Directorist Aims & Perspectives: Who Needs Directorist?

• Charge for listings
• Featured listings
• Sell premium listings
• Allow businesses to claim listings
• Charge for viewing private listings
• Allow private/sponsored advertising
• Charge for membership
• Sell business leads
• Promote affiliate products
• Allow sponsored articles/guest posting
• Bookings & appointment
• Access control
• Ranked featured lists
• Paid ad placement

Want to learn them in detail? Give a read to this article on how to monetize your directory website with Directorist.

A bunch of payment methods to Collect Payments

To stop cart abandonment, you must have multiple payment methods in place. That’s because all of your potential customers may not use the same payment gateway and when they go to the checkout page, they can abandon their cart if they don’t see the payment gateway they are using. Fortunately, Directorist supports multiple payment methods including Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net.

Built-in directory webpage builder

The tool ships with a drag and drop-based directory builder that helps you control the webpages like the All Listing page, Single Listing layout, Submission page, search widget, and many more. In addition to that, you can even use the custom fields other than the predefined fields to collect as much user data as you want.

Related Post: Directorist Custom Fields – Elevate Your Directorist Experience with Custom Fields

Page builder support for design flexibility

We discovered that a lot of our users are using page builders like Elementor, Oxygen Page Builder, and Gutenberg. Consequently, we have developed 17 Elementor Widgets, 17 Oxygen Page Builder components, and 16 Gutenberg blocks. We are also planning to integrate with other popular page builders like Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, Divi, and Brizy very soon. However, Elementor and Gutenberg are integrated even with the free version whereas the Oxygen Page builder is available as a premium extension.

Related Post: How to Create a Directory Website Using Oxygen Page Builder

Multiple mapping sources to choose from

All people do not have the same taste or same intention. Thus we have incorporated both Google Maps and the OpenStreet maps into the system. You can select the map that you want to view when your users see listings.

Never settle in one directory niche

With Directorist, you don’t have to settle only in a particular niche. With the multidirectory feature, you can create multiple directory niches, and this way you can expand your business even more. To cite an example, you may start with an automobile directory but later you might want to sell accessories like automobile parts, stickers, engine oil as another niche.

Easy translation, RTL Language Support

We know our users aren’t from the same background and so we made the tool easily translatable. If you are an RTL (Right to left) language (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Pashto, Urdu, Sindhi, etc.) user, Directorist got you covered with it.

Frontend listing submission

Your users can submit their listings from the front-end of a directory website. Thus you don’t have to give access to the backend making your website less vulnerable to hackers.

Here are some of the premium features to look at

Directorist has more than 26 integrations. Here are a few of them:

• Let your users send private messages to each other

This extension will allow the visitors to send messages to the listing owners. This is a necessary feature as the customers often desperately seek out information from the listing owners.

• Drive more traffic using the power of Yoast SEO

No website can grow steadily and remarkably if it is not SEO-friendly. Therefore we took the concept of SEO seriously and integrated Directorist with the Yoast SEO plugin.

• Wage Email campaigns with ease using the MailChimp integration

We know how much important it is to promote and communicate with your users with Email marketing. In this regard, you will get a premium MailChimp integration that helps you collect the

• BuddyBoss & BuddyPress integration to give a social networking vibe

With Directorist, you can also make your website more engaging and interactive using either the BuddyBoss integration or the BuddyPress integration. It makes your directory website as functional as a social media website.

• Google reCaptcha to prevent spammers

Nowadays, we can not imagine a website data submission without using Google’s Recaptcha feature. Why is that? Because it helps you keep your website spam-free. As a result, you will only get the necessary data by filtering the unwanted ones. Cool, isn’t it?

Upcoming features

• WPML Support (will be availabe within March 10, 2022)
• Admin Dashboard
• Ajax search and filter
• Radius based booking
• Schema markup/rich snippet
• dClassified theme for classified listing website
• Single Listing Tab View (Extension)
• GamiPress Integration
• WooCommerce Subscription Integration
• dEvent (Theme)
• Performance optimization
• Advanced review system (Extension)

You can also check other upcoming features or the status of their development from the Directorist team’s Roadmap.

Over to You

That’s all there’s to it on Directorist’s aims and perspectives. We’ve only mentioned the key points here but there are more features and options under the hood. If you are yet to try it out, we recommend you give a shot at the demo version or download the free version to get a hands-on experience. If you are already using Directorist, don’t hesitate to share your thoughts down below.