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Auctionawy Main Features Summary
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- SQL database driven 100%.
- Customers to customers auctions.
- Business to business auctions.
- Business to customers auctions.
- Mange each user buy/sell rights.
- Stores for users feature.
- Want Ads feature.
- Forums feature.
- Unlimited nested categories.
- Multi - lingual.
- LiveUpdate.
- Widgets based with API.
- Gadgets based API.
- Embedded Perl Code.
- Proxy bidding system.
- Dutch auctions support.
- Fixed price items.
- Reserve auctions support.
- Private auctions support.
- Full user accounts manager.
- Advanced search tools.
- Scheduled auctions.
- Fully automated.
- Featured category auctions.
- Featured home page auctions.
- Gallery auctions.
- Images and multimedia files uploads.
- Images gallery and video players.
- Powerful users feedback forum.
- Announcements system.
- Auctions Manager.
- Full Accounting System.
- Fees Manager.
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- Security Code Image.
- Seller/Buyers Custom Invoices.
- Seller/Buyers Purchase Messaging.
- Your custom widgets and gadgets.
- Auto Extend - Anti-Sniper
- Q & A and Seller Comments
- Fully integrated banner server.
- User registration confirmation.
- Database management.
- New, Hot, and Going Auctions
- Big ticket auctions.
- HTML template based.
- Visual html editor.
- Custom functions.
- External programs integration.
- Unlimited mailing lists.
- Easy setup wizard.
- Intelligence upgrade system.
- Very customizable.
- Credit card processing.
- Portal News, Stock, Currency, etc.
- Paypal full automatic integration.
- Files uploads options.
- Accounts Manager.
- Multi mode listing modes.
- User side theme selection.
- Unlimited custom pages and CMS.
- Unlimited help pages creation.
- Ajax and live actions.
- Affiliates system.
- RSS feeds support.
- Members section.
- Hundreds of options.
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| Auctionawy Main Features Details
These are just a few of the main features only of the Auctionawy
software. The software has hundreds of features which can not be listed
here.
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| SQL database driven 100% |
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SQL databases are the most powerful database systems
until this moment that can handle several Gig bytes of information
safely with the highest search speed and information retrieval. Based on
this Mewsoft Auctionawy built with all its databases using SQL. This
includes all the categories, mailing lists, accounts, users information,
websites information, feedback, statistics and any data used by the
software. This makes the software unlimited in its capacity and speed
which puts the software on the top in race with the well known big
auctions sites now on the net. |
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| Unlimited Nested Categories |
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The software has built in category manager in the
admin center which allows to create unlimited number of categories and
subcategories levels. Since the categories are stored also in SQL
database then its is unlimited practically. Each category and
subcategory can be configured separately for generating Meta Tags
(title, description, keywords), using templates, sort order, display
under its parent category as a teaser, html customizations, and more. |
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| Multi - Lingual |
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The software admin center has a language manager that
allows the administrator to create unlimited number of languages and
translate any language online or on your local PC in just a few minutes.
The software by default comes with the language English, any additional
languages you need just create it from the language manager and
translate the text in minutes. The software use all the languages
available in real time which allows the surfers and users to select
which language they want and the software will keep their preferences
using cookies so they need to select the language only the first time
they visit the site. The language manager will allow the administrator
to create new languages, delete languages, edit languages text or search
languages for certain text. |
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| Proxy bidding system |
| The software has built in proxy (automatic) bidding
system. The software will bid incrementally on the user's behalf up to
their maximum bid, which is kept secret from other others users. |
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| Dutch auctions support |
| The software support Dutch Auctions (Multiple Item
Auctions). This auction format is perfect for sellers with many
identical items to sell. |
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| Fixed Price Support |
| The software supports the fixed price items plus the
regular auctions items. Fixed price items will have a buy now buttons
only for speedy purchases or checkouts. |
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| Reserve auctions support |
| The software support reserve price auctions. A
reserve price is set by a seller who will not sell below a certain
price. Bidders know there's a reserve price, but they do not know
what it is. A bidder must meet or exceed the reserve price and have the
highest bid in order to win or buy the item. If no bidders meet the
reserve price, neither the seller nor the high bidder are under any
further obligation. Reserve prices can not be used for Dutch Auctions. |
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| Private auctions support |
| Private auctions are used to protect the buyer's
privacy. Bidders' email addresses won't show up on the item or bidding
history pages. When the auction is over, only the seller will know who
bought the item. This option can't be used with Dutch Auctions. |
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| Q & A and Seller Comments |
| Ask Seller Questions & Answers and Seller Comments.
Buyers can post questions to the sellers and stay pending and hidden
questions until seller deletes or answers these questions, answered
questions will be displayed for everyone. Seller also can add unlimited
comments at any time. Sellers gets email notices about every question
posted. |
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| Security Code Image |
| Security Code Image feature on the user Registeration
and Contact US pages to avoid automated programs and scripts from
accessing the system and hacking. |
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| Auto Extend - Anti-Snipper |
| Auto Extend feature which allows the auction closing to
be delayed if there is any last minute activity. The Auto Extend feature
can really enhance the last minute auction frenzy that often occurs in
auctions that have had little activity prior to closing, or any highly
desirable auctions. The Auto Extend feature can be enabled/disabled by
the seller at any time and also has an adjustable timeout window by the
admin. It is used to help prevent users from bid sniping an auction by
attempting to make a successful bid at the very last moment. 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
continuing to be received on the item. |
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| Full user accounts manager |
| The software has built in advanced user friendly
account manager system for users. The user account manager has many
tools to help sellers and buyers manage their account very easily. The
user account manager include these tools:
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| Advanced search tools |
| Users has a very advanced search tools besides the
simple and fast search box that shows up on all the pages. With the
advanced search tools, users can refine their search based on the price
range, categories, buy now price range, open or ended auctions, item
language, country, region, location, by item number, by seller, and by
bidder, besides the option to set the display format. |
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| Fully automated |
| The software has the tools that automate all the
auctions services like processing closed or ended auctions and billing.
These only require using the system scheduled task utilities like
Crontab on Unix systems or task schedule on Windows system.
All users events are automated, sending sellers emails, bidding
emails, outbid, winner, etc emails immediately. Basically, all the users
activities are confirmed by an email. |
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| Featured category auctions |
| Sellers has the option to features their auctions at
the top of the listings in the same category where their auctions is
listed for an extra fees set by the administrator. Featured category
auctions are displayed by different form at the top on first page of
each category. |
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| Featured home page auctions |
| Sellers has the option to features their
auctions at the home page for an extra fees set by the administrator.
Featured home page auctions are displayed by different form on the home
page only. Featured home page auctions rotate so only specific pre set
number of auctions can be displayed on the home page but the system can
have unlimited number of featured home page auctions. |
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| Gallery auctions |
| This is one of the most powerful features that users
like in auctions sites. The sellers can choose to display their auctions
in the gallery section. Seller can choose a specific image to be
displayed in the gallery where users can browse the auctions by the
images not by the text. |
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| Images and multimedia files uploads |
| Very important now in any auction site, old auctions
sites users used to host their images at some other sites that charge
for hosting their images for some time. With this option available in
your system, you host your own image hosting integrated in your auction
system. Administrator sets the fees according to the number of files
that will be uploaded in each auction and users will be able to preview
the images and also select how their images will be displayed for
example as a slide show or above each other. |
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| Powerful users feedback forum |
Feedback forum for rating trading partners. It is a
very good way to keep the auction system honest by letting seller and
buyers involved in transactions to rate and leave feedback and comments
about each other and how they treat each other. Every user has a
Feedback Profile made up of comments from other users. The feedback
forum has the following functions:
- See the feedback profile of a registered user
- View feedback a member left about others
- Leave feedback on all Auctions I won
- Leave feedback on all Auctions I sold
- View my feedback profile
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| Announcements system |
| The administrator can post any announcements to the
auction users at any time from the admin center and it will be displayed
for user. |
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| Fully integrated banner server |
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The search engine is integrated with full banner
manager software SQL database driven same as the engine itself to handle
millions of impressions per day for heavy traffic sites. The banner
server allow to create and manage unlimited accounts, campaigns and
banner zones or groups or locations on your templates. The banner also
can be used directly on your other sites and your static or dynamic
pages either with direct call or with SSI. All banner call are done from
the same main banner program for all zones so you do not need to copy
scripts or configure anything. The banner also has a cash buster to
avoid browsers to cash banners images. The banner server also has a full
client report area so all your banner advertisers will have a login to
the stats area to check their campaigns stats in different format either
daily or hourly report for every individual campaign. |
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| User registration confirmation |
| All users are confirmed by sending a confirmation code
and a specific website address to the email address the user used to
register. The new users accounts will not be activated until they check
their email and click the unique confirmation address with the unique
confirmation code. This assures that no user will be able to register to
the system with invalid email address or false information. |
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| Database Management |
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The software admin center has many tools to manage
and control everything in the system database. This includes tools also
for managing the SQL server itself. Among these database and SQL server
tools are:
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Backup or export the whole SQL database into
deleimited ascii text file.
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Loading or importing the SQL database from ascii
deleimited text files.
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Unloading and Loading SQL tables separately.
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Viewing SQL server variables and current status.
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Empty, delete, optimize, check SQL tables
separately.
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SQL Commander to run any SQL statements.
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and more...
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| New, Hot, Sold, Going, Gone, Big ticket Auctions etc |
| Nice features allows the browser or surfer to browse
only newly submitted auctions in all categories or specific category,
hot auctions or the auctions that received a lot of bids, and going or
ending soon auctions. |
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| HTML Template based |
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One of the most powerful features of this software is
its use for pure html templates for every single byte generated by the
software. This means there is no limit on the customizations the same as
you edit normal html pages. Not only templates for the pages generated
by the software but also for every form, hyperlinks, any generated
output, listings, navigations, and everything the program prints to the
output is customizable. |
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| Visual html editor |
| The administrator center has built in Visual html
editor for online editing the templates. Also templates can be edited
with any visual html editor like Frontpage or else. |
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| Custom functions |
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The software has built in script editor in the admin
center which allow you to write your own Perl, HTML, and JS functions
and insert the output to the templates with the rest of the program
output. Custom functions can use the current program templates as well
as you can define new templates to be used. This means you can build new
functions with its own templates. |
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| External programs integration |
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Not only you can build your own custom Perl functions
but also you can directly integrate your current scripts and programs
with the software and insert the programs output in the templates
directly. There are many built in classes to run SSI functions from
inside the templates. |
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| Unlimited mailing lists |
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SQL based mailing lists unlimited in its capacity for
each list. The admin center "Mail manager" has full utilities to manage
unlimited number of mailing lists and mass email:
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| Easy setup wizard |
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The software is very easy to install and configure
even for just beginners. No need to be programmer or professional to run
or manage the software on your server, all you need is the general
internet stuff, like how to use any ftp program to transfer files, how
to change files permissions, very little html to customize the templates
or links to your look and feel. Just transfer the files to your server,
change permissions and you are done with the installation. The software
has built in setup and configuration wizard that will check and create
directories, permissions, SQL tables and more. |
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| Very customizable |
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The first thing you must search in any software is
how far is it customizable. Whatever its function if it is not 100%
customizable then it looses at least 80% of its value. Mewsoft search
engine software like all Mewsoft products is very customizable. There is
not single byte that is not customizable. Lets explain this shortly
The software uses html templates for the body of the
pages that generated. Inside these html templates are the output of the
cgi programs and the text itself.
Now the software is multi-lingual, which means the
same text should be in different languages and this is done by inserting
language variables inside the templates between "[[" and "]]", for
example a field form that has text label "Please enter your first name"
this has assigned a variable name for example first_name, to
insert this label in the template just insert it like this [[first_name]].
When the surfer selects specific language this variable will be
translated from the language selected. This shows that you can move this
language variable anywhere inside your template. The value of the
language variables itself you change it from the language file, so you
edit it to anything you want.
Second, the cgi programs output is inserted inside
these html templates in two methods. The first method is by using
Plugins between comments like this
, this will draw an input text box for the surfer to
enter the website title. of course you move this Plugin anywhere inside
your templates. The second method is using what we called it Classes in
the form
, this will draw a search box and its
width is 40 characters, the search box form itself is customized and has
its own template, you can change the box with by changing the number 40
to anything. So basically everything the program prints out is
customizable and you have full control over the look and feel. You can
use any WYSWYG html editor like Frontpage 2000 or else to edit the
templates. The admin center has built in html template editor online and
Visual html editor integrated. |
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| Real time Credit card and payment processing |
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Full integration for real time processing credit
cards and other payment methods online and depositing the money directly
to your merchant account and crediting the users accounts with interface
to major online credit card providers and real time payment processors,
currently the software directly support these providers:
Authorize Net, Quick Commerce, Planet Payment, RTWare, Merchant
Commerce, iBill, Plug 'n Pay, Beanstream, LinkPoint, Bank of America,
Cardstream, iTransact, VeriSign Payflow Pro, eProcessingNetwork, eWay,
Cambist, GoRealTime, Paypal DoDirectPayment (Website Payment Pro),
Paypal IPN, InternetSecure
www.internetsecure.com , CyberSource
www.cybersource.com, OpenECHO
www.echo-inc.com,
TransactionCentral
www.PriMerchants.com, Capstone
www.CapstonePay.com, Protx
www.Protx.com, Exact
www.e-xact.com,
TCLink
www.TrustCommerce.com, eSelectPlus
www.Moneris.com,
SecureHostingUPG
www.SecureHosting.com, StGeorge
www.StGeorge.com.au, StormPay
www.StormPay.com,
Skipjack
www.Skipjack.com, TransFirst
www.TransFirst.com,
Litle & Co www.litle.com,
Alertpay.com (Paypal
better Alternative) IPN fully automated,
www.elavon.com,
www.ppipaymover.com,
www.ippay.com,
www.vancoservices.com,
www.iridiumcorp.co.uk,
www.viaklix.com, Litle
www.litle.com, NMI
www.nmi.com, USAePay
www.usaepay.com,
Cardcom
www.cardcom.co.il, PaymenTech
www.chasepaymentech.com, Ogone
www.ogone.com
Also if you do not have a merchant account you still can use all
other methods for accepting payments like mail payments by Paypal,
Check, Money order, or using third parties like Western
Union or else, Once you receive the payments in any way you make the
deposit manually to the user account from the admin center accounts
manager and it will show directly in the user account manager in his
balance. |
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| Portal Stock, Currency |
| The software has many portal tools including currency
converter, stock quote, and more. |
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| Paypal full automatic integration |
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The software is fully integrated with built in
functions for accepting online payment by credit cards and electronic
checks (e-check) through the online payment processor Paypal different
methods. For more information or to get your free account with Paypal
and start immediately accepting payment online in real time, please
check Paypal website at www.paypal.com.
The software support using Paypal IPN (Instant
payment notification) to automatically process the payment with paypal
system without depending on the emails, and the second method is using
Paypal Website Payment Pro which uses paypal DoDirectPayment API
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| Auctions Manager |
The software admin center has the tool "Auctions
Manager" which allows the administrator to manage all the auctions in
the system database.
- Browse and manage the auctions
browse the auctions categories normal or search for specific
auctions by any criteria and manage the auctions in different ways.
The admin can relist auctions, close auctions, delete auctions, cancel
bids on auctions and can do many other functions on the currently open
auctions or closed and ended auctions.
- Process closed auctions
This tool can be used at any time to manually process the ended
auctions.
- Automate Processing
This tool can be used to automate processing auctions at preset times,
for example every one hour by using the server tools like Crontab on
Unix or scheduled tasks on Windows systems.
- View Log
This tool will show the auctions processing history either manually or
automatically.
- and more.
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| Accounts Manager |
| Fully manage all users accounts. Admin can browse users
by category based on the first user name letter, or search for specific
users by any criteria. Admin can do many functions on users accounts
including activating, deactivating, deleting, adding credits, adding
debits, and login to the user account manager and use all the user
tools. |
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| Full Accounting System |
| The software admin center has full accounting and
billing system. The accounting system keeps track of all users billing
and invoicing records, send periodical invoices, resend invoices at any
time, send overdue invoices, send deactivation overdue invoice, reports
for all invoices and billing records. |
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| Fees Manager |
The software built with the idea in mind for making a
real revenue for the owner in many different ways. Based on this, the
software has many options for the admin to set a listing fees for each
service the seller may use.
- Regular Insertion Fees Setup
Different ranges for the Regular Auctions listing fees.
- Buy Now Fees Setup
Different ranges for the Buy Now Featured Auctions fees.
- Reserve Auctions Fees Setup
Different ranges for the Auctions that has a Reserve price fees.
- Final Value Fees Setup
Different ranges for the Final value fees based on the final items
sale price.
- Additional Options Insertion Fees Setup
- Featured Home Page Auction fees
- Featured Category Auction fees
- Gallery Listing fees
- Bold Title fees
- Title Color fees
- Gift Icon fees
- Upload One File fees
- Upload Two Files fees
- Upload Three Files fees
- Upload Four Files fees
- Upload Five and Up Files (Fees per file)
fees
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| Files uploads options |
| The admin can allow sellers to upload files when
submitting auctions to the system and charge fees for this service. This
option can be turned off or on at any time. There are options to set
what files types allowed for the system security. Also options to set
the maximum number of files that can be uploaded per one auctions
submitted, the maximum size of each individual files, and the maximum
size of all the files that can be uploaded per single auction submitted.
The uploaded files automatically deleted when the auctions deleted. |
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| Hundreds of options |
| The software administration center has hundreds of
configuration options that control the software behavior and the look
which can not be listed here, for detailed information about these
options please see the product manual. |
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