Hey all,
After several weeks of development, we're finally ready to release DragonByte Forum Ads v1.0.0 Beta 1. 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.
That being said, we have many more features planned that will be added to the upcoming Beta versions, so if you want a hand in shaping the way the mod will function and don't mind it being a little rough around the edges, we welcome your feedback!
With that being said, perhaps you're a little bit more interested in what the mod actually does. 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.
Major Features
Automatic Campaign Handling When an advertisement campaign is paid for, it's automatically activated. Once its purchased impressions or clicks are used up, it's automatically deactivated.
PayPal integration Supports PayPal for fast and easy transactions, even from credit card users (without the responsibility of storing & processing credit card data).
Powerful Admin Controls Administrators have complete control over advertisement campaigns, requiring moderation for all campaigns before they are paid for to ensure you agree with all the content being displayed.
Complete Feature List
Multiple Currencies
Payment Processors
Banner Spaces
Prices
Sold Keywords
Sold Banners
Transactions
Maintenance
Screenshots
Thank you for your continued support!
Discuss this news here.
After several weeks of development, we're finally ready to release DragonByte Forum Ads v1.0.0 Beta 1. 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.
That being said, we have many more features planned that will be added to the upcoming Beta versions, so if you want a hand in shaping the way the mod will function and don't mind it being a little rough around the edges, we welcome your feedback!
With that being said, perhaps you're a little bit more interested in what the mod actually does. 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.
Major Features
Automatic Campaign Handling When an advertisement campaign is paid for, it's automatically activated. Once its purchased impressions or clicks are used up, it's automatically deactivated.
PayPal integration Supports PayPal for fast and easy transactions, even from credit card users (without the responsibility of storing & processing credit card data).
Powerful Admin Controls Administrators have complete control over advertisement campaigns, requiring moderation for all campaigns before they are paid for to ensure you agree with all the content being displayed.
Complete Feature List
Multiple Currencies
- Show prices in multiple currencies
- Set a tax rate for purchases in currencies other than your home currency
- Configurable exchange rate
- Choose a "Primary Currency" that your prices will be based on
Payment Processors
- Supports PayPal
- Configure the description to display to your users when they checkout
- Configure your Merchant ID (such as PayPal email address)
- "Sandbox" Mode toggleable via vBulletin Options, for testing purposes
Banner Spaces
- Integrate with one of vBulletin's built-in advertising locations
- Configure the dimensions of the banner shown within this space
- Choose how many rotations are available for this banner space
- Set multiple banner spaces to the same advertising location to show the banners side-by-side
Prices
- Choose price type (keyword or banner space)
- Choose the price per X impressions or clicks
- Configure multiple price points for the same banner space or for keywords to encourage bigger purchases
- Choose what banner space the price point belongs to
- Configurable display order for display in the front-end shop
Sold Keywords
- Add new keyword advertisement manually - give advertisement space as a gift!
- Search sold keywords by active/expired, username, sold date (range), or specific keyword
- Search results display a paginated list of keywords
- Edit / Update / delete the keywords
- Quickly view the transaction for the keyword, if any
Sold Banners
- Add new banner advertisement manually - give advertisement space as a gift!
- Search sold banners by active/expired, username or sold date (range)
- Search results display a paginated list of banners
- Edit / Update / delete the banners
- Quickly view the transaction for the banner, if any
Transactions
- Search transactions by All, Valid (completed or reversed) Completed, Reversed, Pending or Refunded status, user name, amount spent, date range, ip address
- Search results display a paginated list of transactions
- View transaction info including a complete list of information received from the payment processor
- Quickly view all transactions for the selected user
Maintenance
- Repair integration with vBulletin advertisements
- Rebuild keyword database for statistical purposes
Screenshots
Thank you for your continued support!
Discuss this news here.
