders to agree, reject or negotiate.
• An easy-to-install and configure app. No need to know coding or other aspects.

This app is more about having a multi-vendor market place, like eBay or Amazon. However, that doesn’t mean that it lacks in features. Like eBay, your vendors can hold auctions for their products. This can be a great option if they’re selling limited edition products or you want to create a website much like eBay.

For every vendor or product category, you can set unique commission rates. And you can assign products already listed on your website to vendors. For instance, if you sell blue shoes, and the vendor sells the same blue shoes, you can assign them that product.

You can also allow vendors to sell physical, digital or a combination of product types. Therefore, you can create a great marketplace for many.

If you’re concerned that your customers aren’t getting good service, there’s a great reminder feature that can nudge vendors to complete orders. All vendors can also be rated on a Profile Page and customer can see this before making a purchase or place a bid.

You can make your marketplace multi-lingual by adding the Weglot app. Therefore, you can have a great, international marketplace. This offers you a chance to expand your customer base and improving revenues and profitability. It also allows you to build a strong set of international vendors that can sell internationally or locally.

Multi Vendor Marketplace Highlights:

• Numerous payment methods to split takings between admin and seller.
• Vendors can host auctions for products on your website.
• You can have a forgo a commission on sales and instead setup a membership plan for sellers.
• Enable SMS alerts to keep up-to-date on what is going on with your marketplace.

Globo allows your customers to submit bids for products and you can then negotiate with them. Again this is an app that allows auctions to happen, but it requires a lot more manual handling. If you do agree with the amount in the bid, or you have several bids and choose the highest, you can then turn that bid into an order with a click of the button.

To complete the order, the customer will need to enter payment details into your checkout page.

To prevent the accidental buying of a product, you can hide the price and the ‘add to cart’ button.

Globo Request A Quote Highlights:

• Create a manual auction site.
• Turn bids into orders within seconds.
• Design bidding emails and acceptance emails with a drag and drop builder.
• Customer can complete process at the checkout page.

This app allows you to run a proper auction on your store. There are numerous features that make this a great option if you want to run an auction for any product. For instance, you can set increment rules for your products, so bidders have to bid above the previous person by so much. And you can also have a reserve price, therefore, if bids don’t go as high as that, there is no winner.

The app also allows you to have numerous auctions running at the same time and customers can be made to pay a ‘joining fee’ to validate that they are legitimate. To keep an eye on the auction, there is a notification panel and if the bidding process is taking too long, or there are no bids, you can automatically end the process with a click of the button.

If you have a problem that there were no bids for a product, you also have the option to restart the auction. Finally, you can declare multiple winners for any auction. Great if you have several of the same product available and want to give it to the top three or four bidders instead of just the top bidder.

For the bidders, there’s one final feature and that’s remote bidding. This is where they can place the upper limit they want to bid to and the AI will automatically bid for them when a new bid is placed. However, when their maximum is reached, they’re out of the bids.

Product Auction Highlights:

• Proxy bidding for the customers is allowed.
• Legitimize bidders, and also raise funds, by having a signup fee on your website.
• Declare multiple winners on your site.
• End, restart and other actions available on all auctions.

According to Tipo, there has been a massive surge in the demand for online auctions. So they’ve developed this app to help manage your online auction with ease. The app is visually stunning and offers an aesthetically pleasing auction style to your site. Admins on sites can easily establish an auction on any product in the store. And you can monitor the entire auction from inside the app. This can include the bidding activity and any sales that are made.

You can set a reserve price within the app, and this is hidden from the bidders. If the closing price is lower, then there’s no winner. You can also set the bid increment in both a minimum and maximum amount.

And you can have dynamic closing auctions, which is when there’s a minimum amount of time between the last bid and the closing of the auction. This prevents people from making a bid one second before the end to win without giving others the chance to make another bid. There’s also auto-bidding that allows customers to continue bidding, even when they’re not on the site, by them setting their maximum budget.

Finally, there’s also the buyout price. This allows you to set a price value that you expect to sell the product at. This will close the auction immediately.

Tipo Product Auction Highlights:

• Lots of emails to configure and keep everyone up-to-date with the auctions.
• Set a maximum price for the auction to go to.
• Create a delay in closing the auction to a set time after the last bid has come in.
• Set a reserve price to prevent loss of earnings from your products/items.

Price is definitely one of the reasons why someone might abandon a cart. There are ways to recover this, but you could always change that by having a manual bidding process that allows customers to give you an offer for a product. You can set the deadlines with this app, wait for the bids to come in and then select the highest to be the winners and receive the products.

This app can also work as a way to ensure that you’re staying competitive on pricing. If a customer sees the same product somewhere else for a different amount, they can send you evidence and you can change the same amount.

To make it a more auction style app, there is the chance to edit the HTML and CSS. Therefore, you can make this more auction-like with a manual control element.

Price Beater Highlights:

• Beat your competitor’s prices.
• Customers can make bids.
• You can reject/accept bids in the backend of the app.
• Easy to customize.