Packages

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The package option is for a business model where the business owner has to pay a subscription price to avail of extra benefits.

You must log in as an administrator to perform add, edit and delete operations.

ADD: To add a package, go to Financial->Packages and click the New Package(s) tab on the top right corner. Fill in the information and click the Save button.

EDIT: To modify an existing package, simply click its name under the Title column, change the information and then click Save.

DELETE: Find the package you want to delete. Mark the box to the immediate left of the ID column and hit the Delete button.

BASIC

• Title: Name of the package
• Description: Add information such as a number of listings, images, videos, classifieds, duration, etc. in this field as this will be displayed to the user whenever they buy, renew or upgrade a membership. To display information in a better way, make use of <li class="list-group-item"><i class="icon-ok text-danger"></i> </li>. For instance, to display four different features in the bulleted list, use:

<li class="list-group-item"><i class="icon-ok text-danger"></i>24x7 Support</li>
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<li class="list-group-item"><i class="icon-ok text-danger"></i>Unlimited Keywords</li>

• Icon: Select an icon to display it with your package.
• Claim Status After Order: You can auto-approve all claims in this package by setting this field value to Confirmed. If the value is not Confirmed, you need to manually approve all claims via Content->Listings->Listing Claims.
• Package Status After Order: A user cannot add a listing until an order is confirmed. If you want to auto-approve all payments of this package set this field value to Confirmed.
• Order: This is the priority of the package. The lower-order value packages will always be displayed first.
• Package Priority:  The higher the priority, the listing will be displayed on the top. For instance, set the Gold Package Priority value to 3, Platinum to 2, and Free to 1. Search results will always display the Gold listings on the top.

PRICE & DURATION

• Price: This is the subscription price. If the offer price is set to 0, the user needs to pay this much amount in order to subscribe to this package.
• Offer Price: The price at which you are willing to sell this particular package. Always set a value lower than the price.
• Claim Price: Claiming a listing verifies the valid owner of the business that is authorized to maintain its presence on your website. The user has to pay a claiming price in order to modify the information from his/her account.
• Duration: Number of days, the listing in this package is valid. Please use this carefully as it is used to define the expiry date of each listing. For instance, if the duration is 90 days, a listing in this package will be expired automatically after 90 days.
• Fixed Expiration Date: If you want to expire all listings in this package to expire on a specific date, set the date here.
• Forever (Never Expires): Check this checkbox to make this package valid for the lifetime.
• Sale Commissions (Product): This is the commission that you will earn if any business owner sells a product through your website.

LIMIT

You can define the number of listings, categories, keywords, images, videos, products, services, classifieds, and events a user can add.

• Listings Limit: Number of listings a user can add
• Categories Limit: Number of categories a user can add to a listing.
• Keywords Limit: Number of keywords a user can add to a listing.
• Keywords Length: Number of characters allowed in the keyword field. Sometimes, the user adds long-tail keywords that take more space. To avoid such a problem, you can limit the number of characters in the keyword text area.
• Description Length: Number of characters you can add to a listing description.
• Images Limit: Number of images a user can add to a listing
• Videos Limit: Number of videos a user can add to a listing
• Products or Services Limit: Number of products/services a user can add to a listing. This value limits both products and services.
• Classifieds Limit: Number of classifieds a user can add to a listing
• Events Limit: Number of events a user can add to a listing.

Note: Set value to 0 for no restriction.

FEATURED

You can auto-set a module (listing, products, blogs, etc.) to be featured through this section:

Check the checkboxes as per your requirements and click the Save button. If the Listings checkbox is checked, any new business added to this package will be automatically added to the featured section.

FORM FIELDS

You can hide fields from the business registration form through this section. If you want to allow Gold users to fill in only the basic information, edit the Gold Package and check the checkboxes as per your requirements. This will display only the selected fields on the business registration form.

DISPLAY

The administrator can hide certain business information from visitors and display them to logged-in users. For example, to hide the details of email and phone number of listings, uncheck Email and Phone options under the GREY box. Check these fields under the YELLOW box to display them to registered users only.

The user who is having the subscription to this package can view the Email and Phone details after login.

The logged-in fields are user-specific, the user can only view the fields information which is enabled by the admin.

With the help of this section, you can also hide the higher package's business information from the lower package users. For instance, you have two packages FREE and GOLD and you want to hide the Email and Phone number from the FREE package users. Edit your FREE package and uncheck Email and Phone under the Display tab for both visitors and logged-in users. Edit your GOLD package and check the Email and Phone under the yellow box. This will display the Premium Users Only message to the FREE users on the business page visit. On click, they will be redirected to the checkout page. The user must buy the GOLD package subscription to view the Email and Phone details.

You can change the display fields order via Developer->Fields->Field Positions.

• Select the Fields Detail as the Position Group and the Listings as the Module.
• Click on the Submit button to load fields.
• Change the priority field values as per your requirements to order fields. The lower priority fields are always displayed on the top.
• Scroll down to the footer and click the Save button. Do not forget to clear the cache via Dashboard->Summary before page reload.

To change icons, edit display fields via Developer->Fields section.

Note: Any change to the package logged-in display settings requires logging out and logging back into the member's area.

AUTO APPROVE

This tab allows the admin to set automatic activation of a newly added listing, product, service, image, video and classified. For example, if the Images checkbox is checked, then all new images added to a listing will be automatically approved, there is no need to activate them one by one. By default, all options are unchecked so that the administrator has control over each of the new information added to the website.

RENEWAL & NOTIFICATIONS

• Recurring: Check the recurring checkbox to enable the recurring payment option. Only PayPal supports recurring. Note: Starting from Oct 1st 2021. Reserve Bank of India does not allow recurring payments anymore so this option will not work for users from India.
• Renewable: If the package is renewable, check this checkbox. This will generate a new invoice for this package and send it automatically to the user on subscription renewal.
• Renewable Invoicing Package: If this package is a trial, use the dropdown field to select a renewable package. The user will receive an invoice for the selected package.
• Downgrade Package: If the user subscribed for a Gold Package, but does not renew it. The listing will automatically be expired. You can downgrade a listing to a specific package to limit the privileges. If a downgrade package is selected, the listing will not expire, it will be automatically downgraded to this package.
• Days Before Next Invoice: Generate a new invoice before the specified number of days before a subscription expires.
• Invoice Expiry: How long will the invoice remain valid if not paid on the due date? 
• Invoice Reminders: Number of days to wait before sending the expiration notification to the customer. Set zero for no reminders. The second and third reminders would be calculated based on the first and second reminders value

LAYOUT

This allows an administrator to define a different layout for paid business listings. The administrator can set the color scheme, border color, and trusted seal to differentiate paid listings from free.

• Color Scheme: Sets the background color of the listing block.
• Border color: Set the color of the four sides of the listing block.
• Trusted Seal: This image will be displayed to the visitor when they visit a listing of this package. The purpose of the trusted seal is to demonstrate to customers that this business can be trusted.

HOW TO ENABLE ADD PHOTO OPTION

- Log in to the Admin Panel, go to Financial->Packages and edit your packages.
- Visit the Set Limit tab and increase the images limit under the module (e.g. Products, Blogs, Events, etc.) column (should be greater than 1) to enable the Add Photo option.

Pay As You Go

Pay-As-You-Go is a system in which a user pays for the costs of a specific module when they occur rather than before or afterward.

If you want to enable Pay As You Go as the only option, then you must set a price for the module, 0 means it will depend on the Set Limit tab settings. If a module is disabled under the Set Limit tab and the Pay As You Go price for the module is also set to 0 then the icon will not be displayed.

Set Limit tab - The Limits under this tab are included in the package price. For instance, a PLATINUM package has a limit of 10 for Listings, this means a user who subscribed to the PLATINUM package can add 10 Listings without any additional cost. If you set an amount (e.g. $10) for the listings under the Pay As You Go tab then the user can add an additional listing by paying the specified cost ($10/Listing).

Example:

Let's say that in the PLATINUM package...you want to set up as a combination of included & Pay As You Go as following:

• 3 Listings included
• Events - Pay As You Go
• Deals - Pay As You Go
• Blogs - Pay As You Go
• 3 Properties included

• Go to Financial->Packages and edit the PLATINUM package.
  
• Click the Set Limit tab and change the Listings and Properties Limit dropdown to 3
  
• Change the Events, Deals, and Blogs Limit dropdown to Disabled. Disabled means that the user can add an Event/Deal/Blog only by paying the PYG cost defined under the Pay As You Go tab.
  
• Go to Pay As You Go tab and enter the price. If you want to allow a user to add more than 3 listings, add a price for the Listing else keep it 0.
  
  IF THE LISTING VALUE IS GREATER THAN 0
  The user can add three listings without any cost, after 3 listings, the user will be redirected to the checkout page.

IF THE VALUE IS 0
The user can add only three listings as defined under the Set Limit tab. All the limits defined under the Set Limit tab are included in the Package Price.

Similarly, you can set the price for other modules.

Member Area

• The user can add only three listings as defined under the Set Limit tab.

• If you set an amount (e.g. $10) for the listings under the Pay As You Go tab then the user can add an additional listing by paying the specified cost ($10/Listing).

• On Add Your Business click, the user will be redirected to the checkout page.

• After a successful checkout, the user can add a listing.