The Assign Bid Times feature is used to collectively set sequential bid times for the bidders in a Queue auction.
Generally, bid times are used when bidding windows are required to allow bidders to place their bids. A bidding window is the period between a day’s start and stop times, not including the day’s defined breaks. Each day can have several bidding windows. This feature calculates the bid times within each bidding window and designate each of the selected bidders a unique bid time based on the start and end values provided.
When Bid Times are configured the system auto-generates a notification to alert the bidder that it is their turn to bid. The notification displays upon system log in, inbound (phone) log in, and via email1.