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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[JmTech]

im very interested in this mod.

but have some question,.is PRO version have ability to hide this in specific usergroups

i mean for example only administrators are allowed to sell ..and simply hide this to other usergroups except view listing and checkout..

[Alan_SP]

Well, you can take a look at this picture:



This explains pretty much everything you want to know (and it is for lite version AFAIK).

So, you can set it up so only certain usergroups could buy and/or sell, depending on your settings. And that's not all, you can create certain categories of products that can be invisible to regular users and visible to those you want.

Maybe the best way for you to found out what this mod does is to install free version on your test site and play a bit with it.

[JmTech]

@Alan_SP

thanks mate for your very nice sugestion but i already played around with permision and still certain usergroups have access but they will end up with a message you dont have permission to access this page.what im looking is just to hide it..maybe they will include this to version 2.

regards,

[Alan_SP]

Is Banned Group? should completely disable access to this mods features for this usergroup if set to yes.

I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve, but if you set everything right in your opinion and things still don't work, first step I would do is to ask DBTech on their forum, explain what you did and what actually happens. Maybe there's a bug and if there is, they would promptly solve it as soon as they knew about it.

[DragonByte Tech]

An issue was discovered with the "Set Exchange Rates" scheduled task.

Fillip

[rcull]

Just did an install, went through the configuration, and am trying my first test ad. When I go to manage attachments and try to "Add a File", it failed after clicking the "Upload Files" button

I looked through the configuration to try and find something, but did not. In the "Usergroups", there does not appear to be a control in the "General Permissions".

Thanks

[rcull]

Some options presented in the new listing, like Currency selection, Postage Options, Digital Item, Delivery time, don't seem necessary. Is there an option to turn them off?

[navossoc]

Originally Posted by rcull

Some options presented in the new listing, like Currency selection, Postage Options, Digital Item, Delivery time, don't seem necessary. Is there an option to turn them off?

I've the same question.

Is it possible or there is an easy way to do that?

For example: all my listings will be digital.
So I don't need 'digital item', 'delivery time', 'condition', 'returns' and even 'payment processors'

[seriousrat]

Same questions as rcull and navossoc, except none of ours will be digital, plus;

1. Is there a way to turn off the Buy It Now feature? That is really not an option when you're selling cars and boats.

2. It shows on the full feature list that it is possible to limit the number of listings per usergroup permissions. Is that only on the Pro version?

3. Can the postage feature be turned off? Once again, not applicable to cars and boats.

4. Is there any way to limit the number of photos allowed? Or is that identical to the forum settings allowed?

We have currently installed Lite and are testing. Please let us know. We are running 4.2.3

[DragonByte Tech]

In replying to seriousrat and rcull and navossoc:

Thanks for the post SeriousRat. I'll copy the reply across there as well.

Originally Posted by seriousrat

I entere4d the following over on vbulletin.org in your Dragonbyte classifieds thread. Maybe here is the better place?

Same questions as rcull and navossoc, except none of ours will be digital, plus;

1. Is there a way to turn off the Buy It Now feature? That is really not an option when you're selling cars and boats.

You can turn it off when in debug mode or when accessing the Admin page directly, something like:
/admincp/dbtclassifieds.php?do=listingtypes

In version 2 they'll be more easily accessible to change.

Originally Posted by seriousrat

2. It shows on the full feature list that it is possible to limit the number of listings per usergroup permissions. Is that only on the Pro version?

IIRC, nope, it should be in the usergroup permissions.

Originally Posted by seriousrat

3. Can the postage feature be turned off? Once again, not applicable to cars and boats. Maybe in Pro?

In Pro it can be hidden using the Manage Forms page in the AdminCP and a default 'catch all' postage is used so the system can handle it correctly.

Originally Posted by seriousrat

4. Is there any way to limit the number of photos allowed? Or is that identical to the general forum settings attachments allowed?

We have currently installed Lite and are testing. Please let us know. We are running 4.2.3

Photos are controlled by the general forum attachment settings at the moment.

Hope that helps.

Mokonzi