Auction Product Type

[davewest]

1. it appears that there's a placeholder in the tpl_product_auction_info_display.php file for an "ask a question" area, but it's essentially empty. Is this by design?

Yes... it's in the 'Free Software Add Ons' section of this site. I use it, but had to remove the code.... don't thank many others do.

2. it might have been my messing around, but there seems to be a bug that arises when I reload a page after bidding. It duplicates the entry in the previous bid list, and updates the bid counter.
3. during testing, my initial bid was rejected as being too small, even though it was exactly the starting price.

It's not that strong of code so it wouldn't be to hard to break it. I'll have to see if I can reproduce it.

I've also made several cosmetic changes, which can be seen here:

Looks nice... I do like the seconds counting down through, even through it doesn't really need it. I've gone back to the default design so to make it easier for site designers to work with.

4. I don't know if it really matters, but my auction product isn't showing a difference between price net and price gross.

This is in admin for some reason to calculate tax, but without knowing the finish auction price, how do you tax it! My tax is done at checkout according to the state it ships to... I know everyone may be different, so I left it in... thinking about removing it all and not doing tax calculations at the product creation side.

5. Where in the admin section do you view and change auction information? Like cancelling a bid, for example?

Auction manager... right now, theirs no way you can remove just one bid without editing the product and fixing the current price.... The database doesn't have a storage spot for it.... I was thinking the other day it would be nice to have the ability for admin to cancel one.... but would it be far to the other bidders! Do Overs!

[mzimmers]

Hey, Dave –

Thanks for the detailed answers. I'd like to put a vote in for a feature to cancel bids. This could be very useful for a variety of reasons.

Do you know whether anyone has built a sidebox to display an auctioned item? I'm planning on offering one item for auction per week, and I'd like to give it some attention in a sidebox. I know kuroi has built a blank sidebox for general purpose, but...I haven't yet cracked the ZC code on how to build a link to a particular item.

Thanks.

[davewest]

Hey, Dave –

Thanks for the detailed answers. I'd like to put a vote in for a feature to cancel bids. This could be very useful for a variety of reasons.

Do you know whether anyone has built a sidebox to display an auctioned item? I'm planning on offering one item for auction per week, and I'd like to give it some attention in a sidebox. I know kuroi has built a blank sidebox for general purpose, but...I haven't yet cracked the ZC code on how to build a link to a particular item.

Thanks.

Working on the delete bid button today......Put a on/off switch on the clock per-item, cleaned up the pricing, fixed the dates so that wont course errors again, did some more house cleaning, bids was last on my list..

Sidebox was done and will be out with the next update... tons of switches much the same as the product list. Running on my site already.

[andysuciu]

hello. i installed your addon and i have a problem with my template. i use cherry_zen template but i modified it a little. all page works but at the auction product it's messed up. my link is http://andysuciu.dyndns.org/licenta_...=index&cPath=9. can you tell me what to modify or where to look to make it look ok when auctioning. thank you.

[enigma666666]

A quick question.
I need an auction section for a client's website.
I don't want the auction site to be in any way connected to or working via ebay or some other auction site, I want everything to be processed through Zencart and my client's payment gateways.

I need to know if this particular addon works in the manner I described above.

[Fez-o Joe]

Short answer... Yes.

Items are converted to 'auction' type and it's a simple matter to do - same back-end, same functions. The only thing we changed was the amount of bids displaying on the page.

Good luck.

[enigma666666]

That's perfect!
Just what I've been looking for