H Fluker, El Salvador
I recently launched a real estate site and Esvon was a perfect
match for all our needs. I have never seen a more stable product
or a script with so many added features as this one has. The speed
of this product is the best I have seen. I would recommend this
product for anyone that wants to set up a serious classifieds
based website. I am so satisfied with this system that I am in the
process of buying two more licenses for two other sites that we
are setting up.
M Reinolds, Germany
Turkish branch of CHIP (CHIP.tr) uses Esvon Classifieds as a closed portal for selected CHIP readers.
Here are the benefits we got from it in real usage:
detailed information about reader satisfaction concerning the issue;
marketing data for own use or reselling to suppliers and manufacturers
concerning products;
Ability to specify restricted set of allowed HTML tags to ensure protection from XSS and other attacks but to
allow WYSIWYG editors usage for text decoration
(bolding, different text sizes, fonts, styles, etc), YouTube video code posting, etc.
Admin Area directory renaming is supported for security purposes
Notification by e-mail to the administrator when a user registers and posts ads
Ability to remove "bad words" as defined by the administrator
Checks the validity of e-mail addresses entered by each user
Checks to make sure that users entered all necessary contact information
Performance
Efficient database design
Automatic usage of MySQL version specific features/improvements
Lightweight homegrown MySQL wrapper usage instead of heavy DB abstraction layer (e.g. ADODB, MDB2, PEAR DB, etc)
Database queries caching to reduce server load (with Admin Area based cache clearing and expiration time control)
Ability to limit searchable keywords amount to keep server resources usage reasonable
Search engines friendliness
Ability to display category names and listing fields (like car make, model, year) in page titles
Search engines friendly URLs support with ability to include category names and listing titles in these URLs
Automatic search engine robot (spider) detection to avoid PHP session starting for it. List of robots is provided
(more than 300 entries) and is open for future updates
Scalability
Ability to handle extreme amounts of traffic due to its database functionality, professional
approach to the software design/coding and database queries caching,
unlike the slow-running processing speed of a flat-files
Perl script that has the tendency to crash your system when your site grows
Unlimited level categories with ability to import / export category names and trees
Scalable to a virtually limitless number of ads (tested in production with listings amount near to 100,000)
Efficient category tree building engine. It is very fast, only 2 SQL
queries are used to build unlimited level category tree with ads amount per category
calculation. You may want to know that many low end scripts don't care about performance and can bring your server to knees
by amount of database queries executed!
GUI
Comprehensive Interface that is complex, yet user-friendly
Templates Management, 100% separation of HTML code from PHP
Modify template files on the fly. You can update templates online any time without need
to re-upload files
Control registration emails
Control ad placement emails
Identify required/optional fields
Control pixel size of thumbnail images
Set limitations on file size of uploaded images
Ability to force ads to be placed in the lowest subcategory
Category selection made from a dropdown box
Customize and tailor category/subcategory questions so that they are applicable to any market
Enter "badwords" to be filtered from ad titles and descriptions
List/search/manage users/registrants by different criteria
Perform your own database backups with a single mouse click
Unique capability to create HTML driven "Extra Pages". Use for :
- FAQ's page
- Products & Services page
- Shopping Cart pages
- Affiliates page
- General Information page
- You choose...any HTML driven page you can create
Ability to show/no-show "ad count" for each category/subcategory
Terms of Use page - require registrant to agree
Privacy Policy page
Control the number of days a classified ad can be displayed
Control amount of images to be uploaded
Control size of image to be uploaded
Configure column display of uploaded images
Allow/disallow thumbnails
Control size of thumbnails
Control length of ad title
Control length of ad description - long word filter
Control aspects of the registration process, including required/optional fields
Related links and categories support
Top visited, New, Featured Ads pages (by category)
Reviews writing and voting for each ad by site visitors and displaying supported
Blocks engine. You can have any content blocks (including database-driven) in header, footer and other templates.
Some blocks available now: Categories, Featured Ad, Who is Online, Latest Ads, Recently Viewed,
Top Rated, Most Popular..
Customization
Listing fields customizeable by category
Supported listing field types include single line text boxes, textarea, HTML areas (WYSIWYG textboxes), drop-down menus,
multiple select lists, radio buttons, checkboxes (single or multiple choices), date, file upload controls..
Admin Area based listing field configurations (fieldsets) management
Create your own ad templates or use the Esvon Classifieds default ad templates
Ability to display "Newest Ads" (Top Rated, Most Popular) in categories (category specific)
Complete header/footer control - (show, no show, size, color, html, text, graphics, etc...)
Insert images for categories/subcategories
Control all site text through the admin
Show newest and/or featured ads on front page and subcategory pages
Select the number of newest and/or featured ads to be displayed on front page
and subcategory pages
Fee-based features
Create an unlimited number of complex price plans and pricing schemes
Set expiration time to price plans
Ability to handle "real-time" credit card processing
Preconfigured and set up with Paypal, 2Checkout, Worldpay and Authorize.Net for payments
Preconfigured for Cash Payments, Check Payments, Money Order Payments
Charge for an ad based on the length of time the ad is displayed
Charge users for different subscription periods (weekly, monthly, annually, etc.)
Charge users for having better ad placement positioning
Charge users for featured ad status
Charge users for images amount per ad
Charge users for site browsing, ad details viewing
Expenses management (for expenses tracking for advertising,
custom programming, additional software, etc) to help you in monthly / yearly
profit analysis and taxes calculation.
Ads expiration
Ads are removed from active status by user or automatically upon expiration of ad
Ad renewal process
Email alert of ad expiration
Optional deletion of ads that have expired
Search
Sophisticated search system that allows for a variety of different search criteria
Search is driven by category when "search" button is picked while inside a category
Search by keyword
Search by predefined dropdown box values
Or simply search by browsing
User Registration
Easy to use registration process which uses an email address verification routine that:
reduces fake registrations
ensures unique email addresses are required (no duplicates within the site)
assures that the user registering at least has current access to the email address used
User has incredible control over their ads and preferences. "User Management Facility" contains:
my ads
my current information
place new ad
my favorites
payment transactions
modules (Auto Notify, My Mailbox, etc)
Reply or send an inquiry to the seller by clicking on his/her name within the ad itself
Can allow registration without email confirmation
Registration process consolidated to one page
Additional Controls
Admin Control Panel allows administrator to manage virtually all aspects of the program
through the Graphical User Interface
Administrator can specify required fields in the admin facility, as well as, show/noshow
certain fields
Ability to set maximum number of characters that users can enter in each text field when
entering ads
Mutliple mailing lists support. Subscribe/unsubscribe with email confirmation, admin
area for mailing lists management, newsletter sending, e-mails and log management, etc
Modules-based extra functionality
Several additional modules with premium functionality - you pay only for modules/features you really need
Multiple administrator accounts with limited rights (see Editors module).
You may want to have some people who will have restricted Admin Area access to perform limited set of tasks which you
assign to them
Can't find the feature you're looking for? Send an inquiry to us and we'll let you know
right away if it's in there. There's just too many features to list!
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