How to display the user's active "Max Bid" amount alongside the current winning

-- HikaShop version -- : 6.6.0
-- HikaAuction version -- : 6.0.4
-- Joomla version -- : 6
-- PHP version -- : 8.4

Hello Team,

I need guidance on how to display the logged-in user's current Maximum Bid amount in a text display

Current Behaviour example:

The current highest bid on an auction for example is € 80.015

Another user clicks Place max bid and submits a maximum bid of € 100.000.

After submission, the current highest bid updates to € 81.015 (second-highest bid plus the bid increment), and the green status message at the bottom displays:

"You are leading the auction for € 81.015"


The Issue: Because the main price and the green status box only show € 81.015 while the live bid button jumps to € 100.015, bidders get confused and cannot clearly see that their € 100.000 maximum bid is registered and active.

Desired Result:

When the leading bidder has an active max bid, we want to display an additional label above the biidding buttons with something similar to:

"Your max bid is € 100.000 (If you win this auction, you only pay the second-highest bid plus the bid increment (€ 81.015), not your maximum bid)"

The button displaying "Place live bid for 1000.015" is confusing users and causing them to think their bids have not been submitted. As a result, bidders are clicking the button repeatedly (tested this with two people, and both experienced the same confusion)


Thank you

Hi,

HikaAuction already displays this: on the auction page, logged-in bidders get a "Your max bid" line in the auction details, showing their current maximum bid (€ 100.000 in your example), and it is refreshed by the live updates. Since the texts on your page ("You are leading the auction", "Place live bid for") are not the default HikaAuction ones, I suppose you have a template override of the show_auction view, and that line may have been removed or hidden in it. Could you check if you see it with the default template ?

If you want to add the explanation about the price paid, you can change the text of that line with a language override of the key HKA_YOUR_PREVIOUS_MAX_BID in System > Language Overrides, for example: Your max bid (if you win, you only pay the second-highest bid plus the bid increment)

About the button, you're right that it is confusing: when the leading bidder has a max bid above the current price, the button offers a bid of their max bid plus the increment, so each click raises their own max bid. We're thinking about changing this so that, for the leading bidder, the page shows the "you are winning" message with their max bid and the explanation above, and replaces the bid button with a "Raise my max bid" field instead. Would that work for you ?

Great idea

for the leading bidder, the page shows the "you are winning" message with their max bid and the explanation above, and replaces the bid button with a "Raise my max bid" field

That would be perfect Nicolas

Thank you!

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. We'll look at adding this for the next release of HikaAuction.

Thank you Nicolas, as usual next release end of the month?

Next release will be in October. Not sure when yet.
We're busy with the new website and the next release of HikaShop which should be out next week.

Ok Thanks Nicolas!

Hi again Nicolas

I have seen this new feature in hikaauction 6.0.5 

thank you!

Glad to hear it fits your need. The leading bidder now sees a box above the bid buttons with the price they are currently winning at and their own max bid, and the max bid button becomes "Raise my max bid".