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Good news! We now accept payments through AVANGATE . If you’re an existing customer, then you shouldn’t notice any difference at all. We’re already in the process of changing over your payment method if you are using our monthly payment plan. In addition to Visa/Mastercard and PayPal we also accept all of these: Supported? Visa/MasterCard [...]
Comments ( 0 )Sell us your penny auction website
Do you run a penny auction website or a lowest unique bid website? We are actively looking to purchase existing penny auction websites – even including the domain name and hosting package, where applicable. It doesn’t need to even be running our software! It doesn’t need to be established or making a profit, although this [...]
Comments ( 2 )Penny auctions and gambling
One of the hottest topics in recent times with regards to penny auctions is whether or not they are in fact gambling. Many of the forums dedicated to penny auctions and gambling websites contain page after page of debate material on this controversial subject. The fact is that while penny auctions can indeed be considered [...]
Comments ( 5 )NEW! Pay Monthly now available for Professional package
Pay monthly now available for the Professional package. Lease the phpPennyAuction software for just $250/month (6x monthly payments). Total cost: $1500 USD - or if you prefer, you can still buy the Professional package outright, for $1299. We’ve listened to customer feedback and with the current economic situation felt this was a suitable payment plan to [...]
Comments ( 9 )How much money do penny auctions make?
We get asked this question a lot. The answer is invariably: ‘How long is a piece of string?’, however we’ve just added a great new tool to let you calculate what sort of profit & mark-up you need to break even – or in layman’s terms, how much money one can make from penny auctions. [...]
Comments ( 1 )phpPennyAuction 2.4.2 – Many bug fixes and cleanups
A while ago we released the Beta version of 2.4.2, followed by a release candidate. Now’ it’s ready and we’ve released the Stable version. There are various minor – but important – changes to the underlying features of the software, more information can be found in the included changelog below, for those who want to [...]
Comments ( 1 )New Beta languages added
In line with the recent release of the latest and greatest version of the phpPennyAuction script, we are happy to announce that several Beta languages have now been added, bringing the total number of available languages to 10. The latest languages to be added are Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Br) and Spanish. All [...]
Comments ( 2 )Version 2.4 is finally here. Now available to purchase.
We’re excited to announce that the latest and greatest version of the phpPennyAuction software has been released. All existing members are able to download a completely free copy of the software from their License Area. Main New Features. Integrated Stats tracking service Automated Web Installation script New auction types: Beginner Auctions, MadBid (capped time) auctions, [...]
Comments ( 0 )We’re back up
After some heavy delays, the phpPennyAuction website is now fully back up and ready. We will be installing an SSL Certificate shortly so the Support Center may go down or be unreachable whilst that is being done. Since it’s taken a while, I wanted to to share some of the details about the server we [...]
Comments ( 0 )Penny Auction Software Survey
If you are interested in purchasing penny auction software but have yet to make a decision, please take a few minutes of your time to complete our survey. This will help us to cater better to your needs in the future. Your answers will remain confidential and not be shared with anyone outside of our [...]
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