PHP Pro Bid v10 is here: what's new

PHP Pro Bid v10 is live as of 16 July 2026. It's the biggest release in the platform's history, with 80 changes across the auction engine, the selling flow, and the code underneath. The flagship feature is Auction Events, a new scheduled auction format where a catalog of lots closes in timed sequence, alongside a simpler unified selling fee. This is the plain-English tour of what changed and why it matters for the auction business you run. If you want the line-by-line list, the full v10 release log has every entry.

At a glance, here's where the work went: 34 new features, 27 fixes, 11 refactors, and 8 design updates.

What are Auction Events?

Auction Events are the flagship feature of PHP Pro Bid v10: scheduled auctions in which a catalog of lots closes in sequence, and each buyer receives one combined invoice. There's no video stream to configure. An event is simply your catalog of lots, closing one by one on a schedule you set.

The format is built around automatic invoicing and a controlled go-live. Here's how it works:

• Invoices generate automatically when an event closes, or a buyer or seller can raise one beforehand.
• A "Pending invoice" on My Purchases and My Sales links straight to checkout or invoice editing, instead of routing back through the cart.
• Lots can be added one at a time, in bulk, or as a composite element.
• A new Publish action controls exactly when the event goes live.

How do the changes help charity auctions?

Auction Events also power charity and fundraising sales. A gala or silent auction maps cleanly onto the same event flow: staggered closings keep bidding lively, and one combined invoice per guest keeps checkout painless. That makes the format a strong fit for a charity auction. For the psychology behind why staggered closings keep a room bidding, our guide to higher bids and better engagement goes deeper.

What is the unified fee in v10?

The unified fee replaces the separate listing setup fee and sale transaction fee with a single charge. If you bill your sellers to list and to sell, that's now one predictable number instead of two line items to reconcile. It simplifies seller billing and makes your pricing easier to explain.

Faster to use, lighter to load

A lot of v10 is quiet performance work that buyers feel without noticing. Images can now be uploaded and served as AVIF and WebP, which means smaller files and faster pages, and a new option resizes images in the browser so they always fit their containers cleanly. On the selling side, the listing setup form was redesigned around a multi-file upload box, and rarely-touched blocks like Location and Shipping can start collapsed to declutter the form on mobile.

The shopping cart moved from a cramped dropdown to a proper slide-in side panel that works the same on desktop and mobile, and the cart count updates the moment an item is added. It's a small change you'll feel on every checkout, and it fits the way the marketplace and webstore runs alongside your timed auctions.

Transactional emails were rebuilt too, on a new shared layout, so the confirmations and alerts your buyers receive look consistent and current.

Built to extend, for the self-hosted crowd

If you run PHP Pro Bid on your own server, v10 gives your developer far more room to work without editing the core. The centerpiece is a hooks system built around an AbstractHook class, which lets you add methods to frequently-used objects like listings and users. Alongside it:

None of this is required reading if you're on a managed plan. But it's exactly why teams choose the self-hosted license when they want to shape the platform around their business.

Quieter, safer, more reliable

The unglamorous half of the release is arguably the most valuable. v10 fixes a race condition where a bid placed at the exact moment an auction closed could be missed. The software now waits a couple of seconds before assigning the winner, so late bids still count. If the mechanics of last-second bidding are new to you, our explainer on proxy bidding and anti-sniping breaks it down. It also adds a rate-limiting module against abusive traffic, reCAPTCHA on the message form to cut spam, and an optional add-on that only lets buyers leave feedback once they've paid, which protects sellers from bad-faith reviews.

Under the hood, v10 is compatible with PHP 8.3, introduces cron locking so scheduled jobs never overlap, and retires the old router in favor of the hybrid one. Twenty-seven fixes in total land across mobile layouts, multi-language support, and the admin area, the kind of long tail that makes a platform feel solid.

A few smaller things you'll notice

How to get v10

How you move to v10 depends on your plan, and either way there's nothing complicated to do.

New to the platform and weighing it up? The features overview shows what's included on every plan, and how to start an online auction business walks through the first steps end to end.

PHP Pro Bid v10 FAQ