RETAIL DirectoryPlus V1.08 - Business Directory Script

Mahmoud · December 10, 2018

DirectoryPlus V1.08 - Business Directory Script

DirectoryPlus is an all-in-one solution for creating a Business Directory website. DirectoryPlus is a standalone PHP script that doesn’t require other platforms to function and allows you to create a directory website with only a few clicks.

Directory Features Overview

All native PHP code with a simple structural framework, any person with even a basic PHP knowledge is able to quickly understand what’s going on and make modifications
Extremely fast page load times (< 500ms average)
Works fine on cheap shared hosts even with thousands of listings(demo is running on a shared host)
Super easy install, get up and running in 5 minutes
Templating system based on Bootstrap 4
Configurable billing plans (free, paid, one time payment, monthly, annual, featured listing)
Google Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, HERE, TomTom, Wikimedia Maps compatible
Geolocation support (HTML 5 API)
Coupons: business owners can create coupons to show on their listing pages
Payment Gateways: Paypal, Stripe, subscription possible
Custom fields for single categories or for all categories
Search by custom field
Claim listings so you can populate your site with listings then let business owners claim and pay for the listing
Contact owner form for each listing
Create static pages and blog posts using TinyMCE
Rating system
User reviews and comments
Login with Facebook, Twitter and email account
Multiple currencies support
Responsive design looks good on mobile and desktop
SEO optmized, friendly URLs, user-defined meta descriptions
Translations files in plain text format (editable in notepad or similar) including the admin area
Intuitive and simplified files and folders structure, no complicated nested folders makes it easy to edit
Built-in contact page (contact site owner) with form to email
Fast support

Setup in less than five minutes

DirectoryPlus comes with a one click installer that will get you up and running in no time. Just upload the files, edit the config file and hit the install page and click “Install”.

Bootstrap based design

DirectoryPlus uses Bootstrap 4’s layout grid, components and utilities extensively and it has a very neutral theme that can easily adapt to several business types. This also makes it easy for third party designers to make layout modifications because they only need to be familiar with the Bootstrap framework.

Custom Fields

DirectoryPlus allows you to create “Custom Fields” on the category level or create global custom fields. For example, you can create a “Delivery (yes/no)” field and it shows up only for listings in the “Food” category. Or you can create a “Free Wi-fi” field to let users search for listings that offer free wi-fi. Custom fields can be required/optional and also searchable.

Monetize Your Directory

Flexible pricing plans allows you to create one time payments as well as monthly and annual recurring subscriptions. Current payment gateways supported are:

Paypal
Stripe

Claim Listings

With this feature you can kickstart your directory by creating listings and let business owners claim and pay for the listings so that they can edit, correct and add additional information.

Speed is a Feature. Fast Loading Times

According to Google engineers, pages must load within 1000ms.

This means that the users’ browsing experience deteriorate and switch mental context if the pages don’t completely load in much less than 1000ms (1 second).

Directory Plus has been designed with page loading speed as a feature. All pages load fast and takes about 400ms to 800ms to load completely.

You can test Page Load Times on Pingdom: https://tools.pingdom.com/

Please note that the only important metric is the Load Time in miliseconds.

Create Pages

DirectoryPlus comes with a CMS system that allows you to create blog posts and pages and uses the popular TinyMCE wysiwyg editor. You can define whether to show a post in the feed, if not, it will be a stand alone page.

Map Providers

DirectoryPlus supports multiple map providers: Mapbox, HERE, TomTom, Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. You can choose one or multiple ones. If you select multiple map providers DirectoryPlus will randomly select one on every page load. Useful if you want to take advantage of the free usage quotas of multiple map providers.

Coupons

Allow business owners to create coupons for deals and discounts. Users can browse all coupons available on the site.

Business Logos

Each business can upload its own logo to show up as their main image on the directory. Logos will show in the results pages (search, categories, cities, etc) and on the business page as the main image next to the business name.

Fully Brandable

DirectoryPlus is a standalone PHP script that doesn’t require any other CMS platform. If you are building a directory for your client, it will not show that you are using another platform such as Wordpress.