• 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 guides 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 Business Directory CMS

Want to make a professional business directory site? Business Directory CMS gives you the best platform to build one in minutes. It is highly customizable and the easiest system in the market to set up and organize your business directory portal. All modern functionalities of directory listing are integrated into Business Directory CMS which makes it industry standard and gives a robust solution to grow up your business.

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

• 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 or as per client requirement
• 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