Auction Watch
The Auction Watch feature allows users to register an interest for items they want. When items meeting their criteria are listed, they will be notified via email. Additionally, users have the option to make their auction watch public. This is a way users can influence the type of items offered for auction, since auctioneers can use public auction watches to gauge demand.
Auction Winners List
A winners list page is available, listing all recently won items. Without hassle, you have a detailed promotional page populated with live activity. You can link to this page from anywhere on the site. For an active auction site, it is a great way to help build excitement and further activity.
Auctioneer Withdraw Item
If for some reason an item is no longer available to be sold, withdrawing an auction is easy. At the click of a button, the auction will be closed and the current high bidder, if there is one, will automatically receive an email notifying them of the withdrawal.
Auto-Extend Anti-Sniping
ASPAuctionPro supports an Auto-Extend feature which allows auction closing to be delayed if there is any last minute bidding activity. The Auto-Extend feature can really enhance a last minute bidding frenzy, which occurs on highly desirable auctions. The Auto-Extend feature can be enabled/disabled by the site administrator, and has an adjustable timeout window. The main advantage of enabling this feature is to help prevent users from attempting to steal a bid at the very last moment (bid sniping). The Auto-Extend feature also allows an online auction to mimic the activity of a live physical auction by keeping the action going while bids are coming in, regardless of the scheduled closing time.
Auto-Relisting
The auto-relist feature allows the auctioneer's listings to be automatically relisted for a variable number of times if the item closes unsuccessfully. The auctioneer can choose how many times they wish to auto-relist an item.
Automated Email Messages
One of the most important ways ASPAuctionPro interacts with users is by sending out automated email messages for events occuring on your site. This includes outbid notices and current auction status. You can easily edit and customize text appearing in these messages to suit your own tastes. This customization ability allows you to cater the message to your audience or even add advertising.
Automatic Activity Email
ASPAuctionPro is designed to help you keep your site users informed of auction activity in items they have either posted or bid on. ASPAuctionPro can automatically send out email notices to auction participants when an auction ends and when a bidder has been outbid. ASPAuctionPro can also send out status emails to keep auction participants reminded of what they have active on the site. Additionally, ASPAuctionPro has options for power users to disable status information. All of these aspects are important in order to keep users engaged and coming back to your site!
Comprehensive User Help
We have strived to make ASPAuctionPro as intuitive as possible. Since certain options or terminology may not be clear to new users, pop-up help windows are used extensively throughout ASPAuctionPro's user interface for added guidance. By clicking or pointing over your mouse on help links located next to user options, a pop-up window will appear with an explanation of the feature.
Ease of Use
Since you need to encourage activity in an auction site to make it successful, the ease of posting an auction is extremely important. ASPAuctionPro shines in the way it guides users through the process of posting an item. Even completely inexperienced users find it simple to post an auction and upload images using ASPAuctionPro.
Encourage New Users
Since ASPAuctionPro allows you to bill auctioneers for posting auctions, you can also apply new user credit. This allows you to issue credit to new users, providing incentive without risk. Like many features in ASPAuctionPro, this is configurable and optional, so the decision is yours.
Buy It Now
Auctioneers can decide to set a price they are willing to accept if users want to circumvent the bidding process. The Buy It Now feature allows bidders to pay a special price in order to end the auction early, and avoid competition.
Highlight Color
Highlighting is one of several listing options auctioneers can choose from in order to make their listings stand out. Auctioneers can choose a highlighting color from an administrator defined list. As with many features in ASPAuctionPro, you also have the ability to globally enable or disable this feature.
Watchlist Items
Users simply click a button when viewing an auction item in order to add it to their Watchlist. This allows users to have a central place for all items of interest. This works much better than browser favorites, because favorites are usually tied to an individual computer. By using the watchlist feature, users can save items at work and follow up at home.
Report Questionable Auction Item
You can allow visitors to report questionable items in order to catch any unfavorable behavior. This lightens the administrative workload, yet still leaves you with the final decision.
Searching Auctions
Since many people do not have time to sit and browse through lists, ASPAuctionPro provides comprehensive search functionality. Searching in ASPAuctionPro is powerful and flexible. Users can search with multiple keywords within a category that interest them or the entire auction database. Users can search for items by many fields and can specify as many or as few of these fields as they want. Searches can even include all the active auctions posted by a particular user. This is a great feature for auction sites, as some auctioneers will create followings of loyal bidders. ASPAuctionPro makes it easy for visitors to find the items that interest them.
User Account Self Management
ASPAuctionPro users can manage their own account details. You do not need to handle user information changes like:
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Lost passwords
- Billing information
User Feedback
Like other auction web sites, ASPAuctionPro allows participants to leave feedback on transactions. This helps build a strong auction community, as well as buyer confidence. As the site administrator, you can moderate user feedback by editing malicious or abusive user comments. To avoid artificially inflated ratings, users can only leave feedback with other transactional partners.
