EZ Autos is an easy-to-use vehicle listing component for the Mambo/Joomla content management systems. Also, just because something is easy to use doesn't mean you have to settle for little in the way of features or a low-quality presentation that requires hours of custom modifications. EZ Autos was designed with presentation in mind - to make your sales listings look great! It also doesn't matter what sort of site you want to run - EZ Autos has the flexibility to run a site for your own listings, multi-dealer listings, a community sales portal offering free and/or paid listings, or a club site for the display of restoration projects or whatever - EZ Autos is PayPal/Setcom enabled to do it all!
For example - to run a sales portal - start your site off in "free listings mode" to establish a membership base of listings with quality information, progress on to the "combined mode of operation" where you offer free listings with the option to pay for upgrades - and suddenly you've got a money-making site. As the success of your site grows - you can then progress onto a "paid listings only" basis if you want - and now you've got the opportunity for some serious income.
EZ Autos can be used by:-
- A single dealer wanting to list his/her own autos listings
- Multiple dealers employed by a single business to list their individual listing responsibilities
- Multi-dealer co-operatives wanting to list on a shared site
- Online entrepreneurs wanting to run a FSBO automotive sales portal
- Backyard restoration devotees wanting to display their own vehicles for sale etc
- Vehicle rental businesses wanting a way to showcase their stock
- Club sites wanting a way to allow members to showcase restoration projects
EZ Autos has also been used to list:- heavy machinery, mining equipment, farm equipment, tow trucks, caravan & trailer dealers, horse trailers, boats and more. You're only limited by your imagination!!
EZ Autos Features
Quick Install
It takes a minute to install EZ Autos on your web server - and another couple to install the multitude of modules available. Yes, it's that quick to get things installed.
Multiple Business Models
EZ Autos is designed to meet the needs of multiple business models - from the single dealer business listing vehicles for sale, multi-dealer businesses, and community sales portals offering FSBO listing services, club sites and more. Simply configure it to meet the needs of your business model.
Profiling System
EZ Autos allows your sellers to promote their business, and share their contact details. Supports multiple contact methods, including direct contact, snail mail, email, telephone, SMS via Clickatell, and 3 online messaging systems. Introduced into version 5.2.0 were profile privileges - enabling your members to manage more aspects of their listings such as publish/unpublish, skip the paid listings process, reset the expiry date and more. Profiling privileges are an excellent way to keep employees out of the backend - yet allow them certain privileges normally only accessible via the admin area.
PayPal and Setcom enabled
Turn your EZ Autos-powered site into a money-maker with the paid listings functionality. Two sales levels allow you to charge for upgrades from free listings to "premium" and "featured" listings - or run in paid listings only mode. EZ Autos currently has 2 payment processors to enable the automatic upgrades of paid listings - PayPal and Setcom - which should meet the needs of a wide variety of customers.
Expiry Management System
Limit your listings based on page impressions or time - eg. 30 day listings. Easy to use "clean listings" function to remove expired listings, and email notification for expired listings.
SEO
EZ Autos comes with support for SEF Advance, and also works on the core Mambo/Joomla SEF system - so you've got two SEF-friendly URL choices for your vehicle listings. Also, add a meta description and meta keywords to your description, and the meta title is generated from existing data. Our SEF Partner Denis Dulici also offers a range of products - including sh404SEF, JoomSEF and X-Map addons for EZ Autos - so you're sure to find something to meet your SEF needs.
Easy Layouts
Front-end templating system makes changing the layout of data on listing pages and the full details page. Four different layouts are currently available for the listings pages, and 6 different layouts are available for the full details page along with 6 different image layouts - producing a mix-n-match combination of 36 possible full details page layouts to choose from. Layouts include tabbed pages, javascript image rollovers, slimbox/lightbox image system slideshows, and javascript slideshows.
Configurable opening page
Choose the opening page style that suits your needs. EZ Autos provides a choice of entry pages - the standard category layout, make/model layout, or a combo layout which combines compact search forms for new and used vehicles, featured vehicles and categories. It's easily configured via the EZ Autos admin configuration area.
Multiple currency support
Run your site listings in the currency of your choice via the EZ Autos configuration area.
Professional Image Presentation
In an industry where looks is everything, EZ Autos gives you a top-quality image display system. Templates come with Javascript rollover images, and some have the slimbox image system available. List up to 24 images with image descriptions - they're uploaded, thumbnailed and resized during the save process. Version 5.2.0 introduces image watermarking - to give your sold and featured listings a distinctive look.
VIP Buyer's Register
Don't miss sales opportunities just because you don't have a listing people want. The VIP Buyer's Register allows you to collect details of purchaser requirements, and display those on the front-end as a "wanted vehicles" listing page. Send emails of listings matching requirements via the VIP email notifications. Emails sent to people on the VIP Buyer's Register contain a summary of key vehicle information, an image and the seller details - as well as a link to the listing and an unsubscribe link.
Mapping Support
Comes with Google mapping support built-in - which autocalculates decimal coordinates based on the seller's address, or allows you to enter your own coordinates - and supports driving directions and configurable map views.
RSS 2.0 Feeds
RSS 2.0 feed - new vehicle listings can be delivered to a subscribers desktop RSS reader or email account - or you can get your listings published on other sites.
External Feeds
Two feeds to external automotive listing sites to enable you to get broader exposure for your listings - Google and Vast - with more on the way.
Cross-component integration
Seamlessly tap into other components such as uddeIM for personal messaging, save newsletter subscribers directly to the ccNewsletter component or export saved records for import into other systems, and promote user interactivity with the jReviews commenting and ratings system. More J1.5x newsletter component integrations are also on the way.
Customer Tools
Cross-browser "add to favourites" bookmarking function, recommend to friend email, print vehicle details, contact dealer/seller, add to mailing list request. Add to mailing list requests are now saved to database, and can be exported in XML format for import into a mailing list manager.
Multi-Lingual
EZ Autos has multi-lingual support - meaning it is coded with language tags and has a language file system to enable the translation of embedded page text. It also comes with a set of JoomFish and NokKaew content element files to enable you to translate the database content.
Multiple ways to search
EZ Autos has search filters, zip/postcode radius search, dealer/seller search and more. It also comes standard with an Australian postcodes CSV file and a US zip codes database files ready to populate your database.
Out-of-the-box functionality
As of version 5.2.0 - EZ Autos has a new system mambot/plugin to insert custom code into your template header, and a new module/plugin to insert custom code into the debug module position. This means you no longer need to worry about modifying your template with special code needed by EZ Autos's special features and addons. It's all handled via the automatic installer.
Bonus Addons
Comes with a range of addons at NO additional cost:-
- AutosMap component and associated system plugin to display all of your listings on a single big map
- Loan calculator module
- New vehicle listings module
- Random vehicle listings module
- Single featured listing vehicle spotlight module
- Multiple featured listings module
- Featured dealer/seller module
- Latest sellers module
- Seller search module
- Search module
- Vehicle makes module
- Slideshow module
System Requirements
EZ Autos is not a "stand-alone" script - it's a component developed for use with the Mambo/Joomla! content management systems. As a "database-driven" PHP script, EZ Autos requires:-
- Either the Mambo or Joomla! content management system - versions available for Mambo 4.6x, Joomla 1.0x and Joomla 1.5x native.
- PayPal or Setcom account if wanting to offer paid member's listings
- MySQL database - tested on servers running versions 3.23.54 - 5.0.27-standard.
- PHP scripting support - tested on servers running versions 4.2.2 - 5.2.0
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NOTE:- this template is used for display purposes only. You can obtain this template from the JoomlArt Template Club.
