Lowest Unique Bid Auction Software

Lowest unique bid auction software allows you to create your own fully-functional advanced auction websites, working on the “lowest unique bid” model.

Bids can be placed through SMS or using credits purchased  through online payment systems.

Our lowest unique bid auction software is written in PHP5.0 Object-Oriented Language and is using MySQL 4.1 / 5.0 database utilizing the latest advancements of database servers and programming languages.

A scalable architecture allows running up to 240,000 simultaneous users in 1 auction

Main Features And Rules of Lowest Unique Bid Auction

• The admin may define the minimum required amount of bids for each auction and its estimated end time.
• If the minimum required bids amount is not reached when the auction end time comes, then the auction is extended for 24 hours more (configurable)
• If the minimum required bids amount is reached and the auction end time comes, then the lowest unique bid wins.
• Members cannot  place bids lower than the minimum bid amount set up for the auction by the admin.
• Members cannot have more than 3 unique bids in a row and can not have more than 9 unique bids between 50 lowest unique bids.

Categories & Subcategories

• Site Admin can set categories & sub categories on the website.
• Unlimited number of products could be added to each category.

Registration

• Members register to take part in the auction. (Note: not all lowest unique bid auctions require registration. The script can be modified to place bids through SMS,  thus making the registration not required)
• SMS registration is available in many countries. Please note that additional fee might be applied to run SMS registration to buy bulk SMS messages.

Homepage

• There is a featured auction on the home page which is selected by the admin.
• Other auctions are automatically arranged – the auction that fulfiled the minimum bids requirement and is close to its end advances to the top positions.
• Members can place bids by clicking the “bid now” button – from Homepage as well.
• Site Admin could manage all the text blocks; he could define which texts should appear for the logged-in users and which for the logged out, in which order the texts should appear and so on.

Users Area

• Trough “My Auctions” area, users will see the details of ongoing auctions they have participated in.
• Bidders can review their deposits and bids history.
• Members typically pay by credit card. We have interfaces for LinkPoint (USA), ProtX (UK & Europe) and Tranzilla (Israel). If you country is using other payment system we can integrate it as well for an additional fee.
• We can customize the script to get payment through sending SMS
• Member can update their account, change username and password, change email address.
• Users can subscribe to a newsletter, Site Admin is able to download a list of users in CSV format.

The only Lowest Unique Bid Auction Software Created with Search Engine Optimization in mind!

• Full access to per-auction(!) Meta-title, Meta-keywords and Meta-description
• “Noref” function on non-critical pages
• 301 redirect
• Image ALT and SEO-friendly thumbnails
• Search Engine Friendly URL (e.g. not auction=12112, but WWW.YOURWEBSITE.COM/iphone_4mb_cheap.html)

• NEW! Multi-lingual auctions! Run auction in several languages!
• Run you own lowest unique bid auction starting from $999!
• NEW version AVAILABLE! Version 1.25 released on 7th of May 2009!

We are striving to provide best lowest bid unique software on the planet. Please do not hesitate calling us with your ideas & suggestions.

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