How to Create an Auction Website
Easy.Auction, continued as Auctify
4,000+ customers across Easy.Auction and Auctify
To create an auction website, you choose a hosted auction site builder, set up categories and auction rules, add your items and connect a payment provider. Easy.Auction was built to do this without code: timed auctions get chosen start and end dates and times, and each listing can carry a reserve price, a Buy Now price and a handling or shipping fee. Items can be added one by one or through CSV import of up to 100 listings at a time. Easy.Auction no longer accepts new subscriptions, so new sites start on Auctify, from the same team, with a 7-day free trial.
How to create an auction website in 5 steps
- Start a free trial on Auctify. Easy.Auction no longer accepts new subscriptions, so new auction websites begin on Auctify, its successor. The 7-day free trial at https://auctify.com/free-trial.php requires no credit card.
- Choose your site type and domain. Decide whether only you sell or whether the site is a multi-seller marketplace, and whether it is public or a private, access-code protected site. Connect your own domain or use a free myauctify.com subdomain.
- Connect payments and language. Link Stripe or PayPal so winning bidders can pay, and choose the language your bidders will see from the 20 languages Auctify offers.
- Add your lots. Enter the lots you want to sell and set a buyer's premium per lot if you charge one. Keep within your plan's monthly allowance: 100 lots on Starter, 200 on Pro and unlimited on Enterprise.
- Set bidding rules and open the auction. Use Auctify's proxy bidding and soft close for anti-sniping protection, then publish the auction and share the site address with your bidders.
Frequently asked questions
What do I need before I create my first auction website?
Mainly your items and a payment account. Easy.Auction sites take payment through built-in PayPal, Stripe, Mollie, Square or Authorize.net, and Auctify, where new sites now start, uses Stripe and PayPal. A domain name is optional on Auctify, which offers a free myauctify.com subdomain.
How do I stop last-second sniping on my auction website?
Use anti-sniping settings. Easy.Auction includes configurable anti-sniping settings together with absentee bidding, where bids are placed automatically on a bidder's behalf. Combined, these reduce the advantage of waiting until the final seconds of an auction to place a bid.
What happens to items on my auction website that get no bids?
Easy.Auction can relist unsuccessful auctions automatically, so an unsold item returns for another round without being entered again. A reserve price on the listing also keeps an item from selling below the minimum amount you are willing to accept.
You'll experience a range of benefits and enjoy:
Enhanced User Experience
A mega-simple dashboard where you can edit logos, content, prices and 100+ other options. No tech skills or code required!
Advanced Functionality
Over 150 different settings. Premium auction features on every plan, including anti-bid sniping measures, auto-bidding, and minimum sales price/reserve price for sellers.
Diversified Revenue Streams
The option to only sell products you supply – or open it up and let any member sell their own goods, eBay style.
What Easy.Auction Customers are Saying:
Great experience all the way around. Tech support ready and willing to go the extra mile. I asked them many tasks and they were very responsive and accomplished everything we needed. The software does everything I need it to do at the moment. The software works really well.
Caroline
from Toromont Cat
Best Online Auction Software on the Market for the Money. I have searched for software to run an online auction for over 3 years now, and have experimented with at least 5-6 different programs. Found Easy.Auction during a last resort search and thought maybe just one more try. Glad I did.
Kurt
from Healey's Auction Services
It's a rare thing when you try a new service and it delivers 100%. I have a professional website and subscribers and it was all done and set up in one day. I was able to immediately attract potential customers and subscribers to the site. I now have a site to promote my Original art work and the art work of hundreds of another artist as well.
Mario
from premium web service
Auctions are a Success. We have auctions for our 900 employees. Money raised goes to charity. The auction went so well! Everyone loved using the site. We had bidding wars. We have had nothing but compliments on how fun and easy the site was for them to use. Very polite and knowledgeable staff.
Amber
from Redstone Highlands
Exceptional Service! The folks at easy.auction have been a godsend for me & my company. If you don't know how and where to start look no further this is the place for auction sites. I would not only recommend their service but I will implement their style of expedient and courteous customer service into my own business as well!
Earnest P.
from Internet, 1-10 employees
Very simple and with all main features included. Very simple platform. Easy to use. Does what it says very simple and to the point. Work fine and integration with PayPal is very simple. So far haven't really need any major help. Could use a little more flexibility on self-customization.
Sam
from Lotz International LLC
Great alternative to eBay for feeless selling. eBay has been taking more and more fees lately, and this has no fees. It also allows you to make it more of your own business instead of just a profile on an external site.
Eli S.
“I am with limited computer skills, yet they enabled me to set my auction site up within hours and I was up and running. My customers praise it for ease of use. People that use it like it, more business for me!” -Eden, site owner
Done-For-You Launch + Setup
We’ll take on the heavy lifting, you just watch our progress.
We’re also available for further customizations and upgrades post-launch! (Extra fee required)
Hosting included
Hosting and SSL are included with every Easy.Auction site.
A+ Security
As in all things, safety first! We keep your data encrypted and virtually breach-proof by employing premium-grade safeguards to your site.
Expert Support and Troubleshooting
Log a ticket with our friendly support team and get quick help with any issue, big or small.
No Contracts
You’re not locked into any lengthy service agreements; your auction site is billed on one flat month-to-month cycle.
“The best of the best: it's easy to use, great customer service.
They even respond and make requests in the weekends!
They respond very fast, and have a fair price for their products.”
-Christian A., a happy customer
If you can dream it, you can auction it!
Create an auction site for anything and everything:
Automotive | Toys | Collectibles | Professional services | Clothes
Home décor | Electronics | Sports and outdoor gear | Charities / fundraisers
Or any other niche – as broad or as narrow as you want!
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