What are the different options / charging modes to charge the advertisers or event organizing companies for posting events on my site or using the other services?
Currently Event Portal has 3 different charging modes (which can be easily switched from the administration panel
and the Payments section there) or alternatively the administrator
can choose to run also a free site for the users.
- based on subscriptions / recurring payments
- based on credits
- direct payments
When you choose the subscriptions option you can create different subscriptions, for example:
- subscription #1 with price: $19.90 / mo allowing up to 25 listings, 0 banners and 0 featured listings (so the user selecting this subscription will pay $19.90 monthly fee with PayPal recurring payments and will be able to list up to 25 listings .. when he reaches this number, he will be asked to upgrade his subscription in order to be able to list more)
- subscription #2 with price let say: $49.90 allowing up to 500 listings, 1 banner and 10 featured listings etc.
So you may have as many subscriptions and set whatever pricing you prefer.
If you choose the second option to charge the advertisers based on credits, then the advertisers should buy credits (using one of the available payment options, such as PayPal with IPN, 2checkout, cheques and bank transfer) and after that they use these credits to pay for the services for the website. The advantage of this system is that since there are services for which the advertisers are charged very little amounts (like for example to open a user resume using the Search in the database with resumes functionality), they don't have to be redirected to external websites and make payments for such little amounts. Currently the advertisers can be charged when they use any of the following services:post event listings make selected event listings featured (they appear on top of the search results and appear with yellow background) upload job banners in different banner areas (the banner areas, their position, size of the banners and their price is set by the administrator)-the banners can be linked to the current event listings of the advertiser or an external link browse the database with the user resumes (the administrator can set a price for this service, per one resume opening)
When setting the direct payments option (3rd method)-you can set the price per job, featured job or resume view, so when posting a job the advertiser will directly see then a PayPal icon (or other option depending on the ones you have configured) to make his payment.
There is also an option to run a free site and with it the users can use freely the different services without being asked to make a payment. You can also switch at any time between the different payment options from the administration panel.
- based on subscriptions / recurring payments
- based on credits
- direct payments
When you choose the subscriptions option you can create different subscriptions, for example:
- subscription #1 with price: $19.90 / mo allowing up to 25 listings, 0 banners and 0 featured listings (so the user selecting this subscription will pay $19.90 monthly fee with PayPal recurring payments and will be able to list up to 25 listings .. when he reaches this number, he will be asked to upgrade his subscription in order to be able to list more)
- subscription #2 with price let say: $49.90 allowing up to 500 listings, 1 banner and 10 featured listings etc.
So you may have as many subscriptions and set whatever pricing you prefer.
If you choose the second option to charge the advertisers based on credits, then the advertisers should buy credits (using one of the available payment options, such as PayPal with IPN, 2checkout, cheques and bank transfer) and after that they use these credits to pay for the services for the website. The advantage of this system is that since there are services for which the advertisers are charged very little amounts (like for example to open a user resume using the Search in the database with resumes functionality), they don't have to be redirected to external websites and make payments for such little amounts. Currently the advertisers can be charged when they use any of the following services:post event listings make selected event listings featured (they appear on top of the search results and appear with yellow background) upload job banners in different banner areas (the banner areas, their position, size of the banners and their price is set by the administrator)-the banners can be linked to the current event listings of the advertiser or an external link browse the database with the user resumes (the administrator can set a price for this service, per one resume opening)
When setting the direct payments option (3rd method)-you can set the price per job, featured job or resume view, so when posting a job the advertiser will directly see then a PayPal icon (or other option depending on the ones you have configured) to make his payment.
There is also an option to run a free site and with it the users can use freely the different services without being asked to make a payment. You can also switch at any time between the different payment options from the administration panel.
