Payment Plugins

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. Reverse Auction only provides the users with means to contact each other and even a PayPal link which passes the payment details onto the payment processor, if the users both provide valid PayPal emails in their profile.

The other payment type is between users and the website. These are Payment Item related payments.

Reverse Auction Factory installs by default with multiple Payment Gateways which can be used to pay for the Payment Items

The following gateways are available by default (version 3.0.0):

• PayPal - Sandbox mode also available
• Moneybookers
• 2Checkout - Does not support multiple currencies, you have to use the 2checkout account currency as your default
• Bankwire - Simple message where the admin posts payment info and manually confirms payments in the system
• Sagepay.com
• Sagepayments.net

Other Gateways can be added into the extension, refer to our API for 3rd party Payment Gateways integration

The Payment Items can be found in the administrator Reverse Control Panel.

• Bid - Users pay to bid
• Listing - Users pay to publish auctions
• Contact - Users pay for contact details of other users
• Featured - Preferential Auction Listing
• Commission - Commission paid by auctioneer

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.

The listing item charges users after saving an auction, the respective auction will remain unpublished until the order and payment are confirmed. After order confirmation, the system published the auction automatically.

Preferential prices based on user rank or category can also be set.

If enabled, the contact item hides user profile information until the user pays for it

From the admin, the price can be set and also preferential prices for Verified and Powerseller users.

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.

The Featured Item has the same admin settings as the Contact item. On the frontend, the featured item lists auctions on top of lists and with different, more visible templating; regardless of sorting. Amongst Featured Auctions, the regular sorting applies.

When an auction is closed with a winner, the auctioneer is charged a Commission based on the winning bid. The user is directed to the checkout page to pay the commission after when he accepts the bid.

Later on, the user can pay the exact amount or add extra balance to his account, from the profile.

The admin has the possibility to charge different commission for Powersellers and Verified users, and also different commissions on categories. In the Config area, the email message sent to users when they have a commission due, can be customized with a WYSIWYG editor.

A list with all the users balance can also be seen, each with a link to their Reverse Auction Profile in the backend.

In the Auction Commissions section you can see all the auctions for which the commission item was enabled.

in the payments list, you can see all commission related payments made.

In the notices sections you can send notifications to users with negative balance.

The bidding item has the same settings as with the Contact or Features Items. When users place a bid, they are sent to the checkout page to pay for that bid before it is placed by the system. If the user has balance in their account, the bidding is done instantly and the account is charged.