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 able to set category filter
• Used for raffles 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

Monetize

• Payment items: Pay per listing, Pay per contact, Pay for featured raffles
• Commissions (raffle owner can be charged a defined percent from the tickets which are being sold)
• Different category pricing for certain payment items

Key Features

• 2 raffle types: Public Raffle and Private Raffle (details about tickets sold are hidden to other users)
• Automatic winner selection (CRON chooses the winner automatically based on random selection)
• Reserve price
• Availability options
• Featured raffles
• Picture upload and image gallery for raffles
• File attachments for raffles
• Support for NDA (allows users to ask for a non disclosure agreement before buying tickets)
• Messaging system for sellers and buyers
• Google Maps localization
• Ratings & reviews system
• Reporting system for offending raffles
• Watchlist (raffles, categories and subcategories)
• Admin definable currency
• Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
• Republish raffles (relisting)
• Raffle 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 ticket buyers and sellers
• Instant messaging information (YM, Hotmail and Skype)
• Displays received 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
• Add categories and subcategories to watchlist
• Quick add function to add multiple categories and subcategories at once
• Category tree module

Main Settings

• Date & Time format
• Enable and set the ACL (Access Control List)
• Set number of raffles per page
• Maximum number of tags allowed
• Enable/disable messages between buyers and sellers
• Allow guest messages
• Enable/disable automatic refund (CRON will refund buyers if reserve price is not reached)
• Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where raffle 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
• Allow users to select the type of raffle
• Enable and set up NDA and other attachments options
• Enable and set up Google Maps
• Hide contact information (PayPal, address, messenger)
• Define the availability periods for raffles
• Define the maximum size of the uploaded images or if a main image is required
• Enable and set up ReCaptcha

Search

• Advanced raffle search using various criteria: title, category, time range, location, etc.
• Simple user profile search
• Radius search for raffles with the use of Google Maps
• Searchable custom fields

Payments Gateways

• Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, 2Checkout, SagePayments, 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

• Category tree module
• Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured raffles
• 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
• Google Maps
• ReCaptcha
• Love Factory user profile
• Social Factory user profile

Notifications

• Over 20 Email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
• Customizable email templates

Backend Management

• Actions: create new raffles and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
• Import raffles from CSV
• Export raffles to XLS
• Overview messages and 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