AuctionBuilder 1.0 Features

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        Top features of the upcoming release: 
      
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        <u>Shopping</u>
      
      
         - Simple turn-page navigation. Search for products by logical
      
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              category or Verity™ search. 
      
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        <u>RoboAgent </u>
      
      
        ™ - Going, going... Customers may choose to have RoboAgent
      
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              automatically raise the bid to the next increment not exceeding the user defined
      
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              maximum bid amount. RoboAgent sends email notification upon bid increase. 
      
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        <u>Bidding</u>
      
      
         - Editable and intuitive bidding functions include built-in checksum
      
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              verification for credit cards and supports secure (SSL) real-time payments.
      
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              Confirm bids to customer and merchant via email. 
      
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        <u>RoboPromoter</u>
      
      
         ™ - Maintain user lists for email broadcasting.
      
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              RoboPromoter notifies your members by email of new auctions. 
      
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        <u>Popular Auction Templates </u>
      
      
        - Modify built in examples for quick design with
      
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              the included HTML/CFML templates. 
      
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        <u>Browser based Vendor Administration </u>
      
      
        - Configure your company
      
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              information, add/edit products. Check successful bids, generate sales and
      
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              user reports. 
      
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        <u>Flexible Development Language </u>
      
      
        - Generate custom HTML and
      
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              ColdFusion templates and add unique customization with Open Source Code. 
      
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        <u>Shipping and Taxes </u>
      
      
        - Select from the customizable shipping options or use
      
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              AbleShipper™ UPS Shipping calculator. Customizable shipping methods and
      
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              tax rates may be assigned by order destination. 
      
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        <u>Reporting and Statistics </u>
      
      
        - Keep track of who, what, where, and when
      
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              customers are buying with or without cookies. Browse log files detailing
      
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              customer information such as IP address, items bought, pages viewed, and
      
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              more. Built-in reports include Total Sales by date range, User Statistics, and
      
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              Browser Types. 
      
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        <u>Unlimited Vendors </u>
      
      
        - AuctionBuilder supports transactions from multiple
      
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              vendors under a single auction. 
      
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        <u>Modular Design </u>
      
      
        - Completely modular system of coding, allows easy
      
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              addition of new features and functionality. 
      
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        <u>ColdFusion Integration </u>
      
      
        - Tight integration with Allaire's ColdFusion Studio
      
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              and HomeSite, allowing developers a fast track to creating interactive, dynamic
      
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              online auction halls. CF Studio integration includes custom toolbars, dialog
      
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              boxes to edit the attributes of AuctionBuilder custom tags, code snippets, and
      
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              wizards 
      
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        <u>Optimized for speed </u>
      
      
        - Engineered for high traffic sites, AuctionBuilder's
      
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              text-based customization architecture minimizes database queries to the
      
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              application server. Highly tuned database query caching ensures quick
      
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              template computation times. 
      
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        <u>WDDX</u>
      
      
         - allows developers to create their own custom interfaces to
      
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              AuctionBuilder's item inventory system – create your own bid watch and alert
      
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              system – using standards-based data structures. 
      
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        <u>You make the rules </u>
      
      
        - Multiple auction types supported by individual rules
      
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              files – developers can invent a new style of auction, define a rules file, and
      
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              instantly begin auctioning items using those rules. 
      
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        <u>Secure</u>
      
      
         - AuctionBuilder is SSL and SET compliant. AuctionBuilder's
      
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              proprietary "public key" encryption system used to verify authenticity of e-mails
      
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              sent by AuctionBuilder sites. 
      
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              Take a sneak peak at AuctionBuilder's administration pages, or view the Press
      
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              Release. 
      
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                 "AuctionBuilder" (Auction Builder) is a registered trademark of Able Solutions
      
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