Joomla's Auction Factory - Features List (click here). Ability to create niche Auction Sites, easy adaptable to any kind of auctioneered products. You can use all the power of Joomla CMS System by using a 100% native solution for auctions. No Bridges, no incompatibilty issues. |  |
All this features can be tested in our Auction Factory Demo Site
Installation and Configuration.
| Easy component installation; all Modules and plugins do install automatically, no complicated module and mambots installations required. Smooth Community Builder integration, automatic at installation, or later just by click of a button. A sample (functional) menu will be automatically installed | |
| A variaty of fees options |  |
| High configurable Templating system based on Smarty | |
| Standard Joomla User management | |
| Improved Auction related user management (Quick Block users, Set/Unset verified User) | |
| Users can be divided into Auctioneer Group and Bidders Group. This can be achieved with standard Joomla Groups or with Community Builder Fields | |
| Custom Currencies. You can set up usable Currencies in administration backend | |
| Using Community Builder: Ability to customize registration Form | |
| Multilingual Feature. Translate the Text files to accommodate to any language you need. | |
| Payment gateway support: PayPal | |
| Easy to edit site CSS | |
| Custom Bid increment (Setable in Administrator backend) | |
| Statistics information panel (Administrator) | |
| HTML Mails and notifications; all notifications easily configured in administrator Backend | |
| Thumbnails settings | |
| Administrator Messaging system with auctioneers | |
| Ability to Add Credits to Users' Account | |
| For additional user security you can use the seller verification feature. Once you verified an user a verification seal is also displayed next to the users profile to signify their status to other users | |
| Define how many days after an item closes it is removed from the database | |
| Set how many recently listed items are displayed | |
| Set how many popular auctions are displayed | |
| Set how many valueable auctions are displayed | |
| Control your image settings, including how many images can be uploaded per listing and the maximum file size per image | |
| Set your time settings, from here you can set your needed Time format |
Frontend Auction Display Features.
| Quick and Advanced Search. Search by Auction title, description, Auctioneer, Location (City, Country), auction number) | |
| Browsable Categories (Category and Subcategory) | |
| Search Engine friendly URLs automatically generated (SEF); all including Auction title | |
| Easy integrateable Google Adsense | |
| Improved item page | |
| Featured Auctions - Gold , Silver and Bronze. Customizable fee for featured Auctions | |
| Display last posted Auctions (Special Module) | |
| Display most valueable Auctions (Special Module) | |
| Display popular Auctions (Highest Hitcount) | |
| eBay like Rating system (divided into Buyer ratings and Seller Ratings). Also a feedback text can be submitted in relation to a transaction | |
| View User Feedbacks, view own feedbacks | |
| Auction Ending countdown | |
| The location of the item is displayed. | |
| Displays sellers username, feedback rating as well as location and registration date as well as a link to their profile | |
| The current lead bidder(s) is displayed along with their feedback rating and link to their profile | |
| The current highest bid is displayed prominently | |
| Potential bidders can ask the seller a question directly from the item details page; all messages are managed via the members area | |
| Browsers can easily lookup other items for sale from the same seller | |
| The item description is fully displayed along with any available pictures and media | |
| The sellers accepted payment methods are clearly displayed below the item description | |
| The number of hits each auction has received is displayed | |
| Posibility of generating RSS Feeds with latest auctions, Auctions from a specific user or a specific Category. You can add your RSS feeds into feedburner and popular syndication sites | |
| Unique Auction Number (Autogenerated) - searchable and available in SEF | |
Auctioneer Features.
| Buy it now and minimal initial Bid support | |
| Private auctions (Only the Auctioneer can see all Bids) | |
| Public auctions (All bidders can see the concurrent bid amounts and bidders) | |
| Number of bidders can be displayed for private auctions (Auctioneer can set this up individually) | |
| Edit personal Profile | |
| Complete Auctions Management | |
| Edit auction | |
| Cancel Auction | |
| Republish auction (relisting) | |
| Sellers defined auctions start date (Auction can start on a particular day in the future) | |
| Sold items list (My Auctions - Archive) | |
| Online HTML editor support for Auction description (Joomla active WYSIWYG) | |
| Pictures upload and Image Gallery for auction | |
| Advanced thumbnails generation (GD libraries) | |
| Sellers can enhance their listing by: | |
| featuring on the top of the list | |
| adding bold text | |
| adding a highlighted colour band | |
| The seller can select how long the auction should run for | |
| Sellers can select which currency the item should be sold in | |
| The seller can specify who should pay for the postage costs and whether or not they will post worldwide. They can also enter specific postage costs and services. | |
| The Seller can Specify if the Auction is PUBLIC or Private. Private auctions withheld the other bids from a bidder. He only can see his bids. The Auctioneer can see all bids. | |
| The Seller can choose Automatic or manual Auction. The manual auction allowes an auctioneer to choose any winne, even if he specifies a lower bid then the best. It can be useful if auctioneers preffer some trusted buyers rather to some new or with bad ratings. | |
| The Seller can choose Automatic BIN accept even for manual auctions. That means the first user that reaches BIN has won instantly. |
Bidder Features.
| Post Questions to Seller (can be disabled in Administrator Backend) | |
| Item Watch - monitorisation of existing auctions without bidding in them | |
| Won auctions list with special markings for auctions that require feedback | |
| View active Bids (My Bids) | |
| View Active/Closed/ Sold / Archived Auctions | |
| Proxy Bidding (Automatic Bidding) | |
| Emai notification for no longer Highest bidder | |
| Terms violation reporting system (users can report auctions for being offensive or illegal) | |
| Bidders can add any item to their "Watch List" which they can track from inside the members area. | |
| Before bidding users can check the sellers postage instructions to see how much postage they will have to pay. | |
| A full bidding overview section is available to site users, this is split into the following sub-sections: | |
| Current bids placed | |
| Won Items | |
| Items being watched | |
| The reputation (aka feedback) of the members area allows users to send and review their reputation comments. |
Payment and Fees.
| Integrated Paypal payments | |
| Users can specify their Paypal email in order to ease Payment process | |
| Webmasters can implement fees for Item listing (pay per listing) | |
| Featured Auction - Gold | |
| Featured Auction - Silver | |
| Featured Auction - Bronze | |
| We currently take requests for customized payment items. If your Site has specific needs we can implement those as a custom work | |
Community Builder integration.
| Native support for Community Builder Profiles | |
| Administrator can choose Community Builder Fields that hold: | |
| Payment info | |
| Localization Info (Country , City) | |
| Verification Info (Verified User) | |
| Powerseller Info | |
| Bidder Group | |
| Seller Group | |
| Automatic installation of Community Builder Plugins. All Plugins can be displayed in the users Profile page. | |
| CB Tab: My Watchlist - features all my watched auctions. Easy to manage and list. | |
| CB Tab: My Won Bids - features all my won Auctions. Quick link to Rate the user. | |
| CB Tab: My Auction Taskpad - a command center for all necessary actions within the Auction Factory system. Also displays the users credits in the system and the verification status of the user. | |
| CB Tab: My Ratings - Here you can see all your ratings and comments (feedback). If you visit another user profile then you see his ratings in this tab. | |
| CB Tab: My Bids - See all active bids in active auctions, having informations about being outbidded. | |
| CB Tab: My Auctions - All my active auctions. If you visit another users profile you will see his auctions in this tab. |
