Major Additions - [DBTech] DragonByte Classifieds v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Classifieds: What is it?
DragonByte Classifieds allows items to be sold in a variety of ways by your users including Auctions and stock controlled Buy-it-Now listings. It works on vB versions 4.1.x and 4.2.x

Uses
Allowing your users to sell items has never been easier with a feature rich Classifieds system that allows for Auctions as well as stock controlled Buy-it-Now listings.

Integrated into vBulletin, DragonByte Classifieds also allows users to see current listings, create their own postage and address options for use with their own listings and upload pictures to be displayed along with the listings.

With a permissions system, automated bidding on auctions, customizable feedback system, fees and fully customizable categories and specifications, and featured and digital items, DragonByte Classifieds caters for a wide range of requirements.

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Major Features

Multiple Listing Types: Auction, Buy-it-Now (with stock support) and Wanted Items Listings Types to allow your users to sell and barter for items in a variety of ways.

AJAX Integration: We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads, including bidding, checking for new bids as well as other areas.

Automatic Image Resizing: All images added to the classifieds system will be resized and have a thumbnails generated. This will help reduce the page load time but not having to dowload the full image when you just need the thumbnail.

Stock Control: Buy-it-Now listings have a complete stock control that can be adjusted and allows for multiple purchases by different users.

Postage and Address: Mulitple postage options can be added per user as well as a variety of addresses letting users choose where they want items delivered to and at whatever price they prefer.

Feedback System: Allow users to leave feedback about transactions including comments and a customizable ranking.

Watch Items, Save Searches and Users: Users can save items to their watch list and choose to store searches for easy reuse at a later time. Sellers and Buyers can also be added to lists so that their latest items can be found easily.

Categories and Specifications System: An unlimited amount of categories can be created, allowing for subcategories and specifications creating a huge range of options that can help users specify exactly what they are selling.

Payment Processors: Integrated payment processors, including PayPal, to allow users to pay for their items and their fees.

Featured Listings: Allow users to feature their items for an optional fee as well as allowing control over how many items they can feature.

Full Feature List
Payment Processors

• Payment Types
  • PayPal
  • Cash on Collection
  • Check/Cheque
  • Bank Transfer (manual transfers)
• Configure the description to display to your users when they checkout
• Configure your Merchant ID (such as PayPal email address)
• "Sandbox" Mode toggleable via vBulletin Options, for testing purposes

Listing Types

• Auction
  • AJAX Bidding
  • AJAX countdown timers
• Buy-it-Now
  • Adjustable Stock Control
• Wanted Items

Email and PM Notifications

• Users receive emails and PMs when items end, are sold, or are on their watch list
• Translatale phrases and email content

Categories and Specifications

• Categories can be added and assigned as subcategories
• Specifications can be added per category and used in multiple categories
• Options can be added to each specification and used in multiple specifications

Featured Listings

• Mark a listing as Featured to gain a higher position in the list
• Optionally add fees per usergroup to use the featured system
• Optionally add a limit on how many listings a user can feature via their usergroup permissions

Search

• In depth searching of:
  • Titles
  • Descriptions
  • Categories
  • Users
• Many Options to narrow down the search

Fees

• Custom Fees can be created
• Global or restricted to specific usergroups
• Charge for reserve prices, items initial listing and an items final price as well as for featuring items
• Choose from flatrate or percentage based values

Multiple Currencies

• Show prices in multiple currencies
• Set a tax rate for purchases in currencies other than your home currency
• Configurable exchange rate
• Choose a "Primary Currency" that your prices will be based on
• Automatical daily update of exchange rates via a Scheduled Task

Conditions

• Set the conditions of items

Returns

• Set the returns options

Country and State Codes

• Control the countries and states/counties that are available to be added to addresses

Addresses

• Allow users to add multiple address
• Define default address for when selling or buying items

Postage Options

• Create unique postage options
• Can be done per user
• Currencies can be defined
• The countries that the postage is available for can be defined
• Create user specific or generally available postage options from within the Admin Control Panel

Attachments

• Upload images to the vBulletin Attachment Manager
• Thumbnails created and used on upload
• Mulitple images per listing

Digital Listings

• Mark a listing as digital to help users understand they aren't bidding for physical items
• Send links to users on completion of the listing

Feedback System

• Allow users to submit feedback about transactions
• Users can submit comments along with their feedback

Listing Control

• Archive listings that have expired or are completed
• Relist items

Invoices

• Buyers and sellers have access to invoices of of completed transactions

Advert Boxes

• Advert and listings boxes to display current, featured or watched listings
• Various locations
  • Forum Index/Home
  • Forum Display
  • Search Pages
  • Classifieds Home Page
  • View Listing Page

Contact Seller

• Link to contacts seller when viewing a listing

Form Control

• Customizable Form Controls
• Default settings

Moderation

• Approve or unapprove listings
• Usergroup settings to automatically place new listings in moderation queue
• Moderation queue for moderators and administrators

Pro Only

Feedback System

• Customizable feedback ranks to mark reliability

Advert Boxes

• Various locations
  • Showthread Pages

Link Control System

• Create unique links at the foot of Classifieds pages to whatever URL you need

Notes System

• Users can submit notes on their listings

Resolution Centre

• Create and respond to issues in listings either as the seller or the buyer.
• Change the issue's status
• View how many issues are active on a listing

Contact Seller

• PM Created with translatable title

Form Control

• Simple Form in Forum Sideblock for quick listing submitting

Moderation

• Number of items in moderation queue displayed

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[migratoria]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

1) Is fixed in the update released tonight.

2) Needs some more information. If a user submits a bid of up to 15.00 and the second user doesn't bid as high as 15.00, the system will only bid up to the next increment above the second user's offer.

So:

User 1 Places a bid up to 15.00
User 2 Places a bid up to 13.00
The system will then place User 1 in front with a bid of 13.50.

I hope that makes sense.

If there is something else you are referring to, let me know and I'll take another look.

Matt

Ok ... but clicking in the history panel, data are not correct, test2 is in the lead with 10.50 EUR, while in 'auction is 13.50 eur

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Installed last reelease 1.0.2 but problem in thumbnails persist...

Permission in attacchments are ok

[DragonByte Tech]

Will sort out the thumbnail problem.

Are you the user who posted the listing when looking at the bids?

I'll do some more tests of my own with the bidding this afternoon to see if I can work out what's happening. Thanks for the feedback.

Matt

[migratoria]

Ok Matt...

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by migratoria

2) the results of the auction are wrong + Does not happen automatically relaunch
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I think I've worked out the issue here. The system doesn't show the 'auto' bids to users other than the owner (this needs expanding into a usergroup permission so that the admins and moderators can see).

At the moment it's showing you the bids that aren't 'automatic', which in this case is the very first bid of 10.50. I'll take a look at a work around on this problem.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

This week brings a bugfix update for DragonByte Classifieds (v1.0.3) several JavaScript issues as well as some fixes to submitting/editing listings including their attachments. One on going issue we've identified has been with listings made before v1.0.2 not updating their attachments correctly. The issues behind that were resolved in v1.0.2 and this v1.0.3 update, so any images that aren't ordered correctly can be fixed by editing the Edit Image Order.

Thank you again for some great feedback and assistance in tracing bugs. We're also building a nice list of feature requests we'll be assessing for future updates. Watch this space for the latest news on planned features.

The full list of changes in v1.0.3 can be found below.

Remember, we have installed the latest Beta of Classifieds here on DBTech. We have created some 'fake' items and have left PayPal in Sandbox mode so that no real money changes hands allowing anyone to test how the system works. We look forward to your feedback. Go here for the latest listings: View Listings - DragonByte Tech | vBulletin Mods & Addons.

To create a PayPal Sandbox account you need to head over to this page: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps...tions/accounts. Once you login with your regular PayPal account you can then create a sandbox testing account to use to 'purchase' the items on our Classifieds.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
Fixed: Issues with Rewriting not working correctly
Fixed: Invalid Country error when selecting a country for a postage option
Fixed: Ordering of countries and states now correctly orders by the name and not the ID
Fixed: Error causing the price to change when value is over 999
Fixed: Missing Listing Type information in the form when previewing an existing listing before submitting the edit
Fixed: Offers List width adjusted to provide more room for usernames
Fixed: Offers List not displaying the correct bids
Fixed: Prevent the Return/Enter key from submitting a buy-it-now on an auction
Fixed: Removing the main attachment image while leaving other attachments causes the default 'No Image' image to display on the View Listings pages

Changes To Existing Features:
Change: Adding new attachments no longer changes the original attachment/image

Matt

[btedition]

Great update, fixed my bugs.

Great work Matt!

[migratoria]

Hi Matt

I have installed upgrade 1.0.3 but fix in Auction, it's only partially.


BUG: In the case of two equal offers.

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[DragonByte Tech]

How did you create the second equal offer? Can you take me through the steps? If I send you a SQL command to run on your forum, could you send me the results back?

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Matt

[migratoria]

Hi Matt

Object1 Price 10Eur

Step1: Test1 offer 30 Eur
The auction is being awarded to Test1 for 10 Eur

Step2: Test2 Offer 30 Eur
The auction is being awarded to Test2 for 30Eur

The system was wrong. It should add a rule for offers equal.
The first user "Test1! Must have priority

Show screen in my previous post.

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Ok for SQL command but I test your mod in Local
Whit Xmapp and vb 4.2.2

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2) The bug in the resizing of images previously reported persists

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll take another look at the bidding stuff and see why it's got the issue with identical bids. Will PM you the SQL command later once I've checked a few things out.

Regarding (2) can you take me through the issue step by step so I can recreate it locally.

Thanks for the feedback.

Matt