November 2 2021

HikaAuction, our Joomla! bidding extension for HikaShop, enabling you to setup auctions, continues to progress to offer you even more services and possibilities.
It now fully support Joomla! 4.

Required HikaShop version : 4.4.4 or newer

HikaAuction is continuing to evolve thanks to your feedback ! Discover below every new changes, features and improvements available in this 3.2.0 version.

The main news here is the increase in options, possibilities and ways to use HikaAuction with other components around HikaShop, like HikaMarket. The philosophy of HikaAuction remains the same, allowing your customers to buy as easily as a game, and also encouraging them to come back regularly on your website in order to not miss good opportunities !
Let's now detail, what's new in this release !

What's new :

Features

  • We have created a "Back on sale" option for finished auctions without any potential winner
  • We have added the support of the product update email sent to customers when a modification is made to the product during auctions
  • The support "HikaAuction : Auction cancelled" email was added

Improvements

  • We have added the french configuration language file
  • We have improved the french translation files

Fixes

  • We have added the fr-FR.com_hikaauction_config.ini file through the installation xml file
  • Emails are now properly sent to the main HikaMarket vendor account
  • Some Emails which were not sent properly (without email address or product information)
  • Some "Auction finished vendor" notifications were not sent when the winner gave up on the auction
  • The "Terms and conditions" checkout step through the configuration is now properly configurable

How to use

You first want to download and install HikaShop 4.4.4 by following the instructions here: Download HikaShop 4.4.4
You then want to download the install package of HikaAuction 3.2.0 here: Download HikaAuction 3.2.0
Just install it on your copy of your website like you did with HikaShop 4.4.4.

With this new version, You'll be able to :

  • Directly put your auctions back on sale for finished auctions without any potential winner
  • Experience a better way of being notified during the auction workflow for you, vendors, and customers

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Keep in touch folks.

Team HikaShop