Is it possible to turn all payment options off? Where you let the seller and buyer sort out bewteen themselves the old fashioned way of getting / making payment?

I have been running this app almost from day one. I have to say I think it's amazing how quickly you are implementing all the updates and how smoothly the upgrades work.

Thank You for the amazing effort, keep up the great work!

Any news on performance issues? Been approached by you at one of my forums, but every example I can find of this installed the performance/load times of the pages seems horribly slow.

At this second, there isn't a site site way to default to turn the payments option off. On a listing-by-listing basis, a seller can select "none" and go at it the old fashioned way.

We recently made one performance fix whereby we create compressed versions of listing photos as the listing comes in. However, we have more to do in the performance department. There is some cacheing we can be doing and some static html rendering we could implement. Our focus as of late has been on features to facilitate buyer and seller efficiency, security, and success. We will return to performance enhancements shortly.

We are excited to announce a massive update:

User group access and fee customization!

• You can determine whether or not a usergroup can sell an item in the marketplace.
• You can specify the transaction fee you wish to retain keep from each transaction, per usergroup.

To take advantage of this feature:

1. Sign into the vBulletin admin control panel -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager
2. Click “go” to edit the desired usergroup
3. The second section, Enthusify, has a toggle that controls whether or not that usergroup can sell.
4. There is also a field to enter a fee. Type in a number (max of two decimals) that represents the % fee you’d like to collect from each successful sale. Do NOT include the % sign.
5. Save.
6. Note: These fields will be applied according to the PRIMARY usergroup that each user belongs to. If a user’s primary usergroup cannot sell an item, but is a member of a usergroup that can sell, the fee from the secondary usergroup will apply.

New Or Best Offer (OBO) system!

• When creating a listing, a seller can indicate if he/she would like to accept best offers for the item.
• If a seller is accepting offers, buyers can submit an offer from the item’s info page.
• Using the messaging system, a seller can send a buyer a link to a unique checkout page that corresponds to a special price for the item.
• Sellers can cancel offers they’ve sent to buyers.

Usability enhancements!

• Improved email copy, layout, and design for sellers when their item sells.
• Improved email copy, layout, and design to notify a member that someone messaged them via the marketplace.
• Improved the image upload process and user interface for a seller creating a listing.
• Various improvements to buttons, forms, and backgrounds.
• Various minor improvements to the messaging system.
• Various minor bug fixes.

Thread prefixes!

• vBulletin threads created by Enthusify now work with an existing plugin (made by JamesGunner at vBulletin.org) that allow you to append a prefix to threads posted to a subforum.
• The necessary files and instructions are included in the latest Enthusify zip package.
• Be an awesome member of the vBulletin community and click “MARK AS INSTALLED” here to give JamesGunner credit for his plugin.

Postbit template

• You can optionally add a link to your member's postbit template that links to the member's items for sale in the marketplace.

Add seller/buyer feedback ratings and I would be willing to install this on a couple of big boards.

It is on its way. Tomorrow evening at the earliest. Early next week at the latest.

Please i just email you, send me market id and privet key.

Thanks in advance

I noticed the performance issues on several live sites I visited -- whatever you can do in this regard would be a big improvement. Offloading as much as you can to the forum servers would probably help (instead of everything coming/going directly from the enthusify servers). Put more into the plugin and on the forum owners site (example: pictures). Just send/receive text from enthusify and nothing else.. That would help performance massively. If nothing else, at least use a CDN for the pictures if they remain on enthusify, which should take less than a couple hours to set up and will remove huge bandwidth loads off your server.

14 Day escrow seems crazy, especially if 95% of your audience is based in the US.. 7 Days would be the absolute max. It should really just be once the buyer/seller confirm receipt, funds are released manually. Also I would think about using paypal and applying fees for special sections.

VIDEOS in ads would be awesome! It could just be a video embed from youtube (why reinvent the wheel). Perhaps charge users extra for more than 1 picture, or the ability to include a video? Extra for listings that can show up on forum home, etc? Again, you wouldn't have to create any video upload/playing software, just allow customers to insert youtube embed links (nicely).

Has there been a change in the ability for admins to create categories and/or options per category? This is important -- almost necessary really.

Keep up the good work!