What problem does it solve?
PubNub Live Auctions provides a robust, server-authoritative workflow to coordinate real-time bidding across distributed clients, ensuring fairness, accuracy, and synchronized countdowns in live auctions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Real-time bid updates and bid history across auction channels (auction.<item> and auction.<item>.activity)
- Server-side bid validation with PubNub Functions to enforce minimum increments, prevent duplicates, and handle race conditions
- Countdown synchronization using server-authoritative time and tick events to ensure consistent timers
- Outbid and auction-end notifications via personal user channels
- Comprehensive auction lifecycle management (scheduled, active, closing, completed) with anti-sniping extensions and reserve price support
Quick Start
Launch a PubNub-enabled auction by wiring client apps to the recommended channels and deploying a server-side validator to begin accepting bids.