Major Additions - [DBTech] DragonByte Classifieds v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Classifieds: What is it?
DragonByte Classifieds allows items to be sold in a variety of ways by your users including Auctions and stock controlled Buy-it-Now listings. It works on vB versions 4.1.x and 4.2.x

Uses
Allowing your users to sell items has never been easier with a feature rich Classifieds system that allows for Auctions as well as stock controlled Buy-it-Now listings.

Integrated into vBulletin, DragonByte Classifieds also allows users to see current listings, create their own postage and address options for use with their own listings and upload pictures to be displayed along with the listings.

With a permissions system, automated bidding on auctions, customizable feedback system, fees and fully customizable categories and specifications, and featured and digital items, DragonByte Classifieds caters for a wide range of requirements.

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Major Features

Multiple Listing Types: Auction, Buy-it-Now (with stock support) and Wanted Items Listings Types to allow your users to sell and barter for items in a variety of ways.

AJAX Integration: We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads, including bidding, checking for new bids as well as other areas.

Automatic Image Resizing: All images added to the classifieds system will be resized and have a thumbnails generated. This will help reduce the page load time but not having to dowload the full image when you just need the thumbnail.

Stock Control: Buy-it-Now listings have a complete stock control that can be adjusted and allows for multiple purchases by different users.

Postage and Address: Mulitple postage options can be added per user as well as a variety of addresses letting users choose where they want items delivered to and at whatever price they prefer.

Feedback System: Allow users to leave feedback about transactions including comments and a customizable ranking.

Watch Items, Save Searches and Users: Users can save items to their watch list and choose to store searches for easy reuse at a later time. Sellers and Buyers can also be added to lists so that their latest items can be found easily.

Categories and Specifications System: An unlimited amount of categories can be created, allowing for subcategories and specifications creating a huge range of options that can help users specify exactly what they are selling.

Payment Processors: Integrated payment processors, including PayPal, to allow users to pay for their items and their fees.

Featured Listings: Allow users to feature their items for an optional fee as well as allowing control over how many items they can feature.

Full Feature List
Payment Processors

• Payment Types
  • PayPal
  • Cash on Collection
  • Check/Cheque
  • Bank Transfer (manual transfers)
• Configure the description to display to your users when they checkout
• Configure your Merchant ID (such as PayPal email address)
• "Sandbox" Mode toggleable via vBulletin Options, for testing purposes

Listing Types

• Auction
  • AJAX Bidding
  • AJAX countdown timers
• Buy-it-Now
  • Adjustable Stock Control
• Wanted Items

Email and PM Notifications

• Users receive emails and PMs when items end, are sold, or are on their watch list
• Translatale phrases and email content

Categories and Specifications

• Categories can be added and assigned as subcategories
• Specifications can be added per category and used in multiple categories
• Options can be added to each specification and used in multiple specifications

Featured Listings

• Mark a listing as Featured to gain a higher position in the list
• Optionally add fees per usergroup to use the featured system
• Optionally add a limit on how many listings a user can feature via their usergroup permissions

Search

• In depth searching of:
  • Titles
  • Descriptions
  • Categories
  • Users
• Many Options to narrow down the search

Fees

• Custom Fees can be created
• Global or restricted to specific usergroups
• Charge for reserve prices, items initial listing and an items final price as well as for featuring items
• Choose from flatrate or percentage based values

Multiple Currencies

• Show prices in multiple currencies
• Set a tax rate for purchases in currencies other than your home currency
• Configurable exchange rate
• Choose a "Primary Currency" that your prices will be based on
• Automatical daily update of exchange rates via a Scheduled Task

Conditions

• Set the conditions of items

Returns

• Set the returns options

Country and State Codes

• Control the countries and states/counties that are available to be added to addresses

Addresses

• Allow users to add multiple address
• Define default address for when selling or buying items

Postage Options

• Create unique postage options
• Can be done per user
• Currencies can be defined
• The countries that the postage is available for can be defined
• Create user specific or generally available postage options from within the Admin Control Panel

Attachments

• Upload images to the vBulletin Attachment Manager
• Thumbnails created and used on upload
• Mulitple images per listing

Digital Listings

• Mark a listing as digital to help users understand they aren't bidding for physical items
• Send links to users on completion of the listing

Feedback System

• Allow users to submit feedback about transactions
• Users can submit comments along with their feedback

Listing Control

• Archive listings that have expired or are completed
• Relist items

Invoices

• Buyers and sellers have access to invoices of of completed transactions

Advert Boxes

• Advert and listings boxes to display current, featured or watched listings
• Various locations
  • Forum Index/Home
  • Forum Display
  • Search Pages
  • Classifieds Home Page
  • View Listing Page

Contact Seller

• Link to contacts seller when viewing a listing

Form Control

• Customizable Form Controls
• Default settings

Moderation

• Approve or unapprove listings
• Usergroup settings to automatically place new listings in moderation queue
• Moderation queue for moderators and administrators

Pro Only

Feedback System

• Customizable feedback ranks to mark reliability

Advert Boxes

• Various locations
  • Showthread Pages

Link Control System

• Create unique links at the foot of Classifieds pages to whatever URL you need

Notes System

• Users can submit notes on their listings

Resolution Centre

• Create and respond to issues in listings either as the seller or the buyer.
• Change the issue's status
• View how many issues are active on a listing

Contact Seller

• PM Created with translatable title

Form Control

• Simple Form in Forum Sideblock for quick listing submitting

Moderation

• Number of items in moderation queue displayed

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[migratoria]

Another bug after the 'last update

Images and Tumbnails:

When I click in the preview of' picture of an Ad , the standard image resizes if, I click as administrator.
If I click as an unregistered user or registered user the image disappears generating error.

[ageurtse]

is it possible to let a user pay to post a new item.
could it be that this user pay by paypal or ideal(from the netherlands)

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by migratoria

Another bug after the 'last update

Images and Tumbnails:

When I click in the preview of' picture of an Ad , the standard image resizes if, I click as administrator.
If I click as an unregistered user or registered user the image disappears generating error.

Oooh... interesting. Thanks for finding the bug. I'll see what I can do to get it fixed.

Originally Posted by ageurtse

is it possible to let a user pay to post a new item.
could it be that this user pay by paypal or ideal(from the netherlands)

You mean like having a fee for just listing an item? That is possible. It's built like the seller fees on eBay.

If you mean prevent from creating a new listing until they've actually paid, not at the moment.

Depending on exactly what you want it might be possible to use the subscription system built into vB to allow users permission to listing items for a specified length of time.

Hope that helps.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by migratoria

Another bug after the 'last update

Images and Tumbnails:

When I click in the preview of' picture of an Ad , the standard image resizes if, I click as administrator.
If I click as an unregistered user or registered user the image disappears generating error.

Fixed in v1.0.2 tonight.

[migratoria]

Great But...

OTHER TWO BUG:

1) In attachment missing privileges in v.1.x ( Show preview attachmentprivileges.jpg)

2) the results of the auction are wrong + Does not happen automatically relaunch
(Show preview Screen1a 2a 3a)

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by migratoria

Great But...

OTHER TWO BUG:

1) In attachment missing privileges in v.1.x ( Show preview attachmentprivileges.jpg)

2) the results of the auction are wrong + Does not happen automatically relaunch
(Show preview Screen1a 2a 3a)

1) Is fixed in the update released tonight.

2) Needs some more information. If a user submits a bid of up to 15.00 and the second user doesn't bid as high as 15.00, the system will only bid up to the next increment above the second user's offer.

So:

User 1 Places a bid up to 15.00
User 2 Places a bid up to 13.00
The system will then place User 1 in front with a bid of 13.50.

I hope that makes sense.

If there is something else you are referring to, let me know and I'll take another look.

Matt

[btedition]

Matt, can you please add/fix the following?

- Suggestion: Auto-Resize to images posted inline that are above certain size of our desire.
- Suggestion: Auto-Embed external images posted inline as thumbnails for the item.
- Bug: The item price gets reset or changes after editing the listing itself. If the item price is 4,000.00, and if you click on edit listing, then after submitting the list the price would go to (4.00). The error has to do with decimals I guess
- Bug: Also after editing your item, you have to go to edit image order to refresh the thumbnail.

Thanks!

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

This week brings another bugfix update for DragonByte Classifieds (v1.0.2). Thanks to everyone for their feedback which has helped us identify several issues, and also provided us lots of ideas to assess and implement over the coming weeks. One new feature is that when viewing a listing or a listing item there is improved DBSEO integration as users can now add the category into the URL.

Remember, we have installed the latest Beta of Classifieds here on DBTech. We have created some 'fake' items and have left PayPal in Sandbox mode so that no real money changes hands allowing anyone to test how the system works. We look forward to your feedback. Go here for the latest listings: View Listings - DragonByte Tech | vBulletin Mods & Addons.

To create a PayPal Sandbox account you need to head over to this page: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps...tions/accounts. Once you login with your regular PayPal account you can then create a sandbox testing account to use to 'purchase' the items on our Classifieds.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
Fixed: Sitemap error with DBSEO integration
Fixed: PHP error when viewing a user's feedback
Fixed: Issue preventing the notifications from counting the amount of unapproved listings correctly
Fixed: PHP error relating to the notifications for unapproved listings
Fixed: Attachment permissions error when creating a new listing
Fixed: Viewing Attachments permissions error for guests fixed
Fixed: Viewing larger images of thumbnails giving bad image link error on the View Listing page
Fixed: Issue preventing Bank Transfer from being used for payments even when specified in the listing
Fixed: Missing phrase variable when purchasing with bank transfer
Fixed: Issue letting a user see and potentially 'pay again' for a transaction when not using PayPal

Additions To Product From Feature Requests Or Just Something Else Added:
Feature: Categories can now be used in the Rewrite URLs with DBSEO for both listings and listingitems

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by btedition

Matt, can you please add/fix the following?

- Suggestion: Auto-Resize to images posted inline that are above certain size of our desire.
- Suggestion: Auto-Embed external images posted inline as thumbnails for the item.
- Bug: The item price gets reset or changes after editing the listing itself. If the item price is 4,000.00, and if you click on edit listing, then after submitting the list the price would go to (4.00). The error has to do with decimals I guess
- Bug: Also after editing your item, you have to go to edit image order to refresh the thumbnail.

Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions/reports bt!

Can you see if there are still the issues with the two bugs you've reported in the latest update? Will add the suggestions to our list to look at.

Matt

[btedition]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Thanks for the suggestions/reports bt!

Can you see if there are still the issues with the two bugs you've reported in the latest update? Will add the suggestions to our list to look at.

Matt

Yup, both bugs are still there after the update Matt.