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Corporate Edition 1.3.1 released

As of January 16, 2008, we are pleased to announce the newest release of the e-Classifieds Corporate Edition, version 1.3.1. This new version includes several new features, such as a new promo codes/coupons/discount codes feature that allows the administrator to set up special promotional codes (also known as "coupons" or "discount codes"), which users can then enter when posting their ads in order to receive a discount. This version also adds an import/export tool (also known as a bulk uploader and downloader) that allows the admin to import or export both ads and/or users. Data can be imported or exported in various formats such as CSV or pipe delimited, and the tool includes various other options such as a "dry run" option in order to test an import and ensure data integrity before altering live data. Imported data can either be appended to the existing data or fully overwrite the existing data. You can also now set up sub-admins (also known as "editors", "junior admins", or "multi-admin") with limited rights to perform specific administrative tasks, such as approving new ads, approving new multimedia uploads, approving new users, editing ads, and more. Many other changes have been made "under the hood" to improve usability, reduce the number of steps that users and admins need to take to perform common tasks, provide more information to users and the admin, improve the speed and efficiency of the code, and prepare the system for future enhancements that we will be making available in the coming months. The architecture for many of these new features is already in place, and we are gradually refining and building upon that infrastructure in preparation for the general availability of these features in coming releases. Learn more...

Corporate Edition 1.3 released

As of November 2, 2007, we are pleased to announce the newest release of the e-Classifieds Corporate Edition, version 1.3. This new version includes dozens of new and improved features, such as an improved CAPTCHA (image verification) system that includes a new reload option, as well as many other new options for colors, fonts, effects, and more. The new CAPTCHA system is also much faster than the old system, and it has been added to various additional forms throughout the program, such as the contact admin form, reply to ad form, and tell a friend form. The program also has a new logon form that looks much nicer, as well as an improved registration form that includes a visual password strength indicator to help users in selecting more secure passwords. The new user registration form also includes suggestions for alternate usernames if the username requested by the user is already taken, and there is a new option for automatically logging in users after registering. Benchmarking has also been improved with a new variable to turn on or off benchmarking and a new high resolution benchmarking option with precision down to the millisecond. Search engine optimization also received much attention in this release, with the inclusion of search engine friendly short URLs for ads without the question mark, search engine nofollow attributes on certain links (which boosts your site's search engine ranking by helping search engines to focus on the important links to content such as ads), and Google sitemaps support. In fact, the program will automatically create a Google sitemap for your classified ads site that you can quickly and easily submit to Google for indexing and improved searching, which may help your page rank as well. Improvements to the administrative area include an admin event log, an updated version info display on the main admin page, a new changelog that shows all of the new features and improvements for each version, new time zone settings for all time zones around the world, new date formatting options that allow you to choose from various date and time displays, links back to the main admin page from various admin forms and pages, and changes to the fee variables admin area to enforce the usage of secure connections when using any payment processor other than "manual" to ensure that the program conforms to PCI-DSS compliance regulations on credit card security. The template editor was improved with new template variables, as well as beta support for accessing internal program variables in the template editor. The front page has been made more flexible and configurable with new options that allow the admin to specify how many listings are displayed on the front page for the "Featured Ads", "Recently Viewed Ads", "Most Popular Ads" and "Latest Ads" columns. The admin can also specify the number of characters that are displayed in each record for the "Featured Ads", "Recently Viewed Ads", "Most Popular Ads" and "Latest Ads" displays. The database fields for the automobiles category have been updated with many new options to reflect the latest in automotive technology. Accesskeys have been added for improved accessibility and navigation. Many other improvements have been made as well, such as a new web based contact form option for the contact admin options, various code efficiency improvements, the addition of the IP address and hostname to "forgot password" e-mails, an improved Personal Inbox display when there are no messages, the option to disable the ad rating system, improved error handling, error messages that are more descriptive, and a new mail IP header option. Numerous other enhancements have been made as well. Learn more...

PayPal Website Pro support added

As of July 18, 2007, we are pleased to announce that we have added support for PayPal Website Pro to the e-Classifieds Corporate Edition. Learn more...

Corporate Edition 1.2 released

As of June 13, 2007, we are pleased to announce the newest release of the e-Classifieds Corporate Edition, version 1.2. This new version includes dozens of new and improved features, such as an online mail template editor that allows you to easily change the text, formatting, and language(s) of all e-mail messages sent out by the program. You can even include images in your mail and/or have the program send out HTML mail messages. As a security measure, the program also checks any e-mail address that is entered when posting or replying to ads to ensure that it is a valid e-mail address whose server is currently accepting mail for that address, in order to avoid the usage of bogus e-mail addresses. Multimedia has seen great improvements as well, such as the ability to create real thumbnails for every image that a user uploads to his or her ad. These thumbnails are then displayed in the headlines view of the ads, instead of just using HTML to shrink down the full size images, which wasted bandwidth and slowed down page loading times. The program also automatically resizes uploaded images if they are too big, instead of just telling the user that their photo is too big and needs to be shrunken, since many users may be confused by this and incapable of shrinking the images themselves. The admin can define the allowed multimedia types, such as .mp3, .ra, or any other format. Users can now upload multimedia files directly from the post ad form, and the admin can specify how many files a user can upload at a time. The program uses database caching for the ultimate in performance, and it uses mod_rewrite to display ads and other pages as regular HTML pages instead of PHP or CGI for better search engine indexing. Numerous other enhancements have been made as well. Learn more...

Instant access to the application now included with all on-demand versions of e-Classifieds

As of August 15, 2006, we are pleased to announce our new "csites" (Customer Sites) feature, which allows us to offer instant access to your on-demand e-Classifieds application immediately as soon as your account is created. This is true even for customers who are registering or transferring a domain name to be used for their classified ads site, as the system initially installs the application on a custom subdomain that allows the customer to access the application immediately. Once the domain has been registered or transferred, the customer can then access the same application using that domain name, and the application will automatically recognize this and adjust accordingly, so that e-mails, RSS feeds, or other messages and displays that are created by the application will automatically update themselves to reference the customer's domain name instead of the csite. This transition is handled automatically and seamlessly by the application, so that no configuration changes or other input of any kind by the customer is necessary. You simply point your web browser to your new domain name once it is live, and the system takes care of the rest. All data and other system settings are maintained by the system as well during this transition. The primary advantage of this new system is that it allows all customers, including those who are registering or transferring a domain name to be used for their classified ads site, to have instant access to the application as soon as their account is created, so that they can begin working with the software, familiarizing themselves with it, populating it with data, and even customizing it while they wait for the domain registration or transfer to be completed. This feature is available only with the new on-demand versions of e-Classifieds (also known as the "hosted" or "Software as a Service" versions). Learn more...

e-Classifieds Corporate Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the e-Classifieds Corporate Edition. It builds upon our industry standard e-Classifieds Premium Edition by adding over 150 new features and improvements. It supports multiple database formats, such as MySQL, Oracle, and others, and it has virtually unlimited scalability (well into the millions of ads). Its interface has been freshened up and modernized and is fully XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 compliant. It outputs valid XML. It also fully supports international character sets and uses the UTF-8 character set by default. It has dozens of new features, such as displays for the latest ads, featured ads, the most popular ads, recently viewed ads, who's online, signs and flyers, and more. It also builds upon the Premium Edition's already unrivaled Power Search features, such as range searching, by adding the ability for users to select multiple items from a dropdown menu (i.e., search for cars of type "Audi" or "BMW", between model years 1997 and 2005, etc.). The program includes thumbnail images in the "headlines" view of ads, as well as sophisticated new multimedia slideshows. It also offers customized user registration fields and several different new user approval options. The new "saved searches" feature lets users save their searches for later retrieval. The Corporate Edition adds support for a number of additional payment processors, the ability for affiliates to earn commissions, and the ability for users to view their payment history and their inbox messages online. It adds a credits system for users. It also adds a new "short URLs" option for ads, as well as RSS feeds for new ads. It also adds an optional image verification system for the user registration, user logon, post ad, and modify ad forms that helps to block automated spambots. Plus, there are dozens of other new features and improvements. Learn more...

Affiliate Program launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Hagen Software Affiliate Program. As a Hagen Software affiliate, you can easily generate revenue by referring customers to us who purchase Hagen Software solutions, including both web hosting services from Hagen Hosting and our web applications such as e-Classifieds. This gives you a far wider and far more profitable collection of products to sell than the typical affiliate program. For example, if a customer purchases two years of our on-demand e-Classifieds e-Jobs Edition through your affiliate site, you will earn $291.80 on that one sale alone. We invite you to find out more about the Hagen Software Affiliate Program.

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Professional Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Professional Edition. Unlike most of our previous on-demand versions, this version is quite different from the distributed version that has previously been available. It offers a far more attractive interface, a complete point-and-click online control panel for all aspects of administering the software, new PayPal and Clickbank payment options if you want to charge users for posting ads, Auto-Notify search agents for tracking new ads posted to the system, support for multiple photo uploads per ad, and much more. In addition, it has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of the Professional Edition with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Commerce Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Commerce Edition. Unlike most of our previous on-demand versions, this version is quite different from the distributed version that has previously been available. Nonetheless, it still contains the same patent-pending, one-click, seamlessly integrated credit card processing that the distributed Commerce Edition has. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of the Commerce Edition with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Lite Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Lite Edition. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing Lite Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for configuring all of the program settings, including complete page layout control. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save more than 80% off the price of the distributed version of the Lite Edition with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Basic Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Basic Edition. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing Basic Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for configuring all of the program settings. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save more than 50% off the price of the distributed version of the Basic Edition with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Photo Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Photo Edition. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing Photo Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for configuring all of the program settings. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save more than 50% off the price of the distributed version of the Photo Edition with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds e-Jobs Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of e-Jobs. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing e-Jobs Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for customizing the database fields for each category. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of e-Jobs with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds e-Vehicles Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of e-Vehicles. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing e-Vehicles Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for customizing the database fields for each category. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of e-Vehicles with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds e-Properties Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of e-Properties. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing e-Properties Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for customizing the database fields for each category. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of e-Properties with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds e-Personals Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of e-Personals. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing e-Personals Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for customizing the database fields for each category. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of e-Personals with installation. More info...

On-Demand version of e-Classifieds Premium Edition now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Premium Edition. This version offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing Premium Edition, plus it also includes a new online tool for customizing the database fields for each category. It also has all of the advantages of our new, hosted format, such as free installation, free tech support and free upgrades forever (for as long as you use the program), free hosting of the software, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. In fact, by choosing the new on-demand version, not only will you have a better software program, but you will also save approximately 50% off the price of the distributed version of the Premium Edition with installation. More info...

UN selects e-Classifieds

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has selected e-Classifieds to power the classifieds section of its Intranet.

New high volume demo with 100,000 ads

In order to demonstrate the scalability e-Classifieds, we have installed a high volume demo of e-Classifieds that contains 100,000 ads. Even with all of our Fortune 500 customers, few, if any, customers ever come close to exceeding this number of ads in their classifieds section, so it's an excellent way to demonstrate how scalable e-Classifieds truly is. View the demo...

New e-Classifieds Photo Edition

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Version 4.5 of the e-Classifieds Photo Edition. This version introduces a new interface that borrows heavily from the interface for our Standard Edition, but also has a few tricks of its own. The new layout includes a sophisticated navigation bar system complete with rollover "hover" effects and popup tooltips to explain what each feature does, popup tooltips for the guide bar and the category listings, a nicer layout for the front page categories, and enhancements to the quick search bar that appears on every page. More info...

New e-Classifieds Basic Edition

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Version 4.5 of the e-Classifieds Basic Edition. This version introduces a new interface that borrows heavily from the interface for our Standard Edition, but also has a few tricks of its own. The new layout includes a sophisticated navigation bar system complete with rollover "hover" effects and popup tooltips to explain what each feature does, popup tooltips for the guide bar and the category listings, a nicer layout for the front page categories, and enhancements to the quick search bar that appears on every page. More info...

New e-Classifieds Lite Edition

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Version 4.5 of the e-Classifieds Lite Edition. This version introduces a new interface that borrows heavily from the interface for our Standard Edition, but also has a few tricks of its own. The new layout includes a sophisticated navigation bar system complete with rollover "hover" effects and popup tooltips to explain what each feature does, popup tooltips for the guide bar and the category listings, a nicer layout for the front page categories, and enhancements to the quick search bar that appears on every page. More info...

New e-Classifieds Free Edition

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Version 4.0 of the e-Classifieds Free Edition. This new version introduces a number of features previously not seen on our free version, such as a new layout that includes a sophisticated navigation bar system complete with rollover "hover" effects and popup tooltips to explain what each feature does, a new guide bar to indicate where the user is located within the system, a new popup help system, a new "About" window, a nicer layout for the front page categories, and much improved layouts for the various action pages, such as posting ads, deleting ads, etc. More info...

On-Demand versions of e-Classifieds now available

On September 19, 2002, we released the first product in our new line of on-demand (hosted) applications. The on-demand version of the e-Classifieds Standard Edition offers all of the same powerful functionality as our existing Standard Edition, but in a new, hosted format that offers you free installation, free tech support and free upgrades for as long as you use the program, easier maintenance, and lower startup costs. More info...

Polish language version of Free Edition now available

On December 3, 2001, we released the Polish language version of the e-Classifieds Free Edition. The e-Classifieds Free Edition is now available in eleven different languages. More info...

Hagen Hosting launched

On May 17, 2001, we launched our new web hosting service division, Hagen Hosting. If you want to ensure the maximum compatibility between your web hosting company and e-Classifieds, and to ensure that all of the necessary modules are in place for credit card processing and other advanced features of e-Classifieds, you may want to take a look at Hagen Hosting. Hagen Hosting offers powerful and affordable hosting plans, and all plans include our uniquely powerful Personal Control Panel that allows you to manage all aspects of your web site and your account online. More info...

e-Vehicles released

On February 27, 2001, we released e-Vehicles, a new version of e-Classifieds that has been customized specifically for automotive and other vehicles related sites. More info...

More language versions released

On December 31, 2000, we released the German version of the Premium Edition and the Spanish version of the Professional Edition. In addition, we have several versions available in Portuguese, including the Lite Edition, Basic Edition, and Photo Edition. More info...

e-Properties released

On December 29, 2000, we released e-Properties, a new version of e-Classifieds that has been customized specifically for real estate and rentals sites. More info...

e-Jobs released

On October 16, 2000, we released e-Jobs, a new version of e-Classifieds that has been customized specifically for jobs sites, recruiting sites, and other employment related sites. More info...

e-Personals released

On September 19, 2000, we released e-Personals, a new version of e-Classifieds that has been customized specifically for matchmaking, dating, and other types of personal ads sites. More info...

New Support Area Launched

On June 14, 2000, we unveiled our new and improved online Support Area, which includes our Knowledge Base. We will be adding additional online guides and tutorials to this area shortly. Since this area is for registered users of e-Classifieds only, you will need to contact us for the logon information for this area.

Premium Edition 3.0 Released

On April 2, 2000, we released Version 3.0 of the Premium Edition. The Premium Edition was already the world's most powerful classified ads software program available, and this release has further extended that lead. You can find out more about it here.

New Web Site Launched

e-Classifieds has launched a new web site to provide more product and support information to customers and partners. Please send us your suggestions and feedback.

New Knowledge Base Announced

In our ongoing effort to provide the most comprehensive support for our customers, we have unveiled a new Knowledge Base that contains articles on support topics relating to the various commercial versions of e-Classifieds. As we are gradually rolling out this new system, we will be offering access to our customers via a special username and password. Registered owners of e-Classifieds may contact us for the access information.