User Guide
Front Admin Overview
Overview
The dashboard gives a quick snapshot of all the tasks that you can perform using the Front Admin. It also provides multiple menu items that you can use to create listings, view listings, viewing offers, and so on. The other options that you can control are viewing statistics, viewing messages, and so on.
Accessing the dashboard
When you access the home URL for JomOffers extension, do the following:
- Click Front Admin.
- Provide the login details for the required user and click Submit.
The dashboard with various options can be seen as shown in the following image.
Screen 1: Dashboard screen
You can click the options as seen in the following table.
Listing stats |
Shows the general statistics about the listings | |
Report |
Most Viewed graph |
View the statistics for the site based on the listings viewership. |
Membership |
Upgrade Your Membership NOW! |
Upgrade to another membership plan. Click Upgrade on the plan tab for the plan you want to upgrade to as shown here.
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Profile |
Profile |
View the profile details for your profile. |
Approve Comments |
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Click the review to see the listing page it applies to. To approve a listing, select the check box next to the review comment and click Approve. If you want to delete the comment, click Delete.
Approve comments appears only when enabled under JomDirectory Options -> Front Admin settings
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Manage Listings
Overview
You can view all the listings created for your site or create a new listing. The created listings let you add descriptions, images, provide ratings, and much more.
Creating a New Listing
The following image shows the Listings screen.
Screen 1: Listing screen
The following table explains the different options seen on the screen.
Button |
Usage |
Insert New |
Creates a new Address entry. You must create separate entries for each level of depth that you need. |
Publish |
Publishes the created address entry. |
Unpublish |
Removes the entry from the list of published address entries |
Delete |
Deletes the address entry that is not required anymore. |
User Membership
Listing Messages
Overview
Additional send email copy to admin can be set under Configuration
The messages are always sent to the owner of the listing. The user email address is taken from the User Account settings.
The Contact area on the listing page is as seen in the following image. The options are provided as given here:
Screen 1: Sending a message on the site
Viewing messages
Once the user accepts the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, he clicks Send Email. The email is now available for the owner of the listing to view as seen in the following image:
To view a message, hover the mouse pointer over the message as shown in the following image.
Screen 2: View the message
Messages sent using the contact form are available on the Messages tab for the owner of the listings. You can view the message or delete it based on your requirement.
Front Admin Messages
To view messages, from Front Admin, click the Messages tab to see the following screen.
Making an Offer / Bid
Overview
For every listing made, contractors or companies can provide an offer. This offer includes information such as pricing, time taken to complete the task and description about the services provided.
Making an Offer
To make an offer, navigate to the listing that you want to make an offer to. The following image shows the offer screen.
Screen 1: Making an offer
Let us understand each of the buttons seen on the screen using the following table.
Title |
Title of the offer |
Price |
Price of services |
Price Negotiable |
Slide to select whether price is negotiable |
Time to Complete (days) |
Duration taken to complete the services |
Description | Detailed description of the services offered. |
Make a Bid
Please notice that in order to place an offer user would need to be logged in.