User FeaturesUser Features

Buy And Sell Items

Digital Downloads

Standard/Penny/Fixed Listings
Users can sell items in eBay style auctions. They simply register, login and list their items and because it's integrated with PayPal and Authorize.Net, they can pay for their listing and you take your percentage.
Not only can users sell items in the eBay style auctions, they can buy other items as well.		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.Offer your members three style auctions. They are 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.

Paypal and Authorize.net

SEO Friendly URL's

Penny Auctions
Besides being PayPal ready, we now have Authorize.net integrated into the auction software. You can use either PayPal or Authorize.net.With version 2.7, all the links are now SEO Friendly. Also, any time a new listing is created, the title of the listing is now SEO Friendly.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.

Internal Invoicing

Internal Email

Seller Paypal Integration
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.Your users can email each other with our enhanced Internal Email system. All the features you need in an Internal Email System.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

Category Search

Advanced Search
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.Users can drill through the Categories searching for specific items in the auction listings.Your users can search via a keyword search or drill down through the categories. They can also use a Tag Search.

Tag Search

Featured Listings

Sidebar Featured
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.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.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

Most Active Listings

Ending Soon Listings
This area shows all the New Listings on your auction site. This area shows the most Active Listings on your auction site. Most Active means auctions that get the most views/bids.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

Draft Listing

Pending/Active Status
This area shows all the Just Ended listings on your auction site. These listings will be auction listings that were sold or unsold.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. All auctions are put into a Pending state when they are submitted unless you're auction site is in Free Mode. 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

Feature Options

Picture Gallery Options
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.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.If enabled, users can add Picture Galleries to their listings. This extends the default picture upload to an actual gallery.

Reserve Price

Buy Now

Buyer/Seller Feedback
Users can add a Reserve Price to their listing if you have it enabled. You can charge for these style features as well.Users can add a Buy Now feature to their listing if you have it enabled. You can charge for these style features as well.Buyers and Sellers can now see all of their feedback on the auction site. Users can see these before buying their listings.

Bid Watch

Member Profiles

Quick Search Widget
Users can add any listing to their favorites simply by clicking on "Watch Listing".Users can view all users profiles on the system. Shows their username, avatar, location and all of their feedback.The Quick Search Widget allows for users to do quick searches from the sidebar for listings within your auction.

Featured Listing Widget

Internal Listing Alerts

Internal Email Alert
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.Your users will get up to date alerts for all of their listings on the auction site. Users will get a popup notification wherever they are on the auction site letting them know that they have new email.

Prevent Sniping

Private Messages

Schedule auctions
You can extend an auction's end time, if someone bids within the last 'n' minutes.Bidders and auction owners can exchange private messagesSpecify Start and End Dates for your auction

Admin FeaturesAdmin Features

Multisite Compatible

Custom Categories

Category Order
Auction software is fully compatible with WP Multsite SetupsWant to offer a niche category structure so that you can sell different things? Create your own Custom Category structure via the Admin Area.Set the order of how the Categories appear when people sell or search for items. It's all done in the Admin Area.

Email Templates

Fees Active/Inactive

Fees Defined/Setup
You can change the way the language reads in all the emails that are sent out on the auction site.Activate and setup all the fees that are on the system. Turn some off or turn some on. It's up to you whether you want to allow for fees. The possibilities are endless.Define how the fees work. Whether it's based on a percentage or fixed price. You set the amount scale and the price. Or, leave it all free. It's up to you.

Fixed/Percentage Setup

Currency Settings

Timezone Settings
Want to charge a fixed price for users to list an auction? You can do it. You can also setup a percentage based on the price of the auction. You have all the options to do what you want.Pick the currency that appears on the site. If you want the Dollar or the Euro you can choose it. The default is the $ (Dollar).Set the timezone so that the time settings on the auction are locked into place. Once you set this timezone, you can't change it again so be sure to select the correct timezone.

Language Selector

Max File Size Limits

Max Gallery Limits
Pick the language that you want for the auction site. The default language is English. At this time we only offer English. Other languages will be made soon.Set the max file size limit. This keeps the space on your server down to a minimum. You can set this to what you want.Set the number of photos a user can add to a Gallery. The default is 5. Put what you want.

Pagination

YouTube Video

IP Address
Set the number of items that appear on a page. The default is 10 but you can put what you want. This option allows your users to submit YouTube videos about their auction listing. You can turn this On/Off.Within the User Management Area, you can see that users IP Address. This is for security purposes where you want to know where this user is really coming from.

Fraud Report

Standard/Fixed Auctions

Bid Increment Settings
If a user feels that a auction listing is fraud, he can report it. You as the admin can turn this feature ON/OFF. A email is sent to you with a link to the auction in question.Offer your members Standard or Fixed auction listing types. You can use one or both. It's up to you. You can also charge for them if you want to.Set how the bids increment throughout the site for listings. It's based on the amount and you can set it for what you wish.

Relisting Settings

Payment Shipping Editor

Auction Management
Allow your users to Relist their auctions. You can also charge for them. You can also set the number of times a auction can be relisted. This allows your users to add other shipping options to their listing. Manage all the auctions in one convenient location in the admin area. You control what happens on your auction site. Delete and ban users or simply see what is going on within your auction site.

Auction Listing Stats

User Management

Invoice Management
Now you can see the numbers of your site. How many auctions are going on. How many users you have and how many invoices have been sent and their amounts.Control your users from within the admin area. See what auctions they have, what bids they have as well as their feedback and much more.View all the invoices on the system. These invoices are what the Sellers are sending Buyers. See the status of whether those invoices are paid. This is not the money generated by you as as auction site owner. Only the invoicing that is going on between your Sellers and Buyers.

Accounting Management

Bid Management

Much Much More...
See all the money that you're making from all the auction listing fees. Search specific time frames to see what money you made during that time frame.Look at all the bids that are going on for specific users on their auction listings.Too many other features to list. Simply check out the demo and you'll see for yourself, it's the most feature rich Auction Software on the market...

Admin Features Explained

Below you’ll find information on each Admin Feature in the Auction Software.

Settings

This is where you setup your preliminary settings like your aypal email address, time zone, free mode, fraud report, max images, max file size and more.
Here you can toggle which types of auctions you want to have available to your members. You can select from Standard Auction, Penny Auction and or Fixed Price option.
This is where you set the price range for how the bid increments will work. For example, you can set the first range from 0 to 50 having an increment of 5. Then if someone lists an Auction between those ranges then the bid increments will be 5 dollars. So if someone places a bid for 40 dollars then the next bid that can be placed will be 45 dollars.
This is the number of times that a user can relist their auction.
These are the options available to users when they are submitting a listing. If you select them all then users can checkbox any of them for their listings. Shipping is the same way.
This is where you setup the number of days before Auction Ending items appear in the Auction Ending section. If you set it to 3 then auctions ending in 3 days will appear in that section.
These are other auction settings that you can set for instance the number of items per page. You can also set the time limits on how things appear in things like ending soon, just ended and new auctions. You can also turn on the youtube link which will allow users to show a youtube video link if they have a product displayed on youtube.

Categories

This is where you setup your category structure. You can go three sub-categories down by default. If you want to go down further then you’ll need to set that in the config area.
Here you can set the order of which the Categories will be displayed. You can choose from Ascending or Descending.

Email Settings

These are the system email templates. This is where you can edit how the emails that are sent out will appear.

Auctions

This is where you can see all the auctions that are listed and here you can edit them or delete them as see the users profile that created it. You can also export your listings to an excel file (CSV).

Users

This is where you can see all the users that are on the system. You can see all their auctions as well as all the invoices that they have sent out. You can also see their IP address, email, bids, profile data as well as send them a direct email message.

Fees

This is where you set up which options you want to charge your members for. Some will be fixed prices and some will be priced via a price range fixed price or price range percentage. It’s up to you where you want to use a fixed price range or a percentage price range.
This is where you set the Bold fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they select the Bold option for their listing.
This is where you set the Buy Now fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they select the Buy Now option.
This is where you set the Category Featured fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they want to have their listing Featured in a specific Category.
This is where you set the Home Page Featured fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they select the Home Page Featured. This will put their listing on the main home page at the top.
This is where you can set the Auction Setup fee where you can charge your users a fee for listing their auction. This is optional like all the other fees.
This is where you set the Picture Gallery fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they want to add more photos to their listing.
This is where you set the Relisting fee where you can charge your users a fee if they want to relist their auction.
This is where you set the Reserve Price fee option where you can charge your users a fee if they select the Reserve Price option during their listing setup. This is either a fixed price range or a percentage price range.

Accounting

This is where you can see all the money that you have made off of your auctions. This is money you have collected from users who have submitted auctions.

Stats

This is where you can see all the stats that are in your auction site. You can see auctions that are active, sold, unsold and closed.

Auction Software Features