HikaAuction Change Log

All the HikaShop team puts a lot of energy in this project and works every day to improve the component and your user experience, by adding new features and fixing bugs.

We advise you to update HikaAuction each month to enjoy the latest version.
(You can download the package in your member area or click on the automatic update button directly on your back-end.)

Here is the list of each release since we started the HikaAuction adventure...

HikaAuction 6.0.1

Release date : April 20, 2026

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Improvements
  • Auction status badges are now displayed on the individual product page as well as in listings. The badge updates in real-time via live bid polling when the auction ends.
  • Auction status badges are now displayed as full-width centered blocks for better readability in both listings and the product page.
  • On WordPress, the plugins included with HikaAuction are now automatically re-copied into HikaShop's extensions directory after each update, ensuring they always match the installed version. This also allows easy downgrades by simply re-installing an older version.
• Fixes
  • Fixed PHP 8+ warnings on the auction product page for guest visitors and finished auctions: the bid validation script block is now skipped when the user is not logged in or the priceBase value is not available, and the convertNumber helper safely handles null input.
  • Live bid notifications are now sticky and require a click to dismiss, so users do not miss them when their browser window was in the background.
  • After being outbid via live updates, the quick-bid button still showed the previous bid amount in its label and data attribute, causing the bid validation to fail with an error when clicking it. The button now updates correctly when the bidding price changes.
  • The bid validation error translations were not preloaded, so the error notification could fail to appear silently if the async translation fetch did not complete before the validation runs.
  • Fixed a typo and clarified wording in the English translation "You bid must be higher or equal to %s" → "Your bid must be higher than or equal to %s".
  • On WordPress, the login and registration links in the "Please create an account or log in to submit your bid" message were pointing to Joomla-specific URLs and did not work. They now correctly route to the WordPress login and registration pages.
  • In English auction mode, when the current winner was outbid, the "Your bid is the highest" message remained on the page instead of being replaced by the bid buttons. The winner message and bid form are now both rendered in the page, and the JS syncs their visibility with the current winning state on every poll (not just on transitions) so it also works when the user was outbid between page render and the first poll.
  • The product_reserve_price column was missing from the install/update SQL, so it was only added when running "Check database" manually. It is now created automatically during installation and updates.
  • When two bidders placed the same maximum bid, the bid history displayed the most recent bid first instead of the earliest one, making it look like the wrong bidder was winning. The first-come-first-served rule now applies consistently to both winner determination and bid history display.
  • Auction status badges and price updates in product listings now also work on category listing pages, not just product listing pages. This fixes the badges not appearing on some Joomla menu configurations and on WordPress shop pages.
  • Auction status badges in product listings now check the sale end date in real-time instead of relying solely on the product_auction database status. This ensures expired auctions show as Sold or Unsold in listings even before the cron has processed them.
  • The bid increment field was missing from the HikaMarket vendor product edit form. Vendors can now set a per-product bid increment just like in the backend product edit form.
  • The timeCounter function could cause a TypeError on PHP 8+ when sale dates were empty strings instead of timestamps.
  • The "Check database" feature no longer triggers a warning on WordPress because the install.sql path was using a Joomla-specific path that doesn't exist on WordPress.
  • HikaAuction no longer crashes when it is invoked from a Joomla CLI script or a custom API application that does not expose a template system (for example when an order email is rendered from a CLI command: HikaAuction hooks onMailListing and the old code then tried to build a template override path from $app->getTemplate()). The override path lookup, the getLayout render and the getMenu helper are now guarded so they fall back cleanly when no template system is available, and getLayout temporarily swaps to a SiteApplication for the duration of the render to mirror the fix done in HikaShop 6.4.2.

HikaAuction 6.0.0

Release date : March 23, 2026

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • We've added support for WordPress to HikaAuction. HikaAuction can now be installed as a WordPress plugin alongside HikaShop for WordPress, bringing full auction functionality to WordPress-based stores.
  • We've added Gutenberg blocks for WordPress: "Product Auction" to display the bid interface on product pages, "My Bids" to display the user's bidding history, and "Won Auctions" to display the user's won auctions with payment status.
  • We've added support for HikaShop's next release's new user control panel sidebar on the Bids and Won Auctions pages.
  • We've added a new "Dutch auction" mode where the price starts high and drops by a configurable amount at regular intervals. The first buyer to accept the current price wins immediately. The price drop amount, interval, and floor price (via reserve price) are configurable. The price countdown updates live in the browser.
  • We've added multi-currency support for auctions. All bids are stored in the product's base currency. When a user bids in a different currency, the amount is automatically converted at the current exchange rate. Prices are displayed in the product's currency with an approximate conversion shown in the user's currency when they differ.
  • We've added an option to display auction status badges (Upcoming, Live, Sold, Unsold, Cancelled) on product listings. The badge position can be configured to appear at the top, after the product name, or at the bottom of each product card.
• Improvements
  • We've improved the layout of the auction payment page with a clearer visual structure: a success banner for the winning message, distinct sections for the give-up option and checkout form.
  • We've improved the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility of the auction pages: added screen-reader labels to all form inputs, ARIA live regions for bid validation errors and live bid notifications, accessible status text for icon-only indicators, aria-hidden on decorative elements, fixed invalid HTML structure, role=timer with periodic translated screen-reader announcements for the countdown, converted bid anchor links to proper button elements, fixed duplicate element IDs, added aria-label to all forms, added sr-only captions to all data tables, scope=col on all table headers, fixed color contrast on urgent timer and auction details text, added non-color indicators (left border) for user's own bids and active auctions, added navigation link on auction cancellation page, and added new-window indication on external links.
  • The "Use HikaShop checkout" setting is now enabled by default for new installations, with a ready-made checkout workflow (login, address, payment, confirm) tailored for auctions.
  • The auction checkout now checks if HikaShop supports the pay button (Essential/Business edition and allow_payment_button setting) before redirecting to the payment page, and falls back to the order listing when not available.
  • When the "Use HikaShop checkout" setting is enabled, the auction won page now properly redirects to HikaShop's checkout workflow instead of using the old direct payment page with the address selector.
  • The "Continue shopping" link on the auction cancellation page now uses HikaShop's "URL where you will be redirected when the cart is empty" setting, falling back to the product listing.
  • When using bid increment bidding in Vickrey or English auction mode, the bidding interface now shows a "Bid for X" quick-bid button as the primary action, with a "Place max bid" button that opens a popup for entering a custom bid amount. This replaces the previous layout where both the input field and the quick-bid button were shown simultaneously.
  • The auction information panel (countdown timer, prices, bid buttons) now stays visible at the top right of the page when scrolling down through the auction history and other page content.
• Fixes
  • In Vickrey auction mode, when there is only one bidder and no starting price configured on the product, the final price is now set to the bid increment instead of zero.
  • Form elements and buttons on the auction pages now use HikaShop's configurable CSS classes for consistent styling across Joomla and WordPress. On WordPress, the auction frontend pages are wrapped in HikaShop's CSS container for proper styling.
  • When no payment methods are found during auction checkout, the user is now redirected back to the auction payment page instead of the order listing.
  • We've fixed an unclosed div tag in the checkout workflow section of the configuration page which caused the language files table to be squished to the left.
  • When the "Hide bid amounts in history" option is enabled, hidden bids now display "Hidden bid" instead of "Bid", which was confusing since it was the same text as the bid button.
  • Auction products in listings now always display the "Go to auction" button instead of "Add to cart", even when the "Show auction price in listing" option is disabled. Previously, disabling the price display also removed the auction button.
  • We've replaced the Joomla-specific "JDATE" translation key with a HikaAuction-specific key in the auction history table header, fixing the raw key being displayed on WordPress.

HikaAuction 5.1.0

Release date : March 8, 2026

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • HikaAuction now has live updates on the auction page in order to update the information about the auction on the page without the need for a full page refresh. Notifications are now being displayed on the auction page when new bids are submitted or when the auction ends.
  • We've added a Won Auctions page to the user control panel. Auction winners can now see all their won auctions in one place, check the payment status, and pay directly from there. A new Won Auctions button can be enabled in the HikaAuction configuration displaying options. Both My Bids and Won Auctions can also be added as Joomla menu items for direct access.
  • There is now a reserve price setting for auction products so that you can configure a minimum price under which bids will be refused.
  • We've added an option to hide bid amounts in auction history so that other bidders cannot see maximum bids. We've also added a Vickrey auction mode explanation and a maximum bid placeholder on the bid form to better communicate proxy bidding.
• Improvements
  • In English auction mode, a winning bidder can no longer bid on the auction as there is no point for him to do that.
  • The default sort order of the bidding history now shows the most recent bids first.
  • The "Put the auction back on sale" button on the product edit page now shows as "Restart the auction" when the auction is still in progress, and a confirmation dialog is displayed before proceeding in both cases.
  • We've added translation files for all the languages supported by HikaShop: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
• Fixes
  • We've fixed an issue where the vendor of a product could bid on his own product.
  • We've fixed an issue where the vendor could see information that was meant for bidders on his auction product details page.
  • We've fixed the back button linking to the wrong page on the bidding history.
  • We've fixed the Vickrey auction price calculation when two bidders place the same maximum bid. The winning price could exceed both bids due to the bid increment being added on top of the tied amount. The price is now correctly capped at the highest bid.

HikaAuction 5.0.1

Release date : February 12, 2026

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • We've added events onBeforeAuctionClose, onAfterAuctionClose, onBeforeBidSave, onAfterBidSave, onBeforeUserAuctionCancel, onAfterUserAuctionCancel, onBeforeAuctionCancel, onAfterAuctionCancel, onBeforeBidDelete, onAfterBidDelete, onBeforeAuctionOrderUpdate, onAfterAuctionOrderUpdate and onBeforeAuctionProductUpdateNotification to HikaAuction so that plugins of the group "hikashop" can be developed for HikaAuction to integrate with it.
• Improvements
  • We've added an auction_extradata column to the auction table so that plugin can store extra data along with auction bids.
• Fixes
  • We've fixed an error when using the "pay now" button of a winning auction in some cases on PHP 8.
  • We've fied errors on recent versions of PHP 8 during the order creation and cart loading.
  • We've added a fix for the price calculation which could result in errors on the frontend in some rare cases.
  • Fix logic error preventing auction payment order creation when no order exists.
  • Fix: Prevent auction time extension when a bid is attempted after the auction has ended.
  • Fix: Hide the bidding interface immediately when the auction countdown timer reaches zero.

HikaAuction 5.0.0

Release date : December 26, 2025

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • We've added support for Joomla 6 to HikaAuction.
• Improvements
  • We added a "pay now" button to the product auction page which is displayed to the winner user when he accesses the auction page that he won.
  • We now better handle the starting bid when the minimum bid amount is zero.
  • If the Vickrey auction mode is selected and the "Bidding mode" setting is set to "Not under current price and bid increment" in the configuration page of HikaAuction, the bidding increment is now added to the second highest bid for the final price as it shoudl be (same as how ebay auctions work).

HikaAuction 4.0.0

Release date : January 18, 2024

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • We've added a button to be able to bid for the next increment automatically, without having to enter a value yourself.
  • The bid button will now directly display an error message linked to the bid amount input field if the input is empty or if it is too low based on the situation. This should make for a smoother bid process.
  • HikaAuction now supports Joomla 5. We've also added support for the dark mode in the backend in order to match with Joomla and HikaShop.
• Improvements
  • We properly set the current Itemid for the link to the bidding history on the HikaShop control panel.
  • We have improve a check in order to avoid an 'invalid amount' error (when clicking on bid button).
  • We made some code adjustement to submit bid through same way with bid button or 'enter' shortcut.
  • We've improved the layout of the product details page for bid products.
• Fixes
  • We fixed warnings when looking at auctions without a starting price in the backend.
  • We fixed warnings when looking at an auction product without a starting price on the frontend.
  • We've fixed a error on PHP8.1 when an auction product is displayed on a listing and doesn't have any bid and doesn't have a minimum price.
  • We fixed a warning which could appear on the product details page on the frontend if the auctioned product didn't had any price configured.

HikaAuction 3.2.1

Release date : November 9, 2021

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • There is now a "delete" button for each bid in the history of each auction in the backend so that you can easily remove them.
• Improvements
  • The install would fail with a MySQL query error instead of displaying an error message with the reason of the fail when the install preconditions wouldn't be met (too old HikaShop, too old PHP, etc).
  • We've improved the compatibility with the drag & drop mechanism of HikaShop on the product edit page.
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue we had when accessing data from HikaMarket vendors
  • We fixed an issue we had with the product update email
  • We fixed an issue we had with the cron which wasn't correctly executed in some cases when using the vendor email
  • We fixed an issue we had when creating an order directly through the back-end
  • We fixed a warning when saving an auction product in the backend.
  • We've improved the integration with HikaMarket Multivendor so that the MySQL queries won't fail if HikaMarket tables are missing in the database even though the product_vendor_id is set in the products.

HikaAuction 3.2.0

Release date : November 2, 2021

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

• Features
  • We have created a "Back on sale" option for finished auctions without any potential winner
  • We have added the support of the product update email sent to customers when a modification is made to the product during auctions
  • The support "HikaAuction : Auction cancelled" email was added
• Improvements
  • We have added the french configuration language file
  • We have improved the french translation files
• Fixes
  • We have added the fr-FR.com_hikaauction_config.ini file through the installation xml file
  • Emails are now properly sent to the main HikaMarket vendor account
  • Some Emails which were not sent properly (without email address or product information)
  • Some "Auction finished vendor" notifications were not sent when winner give up on the auction
  • The "Terms and conditions" checkout step through the configuration is now properly configurable

HikaAuction 3.1.0

Release date : June 16, 2021

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.3 or newer

• Features
  • We have added an email which will be sent to the Hikamarket vendor email who created the auction at the end of it.
  • We improved the way auctions were displayed via product listings by automatically adding a "Go to auction" button
  • We have added an HikaMarket auction history through the front-end product configuration page
  • We have added a Buyer's premium option which will be applied on the auction winning price during the checkout workflow
  • We have added a Joomla 4 compatibility
• Improvements
  • We'll now correctly support Vickrey auction prices on outbid emails
• Fixes
  • We fixed a php warning that happened before the payment
  • We fixed a compatibility issue we had with Hikashop's installation through the Joomla 4 rc1 version
  • We now correctly load JS files through HikaAuction configuration page

HikaAuction 3.0.1

Release date : April 24, 2019

Required HikaShop version : 4.0.3 or newer

• Features
  • We have created an HikaAuction CRON
• Improvements
  • We improved the structure of email product links

HikaAuction 3.0.0

Release date : October 17, 2018

Required HikaShop version : 4.0 or newer

• Features
  • We have created a new "Auction Mode" option
  • We have added a new "English auctions" auction mode
  • Wa have added the "Vickrey auctions" auction mode which was used by default by HikaAuction seens the beginning
  • The customer bidding history listing was redesigned
  • HikaAuction will now support Joomla! 4 alpha versions
  • We have created a back-end auction detail page to properly monitor auctions
  • We have created a tile for basic HikaAuction options through Hikashop product configuration page
• Improvements
  • The displaying of the auction page was adapted and improved
  • The logo for the Customer bidding history was changed
  • The Customer bidding history is now responsive
  • We improved the displaying of HikaAuction toolbar buttons
  • We have improved the displaying of HikaAuction's back-end listing page
  • The Customer bidding history is now responsive
  • We have improved the displaying of HikaAuction's configuration page
  • The displaying of auction pages was improved according to Hikashop styles
  • The displaying of the back-end auction listing was improved
  • The the displaying of the winning price was improved
  • The code of auction bidding history was improved was improved
  • We have added a status column for every bidding history table
  • We improved the winning bid displayed through bidding histories based on the auction mode
  • The displaying of user and winning bids through the front-end auction history was improved
  • The "Anonymous history" option was improved
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue we had with new back-end toolbar buttons
  • We fixed an issue we had with the pagination of the back-end auction listing
  • We fixed a pagination issue that was happening through the Customer bidding history
  • We replaced calls to the JArrayHelper::toInteger function to hikashop_toInteger
  • We fixed an issue we had between the compatibility between jDatabaseQuery and Joomla! 4
  • The JFactory:getXML function is deprecated so we now use simple_xml_loadfile
  • We fixed JRequest calls for Joomla! 4 compatibility
  • We improved emails that were sent to the second winner of the auction when the actual winner give up on the auction
  • We fixed an issue we had regarding the calculation of the number of sales through the back-end auction listing
  • We fixed an issue we had with the first bids on an Auction when bids amount equals to the starting price

HikaAuction 2.1.2

Release date : April 13, 2018

Required HikaShop version : 3.4.0 or newer

• Features
  • We have added the support of the new hikashop checkout workflow system
• Improvements
  • We have improved the checkout workflow configuration displaying
  • We have added an additional translation key to customize the Auction checkout step
  • We have added more CSS class through the Auction checkout step view

HikaAuction 2.1.1

Release date : January 05, 2018

Required HikaShop version : 3.2.2 or newer

• Features
  • We have added a User Bidding History that will be displayed through Hikashop's user control panel
  • We have added a "Display user bidding history button" option that will control the displaying of the "User Bidding History" through Hikashop's user control panel
  • We have added a "Version" option through HikaAuction configuration page
  • We now support the new Hikashop "Email Preview" feature
  • We have added the compatibility of HikaAuction with the Hikashop "Check database" feature
  • We now display auction starting and finished date at the end of the auction.
• Improvements
  • We replaced Jrequest deprecated functions by HikaInupt functions
  • We have added compatibility with the new HikaMarket interface
  • We have added more CSS classes through the auction page to improve the ability to customize that page
  • We have added a compatibility with watchful
• Fixes
  • We are now compatible with the Hikashop "Floating taxes" mode

HikaAuction 2.1.0

Release date : September 21, 2017

Required HikaShop version : 3.2.0 or newer

• Features
  • We have added the possibility to create back-end HikaAuction menus when using the last Joomla version
  • New "Display minimum bidding price" option
  • New "Display current winning price" option
  • New "Change urgent auction displaying" option
  • New "Remaining time to be urgent" option
  • New "Bid button CSS" option handling the bid button CSS class
• Improvements
  • We have added precisions and check for the "Use hikashop checkout" option
  • We have added checks and the displaying of error messages if the configuration isn't properly configured based on the checkout legacy option and Hikashop's version
  • We now properly handle product taxes via starting / current price
  • We improved the way the auction history was displaying bids
  • We improved the way the different auction prices and timer were displaying
  • We now have a new Bid button compatible with last Hikashop versions
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue we had with the winner link sent to customers
  • We fixed an issue which enabled Auction winners to create several "created" orders using the auction payment link

HikaAuction 2.0.1

Release date : May 22, 2017

Required HikaShop version : 3.0.0 or newer

• Features
  • We now display a link to the registration page through the auction product page to enable customers to directly be redirected to the registration page and then come back to bid
• Improvements
  • We now correctly handle Auctions that are not available for the moment
• Fixes
  • We now correctly add the auction current price that is supposed to be added through the Auction checkout workflow

HikaAuction 2.0.0

Release date : January 18, 2017

Required HikaShop version : 3.0.0 or newer

• Features
  • New "Winner links" which enable customers to directly pay though the Hikashop Checkout with his auction product in his cart
  • New "HikaAuction Give up" checkout step that can be added through the Hikashop checkout workflow, and which will enable you to choose if you want your customers to give up on their auction or not
  • New "Checkout workflow" configuration option which enable you to override the Hikashop checkout workflow when your customers will pay their auction
  • New "Use Hikashop Checkout" configuration option which enable you to use the Hikashop checkout workflow so that your customers can pay their auction using the checkout workflow and not their order listing
• Improvements
  • We re-organized and improved the displaying of HikaAuction configuration page
  • We Improved the displaying of HikaAuction Emails which will now correctly add a link to that product auction
  • We Improved the displaying of HikaAuction winner email so that it will automatically choose and send the good payment link (Payment via Hikashop order listing or Hikashop checkout workflow)
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue with the displaying of Emails
  • We fixed an issue that was happening when Auctions were closing

HikaAuction 1.2.1

Release date : August 29, 2016

Required HikaShop version : 2.6.3 or newer

• Features
  • New "Extend bidding time" option
  • New "Remaining time to extend bidding time" option
  • New "Extend bidding time by" option
• Improvements
  • We Improved the displaying of the auction outbid email
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue with the displaying of Email subjects

HikaAuction 1.2.0

Release date : July 15, 2016

Required HikaShop version : 2.6.3 or newer

• Features
  • New "Bid increment" option for each product configuration page
  • New "Show auction price in listing" option
  • New "Anonymous history" option (choose if you want an anonymous auction history)
  • New "History User Bidding name" option (Choose how you want your customers to be identified through the auction history)
• Improvements
  • We cleared the productauction/show_auction view
  • We improved the displaying of the Auction History
  • We added a dutch translation file
  • We optimized the sending process of HikaAuction emails
  • We added a check for Bids that are made when the auction is finished
• Fixes
  • We fixed an issue we had with the displaying of the final price through the auction page
  • We fixed an issue that some of our customers had with Auction emails sent to multiple recipient

HikaAuction 1.1.0

Release date : April 19, 2016

Required HikaShop version : 2.6.2 or newer

• Features
  • We added a "Cron Check Period" option to add a verification period of finished auctions
  • We added a "Cron Queue Period" option to add a verification period of Emails related to auctions to be sent
• Improvements
  • Adaptation of the Front-end display
  • Improved the redirection to the order payment method choice
  • We added Microdatas on the Auction page
  • Changes that will be made through the HikaAuction emails configuration page ("Hikashop->System->Emails") will now be taken into account
• Fixes
  • The side menus are now correctly displayed through the Auction page
  • We fixed an issue we had with the Documentation button through "HikaAuction->Documentation"
  • We fixed a SEF issue we had with the link of the BID and LOGIN buttons that was causing 404 error pages.
  • Emails will now be automatically and correctly initialized at the HikaAuction installation
  • We fixed an issue that we were facing when installing HikaAuction a second time with the creation of HikaAuction default menu

HikaAuction 1.0.0

Release date : December, 01 2015