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Site Visitor Preferences & Features
This software is packed full of features not only for you, but also for you to offer your site visitors. After all, they are the ones using your site and providing you with your income. Why not do everything you can to make their experience on your site as easy to manage and attractive as possible?

Powerful User Interface CLICK HERE to view what you will be offering your visitors on their "My Account" Page.

Place New Ad Pages allow your visitors to enter their own ads, including the ad's title, description, category specific fields, photo / video / pdf / MS Word / etc. uploads and so on. Give your visitors control over their ads and make your site's management a little easier on yourself.

My Active Ads Pages allow your visitors to view all of the active ads they currently have on your site. Based upon your settings, they can access their active ads and upgrade each ad with a variety of "add-ons", such as: attention getters, featured ad status (up to 5 featured levels with various site exposure), ad better placement, and ad bolding. They also have the ability to renew and edit (based upon your preferences) and delete each ad in their Active Ads list. Another unique feature they have is the abiility to keep their ad on your site for the remainder of it's payment term, even after it has already been sold. They can simply access their Active Ads page, find the sold item, and select the "SOLD" icon. This will leave the item on your site, but mark it as sold to the public. Thus, they get to keep the item up on your site for the duration they paid for.
BENEFIT: Better yet, new visitors to your site will see that items are actually being sold through your site, and entice them to register and place ads.

My Expired Ads Pages allow your visitors to view the ads that have expired from your site, and offers them ability to renew their ads (within a time period you specify).
BENEFIT: Gives your customers another opportunity to renew their ads (increasing your revenue) without them having to type in their ad's details all over again.

My Favorites Page allows your visitors to create a list of items they want to keep for quick recall at a later time...You might call this a "watch list".
BENEFIT: Keeps visitors coming back to check the status of their "Favorite" items in a conveniently located place.

My Ad Filters Pages allow your visitors to set up an auto-notification by email if an ad is later placed within the category they specify with the key words they specify.
BENEFIT: This will keep your visitors coming back to your site without having to ask them to sign up for a newsletter.

My Current Information Pages allow visitors to manage their account information themselves. They can edit their site password, email address, physical address, affiliate page html, add money to their account balance, pay an invoice, etc.
BENEFIT: Allowing users to maintain their own data frees you up from having to enter this information for every user.

My Communications Pages allow users to use their site account to communicate with other users of your site. Messages will be stored in a table on the users page for reviewing and replying. Using the software's communications system allows sellers to maintain their privacy from interested buyers if they wish to.
BENEFIT: You have the ability in the admin control panel to be secretly copied on all communications between the seller and potential buyer when they use this software's communications system.

Communications Settings allow your visitors to select either "public" communication or "private" communication. "Public" communication means that when an interested buyer selects the "contact seller" button on a seller's ad, their message will be sent via email and the seller's email address will be exposed to the buyer. "Private" communication means that the seller will return to your site to communicate with an interested buyer. Their email address is never exposed during this process.
Print Signs & Flyers Pages allow your sellers to print out a Sign and/or Flyer of their item. Each sign and flyer is prepopulated with each ad's information. They have the ability to change this information prior to printing.
BENEFIT: FREE MARKETING!!! You have the ability to control the overall template that gets printed for each sign and flyer. Therefore, each can display your site's logo, website address, etc. So, not only are your customers paying you for their ad placements, but they are also advertising for you, because each sign/flyer entices the interested buyer into logging on to your site for more information about the item.

Account (Site) Balance Payment Feature*** allows your sellers to have running account balance with your site for them to pay for ad placements, ad renewals, ad upgrades, etc. How it works: Your sellers can access their account and make a payment to you for whatever amoun they want. Let's say they pay you $100. That $100 goes into their site's account balance with you. Each time they perform an action that requires a payment to you (i.e. placing an ad), they will have the option to pay you from their account balance, which will then automatically deduct the cost of the ad. This keeps them from having to go to your merchant account and reenter their credit card details every time they need to pay you for a service.
BENEFIT: Less merchant account charges. Most merchants charge you a minimum fee for every transaction that they process for you. Using the software's Account Balance Payment Feature reduces the number of times a user sends a payment to you through your merchant. Instead, smaller merchant transactions are combined into one large merchant transaction.

Invoice Payment Feature*** allows your sellers to have a negative account balance with your site. In other words, they can place ads at will on your site without being charged a fee at the time of ad placement. Then, at a time of your choosing (i.e. at the end of the month), you can send them a single invoice (sent by email) for all charges incurred during that period. How it works: Your sellers will place ads on your site and pay you by credit card, check, etc. --or-- they can select to be "invoiced" for their accrued transactions at a later time. Your sellers can access their account on your site and view their total "uninvoiced charges" (charges you have not yet sent an invoice for). They can also pay for invoices that you have sent to them through their account. They can pay you for each invoice by credit card, check, etc.
BENEFIT: Less merchant account charges. Just as with the Account Balance Payment Feature, you are compiling transactions and charging for several at one time, thereby reducing the number of accesses to your merchant acount.

Account (Site) Balance Feature and the Invoice Payment Feature cannot be used concurrently. You will need to select only one method for all users of your site. The choice is yours, you just need to decide if you want the payments from your sellers "up front" (Account Balance Payment Feature) or if you want to allow sellers to say "put it on my tab" (Invoice Payment Feature).

Affiliate Page Privileges can be given on a User Group by User Group basis. Each user that has Affilitiate Page Privileges has access to their own personal page on your site which displays a table containing their active ads. Their personal account then gives them the ability to enter their own html that will be displayed on their Affiliate Page just above their ad listings. So, for instance, if they have their own website, they could display some of their website's products directly on their Affiliate's Page. Also, since their Affiliate's Page has it's own URL, they can send out this URL in emails or post it on websites for visitors to click through directly to their personal Affiliate's Page located on your site.
BENEFIT: Increased visitor traffic to your site, as well as, increased Search Engine Optimization. Since search engines look at domains that are linking into your site as part of their search engine results criteria, you will get increased attention from Search Engines, the more users you have linking to their Affiliate Page.
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