Joomla Penny Auction Factory Extension

Penny Auction Factory is an unique Joomla! extension that allows administrators to create a professional bidding fee auction website. Users can buy bid packages, which can be used in any active penny auction, with the specification that auctions typically end after a small period of time. Each user starts off by placing a small incremental bid and the auction is considered closed when the timer since the last placed bid expires, declaring the last bidder a winner. Site developers can unleash the power of a fully fledged Penny Auction script, as well as taking advantage of Joomla!'s unmatched versatility.

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 contact, Pay for featured auctions
- Commissions (seller and/or buyer can be charged)
- Credit discounts with the use of the Buy Credits item
- Packages that contain advantageous offers for users
- Different category pricing for certain payment items
- Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users

Key Features

- But-It-Now price for auctions
- Manual and Proxy Bidding (Automatic Bidding)
- Reserve price
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Import from CSV (Bulk-import) also available for site users
- Display seller details for winner or public
- 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, Skrill(Moneybookers), 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
- Bids Left module
- Cart info 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 and Social 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
- Backup auctions and their images
- Overview bid history, as well as ratings & reviews
- User management
- 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!