The Platform Bid User Guide
We want to make sure you understand how to use our auction platform so you can concentrate on adding value to your business.
One of the key things we wanted to achieve when we started building this platform was to make a platform that was easier for everyone to use.
Having built one auction platform before, and from knowing the industry well, we hear a lot about what auction administrators and bidders find useful and what they find annoying.
We understand the challenges and the problems of running online auctions
So, we have created a user guide to help everyone who uses our platform understand what they are doing, so they can spend more time working on the things that matter and adding value to their business, rather than getting bogged down in annoying details that take way more time than they should.
We’ve built the platform itself to follow the natural workflow of auction administrators and the tasks they carry out to get an auction from conception to sale. The user guide follows the same pattern, taking the users through the process step by step.
We guide you through step-by-step, how to set up your first auction, from listing your items to setting the starting bid and auction duration. We also explain how to fine tune your auction using reserves and opening bid prices which all contribute towards creating auction momentum. We also show you how you can bulk upload lots using an Excel spreadsheet and drag and drop images on to each lot in bulk.
Furthermore, the guide offers tips on effective auction management, like how to monitor bidding activity, close auctions, and arrange payment and shipping. These tips can save you time and help you run your auctions more smoothly.
Find out more about Platform Bid and how we can help you manage your online auctions.
We want you to understand one of the keys to a successful auction: the more information you provide to the bidder, the more likely they are to make a buying decision for an item in that auction. The more bidders you have in this frame of mind, the more competitive the bidding.
We also want to make sure you understand how to follow the progress of the auction, and manage the bidders requesting to take part in the auction. Making sure you only approve reliable and trustworthy bidders.
The more you understand the data in your system, the greater use it will become in future auction marketing and promotions.
They key to our platform is freeing your up to spend time of adding value to your business. Yes, creating auctions is time consuming, but we feel it can be done more efficiently and by spending less time fighting the system and more time having the time and space to do things properly.