ProPage Auction

Guide

Everything you need to set up and run your auction yourself. Inside the app, the Help button on each screen gives the short version.

Getting started

  1. Create an account for your organisation and confirm your email with the 6-digit code we send.
  2. Wait for approval. ProPage checks each new organisation once. You get an email, usually within a day.
  3. Create an auction with a name and date. One organisation can run any number of auctions.

Setting up an auction

Teams

In Manage, Teams, add each team with its purse. A logo and the owners are optional.

Players

In Manage, Players, press Import players and either choose a CSV file or copy your rows from Excel or Google Sheets and paste them. The first row must be the column names. Only Name is needed; Sl no, Age, Role, Auction list, Base price, Mobile and Star player are used when present. Problems are listed by row, and nothing is added until every row is right.

Mobile numbers are only seen by your own team. They never appear on the public page.

Photos

Name each photo after the player's Sl no (12.jpg) or 10-digit mobile, then use Bulk photos to add them all at once. Each one opens in a cropper.

Rules and look

Practice

Before approval, the Desk and Display work in practice mode with a PRACTICE watermark, for up to 10 sales. Use it to learn the Desk and to test the projector. Practice sales are cleared when the auction is approved.

Price, payment and approval

  1. An owner presses Submit for approval. You can keep adding teams and players while you wait.
  2. ProPage sets the price for that auction. You get an email, and your auctions page shows the amount, where to pay and a payment reference.
  3. Pay by UPI or bank transfer, then enter the transaction ID (UTR) on the same page.
  4. ProPage checks the payment and approves the auction. Please pay at least a day before your auction.

An approved auction can be run until the date shown on your auctions page (a few days after the auction date). If your auction is postponed, use Report a problem in the app and we will move the date.

Auction day

What you need

Setting up the screens

  1. Sign in and open the Desk on the laptop screen.
  2. Open the Display in a second window of the same browser, drag it to the projector and press Fullscreen.
  3. Press Sound on the Display once and click the page, so the browser allows sound.

With both windows in the same browser, every bid reaches the Display at once. A Display on another computer also works; it follows a second or two behind.

Use one Desk window only. A second person can watch on their own Display or on the live page.

Running the Desk

  1. Press Start auction.
  2. Pick the player: type the Sl no from the slip you drew, or search by name.
  3. Tap the team that bids first, then the team that bids against it. From then on, Raise (or the Space key) adds one bid step for the team that is behind.
  4. When a team drops out, tap any other team to bring it in against the leader.
  5. Press SOLD when the hammer falls, or UNSOLD if nobody bids. Then pick the next player.

For a bigger jump, use the +500, +1,000 and +5,000 buttons or type the amount. Undo last bid (Ctrl or Cmd + Z) removes the last bid.

The Desk refuses a sale that would break the rules: more than the team's purse, less than the base price, a full squad, or money the team needs to reach the minimum squad.

If something goes wrong

The internet drops
The screens show "Reconnecting" and carry on when it is back. Bids for the current player stay on the Desk laptop until SOLD, so nothing is lost. Switch the laptop to a phone hotspot if the venue Wi-Fi does not return.
A player was sold to the wrong team or at the wrong price
Open Manage, Sales, and edit the sale (team or amount) or delete it. The money goes back to the team automatically, and a deleted player returns to the list.
The wrong bid was entered
Press Undo last bid before SOLD.
The Display is not updating
Check that it shows the same auction, then reload the page. It picks up the current state straight away.
There is no sound
Press Sound on the Display and click anywhere on that page once. Check the laptop's sound output is the hall speakers.
The Desk says practice mode stops at 10 sales
The auction is not approved yet. Submit it and complete the payment step; see Price, payment and approval.
The laptop fails
Sign in on another laptop and open the Desk. Sales already made are safe; only the bids for the player on the block need entering again.

For anything else, press Help in the app and use Report a problem. We get the details by email and reply to your sign-in address.

The live page and video

Once an auction is approved, your auctions page shows a live page link to share with players and supporters. It needs no sign-in and shows the player on the block, the current bid, and every team's purse and squad. It never shows mobile numbers.

To show your YouTube live stream on that page and on the Display, open Manage, press Live video and paste the stream's link.

After the auction

Manage, Sales has the full list with an Export CSV button. The live page link stays up as the results page, with the squads and the top buys. After the date shown on your auctions page the auction becomes read-only.

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