An auction is an individual auctionable item for sale or bid in your online store. Auctions are often tangible goods, but they can also be a digital download or a service (such as a movie, music or ebook file) , or a service (work for hire, restaurants and many others).
At Joobi, we use the term Catalog to represent all the available type of products (such as product, subscription, auction, voucher, item etc.)

Requirements

  1. jAuction
  2. jMarket (For multi-vendor functionality)

jAuction is only a single cart that means if you want users to post auction items in your store, you need jMarket as an addon to have the multi-vendor functionality.


Hint

Product: This is an individual item for sale in your store. This can be tangible or digital downloadable product.
Item: The item type is another type similar to an article which can be used to display your product and services without a price.

Auction This is an individual auctionable item for sale or bid in your store. This can be tangible or digital downloadable product.

Reminder

For multi-vendor functionality, some of the tabs might not be available for vendors base on the preferences setup by the store manager. Please refer article "vendor preferences" in this documentation for more detailed guidance.


Step 1 Navigate to Auction

Store admin

  • From the Admin Panel, navigate to [any Joobi ecommerce] >> Catalog
  • Follow step 2 to 8
  • Click [Save] once you are done

For Vendors

  • From the vendor area, navigate to Catalog >> New or Listing
  • Follow step 2 to 8
  • Click [Save] once you are done

Step 2 From the Catalog page, choose New >> New [type you want to create]

Note that you can also click "New" button directly from the product listing when you click Catalog >> Listings >> Auctions


Step 3 Adding an auction

General Section

Name: Enter the name of the item as you want your customers to see it. This is a required field.
Alias: Specify an alias for the item. if left blank it will be automatically filled with the name.
SKU: SKU means ( Stock Keeping Unit ). It is an unique ID to identify the item. No spacing is allowed and it needs to be unique.
Category: The chosen category will the "default" category, also the first category. The item can be listed in other category through the multiple category selector in the list of items.
Introduction: Type a short text that best describe your product.
Description: Type a few paragraphs of text that best describe your product.
Vendor: The name of the product owner. This is automatically generated when you click "Save".

auction-new-be


Step 4 Setup your auction

Auction Tab

  • Automatic: Select Yes if you want to allow the auction to automatically bid to the highest bid.
  • Private: Select Yes if the bidding should be private. Bidders can only see their own bids, not others.
  • Currency: Select the currency to use for this Item.
  • Starting Bid: Specify the minimum starting bid.
  • Reserve Price: Specify the reserve price. The auction can only be win if the reserve price is reached.

Note: Leave blank to auction at any price.

  • Buy Now: Enter the buy now price without tax in the formatted currency you selected.

Note: If left empty there will not be a "Buy Now" button available in the storefront for this item.

  • Bidding Start: Specify the date when the bidding should start.
  • Bidding End: Specify the date when the bidding should end.

auction-tab-view


Step 4 Add auction image

Click "Green button" or "Drag and drop" image files to upload multiple images to accompany the product description that will appear in your store.

Tip

  • Compress your images before uploading them to further improve your website page
  • To achieve identical aspect ratios for your images, you may want to edit them in photoshop.

The Photos section of the Add product page looks like this:

product-photo


Step 5 Specify a product delivery

Delivery Type: Select the type of product you are selling.

If you are selling only type of product you can disable other available delivery type options by going to [any Joobi ecommerce] >> Catalog >> Preferences >> Item Tab >> Miscellaneous >> Product

Under Delivery section, select only the delivery type you want to use in your store.

Delivery Section

Electronic - A type of digital product or services which does not require any shipment.
Goods with Attachment - A type of tangible product that requires to be shipped and with attachment such us product manuals or an type of files you want you customers to download after completing an order.
Goods Only - A type of tangible product that requires to be shipped.

Stock Quantity: Enter the initial stock quantity, or update it if necessary. The quantity is decremented automatically each time a customer is buying the product. Enter -1 if this product had an unlimited stock. In case of attributed stock, please ignore this field, it is not used and not updated. You can also change the default stock value by going to [any Joobi ecommerce] >> Catalog >> Preferences >> Item Tab >> Item Stock.

Shipping Method: Select the shipping method you want to use for your product.
Shipping Cost: If per product shipping method is selected, enter the shipping cost of your product.
Weight: If per weight shipping method is selected, enter the weight of your product. Then you need to setup a shipping carriers which is explained under Shipping section in this documentation.
Weight Unit: Select a unit of measurement for weight.
Preview: Upload any supported file type that you want to show to your customers about your product.
Download: Upload any supported file type for your digital product. This option will only display if you choose "electronic or Goods with Attachment" as delivery type.

product-delivery


Step 6 Define a product attributes

Promotion: If you are running a promotion for your vendors to get featured in certain areas in your storefront. Please refer "Promotion" article under Catalog section in this documentation for more detailed setup instruction.
Attributes: Product attributes gives merchants the power and flexibility to create a truly dynamic online shop. Please refer "Product Attributes" article under catalog section in this documentation for more detailed setup instruction.
Sales Target: Define the total amount target to reach in order to sell accomplish the goal.
Policies: You can specify the policy of the item.

Note: There are 3 places you can configure your Store Policies.
1. Product edit page - Show below image.
2. Type Preference - If you have more than 1 product type (products, subscriptions, auctions, etc.) then Type Preference is selected by default so you can have the flexibility for each individual type.
3. General Preference - If you have only 1 product or if you want to use only 1 Policy for all product types then this option must be selected.

product-attributes

Step 7 Enter your product location

Address: Define the address of the item. The item will show up in location search and item's map.

Note

To use the map service, you need to have PHP 5.3 version or higher.


Step 7 Setup your product SEO and Define who can view and purchase

Publishing Section

Publish: Publish or unpublish the item from the storefront. Publish status is the default value.
Block Product: Define if this product is block or not. Enable the store manager to block a vendor product so it does not get publish in the store.
Who can view product: Define what access level the user requires to view the product.
Who can view prices: Define what access level the user requires to view the product price.
Who can buy: Define what access level the user requires to purchase this item.
Start Display: Start display date, when the item will be displayed to the shoppers.
Leave empty for displaying immediately. Shoppers can only purchase when the item is available.
End Display: Specify the date when the item will be removed from the store. Leave empty for unlimited display.
Start Available: Date from when the item can be purchased. If empty same as Start Display.
End Available: Date when the item will NOT be available for purchase any more. If empty same date at End Display.
List ID: Use this field to specify one or several lists ID when you want to integrate with jNews mailing system. Separate IDs by "commas" without spaces.

SEO
Title: You can specify here an alternative title for the page of the item. By default the name of the item is used.
Description: Specify the description which should be added to the page header for better search ranking.
Keywords: Specify keyword to be added to the page to increase your search ranking.

product-publishing


Step 8 Configure your product layout

Layout handles how your product is displayed in the storefront.

There are 3 places you can configure your Store layout.
1. Product edit page - Refer below screenshot.
2. Type Preference - If you have more than 1 product type (products, subscriptions, auctions, etc.) then Type Preference is selected by default so you can have the flexibility for each individual type.
3. General Preference - If you have only 1 product type or if you want to use only 1 Layout for all product types then this option must be selected.

Warning

Warning: To avoid doing alot of manual work, you should avoid selecting "Yes" if you have alot of product types and a thousand of items.

product-layout

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