DJ-Classifieds component allows hosting auctions on your Joomla powered website! Users can run their own auctions and sell items to your site visitors! To make it everything more comfortable, we will show you how to manage the auctions, place a bid and many more!
Open the "DJ-Classifieds" component.
Click "Options" and open the "Global" tab.
To make the auctions visible to users - you need to activate them in DJ-Classifieds settings.
Now scroll down to "Advert Specific settings". You can set there:
Now scroll down to "Notification Settings". For the proper notification's system activity, it is required to configure notification settings.
The notifications should be triggered from Cron link. The "Notification send trigger" need to be set for a "Cron link" (http://yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com_djclassifieds&task=cronNotifications) -
Once you have the DJ-Classifieds component opened go to "Emails templates" tab.
There are several ready notification emails prepared, especially for auctions. Of course, you can modify them depending on your needs.
Auctions can be enabled from the administrator area of from the frontpage area. Let's start with the first possibility
In DJ-Classifieds component control panel open the "Items" tab and choose the ad you want to use for an auction.
Each DJ-Classifieds item contains an "Auctions" tab. Open it.
As you can see on the screen below, there are several parameters to configure:
Remember that the auction made possible, each item must have a defined price. You can set the price in the "New" tab.
Let's see how the auction activation looks from the front view.
You must be logged in. Go to "Your adverts".
Find the proper ad and click "Edit".
Set the "Bidding active" option on "Yes".
As you can see now, the same options as in administrator area are possible to configure.
Once the auction options are configured, we are ready to make an example bid. Let's see how it works.
The Saab 9-3 Aero item is opened. We are already logged in. Placing a bid is simple. Just set the price and click "Place Bid".
The bid was just placed correctly.
At this moment, the information about the bid goes directly via email to
In the meantime, we have made another example bid. Let's check how the item looks like now:
The add owner can remove bids. He must be logged in to do it.
Bids can also be removed in the administrator area. They are visible in item's view in "auctions" tab (we have configured some parameters there already)
One more thing. As we wrote before, the auction owner can message the bidder on the front page. Just click on the bidder's name.
When the auction ends (the end of the auction is equal to the ad expiration date) the Cron checks who won and sent information through e-mail to the winner, losers and the admin.
DJ-Classifieds version 3.7.2 introduces the new feature: Auction timer.
The timer will be displayed in the Single Ad view, under the bidding box:
How to configure it? It's effortless.
Open the DJ-Classifieds options and scroll down to "Advert Specific Settings".
Choose "Yes" in the "Auction timer":