A Bot Architect can schedule multiple bidding rounds and exclude weekends from the timeline. Conditional logic can be employed to determine whether the bot should advance to the next round based on criteria such as minimum bid count or target prices. Additionally, a bot user is able to manually close the current round at any point during an event.
The specified duration by the Requestor or Approver will override the round 1 schedule in the bidding duration under event information.
Create multiple rounds
To configure multiple rounds:
- Navigate to the Bid step, in the workflow orchestration
- On the Schedule page, select the round duration in days, hours and minutes
- Optional: Select the radio button to exclude Saturdays and Sundays
- To schedule a new round, select +Add round
- To save the Schedule, select Save changes
Add a delay between rounds
To delay a round:
- Select Delay round start
- Input the number of days, hours or minutes you would like to delay the round by
- Click Save changes
Conditionally close a round
A round can be closed using conditional logic. For example if competition is high or low, the round can be closed or an additional one can be run.
Schedule visibility
Bidder view
Bot users can configure the visibility of the schedule on the template in Sourcing Optimizer. For bot generated events, upcoming rounds will show the number of rounds, but the timing info will not be available until the round is active.
Bidders will only see the following:
- Event name
- Start time
- Time of each round
- Optional: add a round description