Auction Watch
The auction watch feature allows users to register an interest for items they want. When items meeting their criteria are listed, they will be notified via Email.

Specify Exact Starting and Ending Time
You can allow your auctioneers to specify an exact starting and ending time for their auction listings. This feature is useful for your power users that want to time closings for a specific time of day, so that they can follow up on activity and be more responsive to their buyers. It is also very useful when used in conjunction with a live physical auction, so bids can be accepted on location and online.

Memorized Auctions
Users can click on a button when viewing any auction in order to add this to their custom list of Memorized Auctions. This allows users to have one central place to keep track of all the items in which they are interested.

AutoRelist
The autorelist feature allows an auctioneer's listings to be automatically relisted for a certain number of times if they close unsuccessfully. The auctioneer can choose up to how many times they wish to autorelist an item.

Multiple Currencies
You users can select a default currency so that all prices will be displayed both in your site's default currency as well as an approximate value in the user's selected currency. This allows international users to have a better idea of prices without having to go to another site to do the currency conversion.

Price Drop Option
An auctioneer can select the Price Drop feature for any of their listings. The Price Drop feature will decrease the starting bid in specified increments at certain intervals if no bids are placed. The auctioneer can decide the minimum threshold, and the starting bid will never drop beneath that point. This can be useful if the auctioneer isn't entirely sure of the market value of their item or has items where the prices may fluctuate.

Highlight Option
Highlighting is one of several options users can choose to make their listings stand out. Users can even choose a color they want to use for highlighting, from amongst a list defined on your site.

Withdraw Option
If for some reason an item is no longer available to be sold, it is easy to withdraw the auction. At the click of a button, the auction will be closed and the current high bidder, if there is one, will automatically receive an Email notifying them that the auction has been withdrawn.

Flash Buy
Auctioneers can decide to set a price which they are willing to accept for an item if a bidder decides he must have that item immediately. The Flash Buy feature allows the bidder to pay a special price to end the auction early and to avoid competition from other bidders. Flash Buys can be used for both Standard and Multiple Item auctions.

Reserve Prices
Not to be confused with a Reverse Auction, a Reserve Price is an optional feature of Standard Auctions. The Reserve Price allows an auctioneer to specify a minimum price the auction needs to meet to close successfully. Although the Reserve Price is not shown to bidders while an auction is in progress, they are aware that a reserve price is in effect. The reserve price will be revealed at the successful close of the auction.

User Ratings and Feedback
An auction site is the most successful when it can generate some feeling of community. To encourage users to feel more secure about who they might be dealing with, users can rate and leave feedback on each other. This public commenting system encourages honesty and fair deals since problem users are quickly pointed out. To avoid artificially inflated ratings, users can leave a rating and comments only on other users with whom they have conducted a transaction.

Automatic Activity Email
Our Auction System is designed to help you keep your site users informed of auction activity in items they have either posted or bid on. Our Auction System can automatically send out email notices to auction participants when an auction ends and when a bidder has been outbid on an item. It can also send out status emails to keep auction participants reminded of what they have active on your site. Our Auction System also has features for the power user to allow them to choose to not receive status information about individual listings. This works to help keep people coming back to your site by keeping them engaged!

Searching the Auction Database
Since many people do not have time to sit and browse through lists, Our Auction System Pro provides comprehensive search functionality. Searching in Our Auction System is powerful and flexible. Users can search with multiple keywords either within a category that interests them or else within the entire auction database. Users can search for items by many fields and they can specify as many or as few of these fields as they want. Searches can include all the active auctions posted by a particular user. This is a great feature for auction sites, as some auctioneers will create a following of very loyal bidders. Our Auction System makes it easy for your site's visitors to find the items that will be of interest to them.

Ease of Use
Since you need to encourage activity in an auction site to make it successful, the ease of use in posting an auction is extremely important. Our Auction System really shines in the way it guides users through the process of posting an item. Even completely inexperienced users find it simple to post an auction and upload images using Our Auction System.

Comprehensive Help
We have strived to make Our Auction System as intuitively as easy as possible to use. However, since certain options or terminology might not be clear to new users, pop-up help windows are used extensively throughout Our Auction System's user interface for added guidance for the users that need it. By clicking on one help links conveniently located next to a user option, your end user will see a pop up window with an explanation of the feature in question. These help files are simple HTML files that you can customize to suit your site's particular needs. A Buyer's Guide and a Seller's Guide are also provided to help your site users familiarize themselves with how your online auctions work. Since these are provided as simple HTML files, you can easily customize the text to suit your audience. Having separate help files in this manner is also beneficial to the experienced user as it streamlines the content of the pages used for the posting and bidding process.

User Account Management
Our Auction System users can manage their own account details. As the site administrator, you do not need to personally handle changes like new phone numbers and email addresses. Your site's users can keep this information up to date themselves without having to involve you or your support persons. For sites that use Our Auction System's billing features, users can also update and change their billing information (new card expiration dates, change accounts, etc). The user account management system that is built into Our Auction System, is called XUD. This is a shared user management and billing system that will allow Our Auction System to integrate with other XCENT web server applications. It is what provides Our Auction System with the capability to have a single site login and point of account maintenance for itself and all installed XCENT web server applications on your site. XUD also can be extended to allow you to protect other pages or content on your web site and only allow access by registered users of your site.

Optional Image Uploading
If users want to include an image in their auctions, some less advanced online auction sites require that they find their own place to store and host any image files. With Our Auction System, you can allow your users to upload images for their auction directly to your web server. This option is seamlessly integrated into the auction posting interface. To use this optional feature, it does require an image Upload Component from another vendor to be installed on your web server. Our Auction System supports a number of different Upload Components (see requirements for complete details).