Thread: Before I buy

Before I buy

I am looking for a business directory theme that allows:

1) In "search for" box, the theme will autocomplete from the list of categories and when user clicks the search button, this will list down all the listings in this category in the results page.
2) Autocomplete feature for "near" box.
3) List all featured entries on top of normal entries in each category listing.
4) Create multiple plans within the featured listing and allow featured listing with higher (costlier) plan to list above the cheaper plan in the featured listing (but above normal, non-featured listing). Something similar to Gold, Silver, Bronze and Free listing - Gold lists above Silver, Silver lists above Bronze and Bronze lists above the non-featured listing. Optionally, entries within each plan (Gold, Silver, Bronze) are randomized on each new loading of the page or each new search.
5) When posting a new listing, allow the user (or poster) to select multiple locations on the Google map (multiple pins) in case the business is located in multiple locations within the country.
6) When all listings are listed for a particular search category, the featured items would be clickable to the individual detail page for that listing, but the free listings would not be clickable (hyperlinked) to its detail page. That is, the user can click to see details for featured listings only.
7) Mass upload of listings from Excel (50,000) to the theme listing.

So no pre-sale support for my questions?

1) & 2) Auto complete is not a default feature of the theme, but is planned for a future release. Currently though it would require customization on your part if you wish to implement it.

3) You have an option in the Vantage admin dashboard to charge users to feature their listing, as well as another option to feature the listing at the top of the category.

4) You can create multiple plans, with featured listings options as seen on the Vantage admin demo, however there are not different levels of featured listings as you describe.

5) At this time the theme allows for selection of a single location from the map, however you could also use the custom forms functionality to allow fields for additional location information if you wanted to.

6) This would require customization of the theme as it is not an available option.

7) There is a .csv importer built into Vantage, however you may wish to note the Geocode limits as explained in this blog post and accompanying links. Thanks.