Project Detail

Description

I need developers who can produce a professional lowest bid auction website. I want people who can deliver based on my requirements below and no time wasters please.

If possible the development should be made under Drupal 6, due to its security, flexibility, scalabilty, modular approach and the easy way to make translations. However, this is not mandatory, if you can produce the same result (with PHP and MySQL), we'll be welcome to accept it. You have to KNOW your code, because this project will need new functionalities as the website progresses.

The site will need to have a powerful administration area that is completely user friendly. All of the code and files MUST NOT BE ENCRYPTED and should be well-documented so I or someone else can make changes and modifications in the future if needed. I must be able to install and make the site fully functional myself so at the end of the process the work must be delivered to me with installation instructions.

General look and functionalities: use this website as example: http://www.asteclick.com

The scripts will have and support the following payment method:
- a PayPal gateway (automated, fully operational gateway) which will allow customers to add funds to their account

== The Auctioned Item ==
Administration Fee - the amount deducted from the member's account for every bid placed
Minimum bid (bid range): admin defined (default at € 0.01)
Maximum bid (bid range): admin defined
Value (retail value of the item): admin defined
Required number of bids: admin defined (default = retail value / (# of bids/2) )
Bids remaning: admin defined AND can have the visibility turned ON of OFF at any time by the admin
Closing date and time: **important** - admin defined (default 7 days after the Required number of bids had been met).

Product details page where customer can get more detailed information about the product is available for all items.

== Bidding Process ==
Customer has to login before he/she can place a bid.
Customer must have credits in their account in order to be able to place a bid.
You can place a single bid or a range of prices (e.g. From €0.08 to €0.25).
Bidding buttons available on product index pages and on product details pages.
As soon as a bid is made, the status of the bid will be shown on the screen. It will also be sent to the customer's email address. This status will indicate whether your bid is the Lowest Unique Bid, if your bid is unique but not the lowest bid, or if it is not unique.
You will also be told if the current winning bid is higher or lower than your bid.
When the status of your bid changes a customer will be notified about:
Your bid becomes the Lowest Unique Bid; or
Your bid is no longer the lowest; or
Your bid is no longer unique.
There will also be a bid history page which will show all of the above, as well as showing all customers history in general (all product he/she bid on, when, how many bids per product etc).

== Selecting a winner ==
When the required number of bids has been met the system sends an email out to ALL bidders informing them that there are 7 days left until the auction closes. 7 days after the Required number of bids has been met, at the time defined by the admin when the product was listed the system will select the winner - the lowest unique bidder. Sends email to admin for verification (see below).

Bid €0.01 Not Unique
Bid €0.01 Not Unique
Bid €0.03 Lowest Unique Bid

Winners are notified via email only AFTER the admin allows this to happen (normally a tick box which the admin has to tick and only then the email is sent). This to allow admin to very the process, ensure accuracy of all the information and preview the email which is about to be sent. This implies that admin/s are always notified first when an auction closes so they can do the background checks before the email for the winner is released.


== Admin Section ==
- As mentioned before must be pretty comprehensive. Must be able to manage both sites/URLs.
- List all users
- User details
- Bid archive for customer
- Winning/Won Auctions for customer
- View Live Auctions and details for each auction
- View current bids for a particular auction
- Add credits for chosen customer


== Category management ==
This is category section which categorises the auction to be displayed in the front end. This contains the following sections:

=== Category management ===
You can add, update, disable and delete (only if there is no product is listed under this category).

=== Product Management ===
All the auction(product)-related functionality is managed under this section. Admin should be able to add, update and delete the detail of the project. This section also contains sub-section:
1) Product listing
All the products are listed under this section. They are listed under different category and subcategory. Admin should be able to search them by product's name, their start date and end date, category as well. You should also be able sort out by current auction or the auction which is already been closed or dispatched.
2) Product Detail
Admin will be able to view and edit the detail of the product.
3) Product Bids
Admin will be able to view the bids on this product.


=== Content Management ===
From this section, the admin should be able to edit the content of the different sections of the site. A WYSIWYG editor will be provided to edit the detail of the content.


=== Site Setting (Configuration) ===
From this section, admin should be able set the different configuration for the site.
- Configuration of the site for changing the status of the site to online or offline status.
- Configuration of bonus points to be given to the user when his birthday is reached or when the somebody refer a friend and the referred friend sign-up for our site.
- The different IP address from which the site should be blocked and member registration should be blocked.


=== Newsletter Management ===
The system will have newsletter capability built-in, through which the admin will be able to created newletters via a WYSIWYG newsletter editor.
There should be listing of the email address who joined the mailing list . You should be able to delete the email address as well.
Admin will be able to configure the newsletter emails.
Admin will be able to save the newsletter.

=== Payment Settings ===
As mentioned before a fully functional PayPal payment gateway.

=== Site logs ===
This section contains the log of login of the admin to the administration section and log of the work done by admin on the different section of the admin.

=== Email-Settings ===
This section contains the layout (format) of the various emails which will be sent to the administrator and members of the site during various operation of the site.

=== Report section ===
This section contains various report of our site. The different reports which need to be generated are :
- Auction winner report.
- No of bids by the day particular day.
- Transaction completed on the particular day or range of days.
- Top ten bidders.
- Member who have not bid on any auctions. (Passive user)
- Top 5 popular auction.
- Ongoing auction report : this contains the status and detail of the ongoing project.

=== Country and State Management ===
In this section, admin should be able to manage the detail of the country and states which is displayed in the user registration page.
+ more - relaying of the experience of the designer as to what else should be included in here.

Transaction will happen (ie developer getting paid by me) only after the site is fully developed, tested and any modification made.
Payments may be split into three:
1/3 after website development
1/3 after testing
1/3 after 30 days of website up and running
Preferred method of payment is PayPal.

Example of a site that is very similar to what I want is:
http://www.asteclick.com

Eventually graphic design may be provided by us, but we expect a lower price in the bid.

Thanks.