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]

Hi everyone,

This week brings the first major update of DragonByte Classifieds (v1.1.0 Beta 1) Which includes 9 major changes and features as well as some bug fixes to existing features. Among the key updates included are extra notifications using the vBulletin notification system, options for randomizing the listings appearing in the advert boxes, JavaScript rotation of listings appearing in any of the advert boxes, Listing Views tracking, and two new Pro only features, an optional Auto Post a New Thread/Post on submitting a listing and a Seller's Items box that can be set to appear in a user's post footer in forum threads.

The new features are designed to enhance some of the core content and make the listings more visible to user's across the forums. We have appreciated all the feedback and suggestions that have been posted and with more updates planned we hope to include made more of the excellent suggestions that have been made. Please note that this is a Beta release and so there may well be bugs that need addressing. Any feedback on functionality and issues that you can all provide will help us immensely.

The full list of changes in v1.1.0 Beta 1 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: Issue where invalid listing lengths could be inserted into the page before submitting the listing that would not trigger an error
Fixed: Style issue with advert boxes on the top of the View Listings page
Fixed: Invalid plugin loading in Lite version
Fixed: Issue that would prevent the total featured items updating for a user on a buy-it-now listing
Fixed: Issue where fees could be created even when an item has gone unsold
Fixed: Problem where listings that hadn't been approved before their expiry time would still count in the moderated listings count
Fixed: Missing date details from My Classifieds feedback images (in the alt and title parts of the HTML)
Fixed: Sale Email/PM not being sent when purchasing a listing with a buy-it-now

Changes To Existing Features:
Change: Moved several settings to the new DragonByte Tech: Classifieds - Listing Settings group

Additions To Product From Feature Requests Or Just Something Else Added:
Feature: Listing Lengths now include usergroup controls to allow restriction to particular usergroups
Feature: Postbit Link to My Listings for users with currently active listings
Feature: Links to Usernames now link directly to a page displaying all the user's current listings
Feature: (Pro Only) Seller's Items box above signature in postbit
Feature: Views of Listings are now tracked and stored either immediately or via a Scheduled Task once an hour
Feature: Random Adverts for Classifieds and Featured boxes
Feature: New Notifications for Feedback left and received, Items won, Items Sold and Unsold
Feature: (Pro Only) New settings to Post a thread or post for each new listing submitted
Feature: JavaScript controlled rotation setting for the Advert boxes

Known Issues:
Equal Bids aren't correctly handled

[migratoria]

Hi Matt

I have upgraded at last release 1.1.0b1
Works but vbulletin send me an error by mail

Bug: ERROR Syntax
Conflict: Tapatalk plugin Mobiquo

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:

			SELECT 
				COUNT(*) AS count,
				l.userid
			FROM dbtech_classifieds_listing AS l
			WHERE l.userid IN ()
			AND l.enddate > 1392811597
			AND l.startdate < 1392811597
			AND l.ended = 0
			AND l.active = 1
			AND l.moderated = 0
			GROUP BY l.userid;

MySQL Error   : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')
			AND l.enddate > 1392811597
			AND l.startdate < 1392811597
			AND l.ended =' at line 5
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Wednesday, February 19th 2014 @ 01:06:37 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, February 19th 2014 @ 01:06:38 PM
Script        : http://localhost/forum/mobiquo/mobiquo.php
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Username      : Test
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Solutions?

[Nelson58]

+1 same here.

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks guys. Will look into it asap and get back to you.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Uploaded a fixed file for that error as well as a couple of others:

Fixed: MySQL error when viewing a thread in TapaTalk (In Beta 1 PL1)
Fixed: Watchlists items of other users being displayed for the user viewing the page (In Beta 1 PL1)
Fixed: Issue with random adverts not being correctly randomized (In Beta PL1)

Matt

[migratoria]

Tanks...
when the fix will be available matt?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by migratoria

Tanks...
when the fix will be available matt?

:

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Uploaded a fixed file for that error as well as a couple of others:

Fixed: MySQL error when viewing a thread in TapaTalk (In Beta 1 PL1)
Fixed: Watchlists items of other users being displayed for the user viewing the page (In Beta 1 PL1)
Fixed: Issue with random adverts not being correctly randomized (In Beta PL1)

Matt

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Patched the Beta 1 files to fix a SQL error that happens on the forumdisplay pages.

Matt

[btedition]

Matt, I've got people complaining that with this system we wont have history of what was being sold and traded on our forums. They are actually right.. We'd like to have some sort of a history page where they can view all items that were being sold/unsold.

Also, if there's a way users can interact with the seller publicly like posting a question on the item or asking about a discount...etc. Just a small chat box to be under each item visible for all users who are viewing the item.

Many thanks!

[milcollector]

Hi Matt, I just installed your product on my two forums and on one I have a problem. In the forum where I use vBcover iBid, there is no button DBTech Classifieds in my admincp after installing. In one of the forums where I do not have vBcover iBid runs ok. Is it possible that your product is not compatibile with vBcover iBid? I want to uninstall iBid, but after some time, because there are still active listings...
Thanks!
Regards
Sasha