14 DAY TRIAL // One of the best ideas to make money from the Internet is to conduct an Auctions Site. With an auctions site you can help people sell different stuff for a small fee. If you want your auction website to work without problems, you will need a powerful script. The ideal software solution so you can run your own auction website is PHP Pro Bid.
PHP Pro Bid is ideally suited to *Nix web servers. PHP Pro Bid can be installed on the majority of Windows servers, but the producer cannot offer any guarantees. Please make sure the server on which you will be installing PHP Pro Bid meets all the requirements. If you're unsure, please contact the hosting company which provides your hosting. Alternatively, e-mail the producer the web address of your hosting company and they will check on your behalf. Minimum Server Requirements are: 10MB webspace, Apache Webserver, PHP 4, MYSQL 4.0.22 or 4.1, creation of a Cron Job, GD library installed and IonCube or Zend.
The cron job keeps your site up to date and refreshed. It controls the time of the auctions and closes them when an auction has ended. It also automatically sends out e-mails to users. We recommend setting this up via your hosting control panel such as Cpanel. If you don't have access to a web hosting control panel, you can set PHP Pro Bid to run a cron job through the admin area.
The installation of the script is very easy, because a web-based install assistant is implemented, so the entire process only takes on average 10 minutes. After that, you can choose how your site should be: Public or Private. Private makes sure that only you and your selected users can list items for auction - this feature is ideal for Businesses wanting to auction stock. The public option is the default selection and it's basically like eBay, i.e. everyone can sell & bid.
From the beginning, you should choose the specific of your auction site. So you can choose the specified fields to either all or selected categories. Ideal for specialist sites you can now quickly and easily add new custom fields for sellers to use when listing. For example, if you want to run a car auction web-site you can add custom fields for the engine size, color, age, condition and so on. A major enhancement to all auction sites.
Enable your users to open their very own store on your auction site. Each store owner can pick and choose their own categories from the main selection. You can also setup store subscription packages to attract bulk or Business customers. Store owners can choose whether to list items in their store, for auction or both.
The admin area gives you control to your entire website. From there you can lookup a user, check live auctions, add news pages, edit the auction fees and much more. Also you an setup up to charge fees either on demand (Pay as you go) or to allow users to build up an account which they pay off once a month (like eBay). You can set a credit limit, offer a signup credit incentive and even invoice users at any time.
PHP Pro Bid is the first auction scripts to include wanted ads. Enable your users to post adverts for items they want! You can also charge fees for posting wanted ads and also for a successful sale.
