| Software Delivery & Installation |
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| Client Area - As a customer of Geodesic Solutions, you will have access to your own personal client area on our site that allows you to access and download your software any time, day or night. |
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| Software Updates - You will receive free updates on your software for 12 months after your purchase. You will automatically be notified by email if a new update is available for your software version. |
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| Installation Wizard - Allows you to run a setup script that guides you through the installation of the software to your server. |
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| Installation Wizard Executable File Option - Allows you to click on an icon to begin the installation process, similar to installing traditional pc-based software. The file transfer process of the software to your domain takes place automatically using this executable file. |
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| Paid Installation by the Geodesic Solutions Staff is also available for those customers who would prefer that we install the software for them. Installation can typically be performed on the same day as the order is received. |
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| Free Professional Installation - Geodesic Solutions staff will install the software for you free of charge as outlined on the installation page. |
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| Software Scalability & Flexibility |
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| High Traffic Capability - 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 - Allows you to enter any number of categories. |
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| Unlimited Subcategories Allows you to enter any number of subcategories. |
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| Unlimited Category Specific Questions 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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| Dynamic Extra Pages 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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| Zip/Postal Code Proximity Search Can be integrated with the GeoProducts Zip / Postal Code Search Addon, which allows your site visitors to perform proximity search (in miles or kilometers) based upon a Zip / Postal Code entered. |
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| Share User Registrations Can be integrated with the GeoProducts Bridge Addon, which allows connection to other GeoProducts, vBulletin, and Phorum. |
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| PHP Source Code NOT Encrypted Gives you full access to the PHP Source Code so that you can make edits, enhancements, and feature additions to the software. |
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| "Powered by" Link NOT Required Although appreciated, you are NOT required to display a 'powered by Geodesic Solutions' icon or link on your site. |
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| Adaptable for Multiple Industries This software can be set up to cater to a wide variety of industries...autos, real estate, boats, horses, personals, jobs, etc. |
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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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| 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. The template's html is built from the opening html tag to closing html tag, which allows you to enter your own meta data into the template. |
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| Module Based Features Each feature (module) of the software has it's own specific tag, which allows you to move/edit/delete that tag anywhere within the template that you want the feature to be displayed. |
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| Create Unlimited Templates Develop individual templates for as many pages as you'd like... html developer's dream. No PHP experience is required!!! Since you can create an unlimited number of templates, you can assign a unique template for every page if you want to, including on a category by category basis. In other words, you can have a unique template design for an Automobiles category, Real Estate category, Personals category, etc. |
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| Additional Sortable Fields These fields can be set up to be used as 'sortable columns' (sort listings) while browsing the site's categories. |
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| Additional Featured Listing Levels/Modules - Optionally implement up to 5 levels of featured listings modules. Display each level in a prominent location on your site and charge sellers based upon the level of exposure for each module. For example, you could display Level 2 Featured Listings on the front page and charge a premium. You could then display Level 3 Featured Listings on a subcategory page and charge less for those listings. |
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| Additional HTML Modules - Ten additional HTML Modules (over Basic and Premier) which offer two display states. One set of html (logged out state) is displayed before the user logs in. The other set of html (logged in state) is displayed after the user logs in. This allows you to set up, for example, a dynamic menu that shows only the appropriate menu links depending upon the logged in/out status of the user. |
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| SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Friendly Features |
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| Meta Tags - Software gives you the ability to enter meta tags through the admin panel so that the meta tags are applied across all pages of your site. You can enter your meta tags directly into the template html just as you would for an ordinary static html file. |
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| Page Titles - Unique titles are dynamically produced for each page by the software based upon the page of your site that the visitor is browsing. For example, if a visitor is browsing the 'Automobiles' category, 'Automobiles' will be displayed in the browser's page title. If the visitor is viewing a listing, the actual title of the listing will be used for the browser's page title. |
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| Page Linking - Every page of the software has a distinct URL that can be 'linked to' from other websites. This includes individual categories, subcategories, listings, etc. |
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| Editable Text Areas - Every piece of text displayed on the site has a 'text area' associated with it. Since it is a 'text area' and not a 'text field', you can enter 'html' into that area which may be used to improve search engine effectiveness. |
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| Search Engine Friendly URLs - The software uses 'mod-rewrite' on your server to display your site's URLs in a .html format rather than a .php format. It does this through the SEO Addon, included with our Enterprise Editions. (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - SEO Addon) |
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| International Capabilities |
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| Countries Dropdown - Ability to set up countries in a dropdown box format for users to select when registering and listing their items. |
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| Assign International monetary/currency prefixes/suffixes - for listings. |
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| International Date Display - allows you to select from many different date formats. |
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| Multiple Languages - Conversion of entire site into limitless number of languages. Admin sets a default language. Visitor selects to view site in any language you've entered. Cookie remembers and automatically opens site in visitor's language of choice upon next visit up to one year later. Language option can be turned on/off by admin. |
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| Payment Gateways Supported - Paypal, Authorize.net, 2Checkout, WorldPay, Linkpoint, Internet Secure Source, Paypal Pro, Verisign Payflow Pro, Payment Express, and Nochex. |
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| Language Import / Export - Allows you to export all text in database to perform a translation in MS Excel and then import your translated file. |
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| Character Encoding Switch - Allows you to specify the character set you are entering within the text areas of the software's admin panel. |
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| Server Time Offset - Allows you to specify the time zone of your site relative to the time zone that your server (host) is located. |
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| Phone Number Grouping/Formatting - Allows you to specify the number of digits to be displayed within each grouping of numbers. Allows you to specify the display format of dashes, dots and digits based upon the phone number grouping chosen. |
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| Monetary Formatting - Allows you to specify the formatting of digits before and after the decimal. |
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| Browser-Based (Internet Accessible) Control Panel |
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| Admin Control Panel - Complete administrative control over your site through a 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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| Manage Registrations - Offer "secure" registrations with your domain's SSL Security Certificate. Specify which fields will be used and required for users to fill out. Automatically or manually approve all registrations. Require users to approve your registration/user agreement. |
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| Manage Listings - Offer a "secure" listing process with your domain's SSL Security Certificate. Specify which fields will be used during the listing process, pixel size of thumbnail images, camera icon, listing durations, pre-valued dropdown boxes, allowed upload types (jpg, gif, mpeg, etc), number of photos, maximum size of photos, and more. Automatically or manually approve all listings. |
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| Manage Emails - Specify where emails will be sent and at what frequency. Send and save "form emails" to be sent to your site's users. |
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| Manage Categories - Set up an unlimited number of categories, subcategories, and category specific questions. Display a unique icon in front of each category and subcategory. Control the number of columns of categories to be displayed on the front and browsing pages. Turn on or off the category counts. Set the category order. |
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| Manage Users - List/Search/Sort users of your site. View their personal information, listings, and transaction history. Suspend users as you deem necessary. |
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| Manage Pricing - If charging for listings, set up your own simple/complex pricing scheme(s) that will be applied to users of your site. |
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| Manage Payments - If charging for listings, you can specify the currency type you are willing to accept, as well as, the payment types that you offer (credit card, paypal, manual payments, etc). |
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| Manage Transactions - Search for and view past transactions. Approve listings that waiting for you to review. |
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| Manage Geography Lists - Specify country and states/provinces lists that will be displayed as dropdown choices for users to select on the site's registration, listing, and search pages. |
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| Manage Pages - Set up the text and fonts that are displayed on every page of your site. Every piece of text is editable. Create your own "extra pages" to display content to your visitors. |
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| Manage Languages - Translate the entire site to your own language. Offer as many languages as you wish. Your visitors can then choose which language they want to view your site in. |
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| Template Revision History - The software will keep track of the previous 5 revisions for each template, to include the date and time of revision. This feature allows you to revert each template back to a previous revision if you need to. |
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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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| Manage Templates - Create as many complex templates as you wish in order to set up the site exactly the way you want it to be displayed. You can assign unique templates to each category if you like. You also have complete design control over what the Listing Pages look like. |
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| Beta Switches and Settings - This page within your admin panel gives you a sneak-peek into some of the upcoming features of the software. You will even be able to implement these features on your site even though they are still considered to be 'beta' within the software. |
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| Manage Page Modules - Virtually all features of the software are modular, in that each feature has a 'module tag' associated with it. Simply add, move, or delete the module 'tags' within your site's html templates depending upon how you want the feature to be displayed. Further control each module's display by editing it's switches and settings. |
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| Manage Feedback - Set up the feedback rating system so that sellers/bidders can submit comments and ratings for each auction transaction that takes place through the site. Specify the rating increments and icons (Enterprise only) to be applied to each user who has received feedback. |
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| Site Customization |
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| Site Design - You have extensive control over your site's design. The software is HTML template based for extreme design flexibility. |
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| Listing Table Settings - You have control over the number of listings, columns displayed, thumbnail size, etc over all results tables of your site. In other words, every listing table can be modified with respect to colors and display settings (i.e. Featured Listings, Newest Listings, Hottest Listings, etc). |
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| Category Display Settings - Control the number of columns, font color and type, category icons, etc. |
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| Table Display Settings - You have control over the number of listings, columns displayed, thumbnail size, etc over all results tables of your site. In other words, every listing table can be modified with respect to colors and display settings (i.e. Featured Listings, Newest Listings, Hottest Listings, etc). |
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| Custom Listing Display Page - Customize the layout of your Listing Display Page. Note: The Enterprise Versions allow you to customize the Listing Display template on a category by category basis. |
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| Multiple Languages - Visitors can choose to view your site in any number of languages that you offer. You are responsible for each language translation. |
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| HTML Modules - These modules offer two display states. One set of html (logged out state) is displayed before the user logs in. The other set of html (logged in state) is displayed after the user logs in. This allows you to set up, for example, a dynamic menu that shows only the appropriate menu links depending upon the logged in/out status of the user. Basic and Premier editions offer 10 HTML Modules. Enterprise editions offer 20 HTML Modules. |
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| My Account Page - The user's My Account home page is controlled by a template which allows you to format the links any way you wish to display them. |
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| Custom Search Page - You have the ability to deactivate the default Advanced Search Page and insert your own html driven search form instead. |
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| View Listing Restrictions - Setting that allows you to require visitors to be logged in (registered) prior to viewing a Listing Details Page. The visitor can still browse the site's categories (essentially previewing listings), but not view the actual listing's details until they log in. |
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| Contact Seller Restrictions - Setting that allows you to require visitors to be logged in (registered) prior to contacting the seller through the Listing Details Page. The visitor can still browse the site's categories and view listings, but not contact the seller until they log in. |
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| Listing Display Page Customization |
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| Listing Display Page Template - The Listing Display Page is driven by a custom template which uses individual tags for virtually all of the fields on the page. This allows you to rearrange the default template that we give to you to suit your design needs. |
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| Category Specific Fields - You have the ability to create your own custom fields for each category of your site. These fields also serve as searchable criteria for visitors to use on the Search Page. |
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| Character Limits - You have the ability to specify the maximum number of characters that the user can use in their title and description fields. |
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| Photos Display - Control the number of photos allowed and the format in which they will be displayed on the Listing Display Page. Each photo is clickable and displayed in a popup window. The Enterprise version allows for the browsing between photos within the popup window. |
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| Visitor Counter - Each listing has a "times viewed" counter which indicates the amount of visitor traffic for that listing. |
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| HTML Editor - This editor can be turned on for the seller to use when they are listing their item. It allows them to customize the colors/fonts/layout of their listing's description. |
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| Standard Links - The Listing Display Page offers several customizable links that will take your visitors to several software driven pages: Tell-a-Friend, Contact Seller, Add To Favorites, Seller's Other Listings, Mapping, Print Friendly, Storefront(requires the Storefront Add On) |
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| Additional Fields - Additional fields that have the capability to be used not only on the Listing Display Page, but also as "sortable columns" within the category browsing pages. For example, if you were running a Real Estate specific site, you might use these fields for: Number of Bedrooms, Number of Baths, and Year Built. These fields would display on the listing display page, as well as, within the browsing categories tables of your site. So visitors would be able to sort listings by any one of those three fields. |
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| SOLD Sign - The seller can optionally display a SOLD sign image for each of their listings. This allows them to take advantage of the full duration of the listing they paid for, but not be contacted for potential buyers for that item. You can replace the software's default 'sold' image with your own |
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| Checkbox Question - This type of 'extra question' allows the seller to check off features of their item. Consequently, their 'checked' answers will display as 'checkboxes' on the Listing Display Page. This type of question is typically used when asking questions such as Real Estate property features or Automobile features. |
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| Lead Picture - Allows you to display the seller's first photo larger than their other photos and in a different location on the Listing Display Page. |
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| Splash Page During Listing Process - You can optionally display a Splash Page (displays html content) when user begins the listing process. The Splash Page can be used to advertise another product, review a price plan, etc. Each User Group can have their own Splash Page. |
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| Photo Title - The user can give each photo they upload a distinct title. 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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| Vote and Comment - You can give users the ability to vote on ad. They can leave a comment and vote. |
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| Popup Listing Display Page - You can set the site so that when a visitor selects a listing for viewing while browsing, a new popup window will open and display the Listing Display Page rather than a typical redirect to the Listing Display Page. |
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| Auction Specific Features |
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| Standard Auctions - Feature allows sellers to place their individual items up for auction. |
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| Dutch Auctions (Multiple Item Auctions) - Feature allows sellers to post several identical items or "lots" of items up for auction. Bidders will then bid a certain amount per item on a selected number of those items. This type of auction has the potential of having several winning bidders on the same auction...each bidder winning a certain number of items. |
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| Minimum Bid - This feature allows the seller to set the minimum starting bid for the auction. |
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| Reserve Bid - This feature allows the seller to specify the minimum amount they are willing to accept for their auction from a bidder. |
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| "Buy Now" Auction - This feature allows willing bidders to purchase the auction item immediately at the seller's specified "Buy Now" price. |
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| User Feedback System - This feature allows the seller and winning bidder of each auction to rate each other and provide a comment on how well the transaction went. |
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| Auto-Bidding - Sometimes called "proxy-bidding" or "absentee bidding", this feature allows the bidder to enter the maximum amount that they are willing to pay for the item and then walk away. The software will then automatically bid on their behalf up to the amount they specified...absentee bidding! |
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| Final Fees - Upon successful completion of an auction, you can charge the 'seller' a percentage fee based upon the 'final' selling price of the item. |
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| Bid Status - Bidders can view the current status of their bids by logging in to their personal "My Account" pages. |
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| Seller Emails - The software will send an email to the seller when their listing has been successfully placed on your site. Additionally, the seller will receive emails when their auction is about to expire, when the auction has been "unsuccessful", and when the auction has received a winning bidder. |
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| Bidder Emails - The software will send emails to the bidder when they have submitted a successful bid, when they have been outbid, and when they are the winning bidder of an auction. |
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| Bid History - You can allow visitors to view the current bid history of an auction. Bid history displays the bidder's username and bid amount. |
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| Invited List of Buyers - Each user can set up a list of buyers (based upon their usernames) that they are willing to accept bids from on their auctions. Only those users on the "Invited List" will be allowed to place bids on the user's auctions. |
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| Black List of Buyers - Each user can set up a list of buyers (based upon their usernames) that they want to "black list" from bidding on their auctions. Only users on the "Black List" will not be allowed to place bids on the user's auctions. All other users on the site can place bids on the user's auctions. |
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| Auction Start / End Time - You can give the seller the ability to set a specific date and time for each auction to begin and end, rather than the auction simply going live immediately after placing the auction. |
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| Auction Preview Period - If allowing your sellers to specify the Auction Start / End Time, you can also set your site so that these auctions can be previewed on your site. All of the Listing details will be available to visitors of your site. However, they will not be able to place bids on the items until the seller's specified Start Time arrives. |
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| Enhanced User Feedback System - This feature allows you to set up a rating system that uses "icons" that represent a user's favorable or 'not so' favorable feedback ratings. For instance, by default the system uses colored stars to represent each user's feedback. You can easily replace the default star images with your own if you like. |
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| Subscription Based Bidding - You can set up your site so that each user must have a subscription to place a bid and/or even view an auction. |
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| Endless Auctions (Sniper bidding) - This feature automatically extends the length of an auction if a user bids just before the auction was to end. You can specify the number of minutes prior to expiration that the system should check for a successful bid. If a successful bid is detected within that time, the auction will be extended for the number of minutes you specify. This process will continue over and over until all bidding has stopped. |
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| Email Notifications to Site Administrator |
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| Registration Complete Email - You have the option to be notified each time a user successfully registers on your site. |
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| Registration Pending / Awaiting Approval Email - You have the option to approve all registrations prior to users being allowed to log in. If using this feature, the software will send you an email when there is a registration awaiting your approval. |
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| Manual Payment Email - You have the option to be notified when a "manual payment" option has been selected by a user to pay you for a listing on the site. For example, if you allows "manual payments", such as cash, check, or money order, the listing will be placed on hold until you receive the payment and you manually approve the listing. |
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| Listing Success / Awaiting Approval Email - You have the option to be notified when a listing has been successfully placed on your site. If you are approving all listings prior to them going live on your site, then this email also serves as a notification that there is a listing awaiting your approval. |
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| Listing Edited Email - You have the option to be notified when a user has edited their listing on your site. Other admin controls allow you to specify only certain fields that the user can edit within their listing. |
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| Contact Seller / Notify Friend Email - You have the option to be 'blind carbon copied' on all correspondence made between users of the "contact seller" and "notify a friend" features on the Listing Display Page. |
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| Listing Expiration Email - You have the option to be notified when the software has sent an email to a user warning them of a listing's pending expiration. |
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| Subscription Expiration Email - You have the option to be notified when the software has sent an email to a user warning them of a subscription's pending expiration. |
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| Fee-Based Features |
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| Listing Fees - Charge users for posting listings on your site or set to 'free'. |
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Payment Methods - You can can accept payments from your users in the following ways:
- Real-Time Credit Card Processing - Allow users to pay you for their listings by credit card. The listing can be set to automatically go 'live' when the payment is processed.
- PayPal Payments - Allow users to pay you for their listings through their PayPal account. The listing can be set to automatically go 'live' when the payment is processed.
- Cash Payments - Allow users to pay you for their listings by cash. The listing will be placed on hold until you receive their payment.
- Check Payments - Allow users to pay you for their listings by check. The listing will be placed on hold until you receive their payment.
- Money Order Payments - Allow users to pay you for their listings by money order. The listing will be placed on hold until you receive their payment.
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Listing Fees - can be charged based upon the following criteria:
- Flat Fee - for each listing.
- Price Field - of the item.
- Duration (in days) - of the listing.
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"Listing Extras" Fees - You can charge users specific fees for selecting extras to be added to their listings:
- Featured Listing Status
- Better Placement Status
- Bolding Status
- Fee Per Photo
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| Renewal Fees - Charge users for renewing their listings. |
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| Taxes - Charge your users a tax per listing based upon their location. The States/Provinces/Countries you have set up in the Geography Setup Menu allow you to specify a tax per region. Additionally, you may charge a 'flat tax' or a 'percentage tax' based upon the total of the purchase (listing cost). |
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| Category Specific Pricing - Charge certain fees for listings placed in certain categories. |
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| User Group Specific Pricing - Charge different fees to different user groups. You can separate users into groups when they register so that you can charge them differently. |
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| Unlimited Price Plans - Create an unlimited number of complex price plans and pricing schemes. |
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| Price Plan Expiration - Price Plans can be set to expire so that you can offer promotional specials to users for a period of time before an expired plan is replaced by another plan. |
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| Subscriptions - Charge users to have a subscription to your site. They can then place as many listings as you allow them to, but still be required to pay you for the listing "Add-On Fees" mentioned above for each listing they place. |
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Enhanced "Listing Extras" Fees - Enhanced options for you to charge users to be added to their listings:
- Featured Listing Levels (5 levels) - Lets you charge based upon proximity (exposure) of the listing on your site. For example, if you were to place Featured Level 2 listings on the Front Page, you would charge users who select this option more than you would charge users for selecting Featured Level 3 listings that you place on a subcategory page. Charge more for better exposure.
- Better Placement Status
- Attention Getters (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - strong>Attention Getters Addon)
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| Account Balance System - Allows your users to have a running 'account balance' with your site, from which they can place, renew, and upgrade listings. Users can add money to their balance any time they wish through a link within their "My Account" section of your site. This feature saves your customers time from having to submit their payment details over and over each time they list an item on your site. It also saves you money because it reduces the number of merchant account transaction fees. |
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| Invoice Balance System - Allows your users to accumulate charges which are kept in their account until you as the admin decide to send an invoice for their accumulated charges. This is basically a "put it on my tab" feature that keeps the user from having to submit payment through your merchant account every time they place a listing on your site. It also saves you money because it reduces the number of merchant account transaction fees. |
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| Attention Getters - Charge users extra for using an "attention getter". You can use the default software attention getters or add your own. |
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| Discount Codes - Ability to give users a special discount code that will give them a percentage discount off of the total listing cost during the listing process. You can create and issue as many discount codes as you like. (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - Discount Codes Addon) |
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| Subscription Required to View Listings Option - This setting allows users to browse your site's categories but requires them to pay for a subscription in order to view listing details pages. |
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| User Selected Price Plans - Based upon your permission settings, users can select their own pricing scheme when they go to place a listing on your site. |
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| Final Fees - Upon successful completion of an auction, you can charge the 'seller' a percentage fee based upon the 'final' selling price of the item. |
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| User Registration & Login Controls |
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| Registration Page - Simple, one-page registration process. |
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Email Verification Routine - You can implement an email address verification routine that forces the user to confirm their email address:
- Reduces fake registrations
- Ensures unique email addresses are required (no duplicates within the site)
- Assures that the user registering at least has current access to the email address used
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| Lost Password Routine - Sends the user's password to their email address.
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| Registration Fields - You can specify which fields are to be used and required. If the user fails to fill in a field, an error message displays.
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| Suspend Users - Admin has the ability to suspend users. |
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| Maximum Listings - Admin can set the maximum number of listings a user can have active at any given time. |
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| Bridge Add On - Allows you to share user registrations across multiple installations of our software or a Bulletin Board. (Purchasable as an Addon for all Editions - Bridge Addon) |
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| IP Banning - You have the ability to block registrations by users from specified IP Address. |
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| Post Login Page - You can specify that either the Front Page or My Account Page is displayed after a user logs in. |
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| Registration Code - You can create User Groups and assign each a unique Registration Code. When a user registers with that code, they will automatically be placed into that User Group and subject to that User Group's Price Plan fees. This allows you to advertise radio spots to some groups with one code, newspaper spots with another code, and etc. |
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| Credits (free listings) - You can automatically issue credits upon user registration. |
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| Registration Splash Page - When a user enters a Registration Code during registration you can display a Splash Page to them which displays any html you wish. For example, you might use the splash page to review the advertised pricing scheme that they will enjoy while using your site. |
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| Security Image - A Security Image will display at the bottom of each form for your visitors to verify each time they submit a form. Included with the Enterprise Edition. (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - Security Image Addon) |
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| Custom Registration Fields - Add up to 10 custom registration fields and set them to 'required' or 'dependent' based upon the use of another Registration Field. |
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| - You have the ability to block registrations by users from specified domains. |
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| Domain Allowing - You have the ability to allow registrations only by users from specified domains. |
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| Registration Required to View Listings Option - This setting allows visitors to browse your site's categories but requires them to be logged in to view listing details pages. |
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| Starting Balance - You can automatically issue credit (money) into a user's account balance upon registration. |
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| Registration Required to Contact Seller Option - This setting allows visitors to browse your site's categories and listings but requires them to be logged in to contact the seller. |
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| Registration Required to Browse Option - This setting allows visitors to browse your site's categories but requires them to be logged in to view individual listings. |
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| My Account Pages |
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| My Account Pages - Each registered user will have their own personal My Account section on our site in which they can edit their registration information and personal settings. |
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| Listing Process - Process guides the user through the Listing Process, which consists of choosing a category/subcategory for their listing, adding photo(s), entering the listing's details, and the payment processing for the listing.
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| My Active Listings - This section displays all of the user's active listings on your site. Based upon your permission settings, the user can edit and renew their listings prior to its expiration.
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| My Expired Listings - This section displays all of the user's expired listings on your site. Based upon your permission settings, the user can renew their listings within a set number of days you specify after expiration. |
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| My Favorites - Allows the user to add listings on your site to a 'favorites' or 'watch list'. These listings may be either removed by the user or automatically when the listing expires. |
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| My Listing Filters - Allows the user to set up 'filters' or 'email notifications' in which the software will monitor user specified categories and key words on the user's behalf, and automatically notify the user by email if a listing fits their criteria. This routine is run each time a listing is added to the site. |
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| My Account Information - Allows the user access to their personal (registration) information. They have the ability to view and edit their data, as well as, specify which of these fields they are willing to display publicly on their 'sellers other listings' page. A table of current fees is also displayed to them on this page. |
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| My Messages - Allows the user to communicate with other users of the site through a personal messaging system. They can view and reply to messages that were initiated through the 'contact seller' link on the Listing Display Page. |
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| Message Settings - Allows the user to specify either "Public" or "Private" communications when using the software's messaging system. The "Public" setting will reveal the user's email address. The "Private" setting will keep the user's email address private. |
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| Renew Listing - User can renew their listing prior to the listing's expiration, or within so many days of expiration, per your permission settings. |
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| Account Balances - If you allow for 'account balances' to be used on your site during the listing process, the user will be able to view their account balance, add money to their account balance, and view past transactions on your site. |
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| Invoice Balances - If you allow for 'invoicing' to be used on your site during the listing process, the user will be able to view past and currently owed invoices on your site. They will also be able to pay for their invoices directly through this section of the My Account pages. |
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| Signs & Flyers - Each user has the ability to print out a sign and flyer for each of their active listings on your site. Each sign and flyer is automatically populated with the listing information they have already entered during the listing process. You will predefine the look of the sign and flyer by implementing a template with the desired html and fields. When creating the template, the user can edit the fields prior to printing if they wish to. (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - Signs & Flyers Addon) |
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| Upgrade Listing - User can upgrade their listing during the renewal process by adding new feature 'add ons', such as featured status, bolding, and better-placement. |
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| Affiliate Page - Users are allowed to have an Affiliates Page based upon the User Group they are in. An affiliate page is a URL specific page for that particular user in which a table of the user's listings are displayed, as well as, additional html the user themselves can choose to display. |
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| My Current Bids - Shows the bidder their current and past bids on the site, as well as, the status of those bids...i.e. 'outbid', 'high bidder', etc. |
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| Feedback Management - Ability for users to view and provide feedback for auctions that they have either placed or been the high bidder on. Feedback comments and the seller's rating are displayed on each of the seller's Listing Display Pages. |
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| Invited List of Buyers - Each user can set up a list of buyers (based upon their usernames) that they are willing to accept bids from on their auctions. Only those users on the "Invited List" will be allowed to place bids on the user's auctions. |
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| Black List of Buyers - Each user can set up a list of buyers (based upon their usernames) that they want to "black list" from bidding on their auctions. Only users on the "Black List" will not be allowed to place bids on the user's auctions. All other users on the site can place bids on the user's auctions. |
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| Listing Expiration |
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| Listing Duration - Based upon your permissions settings, the user can choose the number of days before the listing will expire. |
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| User Initiated Expiration - Users can 'expire' the listing themselves and provide a reason for the expiration for you to view. |
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| Expired Listings Page - User can view the details of their recently expired listings. |
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| Listing Expiration Email - The software will send an email to the user warning them of a listing's pending expiration. You can specify the number of days that the email will be sent out prior to the listing's expiration. The email will prompt the user to renew their listing. |
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| Listing Renewal - Based upon your permissions settings, the user can renew their listing for a certain number of days after its expiration. |
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| Email Alert - Email of listing's pending expiration is sent out at a time you specify prior to the expiration date. |
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| Enhanced Listing Renewal - Allows the user to renew their listing and pay you for "listing extras" that they select with their renewal. |
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| Email Notifications to Users |
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| Registration Confirmation Email - The software will send an email to the user confirming their registration. You have the option to require the user to 'confirm their registration' by clicking on a link that will appear in the email. Using this feature confirms that the user supplied the correct email address when they entered their information during registration. |
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| Registration Success Email - The software will send an email to the user confirming that their registration has been approved. This can be set to an automatic approval process, or you can manually approve all registrations prior to letting the user log in to your site. |
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| Lost Password Email - The user can retrieve their password via email from the system by accessing the software's lost password routine. |
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| Listing Confirmation Email - The software will send an email to the user confirming their listing placement. |
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| Listing Expiration Email - The software will send an email to the user warning them of a listing's pending expiration. You can specify the number of days that the email will be sent out prior to the listing's expiration. The email will prompt the user to renew their listing. |
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| Listing Expiration Email Frequency - You can specify that the software send multiple "listing expiration emails" every few weeks, days, hours, etc. prior to the listing's expiration. In other words, you can choose the frequency at which the seller will receive expiration emails for each listing that is about to expire. |
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| Listing Success Email - The software will send an email to the user confirming that their listing has been approved. This can be set to an automatic approval process, or you can manually approve all listings prior to the listing going live on your site. |
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| Contact Seller Email - When a visitor of the site uses the 'contact seller' link on the Listing Display Page, the seller will be sent an email with the visitor's questions. |
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| Filter Match Email - When a user places a listing on the site that matches another user's 'listing filter' criteria, an email is sent to the user notifying them of the match. |
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| Admin Email - You have the ability to send out a mass email to all of your users. |
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| Subscription Expiration Email - The software will send an email to the user warning them of their subscription's pending expiration. You can specify the number of days that the email will be sent out prior to the subscription's expiration. The email will prompt the user to renew their subscription to your site. |
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| High Bidder Email - The software will send an email to the user when they have submitted a successful bid on the site. |
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| Outbid Email - The software will send an email to the user when they have been outbid by another user on the site. |
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| Searching & Browsing Capabilities |
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| Advanced (Dynamic) Search Page - that allows for a variety of different search criteria. When the visitor selects a category to search, the search page refreshes and presents to the visitor additional "fields" that relate to the "category" they just chose. All category specific fields that the "seller" was given during the listing process are also "searchable fields" for the visitor to use on the Advanced Search Page. |
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| Category / Subcategory Browsing - Visitors will find your site easy to navigate as they click from one category to the next and through your site's subcategories. |
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| Zip / Postal Code Search Addon Compatible - Allows visitors to enter their U.S. Zip Code and a search radius from that Zip Code. The software will return a set of results that meet the specified "proximity" search radius. The use of this feature requires that you have the Zip / Postal Code Search Addon installed, which is currently set up with only U.S. Zip Codes. However, the addon may be used for any country if you have the appropriate Postal Code data. (Purchasable as an Addon for all Editions - Zip / Postal Code Search Addon) Please contact us if you would like to use this addon outside of the U.S. |
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| Featured Listings - Displays a list of your site's featured (high profile) listings. |
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| Newest Listings - Displays a list of the listings most recently placed on your site. |
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| Hottest Listings - Displays a list of your site's most popular listings. |
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| Search Box - Displayed on front page and/or subpages of your site and allows for search by keyword and category. |
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| Sortable Listings - While browsing categories, visitors can 'sort' the listings by 'title', 'description', 'city', etc. Any "Extra Fields" that you are using for each category are also 'sortable' by the visitor. |
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| Recent Listings Links - Allows your visitors to view only those listings that were placed within the last 24 hrs, one week, two weeks, or three weeks. |
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| Custom Search Forms - You have the ability to create your own html search forms to be displayed on most pages of your site. Simply create the form using html and use the software's normal Search routine to produce results. |
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| Custom Search Page - You have the ability to deactivate the default Advanced Search Page and insert your own html driven search form instead. Additionally, you can set up your html driven Search Page for each category of your site. |
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| State Filter - Allows visitors to filter out listings by selecting their state from a dropdown menu. |
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| Zip (Postal) Code Filter - Allows visitors to filter out listings by selecting a zip (postal) code from a dropdown menu. This filter uses a proximity search (radius search) routine and therefore requires the Zip / Postal Code Search Addon, in order to process the results. |
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| Field Filter - Allows you to set up two or more levels of dynamic dropdowns for your visitors to select from. These dropdowns, when selected by the visitor, will automatically filter listings on the site based upon the value chosen by the visitor., in order to process the results. |
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| Security |
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| Email Notification - to the administrator when a user registers. |
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| Badword Filter - Screen listings 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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| Email Validation - Checks the validity of e-mail addresses form (
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| Form Field Validation - Checks to make sure that users entered all necessary contact information. |
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| Register Globals - Code written to allow for register globals "on" or "off" without sacrificing security. |
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| Secure Registration - ability to set the registration process to secure mode by using your domain's security certificate. |
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| Secure Listing Process - ability to set the listing process to secure mode by using your domain's security certificate. |
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| Duplicate Email Checking - system checks existing registrations to ensure that the email address entered is not already in use. |
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| Duplicate Username Checking - system checks existing registrations to ensure that the username entered is not already in use. |
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| Username and Password Checking - system checks for to ensure that user has entered the minimum and maximum number of digits for their username and password. |
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| Validate Password Routine - system requires the user to enter their password twice to ensure accuracy of the entry. |
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| HTML Restriction - Declare specific HTML tags that will be allowed/disallowed on your site. |
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| IP Banning - Ban users from accessing your site who are connecting from a specific IP Address. Users from these IP Addresses will not even be able to view your site at all. |
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| Notices and Warnings - Section in admin which provides warnings to you of potential security issues. |
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| Domain Blocking - Admin has the ability to "block" registrations by users from specified domains. |
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| Domain Allowing - Admin has the ability to "allow" only registrations by users from specified domains. |
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| Notification by e-mail - to the administrator when a seller edits their listing. |
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| Notices and Warnings - User required to enter security code when filling out registration, login, contact seller, and notify-a-friend forms on your site. Code is produced by a random generator and presented to the user to enter for validation. (Purchasable as an Addon for Basic and Premier Editions - Security Image Addon) |
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| Software Support & Updates |
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| User Forum - You will have full access to our User Forum for troubleshooting and sharing tips and tricks with other users of GeoProducts software. |
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| Knowledgebase - You will find a answers to many common questions in our online Knowledgebase which has been expanding with information for several years now. |
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| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) - Our FAQ's database provides yet more information on our software. |
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| Free Updates - You will receive Fee updates on our programs for One Full Year from the date of purchase. You will also automatically receive an email alert when an update is available for your version. This service is renewable after the first year. However, renewing support and updates is optional. |
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| Free Support - You will receive unlimited Free email support for One Full Year from the date of purchase. Our ticket system gives you the opportunity to log in and open new tickets, as well as, check the status of your existing tickets. This service is renewable after the first year. However, renewing support and updates is optional. |
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| User Manuals - We offer a downloadable .pdf User Manual, as well as, an Interactive and Searchable online User Manual. |
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| Tutorials - Our tutorials provide a detailed explanation as to how the default software templates are set up with respect to the pages, templates, and modules that are available. Additional tutorials are included within the User Manual. |
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