Configuring the Packages/Plans

Configuring the Packages/Plans

Use of the packages implies that you are deemed to have an extended license of the script in accordance with Envato's terms of use.

Types of packages/plans

Before LaraClassifier v14.0.0 and JobClass v13.0.0, only promotion packages can be created to promote the listings. From LaraClassifier v14.0.0+ and JobClass v13.0.0+, admin users can create subscription packages in addition to the promotion packages allowing the website users to subscribe them weekly, monthly or yearly to have features that have limited with the website basics features. For example, the possibility to publish more listings or more pictures per listing or to have more expiration time for their listings during the subscriptions validity dates.

Package creation, edition or deletion

• Go to your Admin panel → Plans
• Click on one type of package (Promotion or Subscription)
• Select a package and edit it. Or click on "Add new package" to create a new package.
• To delete a package, click on its delete button on the packages list page.

Packages Price

You have to check out the minimum amount required by the installed payment gateway providers. You can set 0.00 as price but it is important to note that:

• It is not possible to have several packages with price equal to 0.00. Only one is allowed.
• The package with 0.00 as price is the free package (the one used when no paid package is selected).
• No payment will be make when price is equal to 0.00.
• When the free package is active, its limits (listings limit, pictures limit and publication duration) replace the related settings for all free users and listings. Its other options have no effect. See How Plan Limits Work.
• It is not possible to create several basic packages. Only one basic package per package type.

Order of importance of packages features

In what order are the basic functionalities and those from the different package types applied?

It should be noted that most of the features revolve around listings. For the limits (listings limit, pictures limit and publication duration):

1. The free tier is applied first: the values of the active free packages, or the related settings when no active free package defines them.
2. The valid paid packages (the user's subscription and the listing's promotion) are then applied.
3. When several packages apply at the same time, the highest value is used: buying a package never reduces what a user or a listing already gets.

More details and examples: How Plan Limits Work.

I. Promotion Packages

Premium listings Display and Sorting

You can decide to display premium listings first, in search results (when category and location filter are not enabled), in search results filtered by category or filtered by location. This can be done in the Admin panel → Settings → General → List & Search → Premium Listings.

Premium listings are now sorted based on their packages. It is therefore important to carefully reorder your packages.

To display the premium listings (or paid listings) first, in searches results, you need to reorder your Packages from your Admin panel → Plans (Reorder package).

Please follow the rules below:

• Listings whose Package is sorted on the last line will appear at the top of the searches results.
• Listings whose Package is sorted on the first line will appear after the listings with the other packages.
• The free listings will be shown at bottom in the search results.

The premium (or paid) listings will be shown in the carousel in the homepage automatically (i.e. You cannot push some listings in the carousel manually).

IMPORTANT!

It is not possible to make listings as premium from the Admin panel manually or to push some listings in the premium carousel manually. After valid payment, the listing will be shown in the premium carousel automatically.

You can accept offline payments from the Offline Payment plugin (sold in addition) to make listings as premium manually from the Admin panel (by approving their offline payments). Even in this case, payments must be made by the listings authors for the admin user to approve them!

Listings posted with packages priced at 0 (example: $0) are considered as free listings, and cannot be make as premium.

II. Subscription Packages

These packages allow users to have premium features that have been limited in the system, like listings number or pictures number allowed per listing (like for promotion packages) or listings expiration time during the packages validity dates.

• Listings published with packages/plans that have expired remain online according to the free tier (the active free packages' publication duration, or the basic system setting).
• If a user no longer has a valid package but has several listings online thanks to expired packages/plans, they will only be able to publish new listings if the number of listings they have online is lower than the number of listings authorized per free user (the active free subscription package's listings limit, or the basic system setting). He will need to delete some of their old listings in order to post new ones.
• Pending, verified and reviewed listings are considered as published listings, when the listings limitation is applied. Only archived (offline) listings are not taken into account.
• The system will use users subscription to store new listing or when one of their archived listing is reposted.

Notes

• You can delete the default packages and add new packages or edit them.
• All listings posted with a package bypass the admin user review and are automatically published in public.
• If you have multiple countries installed, and if you want that users pay the packages in their selected country currency, you have to create packages per currency activated. And you have to activate the option "Allow users to pay the Packages in their country currency" in the Admin panel → Settings → General → Geolocation.
• Packages are also called Packs or Plans.