Lowest Unique Bid Auction

• Users go to the site and browse items by categories and sub categories.
• User can also search the product by their name or place. When they type the keyword all the product name or place and category matching the keyword will be displayed in the search result page.
• Members register to take part in the auction.
• There will be featured auction on home page which is selected by admin.
• Members Bids by clicking bid now button. Member can offer a single price or place multiple offering prices to an item.
• Members can not bid above maximum bid amount for highest unique bid and minimum bid amount for lowest unique bid.
• Time remaining, total numbers of bids available, total numbers of bids per user, the bidding fee, image, auction status and description are shown for each product to bid.
• In bidding, the winner is the one who place the highest bid for highest unique bid or lowest bid for lowest unique bid of the product if the winner declines the product then second highest bidder or second lowest bidder will be chosen as the winner.
• Members can SMS through the website by following the SMS information provided there.
• If users are bidding through SMS they need not register. The user has to verify his account through SMS validation.
• There is “My Opened Auctions” area, where users will see details of ongoing auctions if no bids were submitted yet on an open auction.
• There is “My Closed Auctions” area, where users will see the auctions submitted by themselves, and that were closed.
• There is “My Recently Closed Auctions” area, where users will see the auctions submitted by themselves, and that were recently closed.
• Bidders can bid as lowest unique bid blind, highest unique bid blind, lowest unique bid battle, highest unique bid battle.
• In blind bid bidders aren’t able to see each others bids therefore they are in a “blind” auction, in battle bid bidders are able to see each others bids therefore they are in a “battle” auction.
• Member pays by paypal.
• Member can update their account, change username and password, change email address.
• Users can subscribe newsletter.

1. Members Management

• Member can be added.
• Member delete feature that allows you to fully delete a member and all their information from the system.
• Member suspend feature that allows you to suspend a member.
• Edit member info like address, balance, and more.
• Member Balance report can be downloaded.
• Users are differentiated into verified users, unverified users, suspended users, all users and Joined today users.
• Search member by ID, name or email.
• Winner log Report with Auction name, Winning bid, date are shown and can be Downloaded.
• Member Credit report with Registration date and Credit is shown and can be downloaded.
• Can view bidding and purchasing history.
• View Members Orders will show the list of the orders which have been made by the members. It will also show the detail of each order.

2. Categories Management

• Categories and subcategories can be added by Category/ subcategories Name, Category/ subcategories Status, and Order.
• Category delete feature allows you to fully delete a member and all their information from the system.
• Edit Category information like Category Name, Category Status, and Order.
• Admin can add, update and delete product detail under this section. Admin can upload pictures; add the product detail from the html editor.

3. Auction Management

• New auction can be added.
• Auctions are divided into lowest unique bid blind, highest unique bid blind, lowest unique bid battle, highest unique bid battle in admin.
• Can view list of auctions.
• Select the auction category for selecting the category and sub category
• All auctions can be edited, deleted and cloned.
• Auction can be searched by auction name and auction id.
• Bid fee and status for each item is allocated while adding an item in auction.

4. Site Settings Management

• From this section, admin set the different configuration for the site.
• Add, update and delete of the blacklisted credit card to be used in the website.
• Payment setting, this will allow to adjust the parameter for various payment settings and enable and disable payment modules.
• Commissions Settings: This allows the percentage of commission to be given to the website by the seller after selling the product.

5. Mail settings Management
1. Email template modification capabilities allow you to control the contents of each email that goes out from the system.
2. This area will be used simply to view feedback and suggestions from users (This area will need a WYSIWYG editor that supports HTML for responding).
3. This includes notifications like

• Registration email.
• Member Welcome Email.
• Password change/ Email change Notification.
• Member edit profile Email.
• Bid successful and unique.
• Bid successful and not unique.
• Auction half over.
• Auction over winner.
• Question received email (reply email for contact us).
• Bid status change and not unique.
• Refer a Friend Email.
• Winner confirmation Email.
• Password Reminder Notification.

6. Content Management

• From this section admin edit the content of the different sections of the site like FAQ, Help, About Us, Contact US, Feedback, Terms and Conditions, Site map, Privacy Policies, How it works etc.
• A WYSIWYG editor will be provided to edit the detail of the content.

7. Reports Management

• Daily Bids: The details of the bids placed in the daily basis. Admin can choose the range of days to view the bids in those days.

8. Countries and states Management

• Admin can Add, Edit and Delete countries and states from here

9. Newsletter Managementt

• Active Members who have requested for newsletter can be seen.
• Admin selects the newsletter and send to members.
• Admin can Add, Edit and Delete newsletters.

10. IP Management

• Ban/un-ban users by email and IP address.
• This section will show the details of the time and date and IP of the admin user who logged in to the admin section of the website.

11. Transaction Managementt

• Admin can view the transactions Paypal, Direct Deposit, Cheque Deposit, credit card, debit card etc.
• SMS services