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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[DragonByte Tech]

Some good questions, and I'll try and answer them one by one...

PS, feel free to post suggestions on our website. If you do one per thread, then it will let us individually track whether we can implement them or not, and if so, then keep you updated.

Originally Posted by 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?

Yes, they can be deleted, and they can be added without issue, though it will take a lot of time to add them again.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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

A good idea. We have some plans in place to improve the postage system in version 2. I'll add these ideas into that where I can.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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.

Can you confirm what you mean by one warning and why you are expecting/wanting two?
The system can and should be sending a PM and an email, unless you have disabled one or the other. I've had a report that there might be some issues with it, which I'm looking into. So any information you can provide would help.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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.

For auctions, it should be by standard sending such a message out. Are you able to verify that? Has it happened more than once? What settings do you have for your messaging alerts?

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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.

If I'm following you correctly, it is already partly possible. A postage option can be created without a user linked to it in the AdminCP which is globally available. We are wanting to improve the postage system to allow for more variety in pricing, etc.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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.

We are planning on a manual for at least the Install and basic running of the mod. The ? idea is a nice one. It might be something we can do.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef

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

Thanks for the positive feedback, it makes it worth the effort of developing it.

Matt

[Tierseelen]

I installed this, and it works fine. But i can't find where i can create a new categorie?

edit: Found it, had no admin rights for that.

[Gizmo99]

hi installed

Now where can I change some of the colours of the txt ????

All i can find is txt size etc

Giz

[Gizmo99]

sorted just set the CSS to be files

[nolimitreef]

Some good questions, and I'll try and answer them one by one...

PS, feel free to post suggestions on our website. If you do one per thread, then it will let us individually track whether we can implement them or not, and if so, then keep you updated.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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?

Yes, they can be deleted, and they can be added without issue, though it will take a lot of time to add them again.

OK

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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

A good idea. We have some plans in place to improve the postage system in version 2. I'll add these ideas into that where I can.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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.

Can you confirm what you mean by one warning and why you are expecting/wanting two?
The system can and should be sending a PM and an email, unless you have disabled one or the other. I've had a report that there might be some issues with it, which I'm looking into. So any information you can provide would help.

It only emailed when the time was up/over for the auction. It was set for 1 hour before auction was over. Some people like the option of having 2 warnings (being busy people). Like a 1 day or 1 hour warning and time is up in 15 minutes for instance.

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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.

For auctions, it should be by standard sending such a message out. Are you able to verify that? Has it happened more than once? What settings do you have for your messaging alerts?

There was no option that I could find for an "outbid" PM or email

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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.

If I'm following you correctly, it is already partly possible. A postage option can be created without a user linked to it in the AdminCP which is globally available. We are wanting to improve the postage system to allow for more variety in pricing, etc.

We tried that. The problem is that it says "all countries" when doing this. Our sellers are not able to ship to "all countries" and even if they could the pricing would be different to send a $65 US shipping cost to the UK which would be much higher. We'd have a poor seller and angry buyer because the seller would cancel the sale...

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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.

We are planning on a manual for at least the Install and basic running of the mod. The ? idea is a nice one. It might be something we can do.

This would be fantastic!

Also I'd like to add yet one more thing...
In an effort to making our forum a little more "clean" looking, we realized that what isn't clean about it is all the boxes - module boxes that is. I know they're in use in all forums to organize and make things easily found. But in that effort, too much of any one thing is too much and defeats the original purpose. That being said, I would like to request in your next mod update is a way to turn off the module wrapper for the scrolling "featured" boxes that get located around the site. Even if it can be done in the admin settings would be good.) In the meantime, is there a way to edit this in styles possibly?

Originally Posted by nolimitreef View Post

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

Thanks for the positive feedback, it makes it worth the effort of developing it.

Matt
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Thanks again!

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

This week we have a bug fix update for DragonByte Classifieds (v1.1.11) fixing a few issues that have come up in recent weeks. We also were able to add a little change in to some styling.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps us up to date with new ideas and any issues. Version 2 is progressing and we'll keep you posted on it's development.

The full changelog for v1.1.11 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.

You can purchase DragonByte Classifieds here.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
Fixed: Incorrect buyer/seller phrases on Feedback listing page
Fixed: Feedback page now correctly displays the beneficiary of the feedback
Fixed: Featured and Classifieds boxes on the forumdisplay page not displaying the correct listings (missing listings)
Fixed: Randomization of Classifieds, Featured and Seller's Listings boxes now correctly is randomized

Changes To Existing Features:
Changed: The My Listings and My Classifieds page now have bold text headings to divide the sections
Changed: The term 'Unsold' heading is now changed to 'Expired' on the My Listings page

Matt

[muffel]

Yesterday we installed the Lite Version - but we are also very interested in the Pro. But I have some questions.

At first about the fees:

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

The admins can set it up so that the site receives fees to a particular PayPal account. Seller's can be charged for listing an item, and for part of it's final cost.

Yes, there is an option to set fees, but it does not work at our forum. How and when will the merchant be notified about the fees and to have the possibility to pay for it? In all our test-sellings, there wer alway no fees. What did I maybe wrong?

And then I have a question, if it is also possible for other user to ask questions under the normal listing of one product. Maybe a normal Forum discussion under the detail site of one product.

And question number three is: Is it possible to make different fees depending on the condition of a product that a user submits? Maybe more if it is a "new" product...

[madkeen]

Having a issue with the page load when I have the Classifieds showing at the top of thread view.

The page loads and then teh classifieds load and refeshes/reloads the page to so that it is longer. When you are reading or typing a reply it is very annoying.

Can this be fixed so that the classifieds area stays the one size and then the ads and text are loaded into the space?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by muffel

Yesterday we installed the Lite Version - but we are also very interested in the Pro. But I have some questions.

At first about the fees:


Yes, there is an option to set fees, but it does not work at our forum. How and when will the merchant be notified about the fees and to have the possibility to pay for it? In all our test-sellings, there wer alway no fees. What did I maybe wrong?

And then I have a question, if it is also possible for other user to ask questions under the normal listing of one product. Maybe a normal Forum discussion under the detail site of one product.

And question number three is: Is it possible to make different fees depending on the condition of a product that a user submits? Maybe more if it is a "new" product...

We've got a fix out tonight for some of the Insertion Fees. Regarding the other two questions, a commenting system is being added in version 2 (done in the Alpha versions already) and fees based on conditions is on the board to do as well.

Originally Posted by madkeen

Having a issue with the page load when I have the Classifieds showing at the top of thread view.

The page loads and then teh classifieds load and refeshes/reloads the page to so that it is longer. When you are reading or typing a reply it is very annoying.

Can this be fixed so that the classifieds area stays the one size and then the ads and text are loaded into the space?

There is no AJAX loading of Classifieds listings when using the Ads, just a cycling through of existing images loaded with the page itself. Can you point me to an example of this issue? I'll see if I can find out what's causing it.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

This week we have a bug fix update for DragonByte Classifieds (v1.1.12) fixing a a key issue that we successfully identified.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps us up to date with new ideas and any issues. Version 2 is progressing and we'll keep you posted on it's development.

The full changelog for v1.1.12 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.

You can purchase DragonByte Classifieds here.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
Fixed: Final Value Fees not triggering correctly on completion of an item

Matt