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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[gnrx]

Hello.
This mod is for buy and sell between users? I don't want buy or sell the forum, only want buy and sell between users.

I have other mod of classifieds installed but I view that, this mod, its possible works better for my forum.

Thanks.

[markoroots]

We are (because I don't think to be alone) still waiting that you add the "Buy It Now" button visible also to the guest.

In this way like is now (without to show this button, All the guest will never see that they can buy.

In this way no one that come in my forum like guest will buy nothing and for this nothing the vendors come to sell them items.

Guys I remember you that the 96% of the traffic of a forum, are guest.

Is like you go on ebay and you don't see the "Buy it Now" button.

In this way look like a gallery....

[Darkside2012]

Originally Posted by Judith2

Is there someone who can translate the Mod into German?

I?m looking also for a german translation.

[Spika]

Are yet included the customs specifications?

Thanks

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

This week we have a bug fix update for DragonByte Classifieds (v1.1.10) fixing a few issues that have come up in recent weeks, included in the notes below are some updates from a patch we did to v1.1.9.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps us up to date with new ideas and any issues. Version 2 is progressing and we'll be looking forward to getting some more screenshots soon.

The full changelog for v1.1.10 can be found below.

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: MySQL error when sometimes viewing the Classifieds Profile pages (Included in 1.1.9 as well)
Fixed: Bad PM links for some notifications (Included in 1.1.9 as well)
Fixed: Issues with some of the notifications not correctly creating a new line when a new line is required in the phrase
Fixed: Total price in the buy-it-now notifications wasn't correct
Fixed: Formatting error with the total price in the buy-it-now notifications
Fixed: Setting save error for PM and emails in the Classifieds Settings in the AdminCP

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by markoroots

We are (because I don't think to be alone) still waiting that you add the "Buy It Now" button visible also to the guest.

In this way like is now (without to show this button, All the guest will never see that they can buy.

In this way no one that come in my forum like guest will buy nothing and for this nothing the vendors come to sell them items.

Guys I remember you that the 96% of the traffic of a forum, are guest.

Is like you go on ebay and you don't see the "Buy it Now" button.

In this way look like a gallery....

Currently under development in v2...

Originally Posted by Spika

Are yet included the customs specifications?

Thanks

Currently under development in v2...

Originally Posted by Darkside2012

I?m looking also for a german translation.

We're happy for anyone to translate the mod and they can upload it to our translation forum at DBTech: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91

Originally Posted by gnrx

Hello.
This mod is for buy and sell between users? I don't want buy or sell the forum, only want buy and sell between users.

I have other mod of classifieds installed but I view that, this mod, its possible works better for my forum.

Thanks.

Classifieds works exclusively between users. If the admins want to setup a site specific account they can use a user to do so, but it isn't a shop or classifieds between the site and users. It is possible for the site to choose to add fees to user transactions.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Fixed an issue with some invalid actions/white pages coming up in the latest download. A folder was incorrectly named. Delete or rename the folder:

/dbtech/classifieds/actions (1)

to

/dbtech/classifieds/actions

Matt

[Alibass]

@Matt

Already have a folder named actions but has older dated files than actions (1)

I guess best to delete older actions folder and rename latest folder?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

@Matt

Already have a folder named actions but has older dated files than actions (1)

I guess best to delete older actions folder and rename latest folder?

Yes, that's the best option.

Matt

[nolimitreef]

If we want to ship in the Continental US only, and include only Continental US States. Can we delete all others countries and states from CP without issues? And what if later on we want to add them back? I would like to make a suggestion for future improvement in this area. In Admin CP have check boxes for the countries we would like to include for shipping. Then by doing so only that countries states or districts (I guess you might call them) will come up with the counties of choice. Plus, our individual sellers don't/won't make errors when selecting. For Example: we would only ship to the continental US, US Military locations, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Then our sellers would not be spending a huge amount of time going through countries when creating their listings. It's just a thought Also, when I put something on Watch it only "emails" 1 warning. It would be nice to have 2 warnings and not only email but PM the watching member also. Also, I was never messaged that I was out bid. If there is an option for classifieds to do this or not I can't find it. And lastly; Back to shipping: On average our sellers will use USPS, FedEx and UPS. Depending on where they ship to with any of these services it will be at different rates and different even from another seller. So EVERYONE has to ad their screen name to each and every shipping option, Example: Spikes Coral Express FedEx Overnight $65.00 and so one... this not only gets very lengthy in the ad listing when adding several options but there has to be a better way. I know I said one more thing but this is truly the last. It would be terrific to either have a user manual for seller and one for buyer. Or the ? next to an area one might not understand how to do or what it is about. All in all it's a really good classifieds Mod and we love it. Thank you

I have classifieds version 1.1.09 on VB 4.2.2pl4