Joomla Ads Factory Extension

It offers the easiest way to publish classified web ads, as a turnkey solution for both Joomla! webmasters and unfamiliarized users alike, Ads Factory performs an outstanding balancing act between its versatility on display, mixed with custom field flexibility and finalized with multiple revenue possibilities.

Custom Fields

- Publishable in any product template
- Multiple field types (Checkbox, Image, Text input, Radio button, etc.)
- Displayed on 6 different pages on the default product template and ability to set category filter
- Used for ads and user profiles
- Each custom field can be set as searchable, rendering it available in advanced search
- Option to set fields as compulsory

Layout & Themes

- Fully customizable template system
- Default responsive template
- Fully customizable CSS
- Smarty based templates allowing even more flexibility
- Multiple viewing styles for ads listings: List display and Grid display

Monetize

- Payment items: Pay per listing, Pay per image, Pay per contact, Pay for featured ads
- Credit discounts with the use of the Buy Credits item
- Packages that contain advantageous offers for users
- Different listing pricing based on the availability of the ad
- Different category pricing for listing payment item
- Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users

Key Features

- Multiple ad types: Public Ads and Private Ads
- Guest posting (no registration needed)
- Availability options
- Featured ads (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
- Picture upload and image gallery for ads
- File attachments for ads
- Messaging system for users
- Google Maps localization
- Reporting system for offending ads
- Watchlist (by individual ads or by categories)
- Admin definable currency
- Automatic currency exchange rates using Yahoo conversion
- Republish and extend ads
- Ads ending countdown
- Social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious)
- Embedded video integration for ads (Youtube, MySpace, Vimeo, Metacafe, Howcast)
- Tags
- RSS feed

Standards

- Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
- SEO/SEF friendly
- Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
- Transition to RTL by editing the product templates
- Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

- Configurable account details (address, map localization and contact information)
- Account balance and payments history
- Displaying of Credits and Packages offers
- Personalized fields

Categories

- Unlimited categories and subcategories levels
- Custom fields availability on specific categories
- Different category pricing for listing payment item
- Add categories to watchlist
- Quick add function to add multiple categories and subcategories at once
- 3 category navigation modules

Main Settings

- Date & Time format
- Enable and set the ACL (Access Control List)
- Add restrictions for the amount of posted ads (globally, per user group, per user)
- Enable/disable guest posting
- Enable/disable the price field (can also be made compulsory)
- Set number of ads per page
- Maximum number of tags allowed
- Order ads lists by start date or end date
- Enable/disable messages between users
- Allow guest messages
- Customizable Workflow (one step posting, where ads information is entered on one page or a two-steps posting, which will require users to set the category first and the rest of the details afterwards)
- Admin approval of every listing
- Restrict certain ad types (Public/Private)
- Enable and set up attachments options
- Enable and set up Google Maps
- Hide contact information (address, email)
- Define availability periods for ads
- Define the maximum size of the uploaded images or if a main image is required
- Enable and set up ReCaptcha

Search

- Advanced ads search using various criteria: title, category, ad type, price range, etc.
- Search ads by their location with the use of Google Maps
- Searchable custom fields
- Quick search and price range search modules

Payments Gateways

- Several Payment Gateways supported for payments towards the site: Paypal, Moneybookers/Skrill, 2Checkout, SagePayments, Authorize.Net, Bank-transfers
- API available for integration of 3rd party payment gateways for payments towards the site

Modules & Plugins

- Quick search and price range search modules
- 3 category navigation modules
- Modules that display latest, popular, most valuable, random, featured ads (multiple instances module)
- Tag cloud module

3rd Party Integrations

- Community Builder integration including a 4 plugins pack
- Google Maps
- ReCaptcha
- Love Factory user profile
- Social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious)
- Embedded video integration for ads (Youtube, MySpace, Vimeo, Metacafe, Howcast)

Notifications

- Over 15 Email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
- Customizable email templates

Backend Management

- Actions: create new ads and edit existing ones, deal with reports, send notifications, etc.
- Import ads from CSV
- Export ads to XLS
- Overview messages
- User management
- Payments management
- Several statistics and information

Requirements

- Joomla! 3.x
- PHP (min. 5.3.0)
- MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
- CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
- cURL, GD2 libraries enabled

FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT HOMEPAGE!