Tevolution Monetization features are aimed to help you earn through your Directory website. One of the most important feature is to create and manage price packages.

Price packages will appear at the front end when a user goes for submitting a listing. While submitting listing, the users will be asked to choose a payment package. Once they choose the payment package, they will be navigated to the payment processing page where they can pay the amount using the payment gateway. However, If he selects a free price package, there won’t be a payment processing part.

Creating a payment package

To create a payment package, navigate to Tevolution ⇒ Monetization  ⇒ Price Packages tab ⇒ Add new package. There, you will see three price packages already existent. These packages are just the example of how you can create your own packages. Clicking on the name of the price package will show you an  instance of information that can be provided for a particular field.

Clicking the “Add New Package” button will open a form through which you can define the clauses of your new price package.

Package type

Single submission or subscription

Single Submission – The price package you can offer to your users can be of two types. A single submission package – is the one that lets the users submit a single listing on one payment. The users who want to submit a listing on your website for once, can go for this package.

For example – I want to submit a listing for my restaurant. So, the single submission package is the price pack that fits my choice.

The subscription package – This is the package that one chooses if he/she wishes to submit more than one listing in a given period of time. Subscription packages will allows the users to submit a specific number of listings.

The subscription pack will come with two determinations. The number of listings allowed to be submitted and the validity of the subscription pack. This means that if you choose a subscription pack of 30 days with 10 listings, you can submit 10 listings within a month of subscription.

Number of posts

With this option you can preset a number of free submission before making the payment. This option is similar to the “Allow one submission before payment” setting. However, these free posts aren’t deducted from the overall “Number of posts” once an actual payment is made.

Title

You must provide a short and meaningful name for your payment package.

Package description

Package description is an optional field. Here you can provide a brief description about your price package. If there’s some important note regarding the price package that you want your users to know, you can put it here.

Tip – Though this field is not compulsory, you can make the best use of this field so that the users can understand what the package is about

Select post type

Here you select the post type for which the package is applicable. Even the custom created post type will appear here. You can choose more than one post type for a single package.

Select categories

You can even specify the categories for which the payment package will be applicable. For example, If you want to allow a discounted price package for charity events, you can do this by creating a price package, with post type events, and category “charity”. This payment package will therefore be exclusive for charity events only.

Amount

The price one needs to pay to subscribe the package. For creating free package, enter 0 for amount.

Package duration

The validity of the payment package. The listings submitted under this package will be valid till the duration of the package.

Allow users to submit listing within following days (subscription)

Here you have to define within how many days the visitors can submit their posts. Similar to the “Number of posts” field, this is another parameter for differentiating packages. You can charge more for packages with the great number of days.

Allow one submission before payment (subscription)

As the title suggest, enabling this option will allow visitors a submission before they actually complete the payment. With this option disabled, they won’t be allowed to submit anything until the payment is processed. The submission will be deducted from the total number of posts allowed within the choosen package.

Number of free posts allowed (subscription)

This option is similar to “Allow one submission before payment” setting. If you want to allow a definite number of free submissions before paying the subscription fee, you can define it here. However, these free posts aren’t deducted from the total Number of posts allowed within the package, once the actual payment is made.

Enable package

To make the package active, check the checkbox. If you want to temporarily make the package unavailable, uncheck it.

Recurring package

This type of package will automatically charge the users and renew the subscription at a fixed duration. This type of package works with  PayPal, InspireCommerce, Braintree, 2CO and Stripe payment gateways. 

When you choose to make the package recurring, the following extra fields will appear.

Billing period for recurring package – The duration after which the users will be billed again.

Number of cycles – Here you can specify the number of times the user will be automatically billed for a subscription. In our example, the value is 6. So the user will be automatically billed for 6 times. The subscription will not be auto-renewed the 7th time. Enter 0 for unlimited cycles.

Free trial period – Toggle on will enable a free trial for the first duration of the subscription.

Featured posts

The featured posts will be FEATURED on the homepage/category page. The users will be asked to choose if they want to have their posts featured when they submit their listing. You can configure if you want to allow the facility of featured post with the payment package or not.

Featured Options

The posts can be featured on the homepage as well as the category page. You can choose either of them or even both of them.

Featured price

The amount you want to charge for featuring the post.

Featured status duration

Specify the number of days for which the listing will be featured for the given price.

As per the configuration in our example – The post will be featured on the home page, for days and the user will be charged and extra $60 for it.

Deleting a payment package

You can delete the price package. The delete option will appear on hovering over the package name at Tevolution  ⇒ Monetization  ⇒ Payment packages. Click it and your package will be deleted.

Disabling a payment package

Alternately, if you want to disable the package temporarily, you can disable it. This can be done by choosing edit instead of delete at Tevolution ⇒ Monetization  ⇒ Price Packages. On the edit package page, locate the option “Enable package” and uncheck the checkbox against it.

Pricing table

If you are displaying the pricing plans of your website through pricing tables, you can link the pricing tables created through Tevolution directly to your pricing tables. This can be done through the “short link”. So all you need to do is to apply this link to the button of your pricing table. You can acquire the link at Tevolution ⇒ Monetization  ⇒ Price Packages.

On the Front end

Once you create the pricing packages, they will appear at the front end when they try to submit their listings.