Introduction

Affiliate Auctions, e-Commerce, Clients & Communities, Auction, Templating

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

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!

Auction Factory



Posted on 09 November 2021
Functionality
I purchased Auction Factory before 2 months but still it is not working. I have message to support but they are fixing from 2 month.
Ease of use
Worst Extension never suggest to buy because if you buy you will not get proper extension
Support
Worst Extension never suggest to buy because if you buy you will not get proper extension
Documentation
Worst Extension never suggest to buy because if you buy you will not get proper extension
Value for money
Worst Extension never suggest to buy because if you buy you will not get proper extension
I used this to: Worst Extension never suggest to buy because if you buy you will not get proper extension
Functionality
It meets my needs for running an auction site. I have added some extra reporting functionality using another extention.
Ease of use
Easy to use. I really like the text file import functionality. It makes loading of many auctions very easy and quick.
Support
I had some issues and bugs in the startup face but support was always swift and problems were fixed quickly.
Documentation
Documentation is ok. I have also documented my implementation thoroughly which makes upgrades painless.
Value for money
If you compare the functionality to making your own extention, this is not expensive.
I used this to: Running an auction site for collectors. 24×7 for five years now.

Auction Factory



Posted on 25 May 2020
Functionality
Good idea but useless for real traders. I am trader for more then 20 years
Ease of use
impossible to use: check 1st field price (is this per mt, item, litter and etc.) no place where goods available and more bugs like this
Support
No support at all. Manager just send link which impossible to use.
I spend one week to receive correct answer (limit 170 chars)
Documentation
Not corresponds to the real functionality. Admin send you link and you can not follow (check for multilang web)
Value for money
Very expensive and not only money, you have to find new developer which can help you for support
I used this to: I use for one week from 7 of May 2020, then request to return money via PayPal as result, no money back and admin banned me to support tickets

Decent product but bad coding



Posted on 03 February 2020
Functionality
Decent functionalities and features for an Auction component, however the legacy code is not suitable for long term use.
Ease of use
Reasonably easy to use but the user interface is not very intuitive. I would prefer better user interface
Support
Support was reasonably efficient but only for general and simple support issues.
Documentation
Decent but not very helpful. The code must be updated regularly to be compatible with the different Joomla versions.
Value for money
Very poor. Honestly a waste of money because the poor code quality and updates. The auction component may contain alot of legacy code.
I used this to: Auction website that might need to use the latest Joomla CMS version. The legacy code is a real pain for people that need to update their Joomla CMS versions regularly.

Good extension in overall, but...



Posted on 25 September 2019
Functionality
OK - but not usable in real business. No accounting, invoicing, reporting etc. out of the box. I hired a programmers to add those!
Ease of use
The main functionality is really easy to use, but lacks some important features to run real auction site! Backend lacks some admin features!
Support
Can be better! Bought the component 2 years ago and got it finally running 2 months ago! Waited long time of different bug fixes!
Documentation
Exists and contains some information, but nothing very useful...
Value for money
Expensive! Definitely cheaper than building same kind of component out of scratch, but you need to pay same price yearly for support!
I used this to: Running real auction site!

Pretty happy with the component for now - but as said, I let some parts completely rewritten and made some custom integrations with another components to use it for real live site!

Overall - good, but can be better (support & functionality)!
Functionality
Too expensive. Total waste of money. Nothing works.
1. no printable orders
2. multiple orders overlaps
3. registration, profile field missi
Ease of use
Useless. Many parts are broken or missing. Registration and profile data missing(state, city, zipcode)
Support
Support is horrible. When you report that sold order details are not available, dev says most of their customers don't use or need them
Documentation
Documentation is Ok. I am not a programmer, but I have set up many e-commerce sites, including multi-vendors. Many features are missing.
Value for money
Complete waste of money! Many features missing. No built-in shipping, No way to apply taxes, no country elements.
I used this to: My license expired and have not been able to go to production. It has some nice features but requires a lot of modification. Do not buy if you are not an advanced php programmer. Be prepared to lose your money or to invest further in development.
Owner's reply: Unfortunately another REVENGE review! After one year, when the customer license expired, he just wanted to receive from us another license but for free, and since this is not possible, he posted this revenge review. The fact that he used the product for one year and still wanted further licensing speaks for the product itself. The content of this REVENGE review is a pure fiction, which has nothing to do with the product features. He is complaining about some options that do not exist, nor even ever stated to be available!
Functionality
We noticed that the layouts scripts and codes seemed patched together from different sources, which is not a problem
Ease of use
Not very intuitive backend. phpfactory , i see you answer very thoroughly each not great review. Not intuitive is what i and many others say
Support
There will be support of course. Also the support of letting JED delete critical reviews. JED: we have used this component: it is sketchy
Documentation
Obviously non native english speakers. Hard to follow sometimes
Value for money
absolutely not given. Less then many free components, But unfortunately no alternatives
I used this to: none
Owner's reply: Attention! This review is completely FAKE, and was not posted by one of our customers!
We develop the code 100% ONLY in our software house, maintaining and supporting this product for over 10 years.
Functionality
It meets the needs of my client. It has many features.
Ease of use
It is easy to add auctions and set up your site but don't think about making any edits at all if you want any help from support.
Support
Support is very curt and will not go above & beyond to help. They always answer with "upgrade to the latest version" no matter what you ask.
Documentation
Not bad. Has what is needed. Even API info if you need to create a plugin.
Value for money
Its a little pricey for what you get. It is a nice extension overall but expensive if you have basic needs.
I used this to: Auctions on a website
Owner's reply: We provide the best support and response time!
Maybe you should about that our answer is the same, if the question is repeating itself also 3 times in a row.
Our job is to maintain a high quality of the code and to support it along the years and with each new Joomla version.
Other then this (like explaining how to perform a certain customization) is not included in the extension price. If you perform any modification to your customer site, you should do them properly (meaning in separate files), so an update won't affect you at all. Like this you offer the best solution to your customer and also the most secure one, if you are constant able to update the CMS and the present extensions to their latest versions.
Functionality
Is not perfect, but has improved a lot since I started using it. Pretty functional
Ease of use
Very easy to use
Support
Very good support.Great effort in solving problems and improvements
Documentation
Fairly complete documentation and excellent support forum
Value for money
Suitable
I used this to: Mono seller auction website.
Functionality
Good.
Ease of use
Very good. Response usually within the hour.
Support
Very good. Response usually within the hour.
Documentation
Excellent
Value for money
Well worth the price for the support provided
I used this to: Our client website host 3 types of auction:
- Traditional in house auctions every month
- Monthly "buy now" auctions
- Timed auctions where users have XX days to put in an offer
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Auction Factory

Version:
4.6.4
Developer:
thePHPfactory
Last updated:
Apr 20 2021
2 years ago
Date added:
Jun 26 2009
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
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c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4
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