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| There are two "payment types" used in the auctioning platform, one is between the Bidder and the Auctioneer, which is not handled by the extension. Auction Factory **only provides the users with means to contact each other** and even a PayPal link which passes the payment details onto the payment processor. The auctioneer must have a Paypal address saved in his profile as the payment must have a destination.\\ | There are two "payment types" used in the auctioning platform, one is between the Bidder and the Auctioneer, which is not handled by the extension. Auction Factory **only provides the users with means to contact each other** and even a PayPal link which passes the payment details onto the payment processor. The auctioneer must have a Paypal address saved in his profile as the payment must have a destination.\\ | ||
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| - | The other payment type is between users and website. These are Payment Item related payments which require at least one payment gateway enabled and configured for site payments.\\ | + | The other payment type is between users and website. These are Payment Item related payments which require at least one payment gateway enabled and configured for internal site payments.\\ |
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| ===== Gateways ===== | ===== Gateways ===== | ||
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| ===== Payment Items ===== | ===== Payment Items ===== | ||
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| - | The **Payment Items** can be found in the administrator Settings Control Panel.\\ | + | By going to **Payment Items** from the **Settings** page you can manage various revenue streams available for your website.\\ |
| + | To enable or disable the items click on the symbols in the upper right of each item, a pop-up should appear with "Click to disable" or "Click to enable" when hovering the icon.\\ | ||
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| - | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:controlpanel3.png }}\\ | + | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:paymentitems2.png }}\\ |
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| * Debtor Constraints - Blocks certain tasks for users that have a negative balance. | * Debtor Constraints - Blocks certain tasks for users that have a negative balance. | ||
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| - | To enable or disable the items click on the symbols in the upper right of each item, a pop-up should appear with "Click to disable" or "Click to enable" when hovering the icon.\\ | ||
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| - | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:paymentitems2.png }}\\ | ||
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| ==== Pay per Listing ==== | ==== Pay per Listing ==== | ||
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| - | **Pay per Listing** charges users after they add a new auction, the respective auction will remain unpublished until the order and payment are confirmed. After order confirmation, the system publishes the auction automatically.\\ | + | **Pay per Listing** will charge users a defined price when they add new auctions.\\ |
| + | In case the respective user doesn't have the required amount in his balance, the auction will be set as Unpublished and a payment of that value will be added on pending with the user redirected to a payment form for buying the required credit for the auction in question. When the owner is charged and the payment is completed, his auction will become Published and accessible by other users.\\ | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperlisting.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperlisting.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | The settings part of this feature will let you set the default price for listings.\\ | + | The configuration part of this feature will let you set the default price for listings. The currency will always be the default one that can be set from Settings/Currency Manger.\\ |
| - | You can add preferential prices for special user ranks and also for specific categories by checking **Enable categories pricing** checkbox and adding the prices next to their names. By leaving the fields empty, the categories will have the default price and by adding "0" they will be free.\\ | + | You can add preferential prices for the special user ranks and also to add custom prices for specific categories by checking **Enable categories pricing** checkbox and adding the prices next to their names, leaving the fields empty means that those categories will have the default price, while adding "0" means the respective categories are free.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperlistingsettings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperlistingsettings.png }}\\ | ||
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| ==== Featured Auction ==== | ==== Featured Auction ==== | ||
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| + | When promoting your auction to Featured, the amount of credit needed will be "consumed". Else you will be redirected to a payment form for buying the required credit for the auction in question.\\ | ||
| + | When the user part of the payment is done, PayPal will send an IPN notification to the site with the payment information and status. The IPN will arrive if the payment is valid, directly accepted if the buyers PayPal account is trusted or manual accepted. In the latter case the payment must be approved by the webmaster and only after this, the credit will be available to the buyers account.\\ | ||
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| The **Featured Auction** item lists auctions on top of lists and with different, more visible templating, regardless of sorting. Amongst Featured Auctions, the regular sorting applies.\\ | The **Featured Auction** item lists auctions on top of lists and with different, more visible templating, regardless of sorting. Amongst Featured Auctions, the regular sorting applies.\\ | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:featured.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:featured.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | For this feature you can set a default listing price that users will have to pay when they promote their listing to the featured list and also to set preferential prices for special user ranks.\\ | + | For this item you can set the **Default listing price** that users will have to pay when they promote their listing to the featured list and also to set preferential prices for the special user ranks.\\ |
| + | Note that a module displaying these auctions is also available from the **Module Manager** allowing you to enable and configure it.\\ | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:featuredsettings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:featuredsettings.png }}\\ | ||
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| ==== Earn Commission ==== | ==== Earn Commission ==== | ||
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| - | When an auction is closed with a winner, the users are charged commissions based on the winning bid. The user is directed to the checkout page to pay the commission after the bid is accepted, according to the auction type, or he can check his payment history in the user profile to initiate or resume payment at any time.\\ | + | **Earn Commission**, if enabled, will allow you to earn a defined percent as a requested fee based on the winning bid, taxing the buyers and/or the auctioneers in the process. The users are directed to a payment form to pay the commission after the bid is accepted, according to the auction type, or they can check their payment history in the user profile to initiate or resume payments at any time.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commission.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commission.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | You have the possibility to set the commissions for each type of users, buyers and sellers, by selecting from a drop-down menu. | + | From the backend, you have the possibility to set the commissions for each type of users, buyers and sellers, by selecting from a drop-down menu before adjusting the settings for each of them.\\ |
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| //The buyer fee is otherwise known as a **"Buyer's Premium"** in the auction world.// | //The buyer fee is otherwise known as a **"Buyer's Premium"** in the auction world.// | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commission2.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commission2.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | Set the **Default commission percent** that users will be charged and also set different commission percents for special user ranks. In the **Config** area, the email message sent to users when they have a commission due, can be customized using a WYSIWYG editor.\\ | + | You can set the **Default commission percent** that buyers or sellers will be charged along with setting a special commission for Powersellers and Verified Users. Besides this, in the **Config** area, you can also view the **Email notification message** sent to users when they have a commission due, with the option to edit it using a WYSIWYG editor.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | Below the WYSIWYG editor, you will find a list of categories added by you with the option to **Enable special category commission**. Check it's checkbox and add values for each category, leave empty for default commission or put 0 for no commission in that category.\\ | + | You can add custom commissions for different categories available for listings or only specified categories to be commissioned by checking the **Enable special category commission** checkbox and adding the values on the fields found there. Leave empty for default commission or put 0 for no commission in that category.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings2.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings2.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | On the left side of the page you will find various listings showing you users balance, auctions where a commission was charged and which commission related payments have been made.\\ | + | On the left side you will find various pages with lists where you can verify for instance **Bidders Balance** which displays all the users that currently have a negative or positive balance and when their last payment was made, a **Auction commissions** page where there will be displayed the raffles that gained you funds via commission, and a **Payments** page which provides a list of all the payments made, including the ones for commissions.\\ |
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| - | In the **Send payment notices** section you can send notifications to users with negative balance, warning them about it. The message sent can be modified from the **Mail Settings** page.\\ | + | You can notify users about their negative balance from the **Send payment notices** page. You can either notify each of them or, in case there are many users in debt, you can use the **Notify all users** button.\\ |
| + | Remember that you can customize the notification message from the **Config** area.\\ | ||
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| - | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings3.png }}\\ | + | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:commissionsettings4.png }}\\ |
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| ==== Pay per Contact ==== | ==== Pay per Contact ==== | ||
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| - | With this feature enabled, users won't be able to see profile information of other users until they pay a set price for it.\\ | + | With **Pay per Contact** you can hide users details from each other making them to pay a defined price to reveal those details.\\ |
| + | Contact buying is the same as for every credit buying, in case you don't have the required amount of funds in balance, you will be redirected to the buying form where you choose to buy credits to view hidden profile info. Contact info is bought when the user is charged and the payment is completed as for every payment pricing.\\ | ||
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| + | This feature is not available in CB because Community Builder displays by itself the profile of an user and only setting up restrictions of privacy directly in CB can prevent hiding the user details in case of an active CB.\\ | ||
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:buycontact.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:buycontact.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | From backend, you can set the default price for buying a contact.\\ | + | From backend you can change the used currency and set the price that users will have to pay to view hidden profile info of other users.\\ |
| - | The same as before, preferential prices can be set for special user ranks.\\ | + | Preferential prices for Verified Users and Powersellers can also be set here.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:buycontact2.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:buycontact2.png }}\\ | ||
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| ==== Pay per Bid ==== | ==== Pay per Bid ==== | ||
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| - | With the **Pay per Bid** feature enabled, when users place their bids, they will be charged by a defined amount.\\ | + | With **Pay per Bid** feature enabled, users will have to pay a certain amount when they place new bids. The system is the same like for other items, if the user has funds in his account, the bidding will be done instantly and the account charged. If the bidding user has insufficient funds, he will be sent to a payment form page to pay the respective amount before the bid is placed by the system.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperbid.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperbid.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | From the backend, you can set the default fee for placing a bid.\\ | + | From backend, you can set the default fee for placing a bid.\\ |
| - | With the option **Allow bidders with insufficient funds** enabled, the bids will be registered and the balance of the respective users will become negative. In case this is disabled, they will be redirected to the checkout page immediately, before the bids can be placed by the system.\\ | + | With the option **Allow bidders with insufficient funds** enabled, the bids will be registered and the balance of the respective users will become negative. In case this is disabled, they will be redirected to the payment form page immediately, before the bids can be placed by the system.\\ |
| - | Preferential prices can be set here as well for special user ranks.\\ | + | Preferential prices for Verified Users and Powersellers can also be set here.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperbid2.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:payperbid2.png }}\\ | ||
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| ==== Debtor Constraints ==== | ==== Debtor Constraints ==== | ||
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| - | This feature allows you to set restrictions on various actions for users that have debts to your website.\\ | + | This feature allows you to set restrictions on various actions for users that are in debt to your website.\\ |
| - | When an user with negative balance tries to do one of these restricted tasks he will get notified about his negative balance and direct him to the add funds page.\\ | + | When an user with negative balance tries to do one of these restricted tasks he will get notified about his negative balance and will be redirected to the add funds page.\\ |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:debtor.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:debtor.png }}\\ | ||
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| - | As settings for this feature you will find the **Days threshold** field which represents the number of days users are allowed to have negative balance before the restrictions will apply.\\ | + | As settings for this feature you will find the **Days threshold** field which represents the number of days users are allowed to have negative balance before the restrictions will be applied.\\ |
| - | \\ | + | From **Blocked tasks** you can select multiple tasks which will be added to the restriction list for the users in debt.\\ |
| - | From **Blocked tasks** you can select multiple tasks which will be added to the restriction list for users with debts.\\ | + | |
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| {{gallery> joomla25:auction:debtor2.png }}\\ | {{gallery> joomla25:auction:debtor2.png }}\\ | ||
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