vBulletin Marketplace Mod - by Panjo
 

As of September 2015, the Panjo marketplace mod for vBulletin has been completely rearchitected.

You can learn more about the latest version of the mod on Panjo's vBulletin partner page.

This mod enables you to launch a peer-to-peer community marketplace that is integrated into your vBulletin forum.

Here is how it works:
1) Install the plugin.
2) Customize the categories you want in your marketplace.
3) Contact Chad at Panjo: chad@panjo.com to activate your marketplace.
4) When a seller goes to a new or old subforum dedicated to buying/selling/trading, and clicks on the "post new thread" button, the mod will load a listing creation form.
5) The seller will create a listing. The listing will appear in the marketplace. A synchronized copy of the listing will appear in the appropriate buy/sell/trade subforum.

Is this plugin free?
Yes, this plugin is free.

Can you make money with this plugin?
Yes, you can optionally use this plugin to generate marketplace transaction revenue.

How is it with mobile?
The marketplace loads with layouts that are optimized for high res desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Examples:
Porsche Marketplace <syncs with> Porsche classifieds subforum
BMW Marketplace <syncs with> BMW classifieds subforums
Audi Marketplace <syncs with> Audi classifieds subforums
Belly dancing marketplace <syncs with> Belly dancing classifieds subforums

Gallery:
The marketplace home page
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1442438115
A listing detail page
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1442438115
The listing creation form for a seller
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1442438115

Do you have questions about Panjo? Contact the team at Panjo:
chad@panjo.com
1-424-272-0291

thanks

5 star from me. Nice mod.

Possible way the inauguration.?
There are 3 files!

Seems like a cool mod.

But I would also like to now what the 3 XML files are for.
There is no explanation about those.

Black Tiger - Thanks for the question. Good question. There is more information about the three files in the Enthusify vBulletin classifieds installation instructions.

In summary...
1. The main file is Enthusify's Product XML file used to add the templates, settings and options used by the marketplace plug-in
2. One file is another product XML file that the marketplace plug-in depends upon in order to add the navigation to the main forum navigation menu. This file is required for vB 4.1.x and earlier as vB 4.2 has Navigation Manager.
3. The last file is used for backwards compatibility with vBulletin v3.x.x and is not necessary for vBulleting v4.x.x installations (as outlined in the installation instructions)

Ik heb vBulletein 3.8.7 so then I have to use all the files.
Sorry for the question. I'd seen the instructions, but thought it was a kind of movie and had not seen that there were more pages you can choose from.

However, I'm doubting if I'm really going to install it now I read this:
I think more people might be interested to know what exactly is cloud-hosted and where that is hosted?

FYI...

Oke sorry, then this is nothing for my forums.
I only have a forum for mainly Dutch and Belgian users and our "for sale" part of the forum is just for local users who needs to sell their satellite receiver or some other small stuff.

In that case we keep it at our current sale forums with prefixes.

Thank you for the information.

The raw listing data and the photos associated with the listings are stored in Enthusify's hosting environment. Enthusify is a payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS) compliant system. The system meets all the strict security requirements required to process credit card transactions. Enthusify hosts with Amazon Web Services.

This first release of the software retains a flat 10% of the sale price of an item if the buyer and seller use the built-in payment processing. Enthusify splits that fee with the forum owner. For example, if a buyer buys an item for $100 USD, the seller will receive $90. The forum owner will receive $5.

We are currently working with our beta partners to design a more flexible fee structure. Elements of the forthcoming release include...

• A tiered fee structure than decreases as the selling price increases.
• The ability to customize fees for each usergroup.
• The ability to choose what you charge above Enthusify's minimum fees.

Enthusify's minimum fees go toward covering credit card interchange fees, security, customer service, and continued software development.

The current flat fee is 9%-37% less than what a seller would incur trying to sell on eBay+PayPal. The forthcoming tiered fee will yield even more savings for forum members.

Thank you for the information!

Thanks for considering the plugin. At this time Enthusify natively supports the English language and the USD currency. Support is forthcoming for other languages and currencies.

We have some geographically focused partners who use the tool to beautify their listings. Sellers indicate their preferred payment or communication method. It is not required to run payment through the tool. It is merely a convenient option for some.

I just updated post #6 with a bit more clarity and specificity.

You can check out a demo of the vBulletin classifieds mod here:
Ski Lodge Forum
Just PM me or email (chad@enthusify.com) for a credential set and a test credit card number to try it out.

Here are a sampling of spots where it is already live:
NSX marketplace at NSX Prime
Porsche marketplace at Planet-9
Yamaha FZ8 marketplace
Pet classifieds at Green Poochie

I would love to use this mod, however 14 days to release payment for goods is simply unacceptable for my members. If I already have my own payment processing system, is there any way to not use the Enthusify credit card processing?

We have an upcoming release that will reduce the 14 day escrow. We plan to release a feature that will allow the buyer and seller to confirm the transaction is complete in order to trigger the release of funds. Interestingly, for some of our partners with more international audiences, 14 days is not enough.

While the payment processing system is embedded into the tool - nothing about the tool requires a buyer/seller to use it. A seller could indicate in his/her listing that PayPal payment or some other form of payment is preferred.

You are welcome to install the plugin and try it out. There is a way to install the plugin and test it without exposing it to your membership.

Bug identified.

We just pinpointed a bug for users of IE8 and IE9. Users in those browsers can not add photos to their listings. We are working on a fix.

New fee!

I am excited to announce that we reduced our fee to 3% per successful transaction for our beta partners. A forum owner can charge anything he/she wants on top of that.

Chad, it was great to great to meet you at ForumCon and I look forward to checking out the new demo and trying Enthusify out on my site. :)

For those of you that have large, nationwide forums, a product like Enthusify or Styckyd will revolutionize the moderation of your classifieds sections. I've met both founders of the respective systems and they're both well-versed with what our needs are as forum administrators and the markets we serve.

UPDATE: We just fixed a bug that prevented users of IE 8/9 from uploading photos to their listings. The fix automatically propagated to all installations of the plugin. No action is required if you have the plugin installed.

We released the latest version of the vBulletin classifieds mod. This version, 1.4.0, includes a few performance enhancements. This version also addresses an issue for forums running on servers configured to block the allow_url_fopen php function. Updated: August 2, 2012.

We released a new feature today that allows you to add a widget to your forum that highlights the listings in the enthusify-powered marketplace. Here is a screen shot of the widget from the Acura NSX classifieds section:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/08/12.png

Interesting, I see the front end working on 3.8.7. Would there be a branding-free option?

At this time we do not have a branding-free option.

The search results page and the listing pages contain a 'badge' in the upper center space and a 'badge' in the lower left corner. There are some security reasons we do that. Most forums don't have a SSL (secure socket layer). In order to provide buyers and sellers with secure transaction pages, we use our SSL over the enthusify.com domain. The badges serve as a way for your member to know that they are on the same platform. The system also kicks out automated emails related to buying and selling. For example, when a seller's item sells, the system emails the seller to let them know about the successful sale. Those emails come from Enthusify's mail server. We thus want the member to recognize the email as valid and not spam.

Based on requests from our partners we do have an upcoming release that will introduce more co-branding opportunities. The emails and SSL pages already reference the parent forum by name.

We understand the desire for even more branding options - but the more design flexibility we provide the less reliable the software becomes as it becomes difficult to test across multiple versions of vBulletin running with multiple combinations of plugins running in multiple kinds of server environments. Hence some of the imposed uniformity.

Here is what the co-branding looks like:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/09/31.jpg

Nice, by any change would this work for vb 4?

Absolutely! The Enthusify classifieds plugin for vBulletin works in vBulletin 4.x:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=285283

You can see the Enthusify marketplace mod running in 4.x here:
http://www.pro-touring.com/classifieds.php

Just shoot us an email with your forum URL so that we can issue you a marketplace id and security key that you need to run the plugin. (chad@enthusify.com)

Thanks a lot, been waiting for something like this in ages.

I will try it out sometime :)

New vBulletin classifieds plugin release today from Enthusify.

The latest version of the plugin, 1.4.3, can optionally create a new thread for each listing in the Enthusify marketplace in a subforum of your choice.

This release also fixes a few bugs and provides some performance enhancements.

New feature released today: power sellers can now sell multiple of an item with administrator approval. This means that if a seller has 10 or 100 of an item, the seller can create one listing using the Enthusify marketplace plugin and sell out his/her item from that single listing.

You can find new features in Enthusify's vBulletin classifieds mod:
1) New option to generate revenue for your forum from successful sales.
DETAILS: You set a fee in the form of a flat % that you wish to retain from each successful sale.
2) New cobranding options - you can now add a header image. (not THAT big of a deal - but frequently requested)
3) New promotional options for listings.

NEXT: the option to display listings in a photo-centric tile view.

Awesome news. We released an update to the Enthusify vBulletin classifieds plugin today. New features include:
1) A gallery view of the listings
2) Better page load times through more efficient photo handling
3) A bug fix for IE users

Enthusify just shipped 10 bug fixes and features. No action is required. All these updates automatically populated to our partners.

Feature: 'Edit listing' button color changed for improved usability.
Feature: Members can now see sold listings. This helps sellers price their items and helps with SEO.
Feature: More clear 'New Listing' steps.

Bug fix: 'Cancel' button in light box now works when composing a message.
Bug fix: 'Learn more' link fixed when editing an existing listing.
Bug fix: Changing the title of a listing no longer breaks a listing's URL.
Bug fix: Editing a listing no longer creates a new thread.
Bug fix: Listings now support a greater range of high bit order characters.
Bug fix: Attribute values are order properly.
Bug fix: Grid/listing view choices persist within a session.

Administrators no longer need to contact Enthusify for listing moderation. Today, Enthusify released self-service marketplace moderation tools for the Enthusify vBulletin classifieds plugin.

Great news, we just released a frequently requested feature:
Seller profile pages. These pages highlight all the listings from a seller. These pages will soon contain seller ratings.

In recent days, Enthusify shipped the following new features and fixes:
1) Seller profile pages.
2) The ability for community members to see sold listings
3) A new 'success' message upon the completion of creating a new listing
4) Moderation tools for forum administrators and moderators
5) An increase in the number of items that display in the default view
6) Improved photo compression and handling
7) Improved handling of special characters
8) Improved handling of the threads that the plugin creates in a vBulletin sub forum

We plan to ship the following features in coming days:
a) The ability for a seller to indicate he/she wants to be paid via check
b) The ability for a seller to opt out of the 'buy now' button
c) Tools to facilitate price negotiation (OBO/'haggle' system)
d) The ability for a seller to access 'sold' listings from 'My Listings'
e) Improvements to the photo upload user interface
f) A Facebook share button on listings
g) The ability for an admin to choose to display relevant listings from eBay from within Enthusify

And after that...
i) more fee and access controls around vBulletin user groups

If Oprah were here she would say, "You get a feature and you get a feature and you get a feature."

We are excited to announce more payment transfer options for sellers in the latest release of the Enthusify plugin. Now sellers can select between PayPal, Check, or Direct Deposit. Sellers can also bypass the plugin's embedded payment processing and protection service and chose to manage payment on his/her own.

Here is a screen shot of the choices a seller sees when he/she is creating a listing:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/11/33.png

Enthusify has rolled out a lot of new features in the last few days we have more coming in the next few weeks. Have you seen the Enthusify classifieds mod for vBulletin lately? Take a look!

Here is an animated tour of Enthusify's vBulletin classifieds mod.

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.

By popular demand, Enthusify now contains a seller feedback system.

New features:

• Seller rating system! (see screen shot below)
• Improved clarity around required fields.
• Updated various transaction emails to make them more clear.
• 14 day reminder to a seller that a listing is live. Reminder directs seller to update the listing if it has sold elsewhere.

Bug fixes:

• FIXED: In list view of search results, images were not centering in big monitors.
• FIXED: Seller profile pages images were not scaling properly.
• FIXED: Marketplace link in Seller profile was not linking properly.
• FIXED: Threads are updating a seller's post count.
• FIXED: Buy Now button in threads was sometimes breaking.

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thanx

Major upgrade to the Enthusify classifieds plugin for vBulletin coming soon!!! Get ready for version 2.0.0. We keep shipping. The changelog tells the story.