Install the Flippa iPhone App for Instant Notifications!

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We hear from sellers that the most exciting part of an auction is the last 6 hours, when bids come rolling in and the price goes up and up. Watching an auction go over reserve and see the bids go up is the best part of listing on Flippa!

To make it easier for sellers to monitor their listing during those exciting hours, we’re thrilled to have launched the official Flippa iPhone app.

 

Watched Listings in Flippa’s iPhone App

 

This app is a must-have for sellers who want to keep a close eye on their auction without being tied down to their computer. The app notifies the seller each time the price on their listing goes up with a neat push notification, and prompts the seller when a new bidder sends in their bid application.

Buyers, you won’t get left out in the cold. The app sends out push notifications when your bid is accepted, when you are outbid, and when an auction you’re watching is near the end. As someone who watches many, many Flippa listings, I love receiving notifications when a great website sells.

You can download the Flippa iPhone app on iTunes. Let us know what you think!

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  • http://www.theblogbuilder.org Kim

    I’ve never downloaded anything from itunes for my phone before. Can anyone provide some direction on how to do it? Thanks!

    • http://www.theblogbuilder.org Kim

      Never mind. I just realized this is for iPhone. Another reason to dump my EVO! =)

      • Ophelie Lechat

        Our iPhone app is pretty great. Totally worth buying a new phone just for it ;)
        We’ll likely be launching an Android app in the future as well, so you’ll be able to use it from your EVO.

        • http://www.1001tricks.com Hafis

          Yeah! We Google fans are waiting for flippa’s android app. :)

          • Ophelie Lechat

            Oh man, tough crowd! ;)

  • http://petermeadit.com/ Peter Mead

    Hey Ophelie, I have an Android too. Can’t wait for it to get it on my HTC.

    Thanks :)

  • http://www.indallas.com sgaire

    Android users like me feel left out… :(

  • https://flippa.com/users/436114 Dele Giwa

    Well i am also with the Android Army, Flippa should take note that most webmasters will more likely be Android users since Google Owns Android & we are all married to countless Google Properties, the most obvious of these being “Google Analytics”, can a webmaster seriously do without google analytics, Even flippa is integrated to Google Analytics and Adsense for easy traffic & revenue verifications. And google has naturally made these essential these tools available in the android market for its dear webmasters.

    So maybe i would i have built an Android Flippa App first before an Iphone App (am just saying :) , i hope the iphone soldiers dont attack me here lol ), Or better still release both android & iphone app at the same time, After all i beleive you guys have the financial muscle to launch both at once. But am sure you have your reasons, so i guess we android users will just have to wait, at least its good to know that you are currently looking forward to developing one.

    If i may quickly make a feature suggestion here, Recently one of my auctions had about 700 views and 34 watchers because i did four featured listings and alot of buyers showed interest in the domain name, but i was shocked when the auction ended and ONLY 2 out of the whole 34 bidders partook in the last hours of the auction, One of the two bidders won the auction but i was very not comletely happy because i knew there would have been a 100% difference if atleast 8 or 10 of my auction watchers participated in the last hour bidding frenzy, i even put up a decently low BIN price for those who would like to evade the bidding frenzy.After all of these, a week went by and my buyer didnt pay, so i lost my featured listing fees, Flippa has relisted the auction free for me but i only got one featured listing out of four.

    So my point is this, Among several other possible reasons i feel the low turnout of my bidders in the last hour was because they had either forgotten or had been away from their pc’s. So if there was a feature that would allow me the seller to send instant sms , im or push notification to all my buyers at once alerting them that auction is close to end, i think atleast a few of them will rush down to the auction immediately. The featured can be a paid feature or non-paid feature that the seller can utilize just once or twice in the last 6 or 4 hours of the auction and the seller does not need to have the phone numbers of the buyers for obvious security reasons. Flippa already has a verified phone number for all most all flippa users, and flippa can make buyers choose to opt in or out of mobile notifications about ending auctions that they are currently watching.. Or the buyer can be shown and option to opt in to sms notification for that particular listing at the exact time the buyer clicks on the “WATCH THIS ” button. So he know that he would receive sms notification when the auction is about to end, if he really want to buy that auction property. I know some people just like to watch auction just to see what price it sells for, even i do it too. But i know that a good percentage of your auction watchers are those watching the auction with intention to buy.

    I also know flippa currently sends out email notifications to buyers in the last hours BUT you have to remember that emails will only be read if the buyer is at is pc in the first place, most of us use personalised email address which is usually @ourdomainname.com so not every buyer configures their custom emails on their mobile devices so they may not even get to read their emails on their phone when they are not at their pc. They mostly use other email apps or configs for the popular email clients like yahoo and gmail on their phone, so when an important email arrives at their personalised email address they will not likely know about it until they get home or office to their pc or laptop.

    This is why sms beats all the odds because the buyer WILL DEFINITELY receive the alert EVEN IF he dosent even have a data plan on his mobile device and isnt connected to the internet at that particular moment.

    And as Ophelie rightly said , the last 6hours of the auction is the most important and most interesting.
    This is why we should give what i have said a thought since more bidders in the last hours means more $$$$ for the seller, and the buyer also dosent miss out on an item he wants to buy.

    • Ophelie Lechat

      And another request for an Android app :) I have it on good authority that at least one Flippa developer is working on it as we speak. Stay tuned.

      Sending SMS notifications to watchers near the end of the auction isn’t something we’re looking at doing, simply because it would be fairly easy to abuse (and because in many countries, people pay for incoming SMS), but push notification is one of the main features of the app.

      To confirm, we send out a notification to all buyers and watchers 8h before the end of the auction. We don’t have stats on how many people are reading these messages from their phones, but it’s not unreasonable to think that the majority of watchers receive Flippa email on their phone, and the app makes it even more likely that people will see it.

      • http://empireflippers.com Justin

        Awesome to hear you’re working on an Android app as well, Ophelie…those mac fanboys get enough love already! :-)

        It’s my understanding that Android is a bit harder to develop for, though, with all of the different devices, screens, etc…which is why we see apps come out in iTunes first.

        • Ophelie Lechat

          Part of it is the complexity; another reason we developed for iPhone first is that more Flippa users are on iPhone than Android.

          We could have simply ported our iPhone app to Android, but it would have looked cheap and wouldn’t have performed as well. We’ll do it right by our Android users, though they will have to be a tiny bit more patient :)