ShoWorks Online Add-ons
Your auction revenue will rise 30%*
You asked for it, we delivered! Unleash the power of online presence in your auction beyond all geographic boundaries!
Online Add-on Links
- Interact with a working live sample.
- See What's New in ShoWorks 2024 in our list of new features.
Online Add-on Features
- Take auction add-ons both online and local at the same time
- Natively built right into your existing ShoWorks using the same, trusted environment as your existing online entries
- Absoultely NO configuration needed, just create your sale as normal, then 'upload'
- Give these kids a world of opportunity by allowing add-ons from anywhere
- Optionally project onto the big-screen to display your live sale
- Credit card payments are deposited directly to your bank
- Photos of auction items/livestock automatically viewable
- Easily search for auction items for quick add-ons
- Automatic emailing of receipts to buyers
- Use themes to match your fair website
- Let buyers register online and/or update their existing contact info online
- Let buyers view their existing auction purchases, and pay their bill online
- 5-second sync with your local ShoWorks
- Our servers are 100% secure, safe and PCI certified
Common Questions
No configuration needed? Really???
Yep, just set your sale/auction as you normally do in ShoWorks and simply upload (Cloud>Upload) or download your data. Just a click. That's it!
What are the requirements?
ShoWorks 2024 and your online entries session set to a ShoWorks Plus account type (done when you set up your online entries) are required. In order to maintain data integrity when sync'ing entries and their manipulation online and locally, entries that are eligible for online add-ons must originate online, where a globally unique identifier is created. Locally created entries will not have this guaranteed unique identifier and thus are not candidates for appearing in online add-ons.
If the fair needs to later create one or more entries with the intent for online manipulation (online add-ons), they will need to create those entries online, even if they login as someone else and later download the entry and change the exhibitor of those entries to the needed exhibitor name. As long as the entry originated online, it can be later edited after downloading and remain eligible for being visible in the online add-on feature.
How much does this cost?
1% of transactions (add-on amount). Your credit card fees will apply and be handled by your credit card merchant. For more pricing details, see https://fairsoftware.com/commonquestions.aspx
How are photos displayed?
Photos are automatically pulled from your online entries without any intervention needed. A ShoWorks Plus account already prompts exhibitors to upload photos when creating their entries. Contact us with questions about using ShoWorks for your online entries.
How can I make this happen now?
All you need to do is make sure that you are running the latest ShoWorks version (2024) and that your online entries account is a ShoWorks Plus type (ask us and we can check for you and change it if it isn't!). Then just upload your data once you set up your sale (have created your Sale Invoices) within ShoWorks. Direct your buyers to any of the following websites/URLs:
- https://addons.fairwire.com
- https://buyer.fairwire.com
- https://[your fair user name].fairwire.com/addons
Anything else I can do?
There sure is! Did you know that in addition to making add-ons online, your buyers can also register AND view pay their entire auction bill online as well? In the same way as above, just upload your data after you have created bills and now your buyers can visit one of the links above to view or pay their entire auction bill online!
* Auction revenues with online presence historically averaged an increase of 30% over prior years without online presence. Source: ShoWorks Cloud LLC 2023.
