What’s the point of offering only different periods of pubblication to monetize your listing?
If you can restrict number and quality of information that can be submitted for free and add extra and better option for featured listings, your visitor will have more reason to pay!
Geo Theme allows to individually manage all elements of Submit Place & Submit Event forms. Decide what to restrict and what to make available for your site’s packages and offer true value for money.
Now with Paypal Recurring Payement option!
Hi,just questions:
Recurring payments are automatically debited, or the consumer can decide whether to pay or not pay, even with payment notices?
If I create a complete package with all the options of information, valid for one year (eg $ 50) without activating the featured option, I have to create another all package with enabled option (eg $ 50 + $ 10 featured 30 days)?
The idea is to keep separate the time between one year package and the option featured.
Haw can I manage this?
Thanks
Hi,
recurring payments works like recurring payments. Meaning people who subscribe are automatically charged when their listing expires, unless they cancel subscription before expiration.
To do what you want to do, you can use regualar payments and use the notification system to let consumer know their listing is about to expire.
Second answer is yes. You have to create 2 packages:
Package 1 : ALL 50$ => 1 year
Package 2 : ALL + Featured 70$ => 30 days featured (after Expire, Downgrade to Package 1)
Will we be able to accept other forms of payment other than paypal ?
GeoTheme allows you to get payed throught all major gateways such as : Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Worldpay, 2CO (2Checkout).
You can also accept Pre Bank Transfer and Pay Cash On Delivery.
Thanks,
Paolo
Is it possible to start all listing owners with a free listing, then at some point in the future, require them to pay without them having to re-list their businesses? In other words, can I easily require them to pay to continue their listing (switch them to recurring payment)? Can geotheme give them a specific time to pay before de-listing them?
As of now, there is no option to force from free to paid listing.
Thanks,
Paolo
Ok, how about emailing them and requesting that they upgrade from free to paid, with a message that all free listings will be deleted by X date? In other words, I want some way to move them from free to paid without losing the listing, whether they do it or I do it.
There is no way right now to do what you are descrbing. You would need quite a lot of custom coding.
Ok thanks. I still want to buy this theme. What about using a WP membership plugin to handle all the payment and access? Would it be easier to incorporate a membership plugin and then users could seemlessly add their listings?
not so easy, as you would have to create a subscription to publish 1 listing only.
Don’t know how you could do that…
In the members area, can I add protected content that is for paid or premium members only? like training material, pdfs, videos etc. This is the deciding factor for me!
thanks
Yes, but you will need an extra plugin for that…
Thanks,
Paolo
Which plugin is that? I’m very interested as well.
There are plenty of membership plugins. We use wpmudev membership plugin to do something like that.
I thought the site had a built in membership system? will it work with wishlist member? When i get this can you help with initial set up of one level so I can see how it ties together? (for a fee I’m sure!)
Recurring payment, doesn’t mean membership system, where you can set different level of pricing for listings.
It just means you can set a price and have it charged recurrently based on listing expiration.
Integrating a membership plugin into getheme wouldn’t be so easy and we aren’t currently taking on custom projects, but I’m sure that you can find help in our members forum or on Theme Tailors.
Thanks,
Paolo
so how does buddy press work? So the businesses are not “members”? I’m sorry, this does not make sense to me. having different subscriptin types is essentially a membership system or am i completely off base on this?
I suggest you register a playground site and have a look.
Thanks,
Paolo
once they register, it is that they are going to maintain the listing themselves
yes they do
Is it possible to build your own gateway for credit card processing and use another merchant processor, or do we have to use paypal?
Hi, geotheme is 100% open source and provides 5 payement gateways. Building extra gatways is only up to your coding knowledge…
How can a customer download his bill/receipt automatically e.g. as pdf file. What about the VAT configuration possibility? Thanks for reply in advance.
HI,
GeoTheme doesn’t handle VAT and the only receipt you can send is through email via notification system (other than the receipt provided by payement gateway)
Hi,
I Have to build a site similar to this, however I was wondering if its possible to add a booking system on businesses profile pages.
For example. Boat charter or hotel booking.
So the page may have book for these days this room, or charter boat from 7am to 1pm on this date etc.
And simply have the booking and the bookers information emailed to the Business advertised?
Hi,
currently there is no booking system especially built for GeoTheme. There could be a plugin for it out there, but we never tested any of them, so I can’t tell…
Thanks
Hi there,
In order to use Geotheme I would need to be able to take payments through Beanstream payment gateway. I was wondering if it’s possible to build this functionality into the theme, or have someone create a plugin for it. I put a customization request in at Theme Tailors but haven’t had any response to it.
Thanks
hi, a tailor was about to bid on your request, but looking at the beanstream website, it appears that their documentation is not available: http://www.beanstream.com/site/ca/guides-and-code.html which makes it impossibile to make you an offer.
Hi, I am looking to set up a customized checkout page and utilize Paypal Advanced for seemless checkout experience with recurring payment. https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-payments-advanced
Will GeoTheme work with PayPal Payments Advanced? Or does it only work with PayPal Payments Standard?
Currently it doesn’t support Paypal Advanced.
So PayPal Payments Standard is the one that is supported right?
Yes
Paolo,
I’ve been testing your theme with the demo and I must congratulate you.
When a user creates a free listing and reviews the listings under the Author Tab, there are 3 links to Upgrade, Edit or Delete the listing, under the stars section. When clicking on them this is what appears: Access Denied!
I’ve read in previous comments that there is no possibility for a User to change from free to pay type listing, but after seeing this Upgrade link I’ve thought this may have change.
If it hasn’t, what is the upgrade link for?
Kind regards.
Jim
Hi,
thanks for your support!
We don’t let people upgrade on the demo only.
Try in this test site : http://dropct.com/geotheme
Register a user, adda new free listing, access your author page and click the upgrade link for it. It will work…
Cheers
Hi there,
Just wondered why you havent implemented an option for sage pay to be embedded?
Steve
nobody ever asked… With GT4 it will be easier to build new payement gateway. Shouldn’t take much longer before we release a beta…