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Configuring Pricing Plan

Activate pricing plan from the followings

What are the differences between different listing plans?

  1. Plan Type: In this option you can select following pricing type for the pricing plan:
    1. Pay Per Listing:  Payment for this plan will be charged for per listing submission.
    2. Package: Payment for this plan will be charged for a group of Regular Listing or Featured Listings.
  2. Price: Here you set the price for the plan.
  3. Plan Short Description: 
  4. Duration (in days)
  5. Recurring Payment
  6. Recommend this Plan
  7. Hide form All Plans

Features That can be Customized for Pricing Plan

  1. Featured the Listing (Only for Pay Per Listing type plan)
  2. Number of Listings (Only for Package type plan)
  3. Number of Featured Listings (Only for Package type plan)
  4. Listing Slider Image Limit
  6. Allow Price and set Limit
  7. Price Range
  8. Business Hours
  9. Image Gallery (Requires Image Gallery extension)
  10. Video
  11. Contact Listing Owner
  12. Email Address
  13. Phone Number
  14. Website Link
  15. Social Media Links
  16. Customer Reviews
  17. FAQs
  18. Custom Fields
  19. Claim Badge Included
  20. Exclude Categories

Create a Plan

Reference: WP Admin Dashboard >> Directory Listings >> Pricing Plans >> Add New

Package

Payment for this plan will be charged for a group of Regular Listing or Featured Listings.

Pay Per Listing

Payment for this plan will be charged for per listing submission.

Features That can be Customized for Pricing Plan

  1. Featured the Listing (Only for Pay Per Listing type plan): If the Plan type is "Pay Per Listing", then check this field if you want to let a user submit a featured listing using this plan.
  2. Number of Listings (Only for Package type plan): Total number of general listing allowed in the package.
  3. Number of Featured Listings (Only for Package type plan): Total number of featured listing allowed in the package.
  4. Listing Slider Image Limit: Check this field to enable Image uploading feature for the listing. You can enable an unlimited number of images to be uploaded for the listing or limit the number of images to be uploaded by providing a number in the input field.
  6. Allow Price and set Limit: Check this field if you want to allow a user to set a price for a listing when submitting. You can also limit the highest amount of a price a user can set for his/her listing.
  7. Price Range: Some user may want to use expense range instead of a price. If you check this field then a user will be able to choose a price range instead of setting a price. However, users will be able to choose between a price and a range during adding a listing.  The available expense levels in the range selector are Ultra High ($$$$), Expensive ($$$), Moderate ($$) and Cheap($).
  8. Business Hours: (It requires Business Hours extension): if you check this field, a user will be able to add business our to a listing using this plan.
  9. Image Gallery (Requires Image Gallery extension): Check this field if you want to let a user upload an image gallery to a listing under this plan. You can also limit the number of images a user can upload to an image gallery by inserting a number in the Gallery Image Limit field. Or you can let a user upload unlimited images by checking the "mark as unlimited" checkbox. However, this feature requires the Directorist Image Gallery extension to be installed on your site.
  10. Video: Check this field to let a user upload a video to a listing.
  11. Contact Listing Owner: Check this field if you want to let users add the contact information of their business. A user will be able to add different type of contact information to their listed business during submission. You can also determine what type of contact information a user can add using the following fields. Continue reading the fields described below.
  12. Email Address: 
  13. Phone Number: Check this field to let a user add a phone number to the listing address. 
  14. Website Link: Check this field to let a user add a website link to the listing address. 
  15. Social Media Links: Check this field to let a user add social media links to the listing address. 
  16. Customer Reviews: Check this field to enable review feature on a listing. Other users will be able to post a review on the submitted listing using this plan.
  17. FAQs: A user can add a Frequently Asked Questions sections to a listing if you enable this feature for a plan.
  18. Custom Fields: Check this fields if you want a user to have access to the custom fields created by you(admin) for listings. If you check this, a user will be able to add custom fields information to a listing during submission.
  19. Claim Badge Included: Submitted listing will have a verified badge with the plan.
  20. Exclude Categories: Check all the categories that you want to exclude for a plan. User will not be able to select the excluded categories when they submit using the specific plan.
*Note: check "Hide this from pricing plan page" field if you want to hide any field on the pricing plan selection page. A sample screenshot of the pricing plan selection page given below

Display Plans

After activating the extension, add listing page will show the created plans automatically. After selecting a plan, user can see the add listing form. Display plan for visitors: The extension creates a page called 'Select Your Plan' with the shortcode [directorist_pricing_plans] upon it's installation. It's not required to login to see the page.

Attributes/Parameters:

  1. ids: You can display plans by plan ids. Example: [directorist_pricing_plans ids="1,2,5"]
  2. columns: You can set the number of columns of the grid view layout using this attribute. Example [directorist_pricing_plans columns="3"]

Upgrade / Downgrade.

If you need to change pricing plan of you listing please follow the process shown below:
  • Step 1: Go to Dashboard > My Listing.
  • Step 2: Here you will see a "Change" button/link along with every listing shown in this page. Clicking on "Change" button/link will populate a popup showing a quick overview of pricing plans.
  • Step 4: Select a plan of your choice and click on "Change".
  • Step 5: Next you will be redirected to checkout page if the selected package is a premium plan. If you are redirected to checkout page then select a payment method and click on pay now to continue.
  • Step 6: Finally you will see a confirmation massage with the order receipt. Now you can go to your dashboard by clicking on "View Your Listing" button. After doing this process you should wait for the approval from admin. Once admin approve; your listing plan will be updated to the selected pricing plan.

Listing Renew with Plan

To renew a listing go to the User Dashboard page where you can find the ‘Renew’ button along with the expired listing. Clicking on the ‘Renew’ button will populate a popup showing a quick overview of plans. Then choose a plan from the plan list and click on the change button to proceed to the checkout page.

Recurring Payment

Reference: WP Admin Dashboard >> Directory Listings >> Pricing Plans >> Add New

Private Plan

Step 1: Check 'Hide form All Plans' when creating a plan. It will hide from plans page. Step 2: Create a page including the shortcode generated during plan creation. Step 3: View the page and can add listing under the plan.

Last Updated: March 20th, 2024

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