Geodesic Solutions

We are excited to announce the upcoming release 6.0 for GeoClassifieds, GeoAuctions, and GeoClassAuctions, for Enterprise, Premier, and Basic editions, planned for Monday, November 28 next week! This will be a major feature release, the primary reason we decided to increment to 6.0 instead of 5.3 was the update to latest version of Smarty 3.* template engine (previously version 2.* was used in the software), which may require template compatibility adjustments for some sites. We'll have more info about that when we release the software on Monday. Below is a brief list of highlights for the new version 6.0:

• New version Smarty Template Engine 3.1.5
• Reverse Auctions added
• In GeoClassAuctions, Classifieds and Auctions each have their own tabs when browsing categories.
• New "Verified Account" feature, useful on free listing sites.
• Category specific "meta tags"
• New date field type, uses calendar popup to select calendar date, for optional site-wide fields and category questions.
• Search algorithm re-written from the ground up.
• In advanced search, able to select multiple dropdown values to search by.
• Use Google Libraries API for faster loading of JS libraries
• Ability to create orders from admin panel (place listings as a user, edit listings, purchase renewal, etc.)
• New "mega dropdown" navigation option for Geographic Navigation Addon
• Assign template sets to specific language
• New Addons not available to previous versions:
  • Social Connect Addon (Login with Facebook) - Paid addon, NOT included with software
  • Token addon - Users can now purchase Tokens! - Addon Included with Enterprise, paid addon for other editions
  • Community iPhone App (see below)
• Plus 70+ other features and enhancements!

We are also pleased to announce the upcoming release of a community GeoMobile iPhone app, that we hope to release roughly a week after 6.0 ships, pending approval by Apple. For a visitor to use this app to connect to your site, you would purchase the addon (pricing to be announced) and follow a few steps to get your own unique "site app key". The visitor would go to the App Store, download the GeoMobile iPhone app, enter in a 4 digit site code that is unique to your site, which will connect the GeoMobile app to your site after that point on that visitor's iPhone or iPad.

Once the "community version" of the app is released that can be used to connect to different sites, we will start a waiting list for customized iPhone app. We already have a huge demand for this, so we expect at minimum, a 2 week wait to get your own customized iPhone app. This is because unlike the shared app, the customized one we have to set up manually for each site. This customized iPhone app would allow:

• App locked exclusively to your site
• YOU name the app
• YOU control the app price! Make it available for free or earn 70% of any download cost
• customized text
• customized logo and graphics
• customized colors
• App updates going forward

We will be posting more info closer to release date for the app, including instructions on what is needed to get on the waiting list, what the price is, etc.