Auction Items Closing Soon
Visitors can quickly locate items closing soon. Since many auction items surge near the end of their listing time frame, this is a great way for users to easily find items they can bid on and get winning information right away. The time window used for closing soon listings is configurable, so you determine the time frame.
Auction Items Per Page
The auction site administrator has a lot of options at disposal when using ASPAuctionPro. You can configure the number of auction items or results that are displayed on each page. You can also determine how many items display in auction categories and search results. This allows greater control over the look and usage of your auction site.
Auctioneers Marketplace
The Auctioneer's Marketplace is an area where power listers are featured with short profiles along with listings of all their current auction items. This allows new bidders to see some of the most trustworthy auctioneers on your site, quickly and easily. You can even use it as a way to profile or reward select auctioneers. By default, this feature is disabled for all users.
Bid Deltas
The auction site administrator can define their own bidding deltas, or bidding increments/decrements. The software will automatically determine the next minimum bid based on the last bid. It calculates according to a predefined bidding deltas table. This feature is used to prevent bidders from placing inordinately low bids in an attempt to outbid the current bidder. For example, on a typical auction site, you would not want a bidder placing bids that are only a few cents higher than a previous bid. Normally, you would want subsequent bids to be at a more reasonable amount. For this, ASPAuctionPro allows the administrator to define appropriate bidding deltas. It is possible to define a configuration such that bids increase by at least $0.25 each time for bids under $9, but when bidding increases above that, bids increase by at least $1. Each one of these tiers allows you to define the range of bid values and bid increments.
Hot Auction Items
Auction items can display a hot item status. You define hot status based on the number of bids placed on an item, or the number of times that items has been viewed.
Image Attachments
Auction items can display a hot item status. You define hot status based on the number of bids placed on an item, or the number of times that items has been viewed.
Image Attachments
ASPAuctionPro has a number of options when it comes to handling image uploads. You can limit the image to a certain height and width, so if your users are taking pictures with a high-resolution digital camera, images stored and displayed on your site scale for visitors in their browsers. The image is automatically sized down to the maximum dimensions defined. The size constraint even maintains the correct aspect ratio of the original image, preventing a squashed appearance. You also have the ability to limit image uploads by raw file size.
Listing Results
Listing results, which may be lists of auction items in categories or search results, have various configurable options. Items such as the number of bids displayed can be turned on or off. Users can sort results by clicking on column headers, allowing quick and easy access to items of interest in larger list results.
Main Auction Page Promotions
You can choose to highlight Featured auctions on the front page of your site in a special promotional area. This allows you to charge additional fees for visibility. You also have a number of options for displaying these auctions as a list or in thumbnail view (This option requires additional components to be installed on your web server. See the requirements section for complete details). A pseudo-randomized option allows for a fair distribution of Featured listings.
Multiple or Single Auctioneers
If you want to allow multiple auctioneers to simultaneously auction items, you can leave this feature in its default configuration. This is typically how sites like eBay or Yahoo Auctions work. If you want to limit auction postings to a select group of users, then you can configure ASPAuctionPro that way instead.
New Auction Listings
Visitors can quickly view new listings on your auction site by browsing the most recently added items. You control the time window used to determine the items displaying in new listing pages. Depending on the audience, you may need to adjust this time frame. Since ASPAuctionPro is built to be flexible, this is a configurable option.
Per Auction Item Bid Increments
Normally, the auction software defines a default set of values, called bid deltas, which determine how the next valid bid is calculated. The auctioneer is also allowed to override the global bid deltas and define a bid increment specific to a particular item.
Reserve Price
A Reserve Price is an optional feature of Standard auctions. The Reserve Price allows an auctioneer to specify the minimum price an auction needs to close successfully. Although the Reserve Price is not shown to bidders while the auction is in progress, they are aware that a Reserve Price is in effect. The Reserve Price will be revealed at the successful closing of an auction.
