Joomla Raffle Factory Extension

The solution to online raffles, where webmasters will be able to organize raffles on their website and even allow site users to come and post raffles; the tickets can be chosen either randomly by the script or the raffler can manually pick the winning ticket.

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

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!