The ability to create niche Auction Sites, easy adaptable to any kind of auctioneered products are just few of the assets brought to you by Auctions Factory. 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 | |
| Automatic Currency Exchange Rates - daily updates of the inter-currency exchange rate will ensure a fair comissioning of winning auctions | |
| Using Community Builder: Ability to use existing Community Builder Userbase and installation | |
| Multilingual Feature. Translate the Text files to accommodate to any language you need. | |
| Payment gateway support: PayPal, Moneybookers, 2Checkout, and other | |
| Easy to edit site CSS and HTML Templates - no programming Skill needed | |
| Custom Bid increment (Setable in Administrator backend), Bid increment Range - you can change the bid increment depending on the current Auction Value | |
| Statistics information panel (Administrator) | |
| HTML Mails and notifications; all notifications easily configured in administrator Backend | |
| Image Settings, Thumbnails settings, Customizable Galleries | |
| Administrator Messaging system with auctioneers - Webmasters can send messages to auction owners | |
| Ability to Add Funds 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 | |
| Auctions can be automatically extended if bids are placed in the last X minutes. This ensures a fair battle and reduces auction sniping | |
| Define how many days after an item closes it is removed from the database (database purge) | |
| 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), unlimited depth | |
| Search Engine friendly URLs automatically generated (SEF); all including Auction title | |
| Easy integrateable Google Adsense or similar Advertisement Snippets | |
| Improved item page - information rich Auction details | |
| Featured Auctions. 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 | |
| Ability to see what Auctions/Auctioneers you did not rate yet | |
| Messaging system for Auctioneers and Bidders | |
| Auction Ending countdown | |
| Email warning system for auctions soon to be ending - for own auctions and favorite auctions | |
| 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) | |
| Buy-it-now only auctions with price suggestion system (bidders can suggest some lower price) | |
| 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. | |
| Multiple Shipping zones -editable for each auction sepparate | |
| Multiple Currencies - Auctions can run in any currency allowed by the webmaster |
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 Auctions | |
| Pay for Contact information (Bidders must pay in order to get the auctioneers contact info) | |
| Comissions for Seller and/or Bidder - Webmasters can take a percent off the winning bid | |
| Pay for bids - Bidders must pay for any bid they place | |
| 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. |
