User Features
Buy And Sell Items
Users can buy and sell items in eBay style auctions. They simply register, login and list their items and its done. Since the system is integrated with PayPal and Authorize.Net, they can pay for their listing and you take your percentage.
Digital Downloads
If you sell e-books, software, images, you don’t need to handle delivery manually. This plugin supports digital downloads so your auction winner can download the final product after successfully winning the auction.
Paypal and Authorize.net
Besides being PayPal ready, we now have Authorize.net integrated into the auction software. You can use either PayPal or Authorize.net.
STANDARD / PENNY / FIXED AUCTIONS
Offer your members three styles of auctions. Standard Auction, Penny Auction and Fixed Price Auctions. Your users can sell an item as a Standard Auction or list their item at a Fixed Price. You can also run a Penny Auction Site.
SEO Friendly URL’s
Starting from version 2.7, all the links are SEO Friendly. Also, any time a new listing is created, the title of the listing is now SEO Friendly too.
Internal Invoicing
When a Seller sells an item then the Buyer who wins the item is automatically sent an invoice and that invoice includes the Sellers Paypal information. The invoice also includes the link for payment via PayPal.
Penny Auctions
Penny Auctions are very profitable and now you can run your own Penny Auction website. This allows you to charge for bids on auction listings. Users must fund their account before they can bid on Penny Auction listings.
Seller Paypal Integration
Before a User can submit a listing, they have to enter their PayPal email address. This ensures that proper invoicing is sent to the Buyer of their products. It’s all integrated and is a 4 step process.
Listing Watch
Users can now add any Listing to their Favorites so that they can watch them. Favorite Listings that are on a users Favorite list will notify the watcher before the Listing expires.
Internal Email
Your users can email each other with our enhanced Internal Email system. All the features you need in an Internal Email System.
Category Search
Users can drill through the Categories searching for specific items in the auction listings.
Advanced Search
Users can search via a keyword search or drill down through the categories. They can also use a Tag Search.
Tag Search
Users can browse via the most used keywords (Tags) on the auction. A click of that Tag will show all the auctions that have those Tags (Keywords) in them.
Featured Listings
Users can pay for Featured Listings where their listings will be featured on the main page of the auction site. These are the first auction listings that appear when you go to your auction site.
Sidebar Featured
Your users can also pay to have their auction listing appear on the sidebar of the site. You can see this in the demo. This can be turned off/on via the Admin Area.
New Listings
This area shows all the New Listings on your auction site.
Most Active Listings
This area shows the most Active Listings on your auction site. Most Active means auctions that get the most views/bids.
Ending Soon Listings
This area shows all the auctions that are Ending Soon. These auctions are shown based on an ending period that can be set in the admin area. The default is 5 days.
Just Ended Listings
This area shows all the Just Ended listings on your auction site. These listings will be auction listings that were sold or unsold.
Draft Listing
Your users can save a listing as a draft so that they can come back later to edit it. A listing would have to be paid for before it becomes a active listing on your auction site.
Charge to get auction listed
If you’re charging for auction listings then they are in a Pending status and when paid, they go to Active Status and are visible to searches.
Transaction Process
When a Buyer buys a listing, he is presented with a step by step tranaction process. Buyer wins listing. Seller sends Invoice. Buyer Pays Invoice. Seller ships item. Complete with a check status to ensure a proper transaction.
Feature Options
Users can enhance their listings with options like Bold, Featured, Featured Sidebar, Picture Galleries, Category Featured, Reserved Price and more. It’s up to you what features you enable/charge for.
Picture Gallery Options
If enabled, users can add Picture Galleries to their listings. This extends the default picture upload to an actual gallery.
Reserve Price
Users can add a Reserve Price to their listing if you have it enabled. You can charge for these style features as well.
Buy Now
Users can add a Buy Now feature to their listing if you have it enabled. You can charge for these style features as well.
Buyer/Seller Feedback
Buyers and Sellers can now see all of their feedback on the auction site. Users can see these before buying their listings.
Bid Watch
Users can add any listing to their favorites simply by clicking on “Watch Listing”.
Member Profiles
Users can view all users profiles on the system. Shows their username, avatar, location and all of their feedback.
Quick Search Widget
The Quick Search Widget allows for users to do quick searches from the sidebar for listings within your auction.
Internal Listing Alerts
Your users will get up to date alerts for all of their listings on the auction site.
Featured Listing Widget
The Featured Listing Widget allows for Featured Listings to appear in the sidebar area of WordPress. This could be a chargeable feature if you enabled it via the Admin Area.
Internal Email Alert
Users will get a popup notification wherever they are on the auction site letting them know that they have new email.
Prevent Sniping
You can extend an auction’s end time, if someone bids within the last ‘n’ minutes.
Private Messages
Bidders and auction owners can exchange private messages
Schedule auctions
Specify Start and End Dates for your auction