Earn revenue from Directory

The Directory site is designed to let you earn through it. The following are the features of directory that allows you to charge the user-activities on your website. Apart from them, there are other plugins and add-ons that too help you gain revenue.

Charge for submissions

You can charge your users for what they post on your site. If a user wants his listing to be on your site you can charge him for that. Make as many payment packages and configure them according to your wish. The users can select the payment package according to their needs.

As shown, you can set distinctive price for each price package.

Single Submission or Subscription

While creating the price package you can decide the number of posts allowed for a price package. By selecting the single submission, one post is allowed. Alternately, you can also opt for subscription package and specify the number of posts allowed after each payment.

Recurring package subscription

Another important component included within Price packages is Recurring subscription. With this option enabled, users will be billed automatically as soon as the subscription period expires.

Monetize Categories

The flexibility of the Directory WordPress theme is unparalleled. It allows to set different prices for different categories. This makes it possible to charge more for prominent category and less for others.

In the above image, Classified is a Parent category and is evaluated to $10.00.

Charge more for featuring the listing

When the listing owner want to fetch users extra attention to their listings, they will make them listing featured on the home page or the category page. We don’t want you to miss this opportunity to charge them extra for this. Therefore, you can set price for featured listings. So when the listing owner select the option to be featured on the home page or the category page, they will have to pay the decided amount.

Advertisement banners

You can have the advertisement banners almost anywhere on the page with the help of text widgets. You can configure these widgets to hold images, text, and videos of your advertisement and earn revenue from it. You can charge businesses to advertise on your Directory site.

These are the few in-built techniques that will let you earn through your Directory website. Apart from these, there are various plugins and add-ons that you can integrate to have a site that earns for you. Examples are Field monetization, claim ownership, Listing vouchers, etc.

Use-case : Once your WordPress Directory site has reached the point where you have users that are eager to have to their listings published on their site. You can take the advantage of charging them for this. You can plan and implement the pricing policy through the price packages, use the advertisement banners to display the advertisement and charge your associates for it. There are unlimited options for monetizing your Directory website.