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Auction Factory - the ONLY complete Auction System for Joomla and Community Builder.

* all common auction types including also proxy bidding
* easy setup of fully functional auction site and user friendly interface
* fully SEF
* easy tracking of auctions & bids
* various administration features, easy language management
* built-in modules
* Users can have Native Profiles or (optional) Profiles from Community Builder

Version History

auction Factory 1.5.7 released on 10 February, 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).
• Fixed issues regarding proxy bidding (single user, more proxy bids on several auctions), main image, js countdown, template.

auction Factory 1.5.6 released on 21 January, 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 6 January, 2009.

• New feature: Differentiated Comissions 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 15 December, 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 2 December, 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 3 November, 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 22 September, 2008.

• Support for Joomla 1.5.x Legacy Mode

auction Factory 1.4.2 released on 29 August, 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 30 July, 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
• Extendend 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.

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 or Joomla 1.5.x LEGACY Mode
• 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.