Classified Trade Platform

Market Place website is the platform for the online trading services to a broad range of customers via an innovative and easy to use platform. It offers instant trading with credit card use. After logging in members place the item and these items can have option of following one or three a) Buy now feature b) Bidding c) Sell. The product can be posted under the various categories and sub categories. It offers a wide range of categories to cover almost any industry related item. Sellers should be able to login to edit their description of products, pictures, price, and subscription periods. Users will discover that this site requires little or no learning curve. Luxuries such as instant payments and instant messaging are all built in.

Market Place benefits:

• Normal and multiple items sell and auctions
• Classification of products into multilevel categories and sub categories for easy browsing & efficient management
• Seller account management
• Image gallery associated with each product
• Email alerts at appropriate times to buyers and sellers
• Extensive search and display options
• Advertisers Area to help them keep track of their banner advertising needs.
• Percentage of every sell is calculated and taken as commission for every sale and auction.
• Provides Newsletters

On bidding page, you will be able to see the items you are currently bidding on, as well as the status of the bids, items you have won, and watched items.

If you are willing to offer the Buy Now price before the first bid comes in, you win the item immediately and the auction ends.

By clicking on the “View Details” link from the Won Items area, you will be able to see the details of the seller, and make contact with him in order to perfect the sale.

The “My Opened Auctions” area, where you will see details of auctions you currently have opened; if no bids were submitted yet on an open auction, you are able to edit the auction.

The “My Closed Auctions” area, where you will see the auctions submitted by yourself, and that were closed. You can choose to edit, delete or re-list a closed auction.

On the “Sold Items” area, you will see the items you have sold.

Buyer's Overview:

• Registers to website
• Prices are set already
• Buy
• Confirmation
• Place deposit
• Monitor
• Send Auction to a Friend
• Post Questions to Seller
• Seller's Contact List
• Credit card paying processing
• E-mail Notification

Bidding Overview:

• Login to the website
• Browse or search for an option.
• See the additional information of the product you are trying to bid.
• Place the bid.
• Confirm bid.
• If your bid fails to outbid the current high bidder you are offer to place a higher bid.
• You will get confirmation email.
• Place a bid deposit.
• Monitor your auction.
• Bidder notified via email when they have been out-bid
• Bidder is notified via email when they have won an auction
• Search for items by their item number, title, description, or seller.

Seller's Overview:

• Sign up
• Built in HTML editor for products description
• Choose category and sub category of products
• Buy only items
• Upload Images
• Payment method
• Minimum commission fees are allocated
• Review and submit
• Sales report
• Seller is notified via email when an selling is over and the item sold
• View/Sort Active, Closed and Sold Products
• Winner's Contact List

Auctioneers Overview:

• Auction title
• Minimum commission fees are allocated
• Auctioneer is notified via email when an auction is over and the item auctioned
• Easy to use search and reporting tools
• Admin buyer/seller lookup and management tools
• Single step item entry and image upload capability
• View/Sort Active, Closed, Sold & Suspended Auctions

Administration Features:

• Admin can control all ads.
• Payment Gateways integrated in Admin
• Thumbnail settings control the size of the image that is
  generated.
• Displaying a number of Active Users can be turned on/off in the Admin.
• Displaying an item count for each category can be turned on/off in the Admin.
• Set Bid Increments. Set default in Admin settings. Or let sellers Edit the bid increment settings in sellers area.
• Member delete feature that allows you to fully delete a member and all their information from the system
• Auction cleanup feature that allows you to report on auctions older than x number of days, and optionally delete those old auctions and the images they use.  This will help keep your database small and clean, and keep your disk space usage as small as possible by removing the unused image files
• Home page customization features let you control the information on your home page including popular item criteria and layout, categories display, and the ordering of the major sections on your home page
• Simple banner management system for site banner ads
• Feedback management system when you need to edit feedback
• Html editor to edit various pages of your site directly
• Ability to add comments for a member
• Create unlimited categories and now sub-categories.
• Redesigned, secure login/password administration area
• Multiple transaction reports show info by month, 30 days, by login, revenue by month
• Add, Edit, delete, reorder categories/subcategories with ease
• Administrator can add/edit/delete members and their products
• Edit member info like address, password, balance, and more
• Administrator can change their password at any time

Transaction Management

• Admin can view the transactions of Paypal.

News Management

• In this section you can manage (add, update and delete) the news to be displayed in the front end of the website.