xF2 Add-on [XFA] RM Marketplace (shop) - XF2 5.2.1

Description
RM Marketplace allows you and/or your users to sell resources from the resource manager, like in a marketplace !

Supports three types of products :

• Digital products (license based):
  • with or without license renewal
  • with or without licence restrictions
  • with or without url required to download
• Physical products
• Service offers

Through the Resource Categories configuration system, the administrator select which categories are intended for the sale of resources and the type of products that can be put for sale among the ones here above.
Each of these categories can be set to either:

• use the paypal address set in the admincp through options;
• use the paypal address set for that category;
• let each user input their own paypal address to sell their resources.

You can also allow your user to accept other payment means (cash, western union, check...) through exchanges between the buyer and the seller.

When adding a resource to these categories, your users can then select wether or not they want to sell it or not.

Along with the capability to sell resources, RM Marketplace is also a real source of monetization for you, and that thanks to two features:

• You can require a percentage on sales, automatically retrieved upon payment (for paypal payments only).
• You can provide users with the capability to pay to have their resource featured on the resource manager index and categories pages.

Features
General features

• Outstanding marketplace or shop
• Grid view option for cleaner product display
  • Based on image uploaded by the seller
  • Configurable globally or per category
• New pages for buyers (with filtering): Your Purchases / Your Licences
• Seller Dashboard: a specific tabbed area for sellers to monitor and manage sales
• New Tab on resources main page "Top Purchased"
• Category based permissions
  • Is a seller
  • Accept other payment means
  • Can buy resource featuring
  • Can download without buying
  • Can view all purchases log
  • Can view all sales
  • Can Manage all licenses
• 3 category based configurations for purchases:
  • Let user ask for purchases on a per resource basis (user choice)
  • Use category wide purchases (Admin choice)
  • Use forum wide purchases (Admin choice)
• Category based allowed products configuration : select which products can be put for sale in each category. You can even select wether free products are authorized or not
• Supported currencies: Based on Resources Manager currencies configuration
• Users can download the resource directly after purchase
• Payment methods : Paypal, Manual (for cash, check, ...), more to come…
• Manual payment automatically creates a conversation between buyer and seller to converge for exchanges on the payment processing details.
• Purchase number in membercard and profile page
• More informations on product in sidebar (Resources Manager)
• Licence URL (mandatory or not depending on the choice of the seller, can be edited by the seller) with domain validity checking
• Shipment informations for physical product (the status can be edited by the seller and shipment data such as a tracking url can be added).
• Manage Licence
  • Activate / deactivate the licence
  • Expiration date
  • Site url (enter the domain where the product will be installed)
• Mails sent upon purchases or refund to the buyer, as well as in case of license status change
• Alert sent upon purchases or refund to the seller
• Percentage on sales, selectable by category: admin gets a commission on sales
• Terms and Conditions: require acceptance of the terms and conditions to buy
• Purchase button replaced by "Register now and purchase" for non logged-in users
• Top Purchases and last sales widgets
• Optionally activable invoicing system with PDF generation

Physical Product specificities:

• Payment info (Paypal address)
• Currency
• Price
• Quantity
• Terms and Conditions (with WYSIWYG editor)
• Stock quantity management
  • Quantity configured on add/edit
  • Option to select wether product shall continue to be sold when running out of stock
  • Alert sent to seller when product runs out of stock

Digital Product specificities

• Payment info (Paypal address)
• Licence duration (Day/month/year)
• Currency
• Price
• Renewal price
• Renewal delay
• Restriction (Yes = single copy / No = multiple copies)
• Require url (requires the buyer to set a domain to download the product)
• Terms and Conditions (with WYSIWYG editor)

Service offer specificities

• Payment info (Paypal address)
• Currency
• Price
• Terms and Conditions (with WYSIWYG editor)

Resource featuring features

• Available durations created through dedicated page in admincp with:
  • Duration in days, weeks, months or years
  • Amount
• Purchase of featuring by user on resource page
• Featuring purchases log on dedicated page in admincp

Seller Dashboard features

• Quick page to handle your products, sales, licences, Terms and Conditions and statistics.
• Terms and Conditions - Lets you configure global Terms and Conditions for all your products. Can be overwritten per product when creating/editing the resource.
• Invoicing - Lets you configure your name or company name, your address, upload your logo and add any additional info you would like to appear on the invoices. You can activate/deactivate invoices through this page.
• View Sales - Shows all the sales you have done, ordered by latest ones with capability to filter them per user and/or per resource and/or per sales type (all/purchase/renewal) and/or per shipment status. From this page you can manually delete purchases or validate a pending purchase
• My products - Shows all the products you have for sale on the forum
• Manage licences - View all the licenses for your digital products with the capability to filter them per user and/or per resource and/or per license status (all/active/expired)
• Statistics - Helps you analyse in details the sales of your products for a given period
  • Display of various statistics:
    • Number of sales
    • Gross income
    • Fees (if any)
    • Percentage on sales (if any)
  • Graphical overview of the sales evolution on the period
  • Graphical overview of the net/gross income evolution on the period
  • Highly configurable:
    • Either choose among pre-define time periods: current/previous week/month/quarter/year
    • Or select from/to through calendar popups
    • Filter by sales type (all/purchase/renewal)
    • Filter by currency
      In case of multiple currencies selecting all will only display statistics on the number of sales.
    • Filter by resource
      When filtered on a single resource, the number of updates performed on the resource is displayed as well on the number of sales graphical overview.
• For user with the right to, capability to configure the dashboard to show only information about own products or all thanks to a simple toggle control
• Last sales/Top sales widgets configured by default to display on that page.

ACP Options

• Mode test for paypal
• Percentage on sales (for admin)
• Paypal address
• Invoicing system activation
• Invoices language and date format
• US Shipment address like display
• Grid view display activation on all pages
• Grid view display activation on index
• Purchases / Licences per page
• Move to usergroup on purchase (after purchase, the buyer will be moved to this usergroup)
• Default currency and time period for statistics
• Domain verification method selection and blacklist for digital products
• Resource featuring currency
• Resource featuring moderation

Install/Uninstall instructions
The readme is available HERE.
Don't forget to install our Core add-on first, download it here.

Frequently Asked Questions
See HERE to see how to configure RM Marketplace (PayPal and invoicing), you must do that prior to using the add-on.

Demo
We use the xF1 version on our site, you can check it and even try it in the test category with the account demo/demo1234.