Major Additions - [DBTech] DragonByte Forum Ads v2 (vB4)

What is DragonByte Forum Ads?
DragonByte Forum Ads is an advanced advertising solution that allows you to easily show visitors you have advertisements available, offer multiple ad campaign options including banners, keywords and more and maximise the revenue potential of your community. Full PayPal integration and automated features such as deactivating expired ad campaigns allows you to make money without expending extra effort.

Fully integrated with vBulletin's "Advertising" page, this mod allows you to make use of vBulletin's powerful advertisement criteria, without having to manually accept payments & manually add the ad code.

DragonByte Forum Ads allows you to offer your ad space on the forums at a price, letting potential advertisers submit their advertisements for consideration before they are asked to pay.

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Major Features

Automatic Campaign Handling
When an advertisement campaign is paid for, it's automatically activated. Once its purchased impressions, clicks or days are used up, it's automatically deactivated.

PayPal integration
Supports PayPal for fast and easy transactions, even from credit card users (without the responsibility of storing & processing credit card data).

Powerful Admin Controls
Administrators have complete control over advertisement campaigns, requiring moderation for all campaigns before they are paid for to ensure you agree with all the content being displayed.

Over A Dozen Banner Locations
Archive - Above Content 1, Above Content 2, Below Content
Forum Home - After Forums, Below "What's Going On"
Forum Display - Below Threadlist
Thread Display - First Post Content, Last Post Content
Global - Header 1, Header 2, Below Navbar, Above Footer
Blog Sidebar - Sidebar 1, Sidebar 2, Sidebar 3
Blog Entry - Before Entry, After Entry
Blog List - First Entry

Powerful Keyword System
You can sell keyword replacements, allowing people to convert certain words into links to their sites. This can be especially useful if you're running a site discussing real products, allowing the product owners to quickly convert discussions into potential sales.


Complete Feature List

Lite

Payment Processors

• Supports PayPal
• 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

Banner Spaces

• Integrate with one of vBulletin's built-in advertising locations
• Configure the dimensions of the banner shown within this space
• Choose how many rotations are available for this banner space
• Set multiple banner spaces to the same advertising location to show the banners side-by-side
• Configurable placeholder image
• Placeholders and sold ads have anti-adblock code

Prices

• Choose price type (keyword or banner space)
• Choose the price per X impressions, clicks or days
• Configure multiple price points for the same banner space or for keywords to encourage bigger purchases
• Choose what banner space the price point belongs to
• Configurable display order for display in the front-end shop

Sold Keywords

• Add new keyword advertisement manually - give advertisement space as a gift!
• Search sold keywords by active/expired, username, sold date (range), or specific keyword
• Search results display a paginated list of keywords
• Edit / Update / delete the keywords
• Quickly view the transaction for the keyword, if any
• Support for date-expiring ads even if they are also Clicks/Impressions limited

Sold Banners

• Add new banner advertisement manually - give advertisement space as a gift!
• Search sold banners by active/expired, username or sold date (range)
• Search results display a paginated list of banners
• Edit / Update / delete the banners
• Quickly view the transaction for the banner, if any
• Support for date-expiring ads even if they are also Clicks/Impressions limited

Transactions

• Search transactions by All, Valid (completed or reversed) Completed, Reversed, Pending or Refunded status, user name, amount spent, date range, ip address
• Search results display a paginated list of transactions
• View transaction info including a complete list of information received from the payment processor
• Quickly view all transactions for the selected user

Maintenance

• Repair integration with vBulletin advertisements
• Rebuild keyword database for statistical purposes

Packages

• Group multiple banner space / keyword configurations together in a handy package
• Set a new price for the combined Package
• Allows user to configure each package item individually
• Visually attractive front-end display while buying

Custom Amounts

• Ability to set a base price for 1 Click or 1 Impression
• Allows users to choose how many Clicks or Impressions they wish to purchase
• User configures and purchases like normal
• Offers great flexibility in buying advertising

Purchase / Configure Pages

• The Purchase page has been revamped, with a new tabbed interface!
• Under the Banner Spaces tab there's now a visual indicator for where each banner will be shown
• Clicking an ad space on the visual indicator shows only pricing options for that banner space
• Sold out banner spaces display "SOLD OUT" in red
• Each pricing option for the same banner space is grouped under the same header

Statistics

• Clicks & Impressions has a dedicated Statistics page per-banner / per-keyword
• Summary of clicks or impressions stats above the Search form in the Customer area
• Displays total clicks or impressions, unique IP addresses, date of first click or impression, date of last click or impression
• Ability to click a button to receive an email report of the statistics
• Displays the country of origin for users who clicked / viewed each content type
• Fully browsable with pagination

StyleVars

• "Checkmark" image in the Packages / Discounts display
• Border around the ads & placeholders
• Padding around the ads & placeholders
• Background of the ads & placeholders
• "Please Don't Use An Ad-blocker" image
• "Your Ad Here" placeholder image

User / Usergroup Options

• Usergroup permission: automatically approve keywords
• Usergroup permission: automatically approve banners
• Usergroup permission: automatically approve bids
• User flag: automatically approve keywords
• User flag: automatically approve banners
• User flag: automatically approve bids

Pro

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

Price Bidding

• Ability to make a price point up for bidding
• Allows users to enter a bid and submit it for acceptance
• Admin can accept or reject the bid from a link in an email
• User receives email when their bid has been accepted or rejected
• Rest of purchase process proceeds as normal

Discounts

• Group multiple package / banner space / keyword configurations together and provide a discount
• Discount can be flat rate or % of the total price
• Allows user to configure each package item individually
• Visually attractive front-end display while buying

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[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Forum Ads v2.0.2

Changes To Existing Features:

Prices

• Decimal prices would not display correctly in the AdminCP
• The price configuration will now also display on the Overview page

Fillip

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Does it support custom locations or only Vbulletin adspaces?

Still working out a couple things with DBTech, maybe another week or two before I have it live on my site.

[markoroots]

Can you also add some banner place in the threads between the posts?
This is really more useful.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by markoroots

Can you also add some banner place in the threads between the posts?
This is really more useful.

Adding new ad locations isn't the easiest thing in the world, we might include some more in a future versions though

For now, all the ad locations you see are provided by vBulletin, we simply utilise them


Fillip

[markoroots]

Yes guys but I see here on Vb.org that there are many mods that let you add banners between posts, so must be very easy, this shure will be great because the place the normally Vb have aren't more good. Those between posts are sure more useful.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by markoroots

Yes guys but I see here on Vb.org that there are many mods that let you add banners between posts, so must be very easy, this shure will be great because the place the normally Vb have aren't more good.

Apples are not the same as oranges

If those other modifications use the standard vBulletin "Advertising" functionality to add banners between posts, then those modifications will also work with ForumAds.

If they do not use the standard vBulletin "Advertising" functionality, then they are vastly different to this mod and cannot be compared in any way, shape or form.

Saying "this other mod does X so you should too" is like saying "this car can do 250 mph so all cars should too", which is simply not the case.

Originally Posted by markoroots

Those between posts are sure more useful.

If you find those modifications more useful than the rest of the functionality in ForumAds then it is of course your prerogative to use them instead


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Forum Ads v2.1.0

Changes To Existing Features:

Main Page

• Ad Locator images are only shown for sections with actual advertisement slots available
• Blocks within the Ad Locator images now makes a clearer distinction whether advertisement slots are available or not
• The shopping cart system has received a few rewordings and minor design updates to make it easier to use

Customer Area

• The check marks showing the process of an advertisement have been changed so the wording no longer changes based on status
• The status formerly known as "Active" has been renamed to "Submitted"
• A new "Active" status has been added in the bottom, which only shows as a check mark if the advertisement is being displayed (e.g. is not expired, is fully paid up, etc).

Fillip

[markoroots]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Apples are not the same as oranges

If those other modifications use the standard vBulletin "Advertising" functionality to add banners between posts, then those modifications will also work with ForumAds.

Hi Fillip,
please can you tell me how those ads can work together ForumAds?
Is there a way to let it work inside ForumAds?

[DragonByte Tech]

DragonByte Forum Ads v2.1.0 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing both instances of the cart button from updating when you add a new item to the cart
• Fixed an issue where removing one quantity of a certain item from the cart would incorrectly hide all instances of that item

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by markoroots

Hi Fillip,
please can you tell me how those ads can work together ForumAds?
Is there a way to let it work inside ForumAds?

If other advertisement mods have added new Ad Locations in vBulletin, click the Repair Integration button in the ForumAds maintenance panel.


Fillip