No, the 14 day payment delay is not still in play. That was from an earlier beta of the mod.

Marketplace transactions completed via the payment processing embedded in Panjo transfer the funds instantaneously. Panjo uses PayPal for payment processing. Panjo walks buyers and sellers through all the necessary steps and data collection to maximize buyer and seller protections.

Panjo updates:
1) Panjo released a new marketplace home page design
2) Panjo released a new 'list view' mode in the marketplace home page
3) Panjo reduced the marketplace load time by 45%
4) Panjo started powering the 'location' field with Google maps API. This will enable a forthcoming 'search by location' option.

Learn more about Panjo updates on the Panjo blog

Have i read this right that panjo askes the seller for a 5% donation 30 days after the item has sold

and when a user on my forums posts up a add instead of it posting a pound sign it puts 3:.&34 or something like that lol

Panjo does not ask the seller for a 5% donation 30 days after the item sells. That is bad information. I believe you are referring to the fact that as a forum owner, you can use Panjo to set a transaction fee that you wish to collect on a usergroup-by-usergroup basis. Example: You have two usergroups, A & B. You want usergroup A to use the marketplace fee free. You want usergroup B to pay a 1% transaction fee for successful sales. When a seller from usergroup B sells an item for $100, the payment processing system collects $1 from the seller and transfers it to you, the forum owner. That fee is optional and set by you, the forum owner.

It sounds like you installed and trailed the plugin? If you can point us to the # sign bug, we would be happy to have a look. We are not aware of any special character display/rendering issues at this time. This would be an unknown bug.

Give us a call if you have any questions: 1 (424) 272-0291

Panjo announces 7 new features...
1) Buyers can now set how many listings they want to see at a time.
2) Buyers can now limit search results to a radius from a location.
3) Buyers can now set a min and max price range on search results.
4) Buyers can now limit search results by age.
5) Each listing now has a view counter.
6) Sellers can now more easily opt into and out of PayPal payment processing services.
7) Sellers now have more controls over the display and distribution of their listings, especially on mobile devices.

Can this be used as an Ebay network affiliate store?

Short answer yes. Longer answer, if that is your primary goal, you may want to look at other options. The mod is not optimized for that purpose. Give us a call if you have any questions related to that: 1 (424) 272-0291

Once again, lots of major updates to the Panjo classifieds plugin for vBulletin. Get all the details on the Panjo marketplace blog.

not displaying in my Postbit please advise how to fix

Update: Yes, there is now an option to use the Panjo classifieds plugin for vBulletin to run an ebay network affiliate store.

Can you shoot us an email at info@panjo.com? With your forum URL and this problem? We can more quickly diagnose it and prescribe a resolution.

Most frequently this is caused by vestige bad code in your forum's template.

I am not able to upgrade, I am running 4.2.2 p3 and when this product is active the cms is not able to save or create article, when it is disabled it can but theres error code showing up on from page, and when I try to uninstall the browser disconnects, please help/

Panjo has released an update to its vBulletin classifieds mod. You can find details on the Panjo blog.

Highlights:
- A "Your Account" link has been added to Marketplace Tools dropdown.
- This new "Your Account" page allows users to connect their PayPal account to become a Panjo Verified Seller, view/edit additional account information, and view Marketplace stats.
- The "Your Listings" page UI has been refreshed to make it easier for users to edit listings, close listings, and mark items as sold.
- Users can close or mark multiple items as sold and tab between items "For Sale" and "Sold.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you guys know that we pushed out a bunch of great improvements to the Panjo vBulletin classifieds mod. These improvements DO NOT require updating the plugin. Here are some highlights:

- pressing "Back" in the marketplace will not result in users having to reset their sort & filter settings.
- we fixed an issue where certain pages were resizing incorrectly
- some users reported problems on the receipt page after making a purchase. Those issues have been fixed.
- there is a typo on some listings that use calculated shipping that would read "TDB" instead of "TBD." New listings will now show "TBD" correctly.

You can read about all of our new updates in this blog post.

Is there a Panjo plugin for vBulletin 5 yet? Or is this dead?

I went to the website and clicked on http://www.panjo.com/partners#downloadModal on the Panjo site and it quickly flashes and removes box.

As of this moment, 6/1/2015, Panjo does not have a community marketplace plugin for vBulletin 5. Panjo has a new option that allows community owners to build community marketplaces on Panjo.com. Panjo has a variety of options to integrate those community marketplaces with a vBulletin 5 install via XMl, JSON, and RSS. Here are some examples of community marketplaces on Panjo.com:

Audi community marketplace
Camping community marketplace
Surfing community marketplace

Contact chad@panjo.com via email if you want Panjo to launch a community marketplace for you.

Can Panjo be added via an IFRAME? That would likely be the easiest option for VB5 if it is available.

That is also a possibility. We haven't seen that kind of implementation or done that ourselves.

If anyone want to tries there is already an IFRAME guide on vb.com - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blogs/joe-d/3932613-

Panjo just released a major update to the architecture of the marketplace plugin. Check the main thread post for details.

The real problem of this plugin is that it can't run like a standalone plugin. Must work in iframe... For this really few people install it on their forums. Too me I have the same problem....

Many APIs must run in an inline document, but this doesn't prevent them from being useful on web pages (including vB pages). :)

In order for the developer to be able to address the issue you are having, you will likely get more prompt help if you can show explicitly (links, screenshots, etc.) where and under what circumstances it is not giving you the desired results. ;)

The problem is that no one want have an open interface (API) of a third part site on the own forum.
The plugin should work alone on our forum and just the name of the plugin (Panjo) is an advertising of Panjo site, I think that this is just enough to advertise Panjo.
If our clients must make a registration on panjo site to have an account on our forum is really ridiculous. We don't want programs in Iframe on our site.
I really don't know why vb put this iframe plugin on our site by default and after say on them official site also that them don't know how the plugin work. Also this is ridiculous.

Don't you see that no one use this plugin???

Do you ask yourself the why??

We did a major rework of the plugin in September 2015. Here is the abridged version of how it works:

1) vBulletin forum installs Panjo plugin and configures a customized community marketplace.
2) A customized community marketplace is now running on Panjo.com.
3) When a member of the forum creates a listing in the community marketplace AND connects his/her Panjo account to a participating partner forum, Panjo creates and maintains thread posts for the listings.

You can browse some of the participating vBulletin forums at Panjo.com

In the last 30 days (December 2015), 600k individuals used the plugin across ~100 vBulletin partner marketplaces. They created thousands of listings. Buyers purchased $4M USD in products, parts, and accessories.

Why in the world is Panjo architected the way it is?! Panjo has been powering marketplaces for vBulletin partner communities for nearly five years. In that time we have learned a lot about the services and benefits buyers and sellers value most. In order to provide the most secure and cost effective (Panjo is free for communities) product, Panjo has arrived at an architecture as follows:

1) Partner gets a dedicated, customized community marketplace on Panjo.com
2) When a seller connects a Panjo account to a participating forum, the seller's listings generate thread posts on that forum.
3) Panjo synchronizes the data between the community marketplace and the forum.

Why take that approach?

a) mobile users: Panjo develops each screen in three versions: desktop, tablet, and mobile. When Panjo was operating a more feature-rich iFrame, it was expensive and buggy to try to deploy an exception buyer and seller experience in a responsive design.
b) work flow: Let's say you are a seller and your item just sold. When you get an email notification about the sale, you want to accept or reject the payment depending on a number of factors (location of buyer, availability of item, familiarity with buyer). Panjo can send transactional emails to buyers and sellers that provide links that auto log-in the user to reduce friction and steps.
c) QA (quality assurance): Let's say Panjo is once again shipping new features (like we do every Tuesday). It is near impossible to insure the quality of those features when they are deployed to 100s of iFrames inside 100s of versions of vBulletin that could be using 100s of permutations of plugins that could be hosted on 100s of different server environments. We hated deploying a feature that might be buggy for a set of users. It was near impossible to QA a feature when the environment it would live in existed in 100s of permutations.
d) There are lots of product, security, user benefit, and community benefit reasons Panjo exists in the architecture it does.

We are proud of our legacy and on going progress constantly improving an exceptional peer-to-peer marketplace experience for our members.

Here are what some members have said recently:

"Great service, where honest professional transactions can occur. Listing is user friendly, even for us older folks. Thanks"
"No fee, easy setup, item sold very quickly. Excellent UI and overall positive experience."
"The items are of good quality and the members seem to be polite"
"It works and it's painless and easy for both parties. It's nice to be able to just get notification that you have payment there's a provision to put tracking info and there's record of conversations great place to conduct business"