Overview

...the way to keep Auctions & Bids organized.

• all common auction types including also proxy bidding

• Automatic install! All Plugins and modules are installed with the component itself

• easy setup of fully functional auction site and user friendly interface

• Categories (enless levels of subcategories), SEF

• easy tracking of auctions & bids, various administration features, easy language management

• built-in modules and plug-ins, CB-Integration, etc.
  

• and many more features...

Description

Auction Factory - the ultimative Auction System for Joomla.

The component is provided with an installation kit; by performing the easy setup you will have in minutes a fully functional Auction Site.

The interface is very user friendly and you can track easily auctions and bids. In the backend panel, various administration features have been provided in order that the site admin can easily maintain control of the site and survey the auctions and bids. As payment methods PayPal and Moneebookers can be used or due to API webmasters can configure their own payment gateway.

This component has a full Community Builder integration including a Plugin pack (5 Plugins!)

Auction Factory is fully SEF!

What do I get buying this product?

• The fully functional OPEN SOURCE (no encrypting) component.
• Power Plugins: Commission, Pay per Contact, Pay per Bid.
• 8 different Modules: Popular Auctions, Most Valuable Auctions, Latest Auctions, Category Tree in two flavours, Random Auctions, Featured Auctions, Tag Module.
• 5 Community Builder Plugins: My TaskPad, My Auctions, My Ratings, My Bids, My Watchlist.
• FULL SEF integration, Categories Support and Template Engine!

The site language can be also easily changed since the component is designed with a easy Language Management System. The install-kit comes also with a module that suports three display types: Valuable, Popular and Latest Auctions.

For a detailed Features List of Auction Factory please click this link.  

Requirements:

• Joomla 1.0.x
• CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section and also a more particular one regarding How To Set up the CRON Job for Auction Factory).

DEMO: The Demo for Auction Factory is available under http://auctions.thefactory.ro - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side.

Testimonials: "Thanks theFactory! Works great and certainly is worth the money. Version 1.4 is super and the new features are solid and professional. My clients will be very pleased. Not only is your AF product one of the only ones out there, it is by far the best value and any webmaster considering an auction platform should seriously look at it. I recommend it because of it's value, flexibility, support and the continued improvement by its development team. Thank you." - Fred, webmaster at www.easy-xs.com

Version Info

auction Factory 1.7.5 released on January 31, 2011.    

• Fixed issues regarding doubling quantity when two bids, choosing winner when quantity equals one.

auction Factory 1.7.4 released on December 1, 2010.    

• Fixed several issues including Itemid when SEF enabled, Paypal Logo, ShowSearch pagination, Jquery Category module loading script without Jquery param, Default Payment Gateway, etc.

auction Factory 1.7.3 released on September 28, 2010.   

• New feature: added Smarty cache status for administrator (warning if not writable).
• Optimization: notices stripped from States Filter Module
• Fixed several issues including save as default and save BIN Only where initial price was not displayed, default automatic value was not saved for BIN only auction, Auto-extend not adjusted to Auction component Time Offset, cancel auction when compulsory custom fields defined, loading language file on backend, Bin accept, UTF-8 for Java-script language files, start date on edit, etc.
  

auction Factory 1.7.2 released on June 11, 2010.  

• New feature: Component Time offset.
• New module: States and Cities tree (works only with the component users profile; no CB support; needs 'States' as custom field; set in the module parameters tab the name of the state custom field).
• Fixed issues regarding CSV import issue on payment (multiple payments enabled) field.

auction Factory 1.7.1 released on June 9, 2010. 

• New module: Full Category Tree.
  
• Fixed several issues including JS (countdown and rating) under Joomla 1.0.x., end date when "Allow Users to specify Auction End Date" disabled, end date displayed without time if Time format "H:i:A" selected, CSV bulk import not adding images, price contact plugin when unlogged.

auction Factory 1.7.0 released on May 27, 2010.

• New feature: Filters for Custom Fields.
• New feature: My Won Auctions filter (filter for my auctions where its possible to select closed auctions with winning bid).
• New feature: enable/disable Fully automatic auction; when disabled - default selected value.
• New module: Full Tree Categories.
• New feature: email notifications for seller on posting and reposting.
• New feature: highest bid column in exported xls file.
  
• Template: highest bidder row in details page.
• Several optimizations including user profile (refferer after save), image.class.php.
• Fixed several issues including Joomfish on custom fields, added payment_info in t_auctiondetials.tpl, field validation message as language definition, ListAuction task filter (query), ancStore instead of store in saveBid (accept bid), edit BIN ONLY auction (showing Start Price), payment button on mywonbids, category page count, stars filling error on My ratings CB Plugin tab, CB plugins notices stripped, CB Plugin My Bids (for BIN auctions, private" instead of "BIN"), etc.
  

auction Factory 1.6.9 released on March 1, 2010.

• Optimization: new templates in templates/elements/auction_details
   (separate template for the bid list and for the bid/ bin/ suggestion payment area)
• Optimization: new template flags ( true or false vars) for auction detail template
      bid_list_tab; // Flag for displaying bid_list tab
      has_placed_bids; // Auction has bids, bins or suggestions
• Optimization: Payment List for winner auctioneer
     the bins, accepted suggestions payed separately
• Optimization: Auction can still be edited if no bidders (has_placed_bids)
• Optimization: The initial quantity is stored in the nr_items var.
• Fixed issues including: Itemid with SEF, vars template assigning, (is_my_auction, is_bidder, bid list, suggestions list), payment display in backend, CB ratings tab date inconsistency, decreasing quantity, amount to pay issue for winner auctioneer, reserve price, display and amount to pay, modules language, timezone, listing plugin, shipment, bid expire, bid band, auto extending $mosConfig_offset, daylight time saving display, some notices, missing info in my auctions, joomfish translation for categories, commission add manual payment in backend (select currency), etc.    
  

auction Factory 1.6.8 released on January 18, 2010. 

• Community Builder tabs optimizations and issues: pagination issues, My Watchlist Tab includes current bid now, My Bids Tab wrong labeling of "Outbid", My Ratings Tab contains now the rating date.
• Custom Fields and page Positions optimizations and issues: details page joining auction and users fields, Editor Type html stripping issue, saving empty options issue for optioned field types, Field type more extensible, Attributes for field type (html meaning attributes), future scope parameters for field type.
• Various optimizations and issues: Cron choose Winner sorting issue, join with user profile at listing tasks, Custom Fields via Custom Positions support for other then List Auctions task (My Auctions, My watchlist), Router.php, Custom fields required twice when Ads, Reverse, Raffle where installed, My Won Bids Shipping Price, when Auction has shipping areas prices; payment must be done by directing to the details page to select the shipping price, etc., Custom fields when using Joomfish, Price Suggestion on Quantity, Auction Factory ACL new methods entry's; CB Fatal Error in Plugins, etc.

auction Factory 1.6.7 released on December 28, 2009. 

• New features: Quantity for BIN Only and Price Suggestions
• New features: Custom Positions / Custom Fields
• New features: Auction Category Selecting Page at new listing
• Fixed several issues including category modules auction counting, session saving error, one single image instead of gallery with a single image with useless navigation, etc.
  

auction Factory 1.6.6 released on November 5, 2009.

• New feature: Price Suggestions for BIN only auctions; allows sending 3 suggestions per auction, automatic notification after 24 hours, automatic rejection after 48 hours (new templates for "my suggestions" and "my received suggestions").
• Query optimizations.
  
• Fixed several issues including show highest bidder, shipping prices, max. bid, erase fields, version info update for php 5.3.0, notices, warnings, guest messaging, module categories, bids ACL suggestion task added, bid listing (accept must not appear to BIN's on quantities but only to Bids), Custom Field radio box type saving , Template optimization (quantity display for each suggestion list), etc.

auction Factory 1.6.5 released on September 24, 2009.

• New feature: Custom Fields.
• New feature: Bidding Band.
• New feature: Bidding increments.
• New feature: running only BIN Auctions.
• New feature: Auto-Extend (if a bid is received x minutes of end of action, then it auto-extends by x minutes and displays the number of auto-extensions; enable/disable).
• New feature: Configurable Shipping prices for several admin defined zones.
• New feature: Buyers Premium (ability to add buyers premium as a percentage of BIN or auction price).
• New feature: UddeIm integration (compatible with both types of versions 1.2 and 1.8).
• New feature: Task admin to view bid history.
• Improved Settings for types of auctions and configuration.
• Improved Search with ordering, auto suggest, showing actual sellers and administrators only.
• Improved CSV Import.
• improved Pricing listing and Commission.
  
• Improved Modules (sort by field, filter for featured).
• New MyAuctions filter for Unsold items.
• Improved new listings with default values.
• Fixed several issues including display country name, pricing item on backend, counter for MyAuctions and MyBids, messages on proxy bidding, report mail to superadmin, email content to installer, commissions order, SQL bids, commissioning order on plugin, notice on plugin commission, new email fields (Item Name, Auctioneer name, Time, Bid - when proxy bidding the current bid and the bidders MAX BID -, Description of Item, Bidders Phone, Bidders Name, Bidders Email Address), last bid info in email content, empty shipping, edit with end date, mosstripslashes on title details, setting verified users, jquery with mootools on gallery, preferential categories as plugin settings, admin add categories under root, site time zone, paypal button in mywon bids, highest bidder, CB Pagination, etc.
  

auction Factory 1.6.0 released on July 6, 2009.

• New feature: Endless Subcategories Levels.
• New feature: Differentiated Payments and Commissions per Category.
• New toolbar in plugins interface.
  
• Fixed issues regarding notices, Joomfish, payment plugin, display winning bid in admin, etc.
  

auction Factory 1.5.8 released on May 19, 2009.

• New feature: configurable (enable/disable) sending messages as guest (validated with captcha; enable/disable).
• New feature: enable/disable displaying auctions from categories and subcategories (yes: when filter by a category it displays auctions from its subcategories too; no: just the auctions from the categories).
• Fixed several issues including code improvement, quotes issue for short description, concurrent simultaneous bidding issue, RSS Dates, admin Cancel task toolbar, deleting currencies and payments when using cancel button, made public task "tags", Js Error in My Ratings CB Plugin, amounts possible issue for more than 2 decimals (float changed to varchar), missing checkbox definition in admin for the countdown setting, SEO for J!1.5.x, order for varchar amounts, pricing comission saving payment, task pay_comission was not public, min_increase, payment plugin issue, ACL for J!1.5.11, etc.
  

auction Factory 1.5.7 released on February 10, 2009.

• New feature: Gallery plugins system.
• New feature: implemented a second image YUI Gallery (admin option to choose a gallery).
• New feature: made min. increase configurable by auctioneers (if admin enabled).
• New feature: categories module can display number of auctions.
  
• Fixed issues regarding proxy bidding (single user, more proxy bids on several auctions), main image, js countdown, template, min_increase works with digits, tags public task, category modules divs.

auction Factory 1.5.6 released on January 21, 2009.

• Fixed issues regarding the comission plugin (with CRON, BIN, percantage), listacutions in bids.acl.php, RSS XML Parsing Error, removed several notices.

auction Factory 1.5.5 released on January 6, 2009.

• New feature: Differentiated Commissions for Powersellers, verified and regular users.
• New feature: Moneybookers Payment Method.
• New feature: Multiple Payment Gateways.
• New feature: Notification on manual payment approval.
• New feature: API for 3rd party Payment Gateways published.
• Fixed several issues and code improvements.

auction Factory 1.5.2 released on December 15, 2008.

• New feature: Pay-per-Contact Plugin.
• New feature: Pay-per-Bid Plugin.
• Fixed several issues including on tags class, etc.

auction Factory 1.5.1 released on December 2, 2008.

• New feature: Joomfish Integration (available only under J1.5).
• Payment Plugin: added currency support and notice field.
• Fixed issues regarding the currency in mails template of the plugin payments; public task on rss, module to display auctions with start date < today, Tags, MyBids.

auction Factory 1.5.0 released on November 3, 2008.

• New Feature: Commissions Plugin.
• New Feature: Shipping Price.
• New Module: TAGS Cloud (available only under J! 1.5.x).
• Fixed issues involving proxy bidding, CRON under legacy mode, IE Template, Tooltip.

auction Factory 1.4.5 released on September 22, 2008.

• Support for Joomla 1.5.x Legacy Mode (not officialy support anymore on this product version).
  

auction Factory 1.4.2 released on August 29, 2008.

• New Feature: XLS Export.
• New Modules: Random and Featured Auctions.
• Fixed issues involving months-minutes format and pagination.

auction Factory 1.4.1 released on July 30, 2008.

• Search Mambot
• Reserved Price
• Meta Tags in Auction details page and page title taken from the acution title
• Admin feature to set images as required
• Admin feature to resize images to x MB
• Fixed issues regarding: search tags, proxy bid (first bid), modul (picture display), BIN < Max. Bid + increase, date format, last day of month bidding, back-up & restore, choosing winner when auction is expired, included all xml paramaters into language file, My ratings on the CB tab, Template in IE and html tags, etc.

auction Factory 1.4.0 released on May 5, 2008.

• Templating using Smarty-engine
• RSS Feeds including Latest Auctions, Categories present on the platform and User Filter
• Tags (Blog Style) for each Auction which can be also used as filters
• Unique Auction Number searchable and SEF implemented
• User Groups ACL from Native Joomla Groups or CB Community Builder Custom Fields
• Powerseller and Verified User
• Featured Auctions (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
• Minutes Countdown
• PayPal Payment Method
• Improved Rating System
• Delete, Purge Auctions
• Allow / Disable Messages between Bidder/Seller
• Editing Categories of each auction
• Setting Featured auctions
• new Menu Item: My Won Bids
• search by Location
• confirmation window on the BIN button
• new notification to the auctioneer when an auction ends and they are no winners
• new icons in the list of auctions by editing the template
• module option to display an image before the auction
• CB plugins Task Pad tab
• various new features and tweaks.
  

auction Factory 1.0.4 released on 1 May, 2008.

• new notification to the user when he was outbidded
• improved modules
• several issues fixed regarding CRON, display, etc. 

auction Factory 1.0.3 released on December 7, 2007.

• New! Decimal Price and Bids are now supported!
• Search Filter available now also for Categories
• Added new Notifications Types
• Better error output regarding Bulk Import
• New Mail Setting - Enable/Disable individual notifications types
• New Admin Options - Enable/Disable Messages between auctioneer and bidders, configurable Items per page
• Extended Rating System from 5/5 to 10/10
• Several new Display tweaks added
• Several Bugs fixed regarding CRON, Email Notifications, Payment Type, Currency, etc.

auction Factory 1.0.2 released on November 11, 2007.

• New Auction Photo Gallery - uses Lightbox Script 
• New Category Module - Tree Shaped Module 
• Quick Category Management added (add many new categories very quickly)
• Bulk insert Auctions - Users can upload a CSV-file containing Auctions + Images as Zip
• Backup and Restore for admin - Quick backup of the auction site
• Cron script issues fixed and more notifications added in Cron
• Added new notification: New Auction Confirmation
• Several display issues (categories, auction list CSS, etc.) and minor bugs fixed

• Community Builder Integration (Profile is taken from CB)
• Integrated Community Builder plugin pack - 4! different Plugins - MyAuctions, MyBids, MyRatings, MyWatchlist!
• New! Categories and SEF for Categories! There is one Directory-Sytle view and a Tree shaped Category Module (like a Menu)
• Easy Currency Configuration
• Easy Payment Methods Configuration
• Archive Setting (very old Auctions get automatically deleted)
• Several Bug fixed

auction Factory 1.0.0 released on August 28, 2007.

Screenshots

To see exatcly how it looks please check our Demo Site - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side.

Screenshots are representing version 1.0.3 of Auction Factory.

Reviews

Customer Reviews:

makis_best  (Monday, 18 January 2010)
Rating:
An account expiration it will be helpful when a auction finish. And the person is interest for this auction.

Sinister  (Wednesday, 10 December 2008)
Rating:
I bought it too and have to say pretty cool work.Some Issues with the payment system anyhow a good product and im waiting for the media mall modul
:-).Anyhow i give 4 of 5 Stars and go on.

Frederick Alzner  (Wednesday, 05 March 2008)
Rating:
Package installed flawlessly. Had a little trouble with original Joomla install had to re-install some files in the includes folder. Andrei is very
responsive to customer support needs and went the extra mile to help us when the corrupt Joomla files were impacting this component. I have never had
better support. This package is great value for the money and a quick and efficient way into an auction business.

Erik Folberth  (Friday, 31 August 2007)
Rating:

If you have never been to an auction or sold goods through the auction method of marketing, you're missing out on expertise, value, excitement
and fun. It's one of the oldest and most popular sales methods today.