Assign Bid Times... Field Descriptions

The list is used to define each day’s available bidding window.

Field Description
Week Day Applies bid times to the corresponding day when selected. Clear the check box to omit bid times.
No bids before Displays and sets a Start Time when determining Bid Times. This value is not necessarily the first resulting Bid Time. If this value does not fall inside a bidding window, the first resulting time will be the first available time in the next occurring bidding window, which could be on a different day. No bids are allowed before this date and time. The default is today’s date and time.
Start Time Displays and sets a Start Time for the day. When calculating Bid Times for this day of the week, the first bid of the day must start at this time.
End Time Displays and sets a Stop time for the day. When calculating Bid Times for this day of the week, the last bid of the day must start before this time.
Expires In Displays and sets the maximum number of minutes each bidder is allotted to bid.
Interval Displays and sets the number of minutes to elapse after each calculated bid time. This is the amount of time each bidder will get exclusively access to bid (assuming previous bidders have all bid).
Bidder Per Interval Displays and sets the number of bidders that will be assigned for each calculated Bid Time. For example:
  • If this value is set to one (1), then each selected bidder in the Queue list will be calculated a unique Bid Time.
  • If this value is set to a number greater than one; for example, three, then three bidders will have the same bid time before a subsequent bid time is calculated. Essentially, three bidders will have the opportunity to simultaneously bid for auction items.
Break Times Displays and used to set break times for the applicable day. Each break is shown by displaying the start time of the break followed by the length of the break in minutes.