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Classified Software Product Comparison Chart
The chart below is intended to assist you in determining the best solution for your business model. For a detailed and more complete feature description, please see the individual version pages.
GeoClassifieds Versions: [ E]nterprise - [ P]remier - [ B]asic - [ L]ite
Scalability & Flexibility
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| High Traffic - Ability to handle extreme amounts of trafffic due to its database functionality. |
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| Unlimited Listings - Scalable to a virtually limitless number of listings. |
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| Unlimited Users - Scalable to a virtually limitless number of users. |
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| Unlimited Categories - Classifieds Software allows you to enter any number of categories. |
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| Unlimited Subcategories - Classifieds Software allows you to enter any number of subcategories. |
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| Unlimited Category Specific Questions - Classifieds Software allows you to enter as many questions per category as you desire. |
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| Seamless Updates - Your site design and settings are stored in the database, allowing for you to receive and implement software updates seamlessly without affecting your existing changes. |
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| Hosting Portability - Your MySQL database and files can be backed up and moved to a different host if you wish without losing any of your data...site design, users, listings, everything can be moved. |
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| Enhanced Email Settings - allows you to take advantage of either your server's Standard SendMail configuration or SMTP configuration. |
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| Dynamic Extra Pages - feature allows you to create your own extra pages to use for whatever content you wish to display...contact us, about us, pricing schemes, special promo offers, whatever you want. |
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| Intelligent Thumbnail Scaling - Specify thumbnail image sizes within the software's admin panel. |
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| Unix or Windows - Our Classifieds Software has capability to run on both Unix/Linux and Windows web servers, but we prefer Unix/Linux due to typical folder/file permissions and access limitations typically found with Windows servers. |
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| Zip/Postal Code Proximity Search - Can be integrated with the GeoProducts ZipSearch Module, which allows your site visitors to perform proximity search (in miles) based upon a Zip Code entered. |
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| Share User Registrations - Can be integrated with the GeoProducts API Module, which allows connection to other GeoProducts, vBulletin, and Phorum. |
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| Copy categories, Subcategories and Category Specific Questions from one category to another saving valuable hours of setup time. |
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| Template Design Flexibility - Template based platform allows for complete flexibility in design layout just as if you were setting up a static html website. Develop one template and assign it to every page of your site. Or develop individual templates for as many pages as you'd like... html developer's dream. No PHP experience is required!!! |
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International Capabilities
Admin Control Panel
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| Comprehensive and Attractive Admin Control Panel that is complex, yet user-friendly. This browser based control panel allows you to access and manage your software from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. |
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| Hundreds of Pages of Administrative Control over your site, including: |
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 Site header Site left and right columns
Site footer Site page width
Site page height
Adjust each column's width
User menu bar
Admin menu bar
All site text, fonts, colors, background colors, justification
Site name
Title bar description
Several options to enter headers, footers, columns data:
HTML
Images
Text
File Banner Ad
Site background image
Automatically moves ads to a selected category from a deleted category
Control registration emails
Control ad placement emails
Identify required/optional fields
Edit, update, delete state/provinces dropdown box
Control pixel size of thumbnail images
Set limitations on file size of uploaded images
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| Category Location of Listing Placements - force sellers to place their listings in the lowest subcategory of their desired category. This will not only make the browsing of the site easier for your visitors, but also make your site look more populated with listings, since all listings filter upward and are displayed in parent categories. |
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| Category Order Control - allows you specify the order of the categories...they do not have to be displayed in alphabetical order. |
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| Category Specific Questions - customize and tailor category/subcategory questions so that they are applicable to any market. |
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| Enter HTML in most areas within the Admin Facility to display a site that is truly unique from any other GeoClassifieds user. |
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| Declare and Restrict HTML tags that will be allowed/disallowed on your site. |
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| Badword Filter - Screen lisitngs as they are entered onto your site for "badwords". Designate an automatic 'replacement word' for each 'badword' that the software detects. |
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| List/Search/Manage users/registrants by: |
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User name
Last name
First name
Date joined
Email address
Company address
URL
City
Earliest Joined
Latest Joined
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| Form Messages / Emails - Create an unlimited amount of form messages to send to users/registrants. You can send messages to individual users or entire User Groups. |
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| Message History - allows you to review past messages sent to users. |
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| Manual reset of Category Counts - allows you to always have an accurate category count of listings in each category. |
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| Admin can grant permission to edit ad category . If you do not want your user's to be able to edit the category the ad is placed after it is live then you can prevent it. |
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| Admin can grant permission to edit ad images . If you do not want your user's to be able to edit or delete their ad's images after it is live then you can prevent it. |
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| User and Admin Menu bars are "dynamic". Links on bars show/no-show themselves automatically depending on various settings within the admin, and depending on whether the user is logged in or not. |
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| Terms of Use/Registration agreement - require registrant to agree. |
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| Control the number of days an ad can be displayed. |
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| Control types of files that can be uploaded through a sophisticated tool that allows you to upload any file and the system identifies the "mime-type" to allow future uploads of that same file type. You can then designate an "icon" to display for each file type that will show up on the ad display page when a user uploads a file of that type. |
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| Control types of images that can be uploaded. |
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| Control size of image/file to be uploaded. |
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| Configure column display of uploaded images. |
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| Allow/disallow thumbnails. |
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| Control size of thumbnails. |
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| Control length of ad title. |
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| Control length of ad description - long word filter. |
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| Control aspects of the registration process, including required/optional fields. |
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| Control amount of images to be uploaded. (Lite version only allows for one image upload per ad.) |
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| Add additional ad questions to subcategories. |
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| Add ad questions at a top level category that filter down through the subcategories. |
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| Unique capability to create HTML driven "Extra Pages". Use for: |
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FAQ's page
Products & Services page
Shopping cart pages
Affiliates page
General Informaton page
You choose... any HTML riven page you can create.
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| Create multiple groups to better organize and communicate with users. |
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| Site Statistics - Displays various GeoClassifieds Stats on front page of admin. Displays your site's: |
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Total current live ad count
Number of users with current ads Total users registered Total current ad viewed count Number of ads awaiting approval |
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| Site On/Off Switch - allows you to temporarily remove public access from your site to perform maintenance as necessary. You will still be able to browse and log into the client side of your site even though your visitors will not be able to view it. |
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Site Customization
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| Ability to display "Newest Ads" in categories (category specific). |
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| Apply background images. |
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| Apply background colors. |
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| Show left or right or both column(s). |
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| Choose size and color of columns or insert own html, flash, java applets, etc... |
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| Complete header control - (show, no show, size, color, html, text, graphics, etc...) |
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| Complete footer control - (show, no show, size, color, html, text, graphics, etc...) |
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| Insert images for categories/subcategories. |
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| Control all site text through the admin. |
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| Control site font (size, type, color, weight, justification, etc...). |
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| Complete font control . |
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| Show newest ads on front page. |
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| Select the number of newest ads to be displayed on the front page. |
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| Many variables for controlling the appearance of the ads, including table widths, border sizes, background colors, menu bar colors, and all text colors and fonts. |
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| Multiple display choices for Category Tree while browsing. |
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| Any text can be replaced with an image of your choice . So, rather than use plain text for a link, use your own image instead. |
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| Can replace GeoClassifieds standard buttons with your own buttons. |
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| Create your own ad display template to be stored in the admin facility. |
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| Add multiple languages and give your users the choice of language to view your site in. |
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| Select the number of featured ads to be displayed on the front page. |
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| Show featured ads on front page and subcategory pages. |
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| Show hottest ads on front page. |
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| Welcome, Guest message displayed on site to personalize the visitor's experience to your site. After the user logs in the message will display their Username. The Enterprise version allows you to choose to display one of the following: their username, first name, last name, first and last name, or email address. |
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| Ability to turn off the display of the "Powered by GeoClassifieds" link that appears at the bottom of every page. |
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| Admin approval of ads before they go live. |
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| Show category specific hottest ads within each subcategory page. |
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| Create and store as many of your own ad display templates in the admin facility as you would like and assign category specific templates to each category if you desire. |
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| Over 50 modules included that can be placed anywhere throughout your site to display different sets of data or perform distinct functions. |
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| Several "logged in/logged out" modules which allow you to display one set of html design when the user is logged in and another set of html when the user is logged out. One use could be to show one navigation bar before they log in and another with different buttons after they log in. |
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| Ability to display featured picture ads , where only a thumbnail of the ad, and an optional display of price and title are shown. Picture ads can be displayed in as many columns and rows as desired. |
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| Create a unique design for every page of the site if you like, or use one default design to be used on every page. |
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| Each main category (category with no parent category above them) can have its own category specific look and genre. Completely change the look of each category page or just the header area… complete flexibility . |
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| Ability for the user to sort columns while browsing. For example, the user can sort by Title, Price, etc. Also, each Site Wide Field (unique fields you enter) can be displayed in browsing results tables and they too become sortable ! |
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| Set the number of category browsing columns to be different than on subcategory pages. For example on the front page display 2 columns of categories. Then on the subcategories pages display 3 columns of subcategories. |
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| Designate the page displayed after a user logs in - "user management home" or "site home". |
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| Ability to display the current user's first and/or last name, email or username in an effort to personalize any page. |
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| Display ads placed in the last 24 hours, 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks. |
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Banner Ads
Fee-Based Features
Listing Display Preferences & Features
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| Ad results tables are propogated from lowest level subcategory to highest and then filtered out as the user browses deeper into the subcategories. |
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| Limit the number of images to be displayed for ads. |
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| Control browsing aspects of your site: |
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Number of columns to use while displaying categories/subcategories
Display subcategory ads in a parent category while browsing
Number of ads to display per page while brosing
Choose whether to display dates, descriptions or photo icons
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| Display the date in different configurations. |
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| Intelligent thumbnail scaling . The thumbnail size will be controlled from within the admin tool. |
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| Control the use of the country, state/province and zip field within ads. |
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| Overall classifieds front page optionally displays the number of ads in each category and subcategory next to its listing. |
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| URL specific extra questions - an image of your choice will display with a link to the website entered by user in ad. |
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| Optional use of predefined values for Cities, States, and any other variables the admin wishes to use; Admin selects whether to display variables in a dropdown box or alow users to write in their own values. |
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| Create your own ad template or use the GeoClassifieds default ad template. The Enterprise version allows you to store and assign as many ad templates as you wish to individual categories and subcategories. |
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| Allow for any type of file uploading (real audio, mpeg, gif, etc...). |
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| Limit the max number of ads a seller can have at any given time. |
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| Clickable links/buttons on the ad display page including: |
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Tell a friend
Contact Seller
Add to favorites
Sellers other ads
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| Admin can optionally force sellers to place their ads in the lowest possible subcategory. |
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| Admin can allow the seller to use html to place their ad . |
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| Seller has the ability to log in and modify their ad's title, description, photos, and even the category the item is located in. These abilities are all controlled by the admin. |
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| Each ad has a "times viewed" counter which indicates the number of times that item has been viewed by site visitors. |
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| "Thank You" email sent to user when an ad is successfully (active/live/approved if necessary after payment) placed. Can be turned off in admin. The information will contain basic information about the ad. |
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| When removing an ad from the site the seller is presented with a short form to optionally give a reason for ad removal . |
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| Limit the number of characters used in the Ad Title . |
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| Limit the number of characters used in the Ad Description . |
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| Ad Upgrade process allows the user to pull up their active ads and upgrade to "featured status", "bolding", "better placement", etc. This process then takes them to a payment page so submit the applicable fee to you for the changes they've made to their ad. |
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| Popup window for ad images on ad display page can be html template based and allow for you to designate a horizontal and vertical size (in pixels) greater than the size of the image. Window also offers a "previous" and "next" button for the user to view each image in the ad without opening a new popup window. |
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| MapQuest button on ad display page that aut omatically ma ps the item for the buyer. The advertiser can optionally provide this mapping information. |
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| Printer friendly page can be displayed and for user to print the ad. |
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| Optional display of a "splash page" when user goes to place an ad. Can be used to advertise another product, review a price plan, etc. |
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| Ability to add " checkboxes " to the ad display. For example, allow your advertisers when placing their ad to choose from a set of options, such as, in the case of an Automobiles site: power locks, AC, power steering, keyless entry, etc. When the advertiser checks these boxes, those options will show up on the ad display page in a separate list format. Each option in the list can have a small image of your choice in front of it. |
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| User can show a "SOLD" sign next to their ad after it sells. This helps you, as the admin, to market your site by showing that your current customers are selling their items from using your site. |
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| Admin can implement up to 20 Site Wide Fields to be used on the during ad placement. These fields can be used to ask the seller various questions about the item for sale. If the seller fills in a question, it will be displayed on the Ad Display Page. These fields also become "sortable columns" that the site visitor can "sort" alphanumerically while browsing the site. |
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| Seller can input a title to each photo uploaded. For example in the Real Estate category the seller may want to label their photos: Master Bedroom, Entry Hallway, Brick Fireplace, etc. |
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| Ability for users to vote and leave a comment on an ad. |
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| Ability to automatically display a "NEW" image next to each category and subcategory when an ad has been placed in that category within a certain time period designated by the admin. |
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| Admin can allow users to have their personal affiliates page , which displays only that users ads. The user has their own unique url to their ads on your site and can post that url on their own site to redirect their visitors to their personal "storefront" . The affiliate has the ability to load their own html to their personal affiliates page. |
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| Signs & Flyers - ability for a user to create signs and flyers for any of their ads. Sign and/or Flyer is dynamically generated with the ad's data on an Admin implemented template. For example, signs are great for printing out and posting on an Automobile. Flyers are great for printing out and posting on a bulletin board. Also, each sign and flyer advertises the item for sale and instructs the potential buyer to access your classifieds site for more information on the item...thus, FREE MARKETING FOR YOU THROUGH YOUR OWN CUSTOMERS! |
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Listing Expiration
Email Alert Notification (Listing Filters)
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combined software
