Joomla Swap Factory Extension

It offers a user-friendly and easy to manage exchange system of the goods added by users as classified ad; an overview of the submitted, received and closed offers is available for each user, so they can view and accept/reject received offers or to cancel submitted offers.

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 able 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 pricing listing based on the ad availability
- Different category pricing for listing payment item
- Preferential pricing for powersellers and verified users

Key Features

- Multiple ad types: Public Ads and Private Ads
- Swapping system for 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
- 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)
- Enable/disable the swap option
- 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 5 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 20 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! 4.x, 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!