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Auction Factory

An unique Joomla! extension that allows to create a professional Auction website, where site developers can unleash the power of a fully fledged 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 bid, Pay per contact, Pay for featured auctions
  • Commissions (seller and/or buyer can be charged)
  • Different category pricing for certain payment items
  • Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users

Key Features

  • All common auction types: Public Auctions, Private Auctions (Sealed Envelope), Buy-it-Now Auctions
  • Proxy Bidding (Automatic Bidding)
  • Manual and Automatic auctions (manual auction allows the seller to choose a winner, even they specify a lower bid than the best)
  • Reserve price
  • Price suggestion for Buy-it-Now only auctions
  • 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
  • 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
  • Auto-increments (a minimum bid increment range is available, depending on the current auction value)
  • 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
  • Quick add function to add multiple categories and subcategories at once
  • 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
  • Restrict certain auction types
  • Enable and set price suggestion
  • Minimum increase settings
  • Import from CSV (Bulk-import) also available for site users
  • Display seller details for winner or public
  • Enable auto extend option
  • 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, Moneybookers/Skrill, 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
  • 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 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
  • Export auctions to XLS
  • Backup auctions and their images
  • Overview bid history, as well as ratings & reviews
  • User management
  • Set debtors constraints
  • Several statistics and information
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Comments

stuart roberts
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stuart roberts
7 years ago
when accessing the admin section on the back end for this extension, it seems the JS and CSS are not loading in
can you advise please

i am using joomla 3.7
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psarema
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psarema
6 years ago
Please update auction Factory 4.5.0
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Wyatt Gruver
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Wyatt Gruver
6 years ago
Can we please get version 4.5.1 for Joomla 3.7 compatibility? Thanks
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Joomla! Share
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Joomla! Share
6 years ago
Hi, updated to latest version
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