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December 10th, 2007
ScriptDevelopers has now released the current versions of software without encryption.
Please go the Download area for the lastest un-encrypted version.
October 15th, 2007
ScriptDevelopers.NET has been purchase by 3cubesMedia
March 18th, 2007
NetClassifieds Pro 1.5.1 is release.
March 8th, 2007
Several updates were made to the downloads section to improve useability.
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| Buy Now PayPal Integration: A great new feature that allows users to actually buy items from each other right on the site. It also allows for multiple shipping options and takes into consideration listings with multiple items for sale (reduces the quantity when a purchase is made). |
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| User Feedback and Ratings: This feature lets users tell each other how a sale or purchase went, helps reduce fraud and keeps people coming back. |
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| Category By Category Customizability: Now you easily make dynamic changes to your site, every category can be unique! You can create custom templates for your "View Category", "View Item", "New Item" and "Gallery" pages and a special "Storefront" template for top level categories. You can also have unlimited custom TextArea, TextBox and DropDown Lists unique to each category for special listing options. In addition, you can set up custom pricing structures for each category, for example, you might want an 'Automotive' category to be more expensive to list an item in because of the more expensive items that will be sold there, or you might want to have an 'Employment' category that people can list in for free. All of these features work on an inheritance model, meaning that the changes you make will effect all the categories underneath that category unless overwritten by one of those categories, this allows you to make large changes very quickly and easily. |
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| User Group Management: Organize your users into groups. You can control what groups have permission to list items in what categories along with specifying special discounts for groups so that members of that group can create listings for a discounted rate. For example, if you give a group a 100% discount members of that group can list items for free. |
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| Promo Codes: Allows you to setup special "self expiring" (meaning that you can set up 'start' and 'end' times to the code to be active) codes that users can enter that can put credit into their account or will assign them to a specified usergroup. This is very helpful for promoting your site with advertisements on other sites, magazines, at trade shows etc. |
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| Coupon Codes: Coupons differ from the Promo Codes in that they are for use on a single listing. Promo Codes make changes to the user account by doing things like; adding them to a User Group so that they get the benefits of that group from now on. Coupons, on the other hand, make changes to a single listing, for example you could setup a 50% off coupon, then each user could use that code once during the time that it is active (coupons can autostart and autoexpire just like Promos) to get 50% off of a single listing fee. Great to help new sites build an initial inventory. |
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| Automatic Thumbnail Generation: If your web host supports the GD library the script can automatically generate thumbnails for use on the index and "View Category" pages. This dramatically saves on bandwidth usage and gives a huge speed up to those users on dialup connections. |
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| Multicurrency Paypal: Allows you to setup what monetary system you want Paypal to use by simply entering the currency code int the proper box in the admin section of the script. For example: USD is US, CAD is Canada, GBP is Great Britain ect. This can be done in the NetClassifieds Standard, but it has to be hard codded into the script.
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| Admin Listing Options: Administration can create and edit listings and do things like assign those listing to other users, this way admin can easily create listings for users that don't know how to or don't have internet access to do so and still make that listing look like it was listed by that user instead of the item being in the administrator's user account. |
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| User Subscriptions: A great way to increase income from your site while encouraging members to create new listings and stick around. Subscription Plans can be set up to serve many functions on your site, they are based off of the Usergroup System so this means that members can be added to and removed from groups automatically according to their subscription status. This allows you to offer some very flexible subscription plans, for example: you could have a 30 day plan where users get X free listing "Tokens" (see feature below) every month, or a 7 day plan where users get X amount of site credit deposited into their account every week, or can be used as a 'verification' process so that users can become 'verified' if they prove they are who they say they are with a small paypal transaction to you in the form of a subscription payment (This works nicely with the script's ability to have a "I'm Subscribed" type icon appear by a user's name while they are subscribed and works well with NetClassifieds Premium's "Require Listing Approval" option, if you use your imagination :) ). |
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| Free Listing "Tokens": In addition to being able to give a user site Credit that can be used towards paying for a listing, you can also give them "Tokens". One token can be redeemed to make one listing free, no matter what the final cost of the listing should be. Just like Credits, tokens can be given to members during signup to encourage them to create a listing and grow your inventory. Tokens can also be given according to Group membership, this way it works seamlessly with the subscription system, they can also simply be added to a users account at will, for any reason. |
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| Members Only Categories: Categories can be marked as "Members Only", this means that the visitor must be logged in to view the category or any item in that category.
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| Wildcard and Modifier Searches: This feature allows your users to execute searches in a similar fashion to how they would on google, they can use "Modifiers" such as +, -, * and " " to get exactly what they are looking for. For example the search string of +Elvis "Blue Sued Shoes" Presl* -Graceland would match all listings that meet the criteria: Must Contain "Elvis", Contains The Phrase "blue sued shoes", Contains A Word That Starts With "Presl", and Must Not Contain "Graceland". In addition to this powerful search option, users can also specify that specific data be in a specific field and can limit thier search radius by category.
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| Search Custom Fields: Custom Fields can be marked as "Searchable" in the admin section, this will cause them to show up as an available search option on the Advanced Search page, there is no further intervention or customizations needed from the administrator to make the custom fields searchable other than checking the box in in NCADM (NetClassifieds Administration Section). |
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| Saved Searches and Notifications: When a user executes a search on your site the search is remembered in their "MyAccount" area for 48 hours, along with the results. If a user wishes they can tell the script to move that search to their "Saved Searches" area so that it will not be deleted after the 48 hours is up. Once in the "Saved Searches" section the user has several options, they can re-run that search and refresh their results set, they can re-run the search and get back only 'new' matches (only matching listings that are not in their current results set), and they can also set up scheduling for that search. If they schedule the search it will automatically be run at the interval they specify and they will be notified via email of any new matches. |
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| Listing Previews: While a user is creating a new listing this feature will allow them to see what their listing will look like when it's 'live' on the site.
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| Real-time Search Suggestions: This feature offers users 'As you type' suggestions in various fields on the search page, similar to Google's "Suggest" technology. For example, as a user is typing in the 'Title' field on the Search page the script will display the top 10 (based on item views) items that match the title they are typing.
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| Optional Require Approval: A great new feature to meet the needs of both types of sites: Those who want to "approve" every listing before it is live on the site, and those who want the listing process fully automated and don't want to have to approve every listing. It also meets the needs of a third group that wants to only have to approve certain listings. The Approval System is based on Group Permissions, so that a site wanting to approve all ads can set their "Public" usergroup to "Require Approval", and those that don't want to approve listings can set the "Public" group to "Does Not Require Approval". And for those who are in the middle and only want to Approve or Not Approve listings for certain members can create another usergroup with overriding permissions and place the special members into that group. |
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| Front-End Admins: A new usergroup permission that allows Site Administrators to perform many functions more easily from the live, 'front end' of the script. (See Below) |
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| Edit-In-Place Capabilities: One of the coolest features ever seen for Classifieds Site Administrators. Members of a group with "Front-End Admins" permissions can manipulate their site "in place" from right inside their browser while they are browsing their site. For example: Front-End Admins can reorder the way categories are displayed on the Index and Category View Pages by simply clicking and dragging the category to where they want it displayed in the list, or rename the category by double clicking on it. Or while viewing an item the Admin can double click on just about any area (Title, Description, Custom Field Data, Shipping Options, etc. etc.) edit it in place and then save the changes to the listing. They can also move the item to another category or "Approve" the item if need be (this makes the Approval process very simple, when an item is listed that needs approval the site admin is notified by an email with a link to the new listing, if they click on that link they are taken straight to the item where they can make any edits needed, then click the "Approved" button. There isn't even a need to log into the Administration Section it can all be done on the live site!). |
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| One-Click Froogle Submission: Your entire site can now be submitted to Google's "Product" search engine, known as "Froogle" in a single click. This is the quickest and easiest way to gain massive exposure at no cost and to increase traffic to your site with one click. After you have set up your account with Froogle and filled in your FTP information to your Froogle account, NetClassifieds Premium will take all your active listings, format them into a Froogle compliant file and submit that file to your Froogle FTP account at the click of a button. It doesn't get any easier than that!
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