It offers the easiest way to publish classified web ads, as a turnkey solution for both Joomla! webmasters and unfamiliarized users alike, Ads Factory performs an outstanding balancing act between its versatility on display, mixed with custom field flexibility and finalized with multiple revenue possibilities.
Custom Fields
Publishable in any product template
Multiple field types (Checkbox, Image, Text input, Radio button, etc.)
Displayed on 6 different pages on the default product template and ability to set category filter
Used for ads and user profiles
Each custom field can be set as searchable, rendering it available in advanced search
Option to set fields as compulsory
Layout & Themes
Fully customizable template system
Default responsive template
Fully customizable CSS
Smarty based templates allowing even more flexibility
Multiple viewing styles for ads listings: List display and Grid display
Monetize
Payment items: Pay per listing, Pay per image, Pay per contact, Pay for featured ads
Credit discounts with the use of the Buy Credits item
Packages that contain advantageous offers for users
Different listing pricing based on the availability of the ad
Different category pricing for listing payment item
Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users
Key Features
Multiple ad types: Public Ads and Private Ads
Guest posting (no registration needed)
Availability options
Featured ads (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
Picture upload and image gallery for ads
File attachments for ads
Messaging system for users
Google Maps localization
Reporting system for offending ads
Watchlist (by individual ads or by categories)
Admin definable currency
Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
Republish and extend ads
Ads ending countdown
Social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious)
Embedded video integration for ads (Youtube, MySpace, Vimeo, Metacafe, Howcast)
Tags
RSS feed
Standards
Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
SEO/SEF friendly
Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
Transition to RTL by editing the product templates
Simple installation, configuration and updating process
User Profile
Configurable account details (address, map localization and contact information)
Account balance and payments history
Displaying of Credits and Packages offers
Personalized fields
Categories
Unlimited categories and subcategories levels
Custom fields availability on specific categories
Different category pricing for listing payment item
Add categories to watchlist
Quick add function to add multiple categories and subcategories at once
3 category navigation modules
Main Settings
Date & Time format
Enable and set the ACL (Access Control List)
Add restrictions for the amount of posted ads (globally, per user group, per user)
Enable/disable guest posting
Enable/disable the price field (can also be made compulsory)
Set number of ads per page
Maximum number of tags allowed
Order ads lists by start date or end date
Enable/disable messages between users
Allow guest messages
Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where ads information is entered on one page or a two-steps posting, which will require users to set the category first and the rest of the details afterwards)
Admin approval of every listing
Restrict certain ad types (Public/Private)
Enable and set up attachments options
Enable and set up Google Maps
Hide contact information (address, email)
Define availability periods for ads
Define the maximum size of the uploaded images or if a main image is required
Enable and set up ReCaptcha
Search
Advanced ads search using various criteria: title, category, ad type, price range, etc.
Search ads by their location with the use of Google Maps
Searchable custom fields
Quick search and price range search modules
Payments Gateways
Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, 2Checkout, SagePayments, Authorize.Net, Bank-transfers
API available for integration of 3rd party payment gateways for payments towards the site
Modules & Plugins
Quick search and price range search modules
3 category navigation modules
Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured ads (multiple instances module)
Tag cloud module
3rd Party Integrations
Community Builder integration including a 4 plugins pack
Google Maps
ReCaptcha
Love Factory user profile
Social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious)
Embedded video integration for ads (Youtube, MySpace, Vimeo, Metacafe, Howcast)
Notifications
Over 15 Email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
Customizable email templates
Backend Management
Actions: create new ads and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
Import ads from CSV
Export ads to XLS
Overview messages
User management
Payments management
Several statistics and information
Requirements
Joomla! 3.x
PHP (min. 5.3.0)
MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
cURL, GD2 libraries enabled
FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!
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