Hey all,
After a week of intense development, we're ready to release DragonByte Forum Ads v1.0.0 Beta 2. As with most of our Beta releases, the initial release is only available to people who purchase it.
To get the boring stuff out of the way; this is a Beta version. While it has received internal testing, it doesn't compare to actual use by you guys, our customers. If you're not comfortable with the idea of potentially broken functionality and reporting bugs in a clear and detailed manner, we would advise you to wait for a more stable release.
DragonByte Forum Ads is an advanced advertising solution that allows you to easily show visitors you have advertisements available, offer multiple ad campaign options including banners, keywords and more and maximise the revenue potential of your community. Full PayPal integration and automated features such as deactivating expired ad campaigns allows you to make money without expending extra effort.
This release focuses on adding features that further expand your options for selling advertisements on your forum. You can now set up "Packages" - letting users quickly add a pre-set configuration to their carts and configure each item individually. By setting a new price for the combined package, you can even give limited bulk discounts! On the subject of Discounts, you can now also set up a time-limited Special Offer, which lets you sell packages and/or individual banner spaces and keywords at a discounted rate for a limited period of time.
Additionally, the front-end has been revamped to include a graphical representation of the forum, with the various possible banner spaces highlighted. Clicking on one of them will show the customer all available price points for that space (if any), and a numbered view with a legend will help users located which banners display where.
For selling individual banner spaces or keywords, you now have two new options; Biddable, and Custom Amount. Making a price point biddable will let users enter the price they believe that particular advertisement option is worth, giving you the option of either accepting or rejecting the offer. Custom Amount allows you to set the base cost for 1 Impression or 1 Click for a particular advertisement option, then letting the user choose how many impressions or clicks he wants to purchase.
Complete Change Log
Packages
Discounts
Price Bidding
Custom Amounts
Purchase / Configure Pages
Statistics
User / Usergroup Options
General / Other
Screenshots
Thank you for your continued support!
Discuss this news here.
After a week of intense development, we're ready to release DragonByte Forum Ads v1.0.0 Beta 2. As with most of our Beta releases, the initial release is only available to people who purchase it.
To get the boring stuff out of the way; this is a Beta version. While it has received internal testing, it doesn't compare to actual use by you guys, our customers. If you're not comfortable with the idea of potentially broken functionality and reporting bugs in a clear and detailed manner, we would advise you to wait for a more stable release.
DragonByte Forum Ads is an advanced advertising solution that allows you to easily show visitors you have advertisements available, offer multiple ad campaign options including banners, keywords and more and maximise the revenue potential of your community. Full PayPal integration and automated features such as deactivating expired ad campaigns allows you to make money without expending extra effort.
This release focuses on adding features that further expand your options for selling advertisements on your forum. You can now set up "Packages" - letting users quickly add a pre-set configuration to their carts and configure each item individually. By setting a new price for the combined package, you can even give limited bulk discounts! On the subject of Discounts, you can now also set up a time-limited Special Offer, which lets you sell packages and/or individual banner spaces and keywords at a discounted rate for a limited period of time.
Additionally, the front-end has been revamped to include a graphical representation of the forum, with the various possible banner spaces highlighted. Clicking on one of them will show the customer all available price points for that space (if any), and a numbered view with a legend will help users located which banners display where.
For selling individual banner spaces or keywords, you now have two new options; Biddable, and Custom Amount. Making a price point biddable will let users enter the price they believe that particular advertisement option is worth, giving you the option of either accepting or rejecting the offer. Custom Amount allows you to set the base cost for 1 Impression or 1 Click for a particular advertisement option, then letting the user choose how many impressions or clicks he wants to purchase.
Complete Change Log
Packages
- Group multiple banner space / keyword configurations together in a handy package
- Set a new price for the combined Package
- Allows user to configure each package item individually
- Visually attractive front-end display while buying
Discounts
- Group multiple package / banner space / keyword configurations together and provide a discount
- Discount can be flat rate or % of the total price
- Allows user to configure each package item individually
- Visually attractive front-end display while buying
Price Bidding
- Ability to make a price point up for bidding
- Allows users to enter a bid and submit it for acceptance
- Admin can accept or reject the bid from a link in an email
- User receives email when their bid has been accepted or rejected
- Rest of purchase process proceeds as normal
Custom Amounts
- Ability to set a base price for 1 Click or 1 Impression
- Allows users to choose how many Clicks or Impressions they wish to purchase
- User configures and purchases like normal
- Offers great flexibility in buying advertising
Purchase / Configure Pages
- The Purchase page has been revamped, with a new tabbed interface!
- Under the Banner Spaces tab there's now a visual indicator for where each banner will be shown
- Clicking an ad space on the visual indicator shows only pricing options for that banner space
- Sold out banner spaces display "SOLD OUT" in red
- Each pricing option for the same banner space is grouped under the same header
Statistics
- Clicks & Impressions has a dedicated Statistics page per-banner / per-keyword
- Displays the country of origin for users who clicked / viewed each content type
- Fully browsable with pagination
User / Usergroup Options
- Usergroup permission: automatically approve keywords
- Usergroup permission: automatically approve banners
- Usergroup permission: automatically approve bids
- User flag: automatically approve keywords
- User flag: automatically approve banners
- User flag: automatically approve bids
General / Other
- The "Your Ad Here" placeholders should now only appear if the ad space is purchasable
- Clicking on the banner spaces on the visual purchase indicator displays available prices for that particular space
- Prices in the AdminCP are now grouped by Ad Type (Banner Space / Keyword) and by Banner Space
- Banner Spaces in the AdminCP are now grouped by Position
- Transaction Viewer in the AdminCP should now correctly display table header phrase
- Transaction Viewer in the AdminCP no longer has a detached table border in the bottom
- Transaction Viewer in the AdminCP now shows the cart item correctly
- Attempting to buy a banner space under certain circumstances will no longer incorrectly state there's too many banners there
- Reworked the method with which to determine how to pay to avoid problems with Packages and Discounts
- It is now possible to browse Pending transactions as soon as someone submits an advertisement for validation (or auto-validates)
- The guideline price on the Configure screen is now formatted
Screenshots
Thank you for your continued support!
Discuss this news here.
