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 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

Monetize

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

Key Features

• Multiple auction types: Public Auctions, Private Auctions (Sealed Envelope), Invite Auctions
• Manual and Automatic auctions (manual auction allows the seller to choose a winner, even if they specify a lower bid than the best)
• 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
• File attachments for auctions and bids (signed contracts, drafts, etc.)
• Support for NDA (bidders must upload a signed NDA before bidding)
• Messaging system for sellers and bidders
• Google Maps localization
• Ratings & reviews system
• Reporting system for offending auctions
• Watchlist (auctions, categories and subcategories)
• Admin definable currency
• Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
• Republish auctions (relisting)
• Auction ending countdown
• Timeframe for job completion
• Tags
• RSS feed

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
• Instant messaging information (YM, Skype, Facebook, etc.)
• Displays received ratings
• Account balance and payment 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 auctions per page
• Maximum number of tags allowed
• Enable/disable messages between bidders and sellers
• Allow guest messages
• Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where 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 up NDA and other attachment options
• Enable and set up Google Maps
• Hide contact information (PayPal, address, Messenger ID)
• Enable auto extend option
• Define availability periods for auctions
• 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 interval, price range, etc.
• Simple user profile search
• Radius search for auctions with the use of Google Maps
• Searchable custom fields
• Quick search module

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

• Quick search module
• Category tree module
• Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured auctions
• 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 auctions and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
• Import auctions from CSV
• Export auctions to XLS
• Overview messages and ratings & reviews
• User management
• Payments 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