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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[dknelson]

OOPS...I think I pasted this in the wrong thread. Sorry. It was a post thanks error. I know why.

[addamroy]

Does this integrate with posts/threads in any way?

I would like to see each listing be a thread/posted in a forum. And the comments being posts.

I'm assuming this isn't how it works but I wanted to check prior to buying. We need something that allows us to run a "forum" as a classifieds category.

[DreadsUK]

while importing this, my admin CP froze on the please wait page with this error message
"Invalid query: MySQL server has gone away41"

What does that mean, do i need to fix something?

Im guessing its something to do with using the library internet and it being a crappy signal?

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by addamroy

Does this integrate with posts/threads in any way?

I would like to see each listing be a thread/posted in a forum. And the comments being posts.

I'm assuming this isn't how it works but I wanted to check prior to buying. We need something that allows us to run a "forum" as a classifieds category.

Panjo does that but i wouldn't recommend them. They made an update to their system and our entire panjo mod drops out until updated, now unable to update. This was a huge issue for us as some people relied on our site for sales. Cost us our reputation and now we have no classified section!

[Panjo]

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

Panjo does that but i wouldn't recommend them. They made an update to their system and our entire panjo mod drops out until updated, now unable to update. This was a huge issue for us as some people relied on our site for sales. Cost us our reputation and now we have no classified section!

DreadsUK - I am sorry to hear that your site didn't have a smooth transition to the new Panjo marketplace plugin that integrates with thread posts. Did you try contacting us about your issue? You can reach us at info@panjo.com or 1 (424) 272-0291 or chadbillmyer on skype. We are reaching out to you directly now to see if you want any help with your Panjo mod.

Over a series of weeks, we gave our partners notice about the impending upgrade. We then kept both the former and new systems running in parallel for a few weeks. Then we sunset the old system.

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by Panjo

DreadsUK - I am sorry to hear that your site didn't have a smooth transition to the new Panjo marketplace plugin that integrates with thread posts. Did you try contacting us about your issue? You can reach us at info@panjo.com or 1 (424) 272-0291 or chadbillmyer on skype. We are reaching out to you directly now to see if you want any help with your Panjo mod.

Over a series of weeks, we gave our partners notice about the impending upgrade. We then kept both the former and new systems running in parallel for a few weeks. Then we sunset the old system.

Not only was it a non existant integration but your plug in completely crashed, removing itself from our system before i even had chance to touch or look at it. Something that was done offsite on your end not giving our forum the opportunity to choose wither to upgrade or not. We had no control over this.

This causes huge reliability issues for us.

Very unsatisfied with your product and conduct indeed!

[ozzy47]

Now lets remember, this modification is not a place to discuss Panjo, so lets not have anymore of this please.

[DreadsUK]

Got classifieds working. had an issue with our host. sorted now.
one thing i've noticed tho, i've changed the settings to allow non registered users to view the listings but for some reason we can actually view it without an account on our site. any reason for this?
here is the listing
http://dreadsuk.com/classifieds/list...ginal-formula/

[DragonByte Tech]

First of all many apologies for the delay in replying, I don't seem to be getting notifications of the new posts...

Originally Posted by addamroy

Does this integrate with posts/threads in any way?

I would like to see each listing be a thread/posted in a forum. And the comments being posts.

I'm assuming this isn't how it works but I wanted to check prior to buying. We need something that allows us to run a "forum" as a classifieds category.

'Partly' is the answer to your question. We have integration where a thread is created for new listings. But it isn't that the listing is run from there. It allows a form of discussion if you want it. In version 2 we're looking at allowing comments both public and private within the listing itself. Not sure if that will help with you situation or not.

Originally Posted by dknelson

I have looked and haven't found it. Is there a place to change the ad types? Right now there is Buy Now, Auction and Wanted I think. Can I change the names or add other selections?

A couple more questions.

Has anybody figured out how to make a widget to show the latest classifieds in the CMS?

For the postage settings, is there not a way that the user can enter the amount for UPS, FedEx and etc. per ad?

Thanks. This mod looks very promising.

OK..I'm sorry but I've got one more question also. Where the heck do the blocks inherit their style variables from? For example, the "Seller Information" block? I have no other blocks or anything on my forum or CMS that have a solid red background. Where is it coming from?

Much of the box structure comes from the StyleVars associated with the Sidebar. That might help in future.

Widgets are a planned feature of version 2.

Originally Posted by dknelson

I figured out the image problem. It was because of some strange places that it inherits it's styles from. Got sorted though. Also figured out the postage question. Still have the other questions though.

Also, just in case somebody else runs into it. I started getting a lot of database errors. They were caused by a very temporary install off OzzModz Classifieds. If you have ever installed that one and find, like I did, that it doesn't meet your needs. Just clicking "uninstall" doesn't cut it. You will have to manually remove the files that you uploaded. Not a big deal but maybe it will help somebody else.

So, still need to know if there is a place to configure more ad types. Buy, Sell, Trade, Auction, etc. Is that a manual template edit? Surprises me.

Does anybody know the code to create a widget? I thought maybe it didn't need one when I saw the sidebar display option but I'm not getting anything there.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Changing the names is possible if you put vBulletin into debug mode which reveals the Manage Listing Types page in the AdminCP. You can access it directly by navigating to the page /dbtclassifieds.php?do=listingtypes in your ACP folder.

At the moment we have the three listing types and we are developing more options in version 2 (working on them right at this moment) so we should have more available. If there aren't any to what you need listed over at www.dragonbyte-tech.com, feel free to post some suggestions for us to take a look at.

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

Got classifieds working. had an issue with our host. sorted now.
one thing i've noticed tho, i've changed the settings to allow non registered users to view the listings but for some reason we can actually view it without an account on our site. any reason for this?
here is the listing
http://dreadsuk.com/classifieds/list...ginal-formula/

I'll take a look to see if there is an issue. Have you set the usergroup permissions for just Classifieds? It might be if you've restricted access globally that you could have issues (i.e. banned them from the whole site).

Matt

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I'll take a look to see if there is an issue. Have you set the usergroup permissions for just Classifieds? It might be if you've restricted access globally that you could have issues (i.e. banned them from the whole site).

Matt

This is from usergroup manager unregistered/not logged in



Thats the only thing i've seen in regards to permissions with classifieds