Features at a Glance
Our platform isn't loaded down with features you'll never use. We're from the school of quality, not quantity.
The best way to understand the features we offer in the Inkling Markets software is to sign up for a 45-day free trial, or register on our public site, start with $5,000 of fantasy currency and begin making predictions in seconds.
Collect Opinions
- Multiple methods to trade: web interface, through email, and widgets
- Support for both prediction markets and opinion polls
- Step by step interface or Inkling Quicktrade
- Support for multiple types of markets based on the type of question you're asking
- Use of automated market maker to reduce liquidity requirements and provide for simpler interface
- Long and short positions
- Dashboard management to remove completed markets, review historical trading
- Large, easy to read graphs that be modified real-time
- RSS feeds to track new and expiring markets, individual market activity
- Support for rich market descriptions (embedded imagery, audio, video, etc.)
Site Features
- Email alerts
- Twitter bot for public sites
- Customizable profiles
- Customizable user registration process to add additional data fields to track
- Threaded discussions per market
- This week and all time leaderboard
- Site statistics
- Keyword and full-text searching
- Support for tags and categories
- AJAX market browser with various sorting capabilities
- Snapshot views of current investments, worth, and rank
- Embedded help throughout the application
- Comprehensive reference section for traders and administrators
Create and Manage Your Own Markets
- Step-by-step wizard to create a market (3-5 minute process)
- Workflow to approve markets submitted by traders
- "Clone" markets to assist in creating many in a short amount of time
- Clone markets across sites (e.g. copy questions from our public site to your private site)
- Embedded help for every element that must be completed
- Access to trader performance during and after the market has been run
- Temporary suspension of trading
- Add additional stocks in the middle of a market
- 2 click cash-out process
- Full editing capabilities for administrators
- Save your work and come back later to complete
Administration
- Comprehensive statistics about your marketplace and users
- REST API
- Support for single sign-on with enterprise authentication systems via SAML2 or web services
- SSL encryption of the site
- User administration
- Support for multiple administrators and other application roles
- Fraud detection and alerting
- Multiple security configurations
- Customizable look and feel through .css modifications
- Unique domain names
- Basic content management capabilities
- Threaded discussion management
- Basic workflow for market approval
- Trader performance reports
- RSS support for site announcements and importation of external blogs
- Basic site announcements editor
- Raffle system to award traders
