Auction support in Woocommerce

Resolved Devanshu
(@logicallimit)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi,

We are into floriculture business. We produce a range of flowers in our farms. If we fall short of flowers with respect to demand, we aggregate flowers from local and distant flower producers and then sell it.

What happens in our business is, flowers are being started cutting say from afternoon and get packed by late evening. These flowers go to wholesale market at next day around 5 am morning. Now price vary daily and it depends on demand and festive season. So the price of produce is different daily. it is not fixed even during a day. It vary in inter day trading also.

Now my questions are:
1. Does woocommerce has feature which allows to upload the quantity of a number of products at once. We would upload the stock in hand when our flowers are cut and readied around 7 pm daily because that is the time when we know how much produce we have in hand.

2. When our produce reaches market next day morning, we get the price from wholesale market from our agent at around 5 am. We would want the price to be uploaded in our portal at once for all products in one go.

3. For each product, we want to display Price label as “Today’s Price”. When a product goes out of stock, we want the label “Today’s Price” to be automatically changed to “Last Sold Price on <Date in DD/MM/YYYY>”. The reason is that we want the customer to know the price that product was sold lastly before going out of stock. And next day certainly the price would be different. May be more than today’s price or even less and the cycle would continue of uploading new prices at once..

4. Is there any AI based extension, which can dynamically tweak price on the basis of demand or some parameters.

5. Apart from above, we are also planning to have our own online auction market, where buyer can bid for flowers and buy it.

I’ll really appreciate, if someone can help us in getting answer to my above queries wrt to Woocommerce.

Regards,
Devanshu

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Juan G. (woo-hc)
(@judagutor)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi Devanshu!

Thank you for reaching out.

I now answer your questions:

1 & 2.
I think the best way to update your product prices and stock all at once, with fewer clicks or steps, is using the WooCommerce core Product CSV Importer and Exporter functionality found under Products → All products.

First, you could use the export option to get the CSV file with the information from all products in your store. Then, you could edit the CSV file to adjust the prices and quantities (stock) of the products you want in their respective columns. Once you finish, you can upload the file, and all columns you edited, will be updated.

Check more about updating existing products using the Product CSV Importer and Exporter functionality here: https://woocommerce.com/document/product-csv-importer-exporter/#update-existing-products

If possible, avoid Microsoft Excel due to formatting and character encoding issues. Check our recommended CSV editors.

3.
There is no option in WooCommerce core to add a label to the product price and then change it to another once it is sold out. Also, there isn’t an option to add a timer of the product sold last; you would require plugins or custom coding.

I found an article with a code that allows you to add a price prefix: https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-add-prefix-suffix-product-prices/.

Anyway, since this is a development topic, I am leaving this thread open for a bit to see if anyone can chime in to help you out with this point.

For additional assistance, we recommend getting in touch with one of the customization experts listed on the WooCommerce Customizations Page; they can help you build the customization the way you need it.

4.
Do you mean if there is an extension that automatically updates the price based on product demand or other parameters?

There are extensions like Bulk Table Editor for WooCommerce and Bulk Edit Products, Prices, and Attributes that would help you update product prices manually in bulk. But a code solution would be required to tweak prices dynamically based on demand or other parameters.

Our customization experts listed on WooCommerce Customizations Page could help you with this.

5.
If you are planning to have auctions on your site, you could use plugins like:

* Auctions for WooCommerce
* Auctions Made Easy for WooCommerce
* https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/auctions/

It all depends on what you want to achieve and which one suits your needs the best.

I hope this helps!
Nitesh
(@nitesh_singh)

1 year, 7 months ago
Hi @logicallimit ,

We read your original post and answer for poiint 1 -4 have been given and you can achieve what you are looking for by WooCommerce and doing customized development on it.

With regards to point (5), `let me tell you that we have two auction software:

<a href=”https://auctionplugin.net” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Ultimate Auction: Pro Plugin</a> – Suitable for existing website. Its demo is available <a href=”https://testdrive.auctionplugin.net” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>here</a>.

<a href=”https://getultimateauction.com” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Ultimate Auction: Pro Theme</a> – Suitable for creating a new auction website.
Its demo is available <a href=”https://demo.getultimateauction.com`” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>here.

Regards,
Nitesh
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Igor H
(@ihereira)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hello,

5: we are also planning to have our own online auction market, where buyer can bid for flowers and buy it.

let me tell you that we have two auction software

That’s great.

Now price vary daily and it depends on demand and festive season

I just wanted to add, regarding this part, you can achieve that functionality as follows:

You can create a variable product, read more below:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/

Then you can set up a different price according to the season. Or you could do it by using WooCommerce Bookings:
http://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/

This will offer a booking calendar so that you can charge different prices for different date ranges.

If you would like to learn more you can check use-cases below:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/woocommerce-extensions/woocommerce-bookings/use-cases/

And a sample website with examples:
https://bookingsdemo.blog

Let us know if there are any questions 🙂

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