Types and levels of listings

Types and levels of listings control the functionality amount of listings and their general theme.

Listings type settings:

  • Name and seo name
  • Enable locations in listings - listings may be connected with city, state, country, ...
  • Enable zip or postal index option
  • Moderation mode - before sitemanager's approval listings will have unapproved status and won't be publiched
  • Search type - listings of type may be searched in the global website scope or just within current type (if 'local search' mode selected)
  • Enable 'what' field search - controls search by word essence
  • Enable 'where' field search - enables search by locations and within entered radius in miles
  • Categories type - as well as search type, each listings type may has its own list of categories either connected to global categories

 

Levels of listings control functional abilities of listings.

  • Name and seo name
  • Listing active period - after this period expired, listing will set suspended status and user have to prolong listing
  • Featured listing label
  • Categories items number
  • Enable logo and logo size options
  • Images count, images size and images thumbnail size
  • Videos count and videos size
  • Files count
  • Users options panel
  • Social bookmarks panel
  • Content fields - additional information of attached fields

Each level has a price of their listings with currency and value according to the users group of listing owner. You may manage it at 'Payment/Listings prices' page. More information you may find in Payment section.

As you see Types-Levels model provides you a great instrument of marketing features. During listings creation user choose listing type and level. Here are 2 sample listings created in one type, but belonging to different levels (Featured and Normal):