Introducing WhatsApp Bidding

We're adding a new way to bid on WeAuction — and it's the most familiar one yet. With WhatsApp Bidding, your buyers place and follow bids right inside the chat app they already open every day. No app to download, no account to create, no password to forget.

It pairs with something just as important: the ability to market straight from Instagram, Facebook and your other social channels into the auction — turning the attention you already earn on social into live bids.

Every step between interest and a bid costs you buyers

A bidder who has to download an app, create an account, and verify an email before their first bid is a bidder you can lose at every step. WhatsApp Bidding removes those steps entirely. A buyer follows the auction, sends a short message to bid — for example, "BID 25500" — and gets an instant confirmation back. When the hammer falls, they know immediately whether they've won.

Behind the scenes, nothing is lost for you. Each message becomes a live bid, confirmed in real time and captured in your auction's full audit trail. Your clerk and admin team see every action exactly as they would with on-site bidders — and the whole experience runs under your own brand.

From a social post straight to a bid

Your buyers are scrolling Instagram and Facebook every day. WhatsApp Bidding lets you turn that attention into participation. Post a lot, add a link, and a single tap takes a follower from the post into your auction — where they register and bid via WhatsApp. No funnels lost to app installs or logins.

• Post it on social — share a lot on Instagram, Facebook, or any channel, in a post, story, reel or ad.
• One tap in — followers tap through straight into your auction, no install or sign-up wall.
• Bid via WhatsApp — they place and follow bids in chat, and every bid lands in your auction.

Familiar for buyers, fully controlled for you

WhatsApp Bidding sits alongside our live, timed and deal-room formats — the same platform, the same control, the same complete ownership of your buyer data. It simply meets more buyers where they already are, and gives you a new channel to bring them in.

It's the lowest-friction way to bid we've built — and a direct bridge from your social audience to your auction floor.