The “Manage Products” area (Payment » Manage Products) is where you will create the ad packages that you offer to your customers. “Listing Packages” (or “Ad Packages”) is what your customer chooses when placing an ad. You can offer a variety of packages by giving each package different parameters. You create new ad packages by clicking the “Add New” button.
- Title
- Enter the name for your package.
- Internal Name
- The internal name is a name you can insert which will be used in the administration to help you separate similar products.
- Description
- Enter a description for your package.
- Active
- Whether the package is active and can be used. Checked for Yes. (Since v4.1.0)
- List Price
- Enter a “Suggested Retail Price” or the “Regular Price” (if you're running a sale). The value in this field will be “striked out” and is mainly used as a marketing tool. Entering a value is not required.
- Price
- This is the actual price that the ad package that you will charge your customer. Entering a price of 0 (zero) or leaving the price field blank will make it a free package.
- Renewal Price
- You can set up your site so that your customers are emailed a notification of pending expiration. Enter the price that you would like your customer to be charged for renewing their ad here.
- Maximum number of title characters
- Enter the maximum number of characters a customer's ad title can contain.
- Maximum number of short description characters
- Enter the maximum number of characters a customer's ad's short description can contain.
- Maximum number of description characters
- Enter the maximum number of characters a customer's ad's description can contain.
- Allow External URL
- If you would like to allow your customers to enter a link to another site within their ad, place a check in the “Allow External URL” box.
- Allow Photos
- Place a check in the “Allow Photos” box if you want to give your customers the ability to upload photos. If you are allowing photos with this package, enter the maximum number of photos your customer can upload in the adjoining textbox.
- Expiration
- Select the number of days this package will display your customers ad before expiring.
- Allow Featured
- When the customer is placing an ad, you can give them the opportunity to designate the ad as “featured” by placing a check in the box. A featured ad will stand out from normal ads as designated by your template's stylesheet. The ad will also be included in the “Featured Ads” area on your site. Enter the amount you would like to charge when the customer chooses to make the ad featured.
- Allow the user to bold the ad
- Allow the user to bold the ad - when the customer is placing an ad, you can give them the opportunity to designate the ad as “bold” by placing a check in the box. A bold ad will stand out from normal ads as designated by your template's stylesheet. Enter the amount you would like to charge when the customer chooses to make the ad bold.
- Allow the user to highlight the ad
- When the customer is placing an ad, you can give them the opportunity to designate the ad as “highlighted” by placing a check in the box. A highlighted ad will stand out from normal ads as designated by your template's stylesheet. Enter the amount you would like to charge when the customer chooses to make the ad highlighted.
- User Groups
- This allows you to specify the package to a user group. So only people in this specific user group can use the package. Please note that if you assign it to registered users then you will not be able to place an ad as an administrator. (Since v4.1.0)
- Please select which categories use this package
- When a customer decides to place an ad at your site, their first step is to choose the category where their ad will appear. You can designate which ad categories use the listing package here. To choose multiple categories, use the “Ctrl+click” method (hold down the CTRL key while choosing the categories the package is associated with).