Auction Factory 4.5.9

Custom Fields

• Publishable in any product template
• Multiple field types (Checkbox, Image, Text input, Radio button, etc.)
• Displayed on 9 different pages on the default product template and ability to set category filter
• Used for auctions and user profiles
• Each custom field can be set as searchable, rendering it available in advanced search
• Option to set fields as compulsory

Layout & Themes

• Fully customizable template system
• Default responsive template
• Fully customizable CSS
• Smarty based templates allowing even more flexibility
• Multiple viewing styles for auction listings: Simple listing, Detailed listing, Grid display

Monetize

• Payment items: Pay per listing, Pay per bid, Pay per contact, Pay for featured auctions
• Commissions (seller and/or buyer can be charged)
• Different category pricing for certain payment items
• Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users

Key Features

• All common auction types: Public Auctions, Private Auctions (Sealed Envelope), Buy-it-Now Auctions
• Proxy Bidding (Automatic Bidding)
• Manual and Automatic auctions (manual auction allows the seller to choose a winner, even they specify a lower bid than the best)
• Reserve price
• Price suggestion for Buy-it-Now only auctions
• Auto extend auction if a bid is added on a set amount of time or if no bids at all
• Availability options
• Featured auctions
• Picture upload and image gallery for auctions
• Messaging system for sellers and bidders
• Ratings & reviews system
• Watchlist (auctions, categories and subcategories)
• Blacklist (sellers can block access to their auctions to certain bidders)
• Admin definable currency
• Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
• Multiple shipping prices
• Auto-increments (a minimum bid increment range is available, depending on the current auction value)
• Republish auctions (relisting)
• Auction ending countdown
• Tags
• RSS feeds

Standards

• Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
• SEO/SEF friendly
• Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
• Easy transition to RTL by editing the product templates
• Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

• Configurable account details, including a PayPal address for payments between bidders and sellers
• Default settings for adding new auctions
• Displays received messages and ratings
• Account balance and payments history
• Personalized fields
• Simple user profile search

Categories

• Unlimited categories and subcategories levels
• Custom fields availability on specific categories
• Different category pricing for certain payment items
• Restrict usergroups on certain categories
• Add categories to watchlist
• Quick add function to add multiple categories and subcategories at once
• 2 category navigation modules

Main Settings

• Date & Time format
• Enable and set the ACL (Access Control List)
• Set number of auctions per page
• Maximum number of tags allowed
• Blacklist option available for sellers
• Enable/disable messages between bidders and sellers
• Allow guest messages
• Number of items on RSS
• Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where the auction information is entered on one page or a two-steps posting, which will require users to set the category first and the rest of the details afterwards)
• Admin approval of every listing
• Restrict certain auction types
• Enable and set price suggestion
• Minimum increase settings
• Import from CSV (Bulk-import) also available for site users
• Display seller details for winner or public
• Enable auto extend option
• Define availability periods for auctions
• Set up shipping prices for multiple zones
• Define the maximum size of the uploaded images or if a main image is required
• Enable and set up ReCaptcha

Search

• Advanced auction search using various criteria: title, category, time range, price range etc.
• Simple user profile search
• Searchable custom fields
• Quick search and price range search modules

Payments Gateways

• Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, 2Checkout, Sagepay, SagePayments, Authorize.Net, Bank-transfers
• API available for integration of 3rd party payment gateways for payments towards the site
• Payments between users using a PayPal address field provided by the component

Modules & Plugins

• Quick search and price range search modules
• 2 category navigation modules
• Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured, ending soon auctions (multiple instances module)
• Suggestions module (displays suggestions related to the latest user bids)
• Quick rate module
• Tag cloud module
• Joomla! profile plugin that extends user registration with your custom fields

3rd Party Integrations

• Community Builder integration including a 7 plugins pack
• ReCaptcha
• Facebook "Like" button available on the auction details page and user profile
• Love Factory user profile

Notifications

• Over 40 Email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
• Customizable email templates

Backend Management

• Actions: create new auctions and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
• Import auctions from CSV
• Export auctions to XLS
• Backup auctions and their images
• Overview bid history, as well as ratings & reviews
• User management
• Set debtors constraints
• Several statistics and information

Requirements

• Joomla! 3.x
• PHP (min. 5.3.0)
• MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
• CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
• cURL, GD2 libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!