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A classified is an individual classified item available for listing in your online classified store. Classifieds are often tangible goods, but they can also be a digital download or a service (such as a real estate, cars, jobs, work for hire or anything).
At Joobi, we use the term Catalog to represent all the available type of products (such as product, subscription, auction, voucher, classifieds etc.)

Requirements

  • jClassifieds
  • jMarket (For multi-vendor functionality. If single classifieds only, then jClassifieds is enough.)
  • jSubscription (To handle paid promotion. Free promotion does not need jSubscription installed.)

Hint

Product: This is an individual item for sale in your store. This can be tangible or digital downloadable product.

Classified: This is a classifieds ads in your store that is listed for certain duration.
Catalog: The item type is another type similar to an article which can be used to display your product and services without a price.

Reminder

For multi-vendor functionality, some of the tabs might not be available for vendors base on the preferences setup by the store manager. Please refer article "vendor preferences" in this documentation for more detailed guidance.

Step 1 Navigate to Classifieds

Store admin

  • From the Admin Panel, naviagte to >> [any Joobi ecommerce] >> Catalog
  • Follow step 2 to 8
  • Click [Save] once you are done

For Vendors

  • From the vendor area, navigate to Catalog >> New or Listing
  • Follow step 2 to 8
  • Click [Save] once you are done

Step 2 From the Catalog page, choose New >> New [type you want to create]

Note that you can also click "New" button directly from the product listing when you click Catalog >> Listings >> Classifieds

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Step 3 Adding a classified

General Section

Name: Enter the name of the item as you want your customers to see it. This is a required field.
Alias: Specify an alias for the item. if left blank it will be automatically filled with the name.
Category: The chosen category will the "default" category, also the first category. The item can be listed in other category through the multiple category selector in the list of items.
Price: Type the price you intend to charge your customers in figures.
Introduction: Type a short text that best describe your product.
Description: Type a few paragraphs of text that best describe your product.
Vendor: The name of the product owner. This is automatically generated when you click "Save".

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Step 4 Add a promotion

Promotion is used if you want to get some extra income from your vendors listing. Please refer to "Paid Promotion or Promotion" article in this documentation to create one.

  • Select the pomotion you want to use for the product
  • Cick save once you are done

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Step 5 Add classifieds image

Click "Green button" or "Drag and drop" image files to upload multiple images to accompany the product description that will appear in your store.

Tip

  • Compress your images before uploading them to further improve your website page
  • To achieve identical aspect ratios for your images, you may want to edit them in photoshop.

The Photos section of the Add classified page looks like this:

product-photo

Step 6 Specify a product delivery

Delivery Type: Select the type of product you are selling.

If you are selling only type of product you can disable other available delivery type options by going to [any Joobi ecommerce] >> Catalog >> Preferences >> Item Tab >> Miscellaneous >> Product

Under Delivery section, select only the delivery type you want to use in your store.

Preview: Upload any supported file type that you want to show to your customers about your product.
Download: Upload any supported file type for your digital product. This option will only display if you choose "electronic or Goods with Attachment" as delivery type.

product-delivery

Step 7 Enter your product location

Address: Define the address of the item. The item will show up in location search and item's map.

Note

To use the map service, you need to have PHP 5.3 version or higher.

Step 8 Setup your product SEO and Define who can view and purchase

Publishing Section

Publish: Publish or unpublish the item from the storefront. Publish status is the default value.
Block Product: Define if this product is block or not. Enable the store manager to block a vendor product so it does not get publish in the store.
Who can view product: Define what access level the user requires to view the product.
Who can view prices: Define what access level the user requires to view the product price.
Who can buy: Define what access level the user requires to purchase this item.
Start Display: Start display date, when the item will be displayed to the shoppers.
Leave empty for displaying immediately. Shoppers can only purchase when the item is available.
End Display: Specify the date when the item will be removed from the store. Leave empty for unlimited display.
Start Available: Date from when the item can be purchased. If empty same as Start Display.
End Available: Date when the item will NOT be available for purchase any more. If empty same date at End Display.
List ID: Use this field to specify one or several lists ID when you want to integrate with jNews mailing system. Separate IDs by "commas" without spaces.

SEO
Title: You can specify here an alternative title for the page of the item. By default the name of the item is used.
Description: Specify the description which should be added to the page header for better search ranking.
Keywords: Specify keyword to be added to the page to increase your search ranking.

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Step 8 Configure your product layout

Layout handles how your product is displayed in the storefront.

There are 3 places you can configure your Store layout.
1. Product edit page - Refer below screenshot.
2. Type Preference - If you have more than 1 product type (products, subscriptions, auctions, etc.) then Type Preference is selected by default so you can have the flexibility for each individual type.
3. General Preference - If you have only 1 product type or if you want to use only 1 Layout for all product types then this option must be selected.

Warning

Warning: To avoid doing alot of manual work, you should avoid selecting "Yes" if you have alot of product types and a thousand of items.

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