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. For the Menu to be able to access the JomOffers Front Admin, certain settings need to be made. You must create the Profile Edit Menu link, Admin Menu link, and Profile View Menu link in the JomOffers Front Admin configurations to be able to access Front Admin. For more information, see the  Front Admin Options section in the Menu Items documentation. 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. Profile Profile View the profile details for your profile. Approve Comments   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 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 Messages related to the Contact form available on each listing. If the user wants to contact Owner of the listing, a copy of the email will be saved under Messages. 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: All the messages that are sent through the site from the Extension listings can be seen on backend Messages section. To view a message, hover the mouse pointer over the message as shown in the following image. Screen 2: View the message If you want to archive older messages or any message, select the checkbox next to the message and click Archive .  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 To make a bid navigate to the listing that you want to make an offer to. The following image shows the offer screen. Please notice that in order to place an offer user would need to be logged in.