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