Auction Functionality Overview
Key Features
This demonstration site is designed to provide an overview of the basic key features of our auction software. In the main, our auction sites are richer in experience as each client will have their own business aims and objectives.
Before we look at the features here are three sites running our auction platform:
- Buy Once Give Twice - charity auction website
- MachineBidder - machinery auction sales website
- James Allen Girls' School - school fundraising art auction
However all our sites have the similar key elements and they are as follows:
- Real time bidding - bidding is updated on the page in real time, rather than the user having to refresh the page to see the latest bids
- SEO friendly site construction
- Lot search
- Lot categorization and tagging
- Highly scalable - enterprise level architecture and construction
- Bidding history - users can easily track the lots they are interested in buying by the use of a 'My Bids" page
- Dynamic interface - bidding and time left ticks in real time (usually every 3 seconds)
- Opening bids
- Reserves
- Incremental bidding
- Autobidding - users can enter a maximum bid and the website will bid on the users behalf until it reaches the maximum bid
- Buy Now bidding
- Detailed lot descriptions
- Extended photo libraries
- Winning or Losing indicators
- Multiple auctions able to run multiple lots
- Email alerts to notify users they have been outbid
- Opt in to future email marketing
- Content management system for the corporate and other information based pages on the website
