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Main new features added in Version 3.0 of Car Portal
You may find below information about the main new features ...
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New feature allowing the dealers
to create their own websites
with their listings and the information
they prefer
A new unique feature has been added to the Car Portal - it allows the dealers to create their own website (with url like www.domain.com/dealer). This website not just lists the vehicles of the dealer, but also gives him the possibility to add additional information and new pages like About Us or whatever the dealer prefers. There is also functionality allowing the dealer to edit his website design and template - there are both WYSIWYG templates editor and option to edit directly the HTML code of the template. The dealer can in this way freely customize the design of his website adding his logo, changing colors etc. Adding new pages to the website is as easy as dragging the icon for a new page over the desired position in the website tree. |
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Functionality allowing the administrator to manage the vehicle types (cars, motorcycles, trucks etc.)
or add new ones
Earlier versions of Car Portal were limited to cars only. The new version comes with several vehicle types predefined (cars, motorcyles and trucks) and also functionality for the administrator to add new ones. For the existing vehichle types or the added new ones, the administrator can manage the makes and models from the administration panel and also add additional fields associated to them (these can be specific fields for the selected vehicle type). |
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Improved front site design
New improved front site design featuring new sections like Featured Dealers (the dealers are able to upload in it their logo for a fee and link it to their vehicles on the website), Featured Video Property (a random vehicle from the featured ones on the website and having video file uploaded is shown), Browse Vehicles by Make (allowing to click on a make and show the listings), Latest Ads (showing the latest ads posted on the website), Featured Vehicles (showing random featured vehicles, a vehicle can be made featured for a fee). |
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Video support
Possibility to upload video files for the vehicles, which can be virtual presentations. The accepted video file formats as well as the maximum allowed file size can be specified by the administrator. The administrator can also create different packages (for both the private sellers and the car dealers) allowing to upload (or not) a video file. In this way the administrator/website owner could charge more the users who would like to post a video for their vehicle on the website. |
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Improved middle and final results layout
New and improved middle and final results layout allowing to easily navigate between the results and show the property features. |
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Saved Searches
New functionality allowing the website users to save their searches. The functionality doesn't require registration, so any website user could use it. Using the saved searches, later the users could easily visualize the results from searches they made in the past. They also have the possibility to search only the new vehicles - the newly posted vehicles, which have been published after the search has been saved. |
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Dashboard and improved user admin spaces
New improved dealers and private sellers admin spaces. The dealers could see in the top bar the number of credits they have, as well as direct links to the main website and their own website (the new feature allowing the dealers to create a website, add the pages and information they prefer and which shows their listed vehicles). The dashboard on the home page provides quick links to post new listings, see the current ones, see the received messages and others. |
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Better system for charging the users based on credits
New and better system for charging the dealers based on credits has been added. The dealers can buy credits and use them to pay for the different services offered on the website like posting ads, make them featured, post banners. The usage of the credits system increases the profits for the website owner, as well as make the website easier for use by the dealers. Instead of making multiple small payments when they would like to use a service, they could purchase credits and spend them after for paying when posting ads etc. |
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Banners functionality
New functionality allowing the car dealers to post banners in special banner areas created by the administrator. Possibility to create different banner areas on the website, each with its own size and position, different price for uploading a banner in it etc. The dealer is charged automatically from his credits when posting a banner in a selected banner area. |
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Car Dealers Sub Accounts
The car dealers already have the possibility to create sub accounts for their accounts. They can be useful if other people from the same company have to access the same profile and manage the property listings or information.The main user can set the permissions for the different pages available in the car dealers admin space, so he could specify the permissions which sub account should have. |
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Improved admin panel
The admin panel has been reorganized and improved and also new pages have been added in order to allow to manage the new functionality (like managing the credits system and settings, the default settings for the for the users websites etc.) |
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Newsletter
The new newsletter functionality allows the administrator to send newsletter to the private sellers or car dealers. The users can choose to subscribe for the newsletter when they sign up on the website and then change this setting from their personal admin space. |
Car Portal
Features
Car Portal is composed by five main parts:
- front site (easy customizable and template based)
- private sellers administration space (allowing the private sellers to manage their profile, ads and others)
- dealers administration space (providing functionality to the dealers to work with multiple ads and manage their profile)
- admin panel (accessible only by the administrators, providing full control over the website - its structure and content and the car portal settings and users)
- big list with available extensions and custom modules
- multilanguage websites support
- add new pages to the website (and delete/activate/deactivate them)
- edit the content of the pages with a powerful WYSIWYG editor
- set custom extensions to be executed for selected pages
- use different templates for the website and a powerful templates functionality
- extend the application with ease with new Back office modules and application extensions written by yourself
- use standard, multiple levels and customized predefined menus, which are automatically generated according to the website structure
- manage the URLs of the pages of your website, setup for example search engines friendly URLs to be used
- cross browser WYSIWYG editor to edit the website pages content
- define custom template tags and set custom extensions to be executed for them
- create custom server side forms, like Contact pages or product information request forms, with and integrated WYSIWYG forms designer
- consult the data sent by users through the published forms on the site
- see statistics and charts for the visits of the website
- optimize the site for search engines, set custom titles, meta keywords and description for the pages, check the queries that the visitors used in Google to find your website
- submit your website to the major crawler based search engines, like Google and Alltheweb for example
- check search engines index report
- see search engines popularity report for a selected page
- consult history for your login/log outs to the Back office application
- security features to protect your website and the Back office application
- detailed security reports for the Back office
- define multiple groups and users for the Back office and assign them different access settings for the resources of the application
- consult history reports for the different users
- customize the interface of the Back office application (individually for every user)
Ads distance search based on ZIPs (the users may search for cars located not far from selected distance)
US and European search schemes supported (including make and models databases for both the USA and Europe)
WYSIWYG front site template editor
The number of pictures per ad can be defined by the administrator - the number of pictures can be from 0 to unlimited per car ad
SEO links for the ads, looking as static html files - for ex. http://www.domain.com/car/2/bmw-645-2005.html http://www.domain.com/make/BMW.html Multi administrators back office - multiple administrators with different permissions can access the Car Portal back office
The registered private sellers have access to their personal administration space where they can: edit their profile, manage their car ads, see their private messages, manage the settings for their ads (for example if their email is visible for the other users etc.), contact the support center and others.
The dealer users have some special functionality allowing them to work with ease with multiple job ads.
Standard WebSiteAdmin functionality coming by default with Car Portal: