ILance - Professional Marketplace Solution for Webmasters - New AJAX Features!

gamenz said:

Too expensive IMO, you endup paying over something over $650 and thats without any add-on.

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Thanks for your kind words. However where do you get that figure of $650? That's not the price. Here is our price list. Furthermore, from my post above we are also offering an additional 10% off to namepros members only. This offering is only posted on namepros. Nowhere else. If you are prepared to run a profitable business you will need to understand that it does take money to earn money. That is unless you have thousands of free hours to craft your own and don't need to work to earn a living.

ILance Add-ons are mini-products developed for the popular ILance framework and they are priced very low and competitively. The point here is that ILance offers PHP developers and designers the ability to integrate any form of add-on to the ILance framework via consistant platform as discussed in full here.

ILance offers everything you would need to successfully run an online marktetplace supporting any market niche (web design, arts and crafts, domain name marketplace, programming marketplace, product support similar to ebay, unique bidding, reverse auction, forward auction, digital download delivery of goods when your buyers request customization and active mediashare space so your buyers and sellers and easily communicate in private, private message boards, public message boards and so much more.

ILance has been in development since 2002 and we're very proud to announce it's immediate release with version 3.1.4 now available.

Having a solution pre-built or created from scratch is very unpractical. Something similar or even remotely close to something like ILance would cost you somewhere in the ten's of thousands of dollars easily. Simply put, this is a steal What is more - it's a supported solution. Meaning if you experience any issue you are able to report a bug and team ILance will prepare a patch or fix immediately (depending on the severity of the issue). Mind you we treat every issue with full review, and determine if it is in fact a bug or not. We handle all that for you, you simply run your online business.

PS - ILance was born in 2002. It isn't some script crafted in a few days or few months. This solution is supported and is not sold "As-is" like other competing solutions. We care about the product we are advertising and selling and have hundreds of customers that have purchased the ILance solution since 2002 and have many testimoinals for your review.

And with the exclusive namepros discount as mentioned above, you save even more. I've been a member at namepros for quite some time and this gives myself on behalf of ILance a chance to give back to the community in the form of a clear savings for this holiday season

If you have any concerns, questions, comments, please private message me or simply discuss your thoughts and I'll do my best to answer in full detail.

Here is a screenshot of what the main marketplace menu looks like once installed. Installation usually takes roughly 5-10 minutes and goes through a few questions to get your marketplace up and running very quickly:


Happy Holidays everyone!

Hi,
thanks for reply, i simply got the $650 from 1 x license of $497 plus 1 X license removal of $129.. its not exactly 650 i round it up which is not too far from 650, and that isfor basic 5000 user type.

again, i have seen the demo and not only it looks good, but nice script too.

thanks again

PM me your price with all the mods, license removal and installation please

VALHALLA said:

PM me your price with all the mods, license removal and installation please

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Hi Tommy,
PM sent to you.

Thanks!

Payment Types Manager

New Payment Types Manager

A new feature was recently added to ILance allowing the admin to create new payment types/methods members will use when listing their auctions in your marketplace. In previous versions it was only a textbox and now offers a nice pulldown menu with pre-selected values making this extremely easy for users to use. The admin control panel shows how easy this is to manage and maintain:

Can you also please PM me the price. Why do you have limit on number of users?

Many best wishes this new year.

All PM's responded to.

#rateAcoder.com said:

Why do you have limit on number of users?

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We provide multiple tiers of product licensing which keeps the solution competitively priced. Over 6 years in the making with thousands of marketplace features, a regular cost for such a solution would easily cost you in excess of $50K. To enable more practical pricing to new businesses and Internet based startups, ILance is priced and built to sell.

If you noticed our starter package provides 5,000 users. That means once you accumulate these many clients you'll have no problem upgrading to the next tier.

#rateAcoder.com said:

Many best wishes this new year.

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And the very same to you and your staff!

Update - New Features added

Update - New Features added:

- Search Engine Friendly URLS
- Distance Calculation
- RSS Feed Manager
- Realtime Bid Support (Flash MX Applet) plots live bids!
- Enhanced Profiles
- More Profile Options like Invite to Bid, Add to Watchlist and more!
- "Buy Now" option now available to users that sell digital delivery items via Buy Now auction format
- Optimized Advanced Search

And much more!

Just added searchable item specifics within the left-nav category menu. Now your users can filter auction questions based on custom auction questions (aka auction specifics).

For example:

Web Design Category

`-- Needs Logo?
`---- Yes (32)
`---- No (3)
`-- Needs Flash?
`---- Yes (21)
`---- No (18)

DVD's & Movies
`-- Genre
`---- Horror (33)
`---- Comedy (12)
`---- Sci-Fi (43)

and so on..

Best,

New Language Manager

New Language Manager

There is a new language manager in ILance. With the new language manager you can easily define text (left to right) or vice versa. You can also define the character set all from one central location:

Pl. PM me price with all the mods, Link removal with Discounts

pshetty said:

Pl. PM me price with all the mods, Link removal with Discounts

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I attempted to PM you yesterday and your PM is not working. Please enable PM in your account settings of this forum. Looking forward in helping you get setup for the new year!

PS - if you haven't already, please register to our web site here: https://www.ilance.com/members/register

And lastly - If you are interested in seeing the admin control panel demo of ILance then please enable your PM in this forum and I'll send you the user/pass and url of the admin section.

Regards,
Peter

Thanks for the details ... will get back to you.

As for the PM issue i have notified / requested the NP team to look inot the issue, as i have PM's enabled in my User CP.

Listing Comparison

New Listing Comparison

Just a quick update based on what's coming up:

Compare feature for:

-Product
-Service
-Experts

This upcoming feature will allow your members to drill down the results from your marketplace in greater detail -- side by side to get the most viewing information possible in your marketplace.

From a developer's point of view this API can be extended to support additional fields and of course more options within the pulldown like "Invite to Bid", "Add to Watchlist" and anything else like "Pre-Bid" etc.

Screen shot attached!


Regards,
Peter

4 Column Category Map

4 Column Category Map

New in ILance moves away from the 3-column layout to the new and improved 4 column category layout. What's great about this update is the ability for the programmer to utilize the function generating these layouts. It now supports 1,2,3,4 and more columns without guesswork and very little effort (also includes option to enable/disable category counters) as seen below:

New Distance Calculation in ILance

Distance Calculation Update

Upcoming version of ILance now provids built-in Radius searching including distance calculation measurements. At present the logic works for USA, Canada and UK. All other countries are currently unsupported. Here's a demonstration of what it looks and feels like:



Regards,
Peter

Sell Your Product - AJAX Category Selector Upgrade Implementation

Update -

We are currently in the process of upgrading the "Sell Your Item" page with an AJAX driven unlimited (nested) category map selector allowing users to quickly find the proper category for listing their auction within.


A demo of this upcoming feature will be available shortly. I will update this thread when further information becomes available!

Regards,
Peter

New Fixed Price Tab

New Fixed Price Tab

A new "Fixed Price" tab is now available when users are searching for items within your marketplace. This allows sellers that have listed their items with a fixed cost to be more visible in the search results based on buyers wanting to find items to buy without the need to bid:

Advanced Search Filters

Advanced Search Filters

In ILance, your members now have full control over every element you add to your marketplace. For example, as seen below, these are custom questions you would add from the admin control panel which would be answered by users. Once they answer questions your members can easily find exactly what they want without guesswork. New in ILance offers Skills - the perfect complement letting your providers define what their expertise is based on your marketplace niche. In the example below this market relates to IT (design, programming, app dev, etc):


On second thought, who cares what color hair a programmer has (just an example of course) However YIB (Years in Business) and Emp (Employee Count) would be great filters for sure.

PS - You can verify each answer and charge a fee. That's the beauty of running your own marketplace - You call the shots.

Improved Live Currency Rates Manager

Improved Live Currency Rates Manager for Users

The live currency rates manager now provides currency rates based on a daily bases from a popular web feed provided by ECB (Euro Central Bank). A daily cronjob runs updating the database with new currency rates for that day. Users can quickly compare prices in different currencies from users selling internationally.

Note: This feed is not like Yahoo or Xe.com. These providers offer realtime currency rates but with a hefty fee. You can connect with these companies and pay $300+ per month to have access to their API or you can use a free version installed stock in ILance at no extra charge.

The example is based on today's rates. When surfing to Xe.com for a comparison it's off a tad, but not much:

ILance: 500 CAD = 390.13 USD
XE: 500 CAD = 387.19 USD
Yahoo: 500 CAD = 387.16 USD

+/- $2.94

The currency converter in ILance is only for visual representation anyways and a programmer can easily extend the ILance api to use another feed. It's easy peasy

Hi, I am just wondering if there's any enhancement for advertisement components such as a[d]sense and [a]dbrite?

johntxy said:

Hi, I am just wondering if there's any enhancement for advertisement components such as a[d]sense and [a]dbrite?

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Hi johntxy,

Yes there is. In fact, you would not be limited to Adbrite or Adsense, you could use any advertising component desired as all templates are 100% HTML which allows you to cut and paste your promotions in any template you feel necessary.

In terms of a "management" area for "Adbrite" or "Adsense" there is no "spot" in the Admin Control Panel to offer any "control" however as you will have 100% conrol in html templates.

If at some point you need to have PHP be used to perhaps rotate your adverts in ILance that's also possible. For example, ILance uses a template driven framework which html templates contain {tags}. We refer to these as "Template Variables". So it would be possible to create something like {adverts} in the index.html template and then have PHP output the desired javascript or HTML as you need like this:

$adverts = 'xxx';

index.html:

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{adverts}
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And your adverts show without issue. Easy peasy

If you would like more detailed instructions that's no problem. PM me and I'll take care of your requests (or at least advise on how to implement that feature).

One thing you'll enjoy when working with ILance (as a designer or developer) is the the fact that we do not embed PHP code within the HTML templates. We use a model-view-controller which uses a unique template framework (our own) and designers can design the CSS/HTML and the developers simply develop in PHP.

Furthermore, ILance has created a simple Advertising "Add-on" called "LanceAds". You can learn more about LanceAds here. This addon actually integrates itself into the Marketplace. If you review the demo you'll see the advertisement being displayed under the breadcrumb of the layout. These are displaying "LanceAds" adverts which the admin has enabled and the users have created their own campaigns.

An update is nearly complete for this add-on which will use the "Category" description keywords and other aspects of the meta tags and will spit out relevent ads based on region, keywords (tags) and descriptions. This product add-on is priced affordably, at $49. This would be a seperate fee not included in this promotional offer, but it's affordable to the point where if you need it... it's available as well

Regards,
Peter

Listing Revision Tracker

Listing Revision Log Now Available

I would like to introduce a new feature that has been long awaited -- Revision Log.

A listing's revision log will now track any new or updated changes to the auction event listing. If an auction has been posted, and has no bids placed the owner of the auction may update various aspects about his/her listing. After a bid has been placed on the auction event, only limited fields when updating the auction is available.

This will make a big difference in terms of people changing their title's or listing description around and everything about the change will be tracked in the new Revision Log as shown below.

Team ILance and myself look forward to getting this release out to everyone! Thanks for your continued support.



Regards,
Peter

I have bought Ilance now and simply love it! I have never seen so many features and possibilities. Thank you