This plugin allows you to have Business Directory on your social network. It is extremely flexible in customization, let you charge users to submit entry, perform proximity distance search, mapping, featured, sponsored, approval process, gallery, multiple categories, multiple profiles, and many more.

Feature High-light

• Allow charging your user to post
• Proximity search
• Approval, featured, sponsored
• Mapping, Ratings, and Gallery
• SEO urls / title
• Multiple profiles / categories
• Configurable submission types

Main Landing Page

• Slide-show for random featured businesses
• Recent activities to capture latest actions related to businesses
• Highlight for recent submitted new businesses
• Popular auto-generated tag cloud
• Popular categories
• Popular locations
• Sponsored businesses

Browsing

• Browse by categories
• Browse by locations (city, state/province, country)
• Browse by neighborhoods (regions)
• Browse by tags
• Alphabet (A-Z) quick filter thru results
• Sponsored businesses always on top (easily customizable using css)
• Highlight *featured* businesses (easily customizable using css)
• Embedded global map for businesses

Search and Filter

• Generic search by keywords and locations
• Proximity distance zip search (optional, requires FREE Geo Module & location database)
• AJAX auto suggest location search
• Filter featured businesses only
• Extensive sorting options, can easily see top rated, most popular, recent updated businesses etc..

General Configuration

• Privacy, public browsing option
• Configurable proximity search
• Optional configurable for validating of primary fields (summary, description, phone, url, location etc..)
• Category and Profile mapping

Category / Profile Configuration

• Unlimited categories
• Support sub-categories
• Customizable additional fields for category

• Support multiple profile types
• Customizable profile sections and fields for business

Listing Types / Packages

• Full *ads-like* for available listing types users can choose to submit
• Ability to charge user for submission based on types (FREE ePayment Module required)
• Define different durations, or never expires
• Optional Auto approval triggering
• Optional auto mark business as featured
• Optinoal auto mark business as sponsored
• Ability to limit access (all, none, custom) to profile sections based on types

Manage Submitted Businesses

• Easy overview of submitted businesses
• Manual approval, featured, sponsored entries
• Quick search to filter and see what you want
• Update transaction requirement, expiration, type, and many more

User-Level Customization

• Permission control: no access, view only, or view/submit business
• Permission to logo upload
• Permission to album / photos gallery upload
• Permission to mapping
• Permission to custom styles
• and various of other settings

Business Page

• Clean format and layout
• Sponsored and Featured highlight (can easily customized using css)
• Embedded mimi map with popup to bigger map
• Rating stars and who rated
• Support commenting with privacy setting
• Mimi uploaded photo gallery

Requirements

• SocialEngine v3.11+
• ePayment Module (free in account area)
• Geo Module (free in account area)

Demo

• Main Business Directory landing page

Admin Screenshots

These are main admin pages, and it does not include ePayment and Geo Module screenshot.

• Global Business Setting
• Business Categories
• Business Profiles
• Business Types / Packages
• Edit Business Type
• View Businesses
• Business User-Level Settings

Geo Location Packs

If you want to make use of (optional) Proximity Search feature, which relies on zip / postal location point database, you can purchase our pre-built location import packs for United States and International (7 countries). This is totally optional, you do not have to purchase it from us, they are available for you for FREE (google it) on various of open-source or official websites (ex: http://www.geonames.org), one small issue is that they may be in different format. With these packs, you can save time and directly import locations to our FREE Geo Module:

• Geo Location Pack – United States
• Geo Location Pack – International

Addon Modules

Business Directory has API for easy integrate with additional plugins and modules for total customization.

• Article Module for Business Directory
• Blog Module for Business Directory
• Classified Module for Business Directory
• Event Module for Business Directory
• Fan Module for Business Directory
• Group Module for Business Directory
• Job Post Module for Business Directory
• Listing Module for Business Directory
• Poll Module for Business Directory
• Video Module for Business Directory

Special Customization/Conversion/Cloning

If you would like to run multiple instances of Business Directory, aka clone, you can do that with special customization and conversion. Example, you can have “Property”, “Warehouse” etc..

• Not all naming are allowed or possible (ex: home, group, photo etc..), please contact us to confirm.
• In some case, you may have to update the language text change yourself, if you use weird non-sense keyword for conversion.
• You cannot resell/redistribute this in anyway, you can only use it for and on registered domain(s).
• The customization/conversion will be done using the lastest version of Business Directory.
• One converted, it will be it. The new and total different plugin would have all features of based Business Directory, and the service is completed and final.
• You will need to purchase a new Business Directory plugin license for the clone + additional customization hours (usually 3~5) to perform the conversion.
• FREE installation + Geo Location Packs are provided
• Contact Us if you have any question and would like to start