From the main screen of the PHPProBidDemo you either start a new session, open a previous saved session, import a comma separated listing or one of the other Importing options that the auction site supports into a new session.

Using the new session:

When you select new session you are prompted to enter a name to describe the session if you are selling different types of item categories then this name could be something that reminds you of what type of items are in the listing, such as Computing, Electrical or Wholesale etc.

Naming a session something like its content will allow you to easily use the open previously saved session option to load a listing into the program for submitting to the auction or to allow you to update or add to the listing.

These listings contained in the session can also be 'Saved As' a different name later on if you change your mind, they can also be exported into a CSV file so that you can if needed call the exported CSV file into a program you may use to keep track of your sales such as Excel .

From the export screen you will see the available delimiter preference that you can select.

Your custom editing program may require a specific delimiter and this can be set prior to clicking Export.

Once you click export you can enter the name of the file to save the exported data as.

From the main menu you either import a comma separated listing or one of the other Importing options that the auction site supports into a new session such as import you current open auctions, closed auctions or even import EBay's TurboLister CSV listings directly into PHPProBidDemo.

Import CSV listing:

These listings contain comma separated data that can be imported directly into a session if they correctly follow the structure of the supplied example.csv with should have been supplied with PHPProBidDemo.

Simply use the Import Bulk CSV listing option and select the delimiter being used in the CSV file to import the file.

Import Open/Closed auctions:

Clicking Import My current or closed auctions will download from the auction site all the information needed including images that will allow you to edit or modify and at a click of a button submit the whole or partial list.

Import Ebay TurboLister CSV listing:

Clicking Import Ebay CSV listing will present you with a new screen where you can follow three steps to import the auction listing.

1) Setup you preferences, this is where you can setup details that may not be available in the CSV listing.

2) Select the Ebay CSV listing file that was exported from the TurboLister. "See format option image".

3) Clicking convert will display another screen where a list of Ebay assigned categories have been used and where you can assign the new categories that match the auction site being used. You will not have to set every item up, only each different category that is used, normally just a few. Once you have done this by highlighting the entry to assign selecting the category to use and then clicking set you can click the Finish button which will import the new listing into the main listing page.

The progress of this can be seen in the main screen status bar after Finish is clicked.

From the main menu you can export a comma separated listing of the current listing with a specified delimiter, simply click export and select your preferred delimiter to use.

You can then use your own preferred choice of another application to view, edit and modify the listing like Microsoft excel etc.

When you have either imported a session or added new items to your listing you will see in the listings screen all the details of each items that are available for submitting to the auction, you will see also there are images in the first column and these specify whether or not a photo has been assigned to the auction item.

Each item in the listing can be edited , previewed, duplicated or be removed from the listing using the buttons above the listing.

There is also a popup menu that can be used when highlighting an item and right clicking on the mouse to set various values to multiple or single selected items in the list.

If you delete an item from the listing the item will be remove from the listing and the saved session so be careful you don't delete items you want to keep.

You can view the details on any of the items in the listing by either selecting an item and clicking the View button or simply by double clicking on an item in the list.

If you wish to edit an item to amend or add to the features etc you can select the item and click Edit, this will transfer the details of that auction item to the item entry page where you can make the adjustments you want and then simply click the Update/Save button to update the item and return to the listing screen.

Clicking Add or Edit from the listing screen will take you to the item entry page (if you have no session started then you will be prompted to open one). see Using add item options

In the item entry page you can enter the details of the item you wish to add to the listing for submitting to the auction, these include all the title, description any features you wish to set and any images you need to supply to promote you auction.

Please follow the on screen tips to help you enter the correct details required for the auction item to be added to the list, once a successful item has been added to the listing you can preview the item from the listing screen.

Once you have entered your items into the listing and feel your ready to submit your items to the auction site for listing as live auctions review the the listing and use either the Submit single or Submit all items button to continue.

If you make any alterations to the listing the session will save the settings on closing the lister.

Item listing option

Select either Auction, Store or Both to add your auction item to.

This option may not be available on all auction sites and would required your account to have opened a store.

Set the preferred second category to list your auction item as in above .

This option may not be available on all auction sites.

In the listing screen you will see two buttons, Submit and Submit all. Submit will submit the item in the listing you have highlighted and will only be enabled if you have selected an item, and then there is the Submit all button that will submit all items in the listing that have not already been submitted.

You can tell by the legend at the bottom that items in pink are items that have not been submitted and items in Beige have previously been submitted in maybe a partially submission.

The reason for this is that you may not wish you submit all items at once or you may have cancelled a previous submission half way though the list etc.

Either way the entire listing can be marked as not submitted simply by clicking the button to the right of the find keyword box and has a red cross x on it.

There is also another option to submit a single or selective group of auction items and that is by highlighting the preferred items and right clicking the mouse and choosing Submit selected items only.

By the way the Find keyword box is simply there to help you find a keyword in your listing if your listing grows to a long listing.

When you click the Submit or Submit all button you will be presented with the Submit screen, this screen simply allows you to starting sending your items to the auction and listing them as live auctions.

When presented with the submission screen you will see three buttons, Submit, Cancel and Exit.

Depending on which button you pressed in the listing screen the submission will start submitting the items or item to the auction site when you click Submit and you will see the status of the submission for each item in the form of a progress bar that will display the upload progress and show the current item being submitted..

If you decide that you do not wish to submit the entire listing once you have already started then you can click the Cancel button to end the submission.

You will at the end of the submission receive a confirmation of how many successful items where submitted.

On successful submission or partially submission once you close the submit screen you will see that the items that have been submitted to the auction have changed to a Beige color, you can as mention earlier return to that lis