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Buy It Now / Make an Offer
Buy It Now / Make an Offer
No bolt-ons, no plugins, no third-party ecommerce systems — just seamless fixed-price selling that works for buyers, sellers, and your admin team.
Buy Now – Sell at a Fixed Price Instantly
Perfect for:
• Unsold lots post-auction
• Trade clearance
• Stock vendor items
• Surplus or off-season inventory
• Marketplace-style listings
With Buy Now, you simply:
• Add a fixed price to a lot
• Make it visible in the catalogue or a standalone Buy Now event
• Let bidders check out directly from the site
BidHarvest® then:
• Automatically generates invoices
• Collects payment online
• Updates vendor or stock records
• Flags the item as sold
No phone calls. No emails. Just frictionless ecommerce-style sales run from within your auction back office.
Make Offer – Buyer-Led Negotiation on Your Terms
Want to invite negotiation without clogging your inbox? BidHarvest’s® Make Offer workflow lets you accept offers with full automation.
You can:
• Set a minimum acceptable offer per lot
• Allow users to submit their best offer via the website
• Configure the system to auto-reject bids below the min offer price
• Trigger automated acceptance when the offer meets or exceeds your minimum
• Instantly generate paperwork and take payment
This removes the manual burden from your team while keeping you in control of price and terms.
Flexible Use Cases
Use Case — Benefit
Unsold lots post-auction — Monetise what didn’t sell, fast
Retail-style clearance — Sell items on a continuous basis
Peer-to-peer listings — Let users make offers on user-generated lots
Vendor preference — Offer fixed-price or negotiable options
Always On Infinite sales — Keep your homepage fresh with always-available inventory
Key Features
• Add Buy Now or Make Offer settings to any lot
• Set separate price and minimum offer values
• Automatically generate invoices and collect payment
• Support online card or open banking checkout
• Display Buy Now / Make Offer badges in catalogue and lot views
• Track conversions and status through the back office
• Works alongside timed, live, and single-lot auction formats
Why It Matters
Auction timelines don’t always match buyer urgency or vendor needs. With Buy Now and Make Offer, you unlock continuous revenue from your inventory while delivering a buyer experience that feels instant, flexible, and familiar.
• No separate ecommerce system
• No developer time required
• No increase in admin workload
Just more ways to sell, built into your auction platform.
Want to see it in action?
Book a personalised demo and we’ll show you how Buy Now and Make Offer can transform your post-sale and retail strategy with minimal setup and maximum return.
Not everything needs to go to auction. Whether you’re dealing with unsold stock, fixed-price vendor consignments, or opportunistic one-offs, the ability to sell outside the auction format is essential.With Buy Now and Make Offer functionality built directly into BidHarvest®, you can give bidders a fast, familiar retail-style experience while maintaining your auction platform, vendor processes, and reporting structure.
We’re still working on this content and it’s not quite ready yet — but if you’re interested in this feature, we’d love to hear from you! Please get in touch and we’ll be happy to share more details or keep you updated as soon as it’s available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Only the user making the offer and the admin user can see the offer that has been made. In most cases, clients use BidHarvest's inbuilt auto offer function that stores the minimum offer price against the item and automatically rejects or accepts offers. The offer price is never made available to prospective bidders.
Yes. As soon as a user checks out a buy it now item, they are taken to the online checkout where their payment is processed by card or open banking. Once the payment has processed an invoice is generated and added to their my account section and the admin is informed of the purchase by email to arrange collection/shipping. The item is then moved to a sold status on the front end of the system and will show either the base purchase price or the price incl. of premium, dependent on how your BidHarvest® platform has been configured.
Yes. It is simple to mark unsold lots as cleared for sale by changing their status from an auction item to either a buy it now item or a make offer item, adding a buy now or make offer price. You can also easily re-enter unsold items into a single lot or multi lot auction with an adjusted reserve or discretion.
Yes. If you add Buy it Now items to a private auction, only invited buyers can participate. This functionality is useful for limiting buy now events to trusted buyers or running private treaty checkouts where you want the paperwork to be available in the users my account. BidHarvest® supports private invite only for auctions, buy it now and make offer events of single or multi lot catalogues.
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