Directorist provides multiple ways to earn revenue from your directory site. No matter what kind of directory site you have built with Directorist, you can earn profit from your site very easily. You can monetize your site in many ways using the Directorist monetization feature. These are
1. Featured Listing (Free).
2. Using Pricing Plans (Extension) for public submission,
3. Offering Claim listing (Extension) feature.
4. Reservation / Appointment (Extension).
You can use all of these ways to monetize your site for higher revenue, or you can choose any of these monetization features on your site. We recommend using all of them to maximize your earnings.
Featuring Listings (Free) #
The Featured Listings option allows you to highlight specific listings so they appear more prominently across your directory.
When Monetization is enabled, you can charge users a fee to mark their listings as Featured.
Users can choose this option during submission or upgrade an existing listing through checkout.
Once payment is completed, the listing gains Featured status and will display in priority positions.
Place an order #
After configuring all these settings, let’s submit a listing by using the add listing page. The submission will be redirected to our checkout page like below screenshot.
Manage order #
Admin needs to control the status of the order depending on the user’s paying status. Once admin changes the order status to complete the ordered listing will have the predefined new listing default status. Please note that every new submission will have a pending status until payment goes to compilation.
