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GETTING YOUR MARKETPLACE
VISIBLE
CONGRATULATIONS on your new Marketplace!
Your marketplace is by default only accessible to 'Special'
Joomla! Users, which are managers, administrators and super
administrators. Your 'Regular' registered users and 'Public' visitors
will not see the marketplace until you set the 'Access Level' to
Regular or Public on your 'Marketplace' menu item (in the Top Menu by
default) in the Joomla! Menu Manager. This allows you to 'tweak' your
marketplace settings before going live and offer the service to your
users.
The most important part of your new marketplace configuration is
these two (2) pieces of information. Without them your installation
will not work properly.
CMI API
Key and Secret
- In the Configuration
put both the CMI_API_KEY and CMI_SECRET you were given when you
downloaded the component into the appropriate spots. i.e:
- Save and close the file.
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YOU NEED TO CREATE A CUSTOMER SERVICE EMAIL
THAT FORWARDS TO US
Part of the service that we provide is answering your customer
enquiries about marketplace operations.
- create an email that is structured exactly like:
customerservice@yourdomain.com
- set up an email forwarder on your web server for
customerservice@yourdomain.com so that messages go to customerservice@ijobid.com.
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CONFIGURING AND TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR CSS
The iJobid CMI needs 100% of the Horizontal content-area. There
are a couple of ways to accomplish this.
The first way is for you to findout what your major CSS layout
classes or id's are and input them into the corresponding Configuration
fields.
Additionally, you can override body content styles sent to the
browser by Joomla by duplicating the style rules in the extrastyle.css
in the com_cmimarketplace/style/ folder. This gives you the
ability to tweak the way your iJobid CMI Marketplace looks.
The second way is to go into your Joomla Administration
and go to your Module Manager and edit each module item that whose
position is either 'right' or 'left'. For each item, manually deselect
the Marketplace in 'Menu Assignment' portion of the specific Module
Item.
IF YOU CHANGE THE TEMPLATE THAT YOU USE
HAVING DONE THE FIRST METHOD, YOU WILL HAVE TO UPDATE THESE VALUES IN
YOUR Configuration
FIELDS. WITH THE SECOND METHOD YOU DO NOT.
After that if you still have some 'empty' space on the right or
left of iJobid CMI content it means that an object is imposing a margin
(or padding).
For example the 'beez' template that comes with 1.53 has a pesky
wrapper element that gives the left margin of 21%. i.e:
#wrapper { margin: 0 0 0 21%} in
position.css. This puts a margin on the left side of the main content
area which is roughly 1/5 of the available area and the iJobid CMI
content gets cut off. The solution is to override that style rule by
putting the following into the extrastyle.css: #wrapper { margin: 0 0 0 0} We have done this by
default.
It is important to note that the extrastyle.css file is
included just before the main output and so is the (almost) last style
sheet in the head tag. This means that you can override any portion of
the appearance of the iJobid CMI content by editing extrastyle.css.
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HOW TO ACCESS YOUR iJobid CLIENT MARKETPLACE
DETAILS
For the time being (current com_cmimarketplace version) you can access
and update the details of your marketplace (on the iJobid Side) by
going to the My Joboard of the marketplace on your site. You
will need to sign in the front end and must be a Special (access level
2) member to manage the marketplace. However, if you want to change
your major category you must go to Live Marketplace->Preferences->Client Marketplace
Details (you will have to sign in with the credentials you registered
the marketplace with) and DEMO "Sand Box" Marketplace->Preferences->Client
Marketplace Details if your practicing with your development site.
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PAYMENT DETAILS, WHAT DO I GET, HOW DO I GET
IT?
The iJobid.com Marketplace is a commission based marketplace.
There are always two (2) parts to every transaction, the buyer of a
service (Buyer) and the firm (or individual) that wins the project
(Provider). When a buyer posts a project in your CMI, that consitutes
1/2 of the transaction and so you are entitled to 25% of the
commission. If the service provider that wins the project is also a
member of your CMI then you also own the second half of the
transaction, thus entitling you to the other 25% of the commission.
Let's look at an example:
The maximum commission on any project is $500 (this is based on
5% of the winning bid up to $10,000).
So if a project winning bid is more than $10,000 and the project
was posted in your CMI, your take would be $125. If the Provider that
won the project is a member of your CMI then you would get $125. If
they both resided within your CMI you get $250.
SIMPLE!
We will update your iJobid
Account every 30 - 45 days with audited totals. This is where you can
request payment by clicking the 'Withdrawl Fund' button. Note: You must
have at least $100 in the acount to withdrawl funds. In later versions
of the CMI we will provide you with access to marketplace activity and
financials to date.
