Guest bidders (not logged in) and BIN

  • Resolved Mr Lucky

    (@voodoochill)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    I am running auctions but want to have bidders who are not users.

    This seems to work unless there is a BIN button.

    If they are not a logged user then the buttont links to a login page. (But they cannot login because they are not a user, and I’m not accepting registrations)

    HOWEVER:

    If instead they just bid the amount of the BIN instead of clicking the BIN button, then they win the auction straight away with the Message :

    Congratulations! You have won this auction since your bid value has reached the ‘Buy it Now’ price.

    And they get an email with the paypal link.

    This seems odd, because if a not logged in “guest” can win by just bidding the BIN amount, then they should also be able to win by clicking the BIN button, (without having to log in or register)

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  • Plugin Author Nitesh

    (@nitesh_singh)

    Hi,

    BIN requires login due to how we have implemented that to integrate with paypal. So, it requires user profile for it.

    Though I need to test if a guest gets a valid payment link if he bids same as BIN amount because if he does then same implementation can be done for BIN.

    Let me test and see the result. Will get back to you on this.

    Regards,

    Plugin Author Nitesh

    (@nitesh_singh)

    Hi,

    For Guests, plugin internally creates user with valid name, email and sends login password to the email. On the outside it might appear that it is guest but proper user profile is created. And thus payment link is generated from it.

    In the case of buy now, we do require user profile and cannot create user profile due to which plugin asks for registration.

    Regards,
    Nitesh

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