Choice of Interface

You can choose from among interfaces to set preferences and get information. The User Interface menu gives you three choices.

• The Desktop interface allows you to sell bandwidth and monitor activity through a series of user-selectable windows. Your agent is brought to your PC and bids on your behalf from there.
• The Express interface lets you obtain status information from, and send configuration information to, an agent in the garage. The Express interface is displayed on the Portal page upon successful login. The Express interface is considered advanced because the fields are less interactive than the Java-based Merkato Desktop interface.

(The Wizard does not currently support seller configuration. If you select the Wizard an error message appears.)

When you are not interacting with your desktop agent you should upload it to the garage. This is critical for Seller agents on the desktop because if the Seller agent ceases to bid from the desktop the auction stops. (See “Upload Function.")