About
Directories are must haves for your website and are very important in the world of Social Media as with directories you can have anything you image on your website like directories of pets, projects, colleges, products, profiles, classifieds, recipes, places, books, online directory, businesses, stores, restaurants, brands, services, night clubs, musicians, models, schools, etc. All the Brands, Businesses – both Local & International, Public Figures, etc. need a platform and way to showcase themselves on a website and social media for marketing and letting people know what and how they work. And with this plugin you can configure any directory listing as per your site’s requirement very easily and quickly without knowing any coding.
Business Directories plugin provide you all the features and tools to have robust, interactive and fully customizable directory system on your SocialEngine website. With this plugin you can create detailed and rich listing businesses which can have business roles, photos, services, custom fields, multiple locations, multi-posting options, crossposting, post attribution, operating hours, members, price, linking with other businesses, cover photo, profile photo, Business dashboard, etc. All the features can be configured from admin panel, so you can easily use this plugin to have your own niche directory as per your site’s concept and requirements.
With rich Global Settings, Member Level Settings, Business Creation Settings, Business Roles, Categories & Custom Fields, Configurable Business Dashboard, Manage Businesses, Albums, multiple Widgets, Widgetized Businesses, 7 attractive views, Pinboard, etc you can easily and quickly create robust business directory system. This plugin also has SEO settings to be configured for each directory listing which will enhance the search capabilities of your website in various search engines.
Key Features
Get this plugin and create directory of Businesses on your website with robust features of this plugin.
The most exciting feature of this plugin is the Business Feeds Display in Main Feed. You can choose to enable the feeds to be displayed to members only from the Business they have Liked, Followed, Joined or marked as Favourite on your site.
Businesses
This plugin provides almost all the functionality which you will need to create directory on your website.
Easy creation of Businesses, 7 View Types, Easy to manage Robust Dashboard, multiple locations, Business Roles, Insights & Reports, manage notifications, page advertisements, manage apps, etc features will enable you to have robust and very powerful directory system on your website.
This plugin is very thoughtful, robust and has many features that will help you create directories on your website.
Businesses have very attractive, nice and elegant 7 design views to be chosen from.
For all the views, various settings like height, width, count of Businesses, etc are available in the Layout editor in admin panel.
Set Welcome Business as Landing Business
Welcome page of this plugin can be set as Landing Business of your website. This is helpful when you want a contest based social networking site. You can later configure page as per your requirements.
Business Main Menu Redirection
Business main menu can be redirected to – a) Business Welcome Business, b) Business Home Business, or c) Business Browse Business, so that you can easily configure the plugin as per your site’s idea.
Text for Businesses
You can choose Text and URL for the word “page” and “pages”. You can use pages for any other purpose on your website easily like Restaurants, Projects, etc.
Photo Height & Width
You can choose the resize height and width for the photos being uploaded in the pages on your website to maintain the quality of photos.
Display Business Owners Name and Photo or Hide Their Identity
You can choose to display who created Businesses on your website or simply choose to hide the identity of the owner of Businesses.
Hide / Display Business Contact Details to Non-logged In Users
Businesses can enter their contact details – Website, Phone number and Email Id. So, you can choose to hide / display these information to non-logged in public users.
Locations
You can choose to enable locations for Businesses. These locations can simply be displayed or an attractive Get Direction popup can chosen to be displayed on their clicks from admin panel. You can also enable Multiple Location based on Member Level settings.
Business Feeds Display in Main Feed
You can choose to display the feeds Businesses intelligently in the Main Feed on your website by enabling the feed display to users only from the Businesses which they have Liked, Followed, Joined or marked as Favourite.
Integrate Like & Follow Buttons
Integrate the Like & Follow buttons of Businesses such that when a user will Like a Business, then user will automatically Follow that Business and vice-versa. This will help you increase popularity of Businesses on your website.
Allow to Enable / Disable Auto-Approval of Business Posts
You can choose to allow Business owners to enable or disable auto-approval of posts in their Businesses. Doing this will enable them to moderate all posts made to their pages. This moderation can also be done by members who have permissions as per their Roles in Businesses.
Default Photo for No Business Tip
When people try to search for Businesses on your website and they do not find anything in the search results, then you can choose to display the No Business tip along with an attractive image. Pictorial representation of non-availability of Businesses will make the message look better to your members instead of only text.
Receive New Business Alerts on Additional Emails
You can enter any number of emails to receive the alert updates of new Businesses created on your website.
This will help you receive updates on multiple emails without having to create a super admin or admin account with the emails.
Featured Businesses
Businesses can be marked as Featured on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Featured highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Sponsored Businesses
Businesses can be marked as Sponsored on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Sponsored highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Hot Businesses
Businesses can be marked as Hot on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Hot highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Verified Businesses
Businesses can be marked as Verified on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with Verified highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
Verified Businesses have more user trust and belief for the genuinity on a website.
Intelligently Displayed New Businesses
Businesses can be chosen to be shown as New on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with New highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
This label will be placed intelligently and can be automatically set to be removed after admin configured days from their creation date.
Business Of the Day
Businesses can be marked as Business Of The Day on your website and can be highlighted in Business Of The Day widgets making it different from all the other Businesses on your website.
You can choose the start and end date for each page to be shown as Business Of The Day on your website, so that you do not have to manually remove them as of the day.
Favorite Businesses
Users can be allowed to mark Businesses on your website as their Favourites.
Follow Businesses
Users can be allowed to Follow Businesses on your website such that they will get all updates of the Businesses they follow.
Join Businesses
Users can be allowed to Join a Business on your website and become members of the Businesses. You can enable / disable this feature from admin panel.
Follow Business Categories
You can enable users to Follow the Business Categories such that whenever a new Business is created in the Followed category, users will be notified via notification and email.
7 Attractive Views for Businesses
With this plugin, you get 7 different and attractive views to display Businesses on your website.
Business Services
Businesses can have their own services which Business Owners can easily enter from their Dashboards. They can also enable / disable this Tab from their Businesses.
Sharing Businesses
Users can be allowed to share Businesses within your website and on other social networking sites.
They can also share the pages directly to their feeds or send the Businesses in message to their friends on your website.
Reporting Businesses
Users can be allowed to report Businesses on your website.
These reports can be easily seen by you from admin panel and appropriate actions can be taken from there only. Integrated with the SE’s core Abuse Report feature.
Approve / Disapprove Businesses
Users can be allowed to report Businesses on your website.
Businesses can be approved / disapproved to be shown on your website. From Member Level settings, Businesses can be chosen to be auto-approved or manually approved.
Business Creation
Business Creation via Popup or Business
You can enable the creation of Businesses via page or popup. Visibility of each field in the popup or page can be separately chosen. The creation via popup can help you in easy and quick creation or Businesses on your website and thus can increase user engagement.
Choose Category Before Creating Business
You can enable users to choose the categories before showing the Business create form. Category selection in first step can be more better as users will see all profile fields based on the category selected and this seems more appealing look wise also.
Category Photo Display While Business Creation
There are 3 types of photos for categories in this plugin. The photos are differentiated based on their colors and size. You can choose to display any of these 3 photos while Business creation.
Create Business from Categories Only
You can choose to enable creation of Businesses from the Categories View only like Facebook.
If enabled, users will be able to fill the necessary information for Business creation from category boxes only.
Custom URL
Business owners can choose custom urls for their Businesses and you can allow them to even Edit their custom urls from the dashboard of their Businesses.
This will help increase the SEO of your website as the custom url slugs are more SEO friendly.
4 Options For Business Profile Business Layout
There are 4 options to be chosen for the profile page layout of the Businesses. You can choose to enable Business owners to select the profile page layout for their Businesses based on their member levels.
Each profile page has its own widgetized page, so you can configure them from admin panel easily.
Enable Business Joining & Membership
You can enable joining in Businesses so that site members can become Members of Businesses. You can also enable Business Owner to auto-join the page.
If you use this plugin for Book Directories, then people you have read a book can be its members and can be called as Readers.
Allow Owners to Enable Joining
You can even allow Business Owners to choose to enable / disable joining in their Businesses. This will be helpful when you have Businesses of multiple types and some can have page joining and other do not. This makes directories on your website more usable and robust.
Membership Approvals
You can allow page owners to choose new members to immediately become members of their Businesses or wait for their approval when new members join their Businesses.
If you do not allow Business Owners, then you can also choose default approval of members in Businesses on your website.
Member’s Title Make Member’s Title Mandatory
If membership and joining is enabled, then you can allow page owners to choose title for the members of their Businesses.
If you have a specific directory system, then you can also choose Default titles for members of Businesses on your site. E.g. Music Artist, Blogger, Painter, Dance Lover etc.
Location
Businesses can have Google suggested Locations based on the settings configured from admin panel.
City, State, Zip Code and Country fields are auto detected based on location chosen which Business owners can edit. Venue and detailed address can also be entered for the location.
Multiple locations can be entered from Dashboard.
Price
Businesses can have their own prices. If you have a product based listing for the directory, then you can choose to show prices for them. But, if the directory is for businesses, restaurants, or any other thing where fixed prices are not applicable, then you can choose to show the Starting Price.
Business Owners can also choose the price type – Price or Starting Price for their Businesses.
Auto-Approve Posts
From the Global settings of this plugin, you can choose to allow Business Owners to enable / disable auto-approval of posts in their Businesses. The feed will display on the posted date in their Business timelines regardless of whenever the post if approved.
This feature will enable Business Owners from stopping spamming on their Businesses.
Business Categories, Custom Fields and Make it Mandatory
Categories in Businesses can be made mandatory, so that all the Businesses on your website are associated with a category. This will help in better searching of the Businesses on your website.
When user does not fill the category, and try to save the contest, they will be scrolled to the category field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
You can also choose to not make categories as mandatory.
Enable Business Description & Make it Mandatory
You can enable / disable the description of Businesses on your website. If enabled, description can be chosen to be mandatory or not.
If description is mandatory and user does not fill the description, and try to save the Business, then they will be scrolled to the description field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
Main Photo & Make it Mandatory
Main photo can be enabled / disabled based on the Member Levels on your website & if Main photo uploading is enabled, then you can also choose to make the main photo mandatory for the Businesses on your website.
If main photo is mandatory and user try to save the contest without uploading it, then they will be scrolled to the main photo field with an error displayed to fill mandatory field without leaving the page.
Create Business Form Type
You can choose the design of the Business Create Form or Popup to be Advanced design or SocialEngine default form design.
Both the forms are fully compatible with all the 3rd party themes which have been developed following SE coding standards.
Both forms will adapt the colors of your website as per the activated theme.
Guidelines
In the advanced design of the Business create page, you can enter some guidelines to create Business which will very nicely and attractively show in a Sticky box. This box will get stick to the right side of the create page even when users scroll down the Business create page.
This will make the Business creation more attractive, easy, useful and user-friendly.
Redirection After Business Creation
Users can be redirected to Business View Business or Business Dashboard after their Businesses are successfully created.
This can be useful if you want quick Business creation on your website by keeping very fields in creation form & then redirect users to dashboard to complete all other details and information about their Businesses.
Associated Sub Businesses
Business owners can allow who can create Associated Sub Businesses in their Businesses. You can choose which all options should be available to owners based on their Member Levels.
Tagging Businesses
Business Owners can enable other users to tag their Businesses in their status updates.
Network Based Business Display
Business owners can choose the Networks to which their Businesses will be displayed on your website.
Tags / Keywords
Each Business can have its own Tags / Keywords which will help in better searching of the Businesses on your website. Already existing tags will show nicely via an auto-suggest box, so that you do not have redundant data on your website.
These tags can be shown in attractive Tag cloud or Tag list on your website. Clicking on each tag will show Businesses using the same tag. Tags also have their own Browse page for specific search of Businesses. Integrated with SE Tags.
Business Invitations
You can enable invitation to Join, Like and Follow Businesses on your website.
You can also allow page owners to choose to enable / disable Invite feature for their Businesses.
This feature will help you increase the popularity of Businesses among the members on your website as Business owners can get more audience for their Businesses which in turn also increase user engagement on your website.
Auto-Open Advanced Share Popup
When a Business is successfully created, then a popup can be shown to share the Business on various other social networking sites and on your website as well. Users can share the Business on their wall, message to their friends, etc from this popup.
This will work on both the View Business and the Business Dashboard, so wherever you choose the redirection, this Popup will work.
People can search for this Business
You can enable Business owners on your website to choose if people can search for their Businesses on your website or not. This will help them choose the visibility of Business in Global search on your website and make it non-searchable in case, the Business is for limited audience only.
View & Comment & Album Upload Privacy
Business Owners can choose the view privacy, comment privacy and photo albums upload privacy for their Businesses on your website. This will help them choose the audience for their Businesses. You can select the privacy options based on the Member Level of the page owner for each type.
Business Status – Published & As Draft
Business Owners can choose to save their Businesses in Draft until they are sure to Publish them on your website.
To do so, they can choose to save their Businesses as Draft and later on change the setting to Publish whenever they are ready to Publish their Business.
Business Dashboard
Business Directories plugin has a very robust and feature rich Dashboard. You can easily configure it from the Admin panel of your site. All the features can also be made available based on the Member Levels.
With Business Roles, you can choose to enable Business owners to give access to Dashboard of their Businesses. Business Roles will only be able to access the features based on their Roles.
Business Dashboard Comprise of Manage Business, Business Promotions, Manage Apps, Business Directory Styling and Insights & Reports. All these sections are explained below.
Manage Business
Business Owners can edit their Businesses and configure various features for their Businesses from this section.Settings which can be configured for this section are:
- Edit Business
- Locations
- Contact Information
- Cross Post
- Business Roles
- Manage Notifications
- Post Attribution
- Operating Hours
- Category Based Profile Information
- Transfer Ownership
Business Promotions
Business Owners can configure the promotional settings in this section. The settings contain everything related to contacting Business members, advertising Business, managing Business, etc. Below is a list of settings in this section:
- Contact Business Members
- SEO
- Overview
- Linked Businesses
- Advertise Business
- Manage Announcements
Manage Apps
Business Owners can easily manage what apps / tabs to show in their Businesses from this section. They can also add Services to their Business. Features will here display based on the Member Level settings and dependent modules.
- Business Apps
- Services
Business Directory Styling
Business Owners can also configure the design for their Businesses easily by uploading main photo, background photo, CSS styling and choosing the display of their Businesses as in below settings.
Business Owners can also choose Cover photo from the Business View page.
- Main Photo
- Background Photo
- Design Views
- Css Style
Insights & Reports
Insights and Reports are very important for any business. So, this plugin provides Business Owners all the necessary tools to checkout the insights and reports of their Businesses.
- Insights
- Reports
Business View
This plugin has very attractive 4 profile page design options. 20+ widgets to be placed on the Business View pages and configure different layouts for each profile page.
Attractive Cover Photo
You can choose to enable locations for Businesses. These locations can simply be displayed or an attractive Get Direction popup can chosen to be displayed on their clicks from admin panel. You can also enable Multiple Location based on Member Level settings.
Business Main Photo & Vertical Tabs
Integrate the Like & Follow buttons of Businesses such that when a user will Like a Business, then user will automatically Follow that Business and vice-versa. This will help you increase popularity of Businesses on your website.
Profile Tips
You can choose to enable locations for Businesses. These locations can simply be displayed or an attractive Get Direction popup can chosen to be displayed on their clicks from admin panel. You can also enable Multiple Location based on Member Level settings.
Business Announcements
You can choose to enable locations for Businesses. These locations can simply be displayed or an attractive Get Direction popup can chosen to be displayed on their clicks from admin panel. You can also enable Multiple Location based on Member Level settings.
Crosspost
Crossposting is a way to share status feed across multiple Businesses. Crossposting can only happen between Businesses that have added each other.
Business Owners can add other Businesses on your website to their Business’s Crosspost. Once crosspost request is accepted by other when a Business owner post any update, then that post is posted from the Crossposted page as well.
This increase more user engagement among users on your website.
Post Attribution in Feeds and Comments
With the “Post Attribution” feature, Business Owners can choose to post from activity feed and comments as the name of their Businesses instead of their own names.
Business admins and managers (created from Business Roles) can select default Attribution for Businesses to post as Business Name or their own Names in Business Dashboards.
Multi Post – Post to Multiple Businesses
Business Owners can choose an update to be post on multiple other Businesses they own. This way, a single post can be made to display on other Businesses and Sub Businesses as well.
Business admins and managers (created from Business Roles) can select default Attribution for Businesses to post as Business Name or their own Names in Business Dashboards.
Contact Information
Business owners can add their Name, Email, Phone number, Facebook URL, Linkedin URL, Twitter URL, Website URL so that people can reach out to them and find their real existence.
As per the settings from admin panel, these contact details are displayed to non-logged in users also. When non-logged in users will click to view the details, they will be smartly prompted to login into the site first.
Associated Sub Businesses
Businesses can have their own Associated sub pages which are also shown in a separate section.
If a Business is an associated sub Business, then it shows the details about its Main parent Business very nicely.
Multiple Locations with Photos
Businesses can not only have locations, but also multiple locations. Each location can have its title, address, venue, etc location details.
Business owners can also upload multiple photos for each Business location.
CTA – Call To Action Button
Business Owners can configure CTA – Call To Action Button for their Business according to their Business concept and requirement. The process of adding CTA is very easy, smooth and user-friendly.
Once CTA is added, when other users via the Business, the button works easily for them to with 1 click and as configured by Business Owner.
Business Services
Businesses can add their Services which are very nicely and cleanly displayed on the Business profiles.Unlimited services can be added from the Business Dashboards with titles, descriptions, photo.
Service rates can also be entered per hour or per minute duration.
Businesses Liked by This Business
Businesses can also Like other Businesses. These likes Businesses are nicely displayed on the Business profile.
Businesses can also easily Unlike their Liked Businesses.
Operating Hours
Businesses can update their Operating hours. Working hours, holidays, always open availability or closed status – everything is shown on Business profiles.
People Who Acted on this Business
Users can easily view the members who have Liked, Favorited or Followed the current Business.
This will help increase users trust and thus bring more user engagement on your site
Featured, Sponsored, Verified, New & Hot Labels
Business Labels can be displayed in cover photo or separately in this widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various labels in Businesses on your website.
Similar Businesses
With similar Businesses widget, you can easily choose to show similar Businesses based on their categories or tags matching to the current viewing Business. This will help in displaying Businesses of users interest to them.
Advance Share
Advance share is available to enable users to share Businesses on various other social networking sites, in site message, quick share in feeds or via Tell a friend in email.
Profile Tags
Shows tags of the Businesses being viewed for better information display and searching.
Information
Displays information of the Business being viewed in in clean and attractive UI.
Owner’s Photo & Name
You can choose to display Business Owners’ photo & Name on Business profiles.
Info Sidebar
You can choose to display contest information in sidebar.
Like button
Business Like button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Businesses on your website.
Follow Button
Business Follow buttons can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Businesses on your website.
Join Button
Business Join button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Businesses on your website.
Favourite Button
Business Favourite button can be displayed in cover photo or separately in widget providing you full control over what you display and how you display various option in Businesses on your website.
Business Roles
Businesses can assign Roles to allow other members to manage, moderate, promote their Businesses and give access to configure various features of their Businesses. Each Business role will have access to the authorized feature only.
Invite Members
Members of your website can invite their friends to Businesses. All invited members will receive an invitation to checkout the Business and they can then Like, Join, Favourite and Follow the Businesses. This will increase user engagement on your website.
Photo Albums
Business owners can upload albums to their Businesses. Business owners can choose to enable / disable the display of Albums on their Businesses from Business dashboards. Each album can have photos in it and has a separate View page for it and its photos.
Photos will open in very attractive Lightbox in which photos can even be zoomed-in and out.
Business Overview
Business owners can enter overview about their Business from the dashboards which will be attractively shown in the Business Overview widget on Business view page.
Overview will help Business owners to explain about their Businesses in detail by entering the description in Rich WYSIWYG Editor. They can also upload photos, videos, etc to the overview.
Business Joining & Members
Businesses can be joined and this have members. Users can simply click on Join button to join Businesses and become members. Business members can anytime leave the Business.
Profile Options
You can choose to enable the profile options in the cover photo or display them separately via the Profile Options widget. With this plugin you have all the flexibility and control on what you display.