We have developed a lot of experience in the travel and property sectors which a number of sites in the travel sector, along with property sales in the USA & Costa Rica.
Bidango is a an off shoot site of the popular Pure Holiday Homes website which provides home owners with the opportunity to market their home to holiday makers online. The Bidango auction site seeks to address a gap in the market where home owners can find it difficult to sell unsold weeks in off-peak periods and those available at short notice.
Whilst work in ongoing with this site, the most notable features on this site so far are:
- Integration of the homeowners admin console on the Pure Holiday Homes website with the auction site using our API. This means homeowners can select and send their properties for auction at the click of a button.
- Properties sent for auction are sent back the Pure Holiday Home website using the auction feed API which is used to promote those items for sale by auction on the main site.
- Homeowners user accounts are integrated with an account on the auction site so that they can respond to questions left by bidders on the auction site.
- Deposit payments for the holidays are paid for on the auction site using a fully integration Paypal solution that also informs Pure Holiday Homes and the homeowner who has won the auction and that they have confirmed the purchase of the holiday.
These guys are an online property directory based in Florida, USA & Costa Rica and they came to us because they wanted to use our live auction module. Lots are previewed using our online preview mode and as the day of the auction approach the lots are placed in to the live auction queue ready to be auctioned off one at a time as the auctioneer in the room works his way through the auction.
With server hosted on our US based hosting, the admin in the room has a live auction console that they use to enter the room bids in to the system and then confirm bids to the auctioneer by those made online.
Future integration with the Property Shelf site will be carried out in the future.
This was an online auction site that was run in conjunction with MDS Ideas who are the agency working for the Kenyan Tourist Board. We provided them with a customized home page and closely matched branding to that of the parent Kenya Promotions website. Each section and lot was promoted within the carousels on the home page alongside imagery in the menus to promote each section.
Holiday Lettings came to us and asked us to put together an auction site that they could use to run their annual fundraising campaign which in 2011 raised £35,724 for Cancer Research UK and Helen & Douglas House.
We created them a customized home page that helped promote the properties for sale, set up the lots so that new ones appeared everyday and then automatically emailed bidders once the lots becomes live every 24 hours. The site was also integrated with Sage Pay so payments for the holiday could be made online.
- Post Card Auction – celebrity designed postcards that were auction during October-November 2010 and around £18,000 were raised.
- Music Auction – money can’t buy music items were auctioned off hardened music fans during October-November 2012 where over £15,000 were raised.
We have provided our platform to Cedar Communications on behalf of British Airways for the past two years. The fundraiser is run as a part of ‘Flying Start’ which is the global charity partnership between British Airways and Comic Relief.
Both campaigns were integrated with Paypal and then we also worked with their development team to provide greater integration with the main BA High Life website. They were also both linked back to the main BA High Life website using our API which posted live updates of the bidding on the BA High Life auction landing page. You can see both of them here:
