Create an industrial B2B procurement website, where users can post their requests in order to obtain the best price for needed services or desired products, meaning that they can choose the lowest price or what they consider would be the best deal for them.
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 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
Monetize
Payment items: Pay per listing, Pay per bid, Pay per contact, Pay for featured auctions
Commissions (seller or buyer can be charged)
Different category pricing for certain payment items
Preferential pricing for powerbuyers and verified users
Key Features
Multiple auction types: Public Auctions, Private Auctions (Sealed Envelope), Invite Auctions
Manual and Automatic auctions (manual auction allows the seller to choose a winner, even if they specify a lower bid than the best)
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
File attachments for auctions and bids (signed contracts, drafts, etc.)
Support for NDA (bidders must upload a signed NDA before bidding)
Messaging system for sellers and bidders
Google Maps localization
Ratings & reviews system
Reporting system for offending auctions
Watchlist (auctions, categories and subcategories)
Admin definable currency
Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
Republish auctions (relisting)
Auction ending countdown
Timeframe for job completion
Tags
RSS feed
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
Instant messaging information (YM, Skype, Facebook, etc.)
Displays received ratings
Account balance and payment 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 auctions per page
Maximum number of tags allowed
Enable/disable messages between bidders and sellers
Allow guest messages
Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where 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 up NDA and other attachment options
Enable and set up Google Maps
Hide contact information (PayPal, address, Messenger ID)
Enable auto extend option
Define availability periods for auctions
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 interval, price range, etc.
Simple user profile search
Radius search for auctions with the use of Google Maps
Searchable custom fields
Quick search module
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
Quick search module
Category tree module
Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured auctions
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 auctions and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
Import auctions from CSV
Export auctions to XLS
Overview messages and ratings & reviews
User management
Payments 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
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