Ben – if it helps,

I can confirm the following. This is not a Divi issue. It does the same thing with one of the “stock” WP themes.

That is, the front end will not pull any of the Auction Product info from the backend. It doesn’t even recognize it as an Auction Product – so all auction info – the prices (starting, reserve, increments, etc) and the starting and ending dates of the auction are not there. But the Product Name, Descriptions, and even the Vendor Shipping amounts/settings are there.

And if I put in new values in a price field (or starting/ending dates) the new values are saved and the whole listing remains intact.

I too want to express that I really appreciate the plugin – and all of the great support WC Vendors supplies. And while it is a free plugin, it is the main reason I bought Pro.

Ben/Jamie,

Is this something you intend to look into? I’m just curious about the status so I can advise vendors?

Thanks Ben – I knew you were working on the pending release – Just wanted to make sure we weren’t slipping through the cracks.

Still hoping for some progress report. I don’t know what to tell auction vendors who are waiting for the ability to list and edit.

Looks like it didn’t attach. Anyway, can you double check the file you zipped, please.

CORRECTION EDIT: My apologies, my mistake. Edit Product still defaults to Simple Product, but if you then go to Auction Products, the info is there (unlike before). Success.

However, the Calendar dropdown for the starting and ending auction dates has changed slightly, and is now “cutoff.” Is that something you could check please?

For anyone following this. While that tweak to the product-edit template does fix several issues with editing (Thanks again Ben) – there are still a couple remaining with Reserve Price and Buy It Now Price. I am starting another topic so as to hopefully keep things less confusing.

Sorry – on the forums I moderate I prefer to limit long run-on topics focusing on different issues.

So, here’s the other problem – the Buy It Now price field is blank when returning to edit a Buy It Now Auction Product. But the problem extends beyond that.

I think it is blank because when filling in an Auction Product Buy It Now price on the front end, the price is instead added to the Simple Product Reg. Price field when saved – causing several issues.

Example:
– Add auction product and add a “Buy it Now” price
– Nothing happens (No Buy It Now appears on listing). But if you check, the Buy It Now price was added (for some reason) under the Simple Product Tab as the Regular Price. This also means the product is incorrectly listed as “On Sale.” – with no Buy It Now price listed. (But these are two different and should be unassociated features).
– So, you return to edit/correct. The Buy It Now field is unsaved and empty. So, you delete the Simple Product Reg Prod. field and again fill in the Buy It Now field. You save again, but the situation repeats.
– So, return again and leave Reg. Price Simple Product field filled in, but you add a Buy It Now price (so both are now filled in). Now the Buy It Now does appear on the listing. (even if the two prices differ) But Buy It Now will not work unless you keep the Simple Product Reg Price field filled in with something – anything.
– But, the Buy It Now price is still not really “saved.” Because if a vendor returns to check or edit any info again – the Buy It Now field is again unsaved and empty. So if the product is saved without noticing this, the listing will now state “Buy it now for $0.00.”

This happens because if the Simple Product Reg Price remains filled in on the front end, for some reason this activates the Buy It Now price in the listing even if there is no value entered in Buy It Now.

These two prices – Simple Product Reg price and Auction Product “But It Now” price should operate independently – as they do when using SA and WC Free.

Thanks a bunch Jamie – as this is a super important feature for many auction vendors. Your logic sounds like you are on the right track.

One other minor thing since you will be immersed in the code already. When a vendor goes to edit an Auction Product, it would be best if they were immediately taken to the Auction Product and not to the Simple Auction Product screen. This is confusing to some vendors, who are not always the best at working through anything but the obvious.

And thinking ahead, in similar fashion, when you get variable products set up – when editing a variable product, a vendor should be taken to the Variable Product “set up.”

Hi Guys – I’m Back,

In an attempt to revisit and resolve the various issues mentioned above, I have the following update.
– Short Story – Jamie’s fix for the “Buy It Now” is working. Thanks again Jamie.
– The start/end times for auctions – (specifically hours/minutes) – is still treated differently by the frontend and backend, and this causes conflicts when editing products (by admin and vendor). Problem is that the backend will not allow an add/edit without a time of day – but the frontend will not accept a time of day. I hired a developer to fix this and it looks as if I now have a script that solves this problem. You are welcome to look at it if you care to add this to the core.

But this still leaves two very important “bugs,” that I think are better addressed from your end – PLEASE.
1) My best explanation – If an admin has to visit an auction product to help a Vendor, and/or edit/fix something, this is what happens. After any such admin edit (however minor) if the Vendor should then need to edit the same product from the frontend, there is a bug. On entering the edit page, the auction end time is reset to the same time as the start time. So, if a Vendor visits the product just to add a new photo, change a Reserve price, etc. and saves – the auction immediately ends, since the end time has now been passed. And he may never even visit the window where he would notice this change in end time (but even so, it is easily missed). This auction ending is irreversible. All bids are final, the sale is “incomplete,” but it has been “completed.” And things are a mess for the bidders, vendor, and admin. (Note: if an admin does nothing, and a vendor returns to edit his product, the end time is saved correctly) So, as is, an admin can not directly assist a vendor with his product listing – however minor.
2) And to exacerbate the above, the auction re-listing features are still missing/unavailable from the front end. There should be an option when adding a new product to set up an automatic relisting if the product does not sell. This is not available. Or, if the auto relist is not chosen when initially added, the vendor still has the option to manually relist after the auction ends by checking a checkbox (that appears after an unsuccessful auction) and adding new start/end times. This is also unavailable. This saves vendors insane amounts of time by not having to add products from scratch after each unsuccessful auction (ten seconds instead of 10-15 minutes) Or after each unintentionally ended auction as a result of Bug #1 above. In short – a vital function.