Joomla Micro Deal Factory Extension

A microworker extension for Joomla! that allows users to sell their services or products through the website, where sellers come to the site, create an account which links them to a payment gateway, start listing items and go on to sell them, site owners can earn commissions based on their sales and revenues and multiple features facilitate communication between the seller and buyer to make sure they end up satisfied, leading to more sales and more profits for the website.

Layout & Themes

- Fully customizable CSS
- Layout template

Monetize

- Commissions (keeps a defined percent of the withdrawals requested by users)

Key Features

- Unique or individually priced deals
- Sidebar displaying categories and a search field
- Full escrow payment system
- Availability options
- Picture upload and image gallery for deals
- Approval system
- Private messaging for all users and also message board between sellers and buyers with specific layout to track discussions for each order
- Commenting system integrated for each deal
- Rating system (Thumbs Up/Down)
- Reporting system for offending deals
- Watchlist (add users to watchlist to receive notifications when they post new deals)
- Admin definable currency
- Set seller level according to the number of processed orders
- Youtube video integration for deals
- Delivery timeframe
- Quantity of items field
- Publish/Unpublish deals
- CRON task (sends email notification for all deals that will expire)
- Tags

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
- Easy transition to RTL
- Simple installation, configuration and updating process

User Profile

- Configurable account details, including a PayPal and a Moneybookers address for funds extraction
- Request to withdraw earnings
- Display order lists for sold or bought deals

Categories

- Unlimited number of categories
- Simple ordering system of the categories using up/down arrows
- Frontend Category sidebar for easy navigation through deals

Main Settings

- Date format
- Unique price set by admin for all deals or Individual prices set by the sellers
- Set the withdraw commission and the minimum withdraw sum
- Set the currency type and its symbol
- Configure pagination for deals, comments and earnings
- Enable/disable the sidebar
- Admin approval of every listing
- Set image width and height
- Set the amount of processed orders needed for each seller level

Search

- Simple search with the use of the sidebar
- Quick search module by categories

Payments Gateways

- 2 Payment Gateways supported for payments between users using an escrow system: Paypal and Moneybookers/Skrill

Modules & Plugins

- Modules that display latest and random deals (multiple instances module)
- Quick search module by categories
- Tag cloud module

3rd Party Integrations

- Facebook and Twitter buttons available on deals listings

Notifications

- Multiple email notifications for all important events to users and administrators
- Customizable email templates

Backend Management

- Actions: edit or delete existing deals, deal with reports, manage payments, etc.
- User management
- Dashboard containing 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!