What is Auction Manager?

Auction Manager is primarily an Trade Me auction listing management tool designed to streamline the creation, management and after sale support of Trade Me auctions. Auction Manager helps you by automating as much of the process as possible, and key features have been developed to make the running of an auction based business as quick and simple as possible.

However, because Auction Manager was developed during the growth phase of a growing New Zealand business, it includes key functionality that is sort after by New Zealand small business operators. Auction manager features include:

• Trade Me integration, including scheduled loading of listings, alerts for sold listings and questions and automatic retrieval of buyer details and payment methods.
• Trade Me Auction Templates are used for loading listings, and also link stock items to listings allowing a sale to be created with items and pricing from a sold listing easily.
• Advanced stock management, including managing built items, grouping items by category, linking items with Trade Me listings and Web Shop products etc. At a glance, important stock statistics is available such as 3, 6 & 12 Month sales, months worth of stock remaining, average purchase and sale prices, profit and value of stock etc.
• Purchase order management, including maintaining a list of suppliers, currencies and purchase orders. Item stock counts and average purchase prices are automatically updated when a purchase is received.
• Post-Sale support including email templates and automated emailing, sale history, sale flagging, and sale notes.
• osCommerce online merchant database integration. If you built your online e-commerce shop around the popular osCommerce package, then Auction Manager can download and manager your customers, orders and products. Imagine a online shop that ran itself, and alerted you of new sales, with no need to use the admin control panel.
• Advanced data management. Auction Manager includes several advanced features for assisting you in quickly finding the relevant information. Simple GoTo buttons are featured at the top of the main window allowing you to jump to related data, and a reports tab contains dynamic report generation allowing you to report on sales and products and link directly to the data.
• Customizable table highlighting allows you to highlight sales, auctions, Trade Me listings, webshop orders and products based on pre-set criteria. For example, sale with a status of pending can be highlighted in red.
• MYOB integration allows customers, sales, items, suppliers and purcahse orders to be exported and imported into MYOB Account Right Plus.