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.
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, community sales portals offering FSBO listing services or club sites. 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 online messaging. Profile privileges are also available - 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. These are an excellent way to keep employees out of the backend - yet allow them certain privileges normally only accessible via the admin area.
Enabled for Payment Plugins
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 comes with a PayPal payment system plugin, and other payment gateway plugins can be obtained from Rob Joyce.
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
Visit our SEF Consultant Denis Dulici at JoomAce for some great EZ Autos SEO solutions.
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, 6 different layouts are available for the full details page, and an additional 6 different image layouts are available - giving you a mix-n-match choice of 36 different full details page layouts. EZ Autos also has different layouts available for the opening page - including a combo layout combining search form with top makes, or the standard category names layout. These are all easily configured via the EZ Autos admin configuration area.
Multiple currency support
Flexible currency support, which allows you to configure your site listings with a default currency set 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. Image watermarking is also available - 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. Communicate with other members of the sales team on the status of a lead via the notes area, and 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 vehicle listing and an unsubscribe link.
Mapping Support
Comes with Google mapping support built-in.
RSS Feeds
Comes with an RSS 2.0 feed for new vehicle listings. Plus - a additional feeds to external vehicle listing sites to enable you to get broader exposure for your listings can be accessed using the EZ Feeds component - which will also available with your EZ Autos support subscription shortly.
Cross-component integration
Seamlessly tap into other components such as uddeIM for personal messaging, save newsletter subscribers directly to the ccNewsletter component and promote user interactivity with the jReviews commenting and ratings system. Other cross-component integrations are on the todo list.
Customer Tools
Save to shortlist function, recommend to friend email, print vehicle details, contact seller/dealer, add to mailing list request. Add to mailing list requests are now saved to the ccNewsletter database.
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 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.
Lots of Addons
Comes with a range of components, modules and other addons to extend your site, including:-
- Autos Map component - allows you to display all of your vehicle listings on a single large Google map.
- Autos Adverts component - allows you to create advertisements for use on places such as Craigs List, or to create print brochures for customers, or even large window posters for display in your dealership window etc.
- EZ Feeds component - allows you to manage feeds of your listings to external vehicle listing sites such as Google.
- 10 assorted modules - including new vehicle listings, random vehicle listings, single featured vehicle listing, multiple featured vehicle listings, featured seller, latest sellers, search filter, dealer/seller search by locality, vehicle search module.
- JoomFish content element files - to support multilingual sites with their translation work
System Requirements
EZ Autos is not a "stand-alone" script - it's a component developed for use with the Joomla! content management systems. As a "database-driven" PHP script, EZ Autos requires:-
- Joomla! 1.5x content management system
- PayPal 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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