Quick start guide for admin

• Please go through the “Installation and Update” guide carefully if you haven’t installed the application yet.
• Login as site administrator to organize your system.
• At first update your System Settings and Payment Settings from Settings option of the left sidebar menu. Also, make sure to provide a valid YouTube API key and a valid Vimeo API key on System Settings.
• If you have updated the Settings successfully, you can go to Categories option from the same left sidebar menu and create Categories.
• You will need to add cities against the country before creating a listing.
• After creating category and city, now you will be able to create listings. Go to Add New Listing sub-menu from the Listings menu from the left sidebar and fill the required fields and hit the Submit button.

Quick start guide for customers

• First you will need to get registered before creating a listing.
• If you’ve done it right, login with your registered email and password.
• For creating a listing you will need to have a valid package.
• If you are successful registered user and you have a valid package, the you are ready to create listings.
• Go to Add New Listing sub-menu from the Listings menu from the left side bar and fill the required fields and hit the Submit button.

About Atlas

Directory Portal features

• Dynamic home page with search bar and top listings
• Category wise directory browsing
• Dedicated category & sub-category page with summary
• Advanced directory filtering page
• Filter listings with category, amenities, pricing, cities, video
• Locate listings in map as marker with informative popover
• Map interaction with listing search result for ease of access
• Directory’s wide banner image
• All categories in listing page
• Unlimited photo gallery image for any directory
• Amenities listing of a directory
• Weekly opening & closing hours schedule
• Currently closed or opening status
• Video embed option from youtube, vimeo, html5
• Social media sharing option for listing
• Customer reviews and rating form
• Review summary view sorted by star rating
• Report inappropriate listing to admin to review
• Contact form for business customers
• Listing can be added to wishlist from thumbnail and detail page
• Price table for purchasing directory posting package
• Company details and legal pages: about, t&c, privacy policy, faq
• Dynamic footer
• 404 error page configuration

Business specific features

• Customized directory layout for restaurant, hotel, shop
• Food menu showing custom layout for restaurant directories
• Table booking custom contact form for restaurant directories
• Room detail custom layout for hotel directories
• Room booking custom form for hotel directories
• Product showing custom layout for shopping directories

Admin features

• Easy installation process
• Setup guide provided with product documentation
• Most flexible listing creation form
• Make listing pending/active with just one click
• Review inappropriate reported listings
• Listing category & subcategory manager
• Listing amenities manager
• Listing cities manager
• Listing rating manager
• Pricing package manager
• Watch customer’s purchase report history
• User database monitoring
• Website settings manager
• Portal’s terms, privacy policy, faq manager
• Payment and currency setup for paypal, stripe
• Multi language translation manager
• Smtp settings setup
• System status monitoring dedicated page

Customer feature

• Dedicated user panel to manage account
• Purchase package and create listing
• Watch package purchase report
• Print or download invoice of purchase
• Create & publish listing following purchased package limit
• Create hotel type directory with room details
• Get room booking orders by making hotel directories
• Create restaurant directories with food menu details
• Get table booking orders by making restaurant directories
• Create shopping directory with product details
• Add favourite directories to wishlist & browse later
• Give rating and reviews to preferred directories

Update History

version 2.15 – 5 November, 2024

- Updated PHP version from 7.4 to 8.1+
- Fixed listing filtering issue
- Resolved listing activation/deactivation issue
- Improved email-sending procedure
- Fixed listing opening and closing schedule issue

version 2.14 – 20 November, 2023

- Multiple selected listing deletion issues fixed
- Listing activation issue has been solved
- Listing Opening and closing issue has been solved
- Listing filter issue has been solved

version 2.13 – 17 April, 2023

- Now admin can configure listing opening and closing time with 30 minutes
- Multiple home page has been added. Admin can switch the home page layout from frontend setting
- Listing status change issue has been fixed
- More minor issue fixes and performance improvements

version 2.12 – 28 November, 2022

- Newly added state feature
- Now, users can filter listings by state.
- Multiple listings add by uploading CSV file.

version 2.11 – 21 August, 2022

- Social sharing content has been improved
- Meta pixel has been added to track website visitors
- Text editor issue fix

version 2.10 – 7 April, 2022

- package_expiry_date added to the listing table for checking the packages expiry date
- Category selection issue (Use jQuery select2 instead) (client)
- Homepage updated with featured listing and popular listing and popular categories.
- Listing page : Grid view [existing one], List view[convert the existing grid view in list view with column management]

version 2.9 – 17 January, 2022

- Latitude and longitude saving from maps. Not needed to enter numeeric value
- Listing ownership assign to another user
- Google Recaptcha added on the signup and login page for security
- Contact message send from system email not User email
- New page for forgot password. Change user password after clicking the valid url
- Addon purchase code verification
- Product about section improved

version 2.8 – 11 October, 2021

- Stripe Secure Checkout API Update.
- Added Beauty service pricing limit on listing filter page.
- Handling gallery image uploading based on packages.
- Issue fixed on Paypal Payment.
- Contact Page optimised for Mobile devices.
- Opening status check if condition with out get_phrase function(bug)(now_open() function in listing helper and other using place)
- Unwanted crashes fixed

version 2.7 – 18 April, 2021

- Pagination added to the listing page in the admin panel.
- Pagination issue has been solved on the filter and search page.
- Loading time is optimized for the category page.
- Landing page speed is increased.

version 2.6 – 7 January, 2021

- Agent detail page added.
- User registration validated in the signup page.
- Currently, the active package marked on the packages page.
- Openstreet map updated.
- Unused data removed from maps.

version 2.5 – 22 October, 2020

- Agent info added in listing detail page 
- Website contact page added with spam protection
- Openstreetmap and mapbox now have switiching & activation option in admin settings.

version 2.4 – 8 August, 2020

- Compatible with Shop addon.
- Minor bug fixing.

version 2.3 – 22 May, 2020

- Map settings updated for mapbox.
- Outgoing email format updated for security purpose.
- Pagination added on the listing filter page.
- Checkout page updated for adopting multiple payment gateways
- Meta keywords and descriptions added to the home page.

version 2.2 – 24 March, 2020

- Openstreet map api updated to latest version.
- Listing deletion file issue fixed.
- Email verification text enhanced and updated.

version 2.1 – 16 January, 2020

- SEO tags added and enhanced
- blog post page image updated to responsive
- cookie acceptance page block removed for smooth browsing
- Indian currency symbol added
- phpmailer library added to the outgoing mail system
- listing featured issue fixed
- dark logo hover issue fixed
- category cover photo redirecting to 404 error page fixed
- addon system developed and introduced
- Facebook live chat addon released. sold separately

version 2.0 – 6 November, 2019

- blog page introduced
- admin can write a blog post
- EU cookie note settings
- a verified badge is now shown in homepage listing
- admin can claim a listing by own
- listing verification process enhanced and stored
- admin panel listing manager has a filter option
- footer text now made dynamic
- category list number shortened for better UX
- amenities icon showed in listing details page

version 1.4 – 17 september, 2019

- backend admin panel layout updated;

version 1.3 – 10 september, 2019

- user interface updated

version 1.2 – 2nd September, 2019

- claim listing feature introduced. Business owners can claim and admin approval will give a verified badge to their listings.
- new listing type: beauty. For Salon, Spa, Nails, Hairstylist, Eyelash, Massage, Make Up, etc.
- new appointment booking form for beauty type business listing.
- booking and appointment manager from listing owner backend panel.
- new filter added in listing search page: opening status. Find the currently opened listings instantly.
- google analytics settings for each and every listing. owners can find better page view results.
- admin can now delete any review or comment.
- bulk delete option of listings for better management.
- listing search enhanced with description search.

version 1.1 – 3 July, 2019

- featured listing introduced. featured listings stay top of the listing search result
- wide map view page introduced.
- listing URL completely redesigned. Now new structure: http://yourdomain.com/type/directory-title/id, e.g. http://example.com/restaurant/ristorante-dyl-artre/639
- offline payment introduced. admin can take payment by bank transaction or any other way for selling packages
- listing contact details added. a web address, email, phone, social media linkup added
- price package currency updated
- free package introduced
- number of listing permission in the price package
- review posting now require users to signup and login
- reviews can be modified or deleted by the user himself
- reviews can be removed by the site admin
- html5 text area updated for applicable edit fields
- map listing preview image layout enhanced
- switching between map view and grid view in the listings page
- signup link enhanced in the login page for a better experience

version 1.0 – 20 May, 2019

- Initial release

Requirements

• Apache web server for running php
• PHP version 7
• Mysql database access, purchase code during installation
• Php curl should be enabled
• One purchase code is legal for using one domain only

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