Some common questions about the functionality of our website.
Q1: What is an auction site?
Customer are able to post and purchase items. This will be an auction style website where users can participate in a bidding process to buy and sell items.
Q2: How do you purchase a product?
You can purchase a product by having the winning bid on an item. Products are sold to customers with the highest bid. It is important to note that typically some auctions start with a minimum bid.
Q3: How do you add items?
You can add items by creating an ad via your account and acessing the 'create an item' page located in the items page.
Q4: How do you access Admin side?
Admin can access the 'Admin Login' page by adding the path '/auth/admin' to homepage link. Admin will be prompted to login.
Q5: Where is all the account and items information stored?
Account and items information is stored in our SQLite database in a database.db file located in our backend directory. Our database contains an admins table to store all admin username and passwords, a bids table for bids, an items table to store all information on products up for bid and their picture saved as a text file, and a users table to store all customer information.