Category Specific Features

Each category can have as many of these types of questions attached to it as you want. Once attached to a category these questions will appear within the place a listing process when that category is chosen. These questions can be of any number of types setup within the system: basic text box, dropdown,..etc.

The browsing filter provides field filtering ability within the category browsing feature. While that's powerful enough you have the additional ability to configure this feature on a category by category basis. You can configure any category specific field you have configured for use in a category as an element to filter classifieds and auctions by in the browsing filter..

If you are using the fee-based pricing plans you have the additional ability to set pricing on a category by category basis. Many of the price plan configurations you have at the site wide price plan level you can also set at the category by category level within each fee-based price plan.

TYou can control not only the fields used but whether they are displayed as a column within the category browsing results. You can do this on a category by category basis. You can control the display of site wide optional, multi-level and standard field types as columns.

This probably one of the more powerful and useful features in the software. This feature allows you to customize fields used and displayed within a category. These category specific configurations not only affect the category browsing feature but can control the fields displayed in any module displayed within the category browsing feature. This controls site wide optional, multi-level and standard field use as well as display as a column in the category browsing results.

You have the ability to control the html header elements that appear in each category for SEO purposes. You can set meta tags, title and other tags and they will appear in the html head of that categories page when browsed. You can set parent header information and let it automatically appear in it's subcategories or you can individually set for each individual category in your system.

If you are using the GeoCore Max version of the software your clients have the ability to place auctions and classified ads. You may not want those two listing types to be in the same category. This feature allows you to control classified ads, auction or both are allowed within a specific category. This feature is used a lot to setup specific want ads categories in our clients sites.

If you choose to display a description within the category browsing results you have the ability to control how it displays on a site wide as well as category by category basis..

You have the ability to set the templates used when a specific category is browsed. You can set category home, category 2nd page, listing details for classified ads display, listing details for auction details display, page template for details page, search and search results, grid browsing, list browsing, gallery browsing templates and more..

You have the ability to use the site wide duration settings but also you can set classified and auction duration choices on a category by category basis. So you can let all categories use the site wide durations by not setting any. Or you can set some listing durations for some categories and let the site wide work in the rest or you can set category specific listing durations for each category.

This allows you to control by which field listings are ordered by within the category browsing results. While you can set a site wide configuration for this you can override that on a category by category basis. By default results are ordered by date placed but you can order those results on any number of fields you have configured for use within that category. You can control individual default orders for auctions and classified ads