Obituary Manager
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Obituary Manager Component:
Features and Functionality:
Obituary Listing Manager
Add, Edit and Delete Obituaries from the Backend and the Frontend. Allow your users to submit obituaries and manage them from their control panel in the frontend.
Condolences Listing Manager
Lists condolences from users. Approve/Disapprove them from the backend.
Configuration Manager
Manage almost every aspect of the Obituary Manager component from the Configuration tab including layout, user activities and social buttons.
Custom Field Manager
Create as many Custom fields as you want for your obituary listings and display them in the listing and detail layout. Lots of field types.
Subscription Manager
Create packages, set features, set a price and let your users subscribe to these packages from the frontend.
Funeral Homes Manager
List funeral homes with map and the list of obituaries associated with each funeral homes.
Some more of its coolest features:
Front End Control Panel to Manage User Comments
Option to Approve Comments submitted by Users
Share obituaries on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin
Submit Comment for Obituary with Captcha Spam Security
Print Obituaries from frontend
Add Audio/Video for the Obituary
Sign Guestbook for Obituary in the frontend
Share a gift
Facebook Feeds for Obituary
Twitter feeds for Obituary
Subscribe to condolences
Bookmark obituary
Social buttons
Obituary Manager Modules:
Search Obituary module
Latest Obituaries module
Alphabetical Obituary Search module
Latest Condolences module
Obituary Slider module
Map module for listing funerals
It's a nightmare to get looking right, we had to redesign a lot of the template just to make it work correctly, the WYSIWYG editor was full of problems which took ages for the developer to fix, you literally have to hound support to get an answer for anything. Still after multiple emails it can not show paragraph text, everything is bundled together in one huge block of text
there is a massive flaw in the PayPal payments module, if you set a cycle for any more that 5yrs PayPal returns an error, there is no option to make one-off payments either which I though would have been a very obvious function for a memorial. I don't believe that is credible given the initial cost of the component.
Modules: the modules are the laziest I have ever seen for Joomla, there are literally no functions within them. The latest memorial listings module functions have to be altered within the code of modules files and scripts as do the functions of all modules rendering them virtually useless.
Support is just terrible beyond anything I have experienced with a Joomla developer before, I have never had to submit so many tickets for one component and never had to wait so long for a resolution to some of them.
If you need a memorial site I would advise to find another directory component which can be tweaked, you will have to pay a developer to fix this and tweak settings anyway so you might as well get something that works in the first place.
I have built over 70 Joomla websites and used hundreds of components/modules/plugins and have never been so disappointed by one before this, save yourself a lot of time and money and avoid this.
This component is the 2nd most expensive component I have ever purchased and one of the most troublesome.
Comment: We have revised the price. It costs much less now.
It's a nightmare to get looking right, we had to redesign a lot of the template just to make it work correctly, the WYSIWYG editor was full of problems which took ages for the developer to fix, you literally have to hound support to get an answer for anything. Still after multiple emails it can not show paragraph text, everything is bundled together in one huge block of text.
Comment: We have had it fixed in our latest release. The support was indeed lagging a bit then but we worked on it and have hired new support members.
there is a massive flaw in the PayPal payments module, if you set a cycle for any more that 5yrs PayPal returns an error, there is no option to make one-off payments either which I though would have been a very obvious function for a memorial. I don't believe that is credible given the initial cost of the component.
Comment: One-off payment is something we havent seen most users using. Re 5 years limit on Paypal, seldom a user registers himself to pay for more than 5 years!
Modules: the modules are the laziest I have ever seen for Joomla, there are literally no functions within them. The latest memorial listings module functions have to be altered within the code of modules files and scripts as do the functions of all modules rendering them virtually useless.
Comment: Please educate me on this. You can email us and we will discuss about "Lazy" modules and if need be, make them shed some fat and become active!!
Support is just terrible beyond anything I have experienced with a Joomla developer before, I have never had to submit so many tickets for one component and never had to wait so long for a resolution to some of them.
Comment: I have wrote about support levels above and deeply apologize for your bad experience with our support.
If you need a memorial site I would advise to find another directory component which can be tweaked, you will have to pay a developer to fix this and tweak settings anyway so you might as well get something that works in the first place.
Comment: Now this is completely wrong to say. There were some bugs but those have been rectified. And those were pretty minor bugs and could have been sorted by our support team.
Honestly, you seem someone who has been paid to write a bad review for our product!
Fair enough. You want to see what has been built using Obituary Manager? Here're some of those:
http://www.distinctivelife.com/
http://www.recuerden.com
http://dev-springtowncamp.cloudaccess.net/garden-of-remembrance.html
Having said that, we have a dedicated support team at our customers' disposal to help them out with their customizations and making CSS changes to suit their template's look with the Obituary Manager. Sometimes, even if it means fixing another third party extension's conflict issues, we go an extra mile and do it for our customers. We want you to succeed and so we continue to build upon our product and make them better by each release. The next scheduled release for Obituary Manager is on May 15, 2013.
After install there were several issues which the support did attend to but it took several weeks of emails to get them sorted and still I cannot get it to look like the demo site.
For the money I also expected that the component would at least be responsive but we had to re-programme it ourselves to become responsive.
I think it could become a very good component but for the price it costs it is not especially good value. when you consider that it is more expensive than Jomsocial with a fraction of the functionality it puts it in perspective. IN summary it will I believe become a great extension in time but a lot more work is needed to make it value for money.
Next release will have more configurable settings so admin can manage almost all the frontend elements right from the backend.
There were support issues due to staffing shortage in the past few months. We are hiring new developers to get these things sorted.
We didnt make it responsive we have the native Android and iPhone apps for the same. But we have plans to do so in the next release.
Problem with pricing: We did lower the price to a large extent but people would still come and ask for discounts. We then thought lowering the pricing is of no use as people tend to keep asking for discounts whatever the price is. So keep it this way only. However, we will give it a thought again about lowering the price.
