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- | ====== User Groups/ | ||
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- | One of the most powerful aspects of this software is its ability to handle the User Group and Price Plan relationship. The most important reason for having User Groups is that it provides you a means to charge different groups of users, different pricing fees. This is because you can have as many Price Plans (Pricing Schemes) in the system as you want and each user within a User Group is assigned a Price Plan during the registration process. This is an extremely important concept to grasp if you want to take full advantage of what this software has to offer. We will first explain what each function is and then how they work together to help you emplace your sales and marketing schemes. | ||
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- | ===== User Groups ===== | ||
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- | Every user who registers on your site is placed in what we call a "User Group" | ||
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- | So, what is the value of having more than one User Group? The answer is really quite simple. Each User Group that you create can have its own distinct [[#Price Plans|Price Plan]] (explained later) attached to it. This functionality allows you to run any number of marketing campaigns all with different perks for those who sign up through that campaign. Also, through the Users / User Groups menu of the software’s admin, you can search and send messages on a User Group basis. That way if you make any changes associated to that User Group’s settings or Price Plan, you can easily send out a blanket email to everyone that is in that particular User Group. | ||
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- | Through the admin, you also have the ability to call up each user that is in the database, either through the "list users" or " | ||
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- | For a more in depth explanation of how User Groups work, please visit the [[admin_menu/ | ||
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- | ===== Registration Codes ===== | ||
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- | You generate your own Registration Code every time you create a new User Group in the User Group Management pages of the admin. | ||
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- | ===== Price Plans ===== | ||
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- | A "Price Plan" is the tool that the admin uses to charge users certain prices for certain features, such as " | ||
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- | Something worth noting, is that your site visitors never really know that they are being placed into a "User Group" | ||
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- | Another important feature of Price Plans is that you can set them to either "never expire", | ||
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- | ===== Summary ===== | ||
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- | We hope that this explanation has helped you better understand the valuable tools located in the User Groups / Price Plans section of this software. A firm grasp of these concepts will help to better assure you of setting up of a successful Listings website. | ||