Introducing Loclz.world
It’s a Mother’s Day. And a special day for me, Over this weekend, I successfully launched and configured loclz.world
Loclz.world is a business directory inspired by Yelp and Yellow Pages. It offers multiple-countries support, unlimited-level categories, custom fields, listing with multiple categories, business listings, and products listings. It has an integrated classified ads module.
This feature gives buyers the maximum ability to make any business or niche directory website.
Loclz.world offers you the CMS platform to build all kinds of business directory websites. It is highly customizable and is the trending business directory solution in the market to organize your business listings.
Use Cases:
- Restaurants and bars directory
- Health care directory (Opticians, Dentist)
- Automotive listings (dealers, repair, parts and supplies, tires, etc.)
- Church listings
- Local area directory
- Nightlife directory
- Pets directory
- and much more
Demo
Homepage: https://www.loclz.world
Login: https://www.loclz.world/login
Sign-up: https://www.loclz.world/register
Features
Regular Listing & Online Listing
Loclz.world supports regular listing which for businesses with a physical location. In addition, you can also create an online listing for an online business without a physical location like an e-commerce website, an online consulting service, etc.
QR Code for Business Listing
The business listing detail page provides the QR Code function that you can generate a QR code for the page and send it to anyone or print it out.
Advanced Search Functionality
The loclz.world provides smart search functionality for visitors. The search bar is as simple as just one text entry field that users can put any search keywords like business names, locations, postal codes, or anything.
Users can also use the data filter to narrow search results by locations, ratings, nearby distances, etc. The search function will come with the most relevant results.
Multiple Countries Support
Loclz.world supports multiple countries in one website. Thus, users can post listings from different countries, and they can easily switch between countries to view all listings in a single country scope.
Multi-Level Categories
Loclz.world supports an unlimited level of category structure, which gives buyers the maximum ability to create any type of business directory. For example, you can easily build a category structure of restaurants like Restaurants > American Restaurants > Burgers.
Multi-Categories per Listing
With Loclz.world, you can assign multiple categories to one listing, perfectly fitting for real-world situations.
For example, a law firm may practice many immigration, real estate, senior, or business laws. So, in this case, a law firm listing can have categories in immigration law, real estate law, senior law, and business law. Buyers can easily do this in Loclz.world.
Muti-Languages Support
Loclz.world supports 62 languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
Each registered user or website visitor can set their preferred language through the user profile page or website footer.
Custom Field
There are four types of custom fields (text, single select, multiple select, link) you can add to each category type.
If you have a category of real estate, you can create one single select of the custom field named type with values: apartment, condo, single-family, multi-family, mobile home, house; one multiple select custom field named Features with values: river-front, outdoor kitchen, garage parking, basement; one text custom field named additional description; and one link custom field named website.
Also, if you have an automotive category, you can create one select of a custom field named Brand with values: Toyota, Honda, Ford, BMW, etc.
One single select of a custom field named Year with values: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, etc.
One multiple select custom field named features with values:
The leather seat, hybrid, GPS, etc.
One of the text custom fields named Seller Notes
One link custom field named website
Location Dataset
Loclz.world has a build-in location dataset (states, cities, and latitude & longitude) of 13 countries in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Central African Republic, Czech Republic, Germany, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, and United States. The out-of-box build-in location (country, state, city, latitude, and longitude) dataset saves you time and effort from entering each place manually to the website database. If you do not see a country of your desire, you can send a new country request.
OpenStreetMap
Loclz.world uses OpenStreetMap and Leaflet JS plugin to handle and render maps in a single listing page, listing by state page and listing by city page.
Configurable Billing Plan
Loclz.world has flexible subscription plans, and you can easily customize each subscription plan. For example, you can set the plan price, billing cycle (monthly, quarterly, yearly), number of the featured listings.
PayPal, Razorpay, Stripe, PayuMoney Subscription
Loclz.world uses PayPal, Razorpay, Stripe, and PayuMoney payment gateways to handle and keep track of subscription payments. Users can also view their subscription status, payment history, and invoices on the user dashboard portal.
5-Star Rating & Review
Loclz.world uses a 5-star rating and review system where users can rate and write reviews on a business listing with uploaded photos. The rating includes four dimensions (Customer Service, Quality, Friendly, Pricing) besides the Overall Rating. Admin users can manage (view, approve, disapprove) all website ratings and reviews.
Google reCAPTCHA
Loclz.world supports Google reCAPTCHA version 2 checkboxes on the login, sign-up, and contact forms. You can easily enable or disable Google reCAPTCHA on those forms to prevent spam.
Social Login
Loclz.world supports social accounts login with Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub. You easily can configure, enable, disable the social account login settings in the Admin Dashboard.
Ad Networks Spaces
Loclz.world has a build-in Ad Networks Blocks tool, allowing you to insert any advertisement code (such as Google AdSense, Media.net, etc.) to different pages and positions inside a page. You can also enable or disable or delete certain ad blocks in the ad blocks management panel.
Messaging
Loclz.world has a build-in message system where registered users can send and reply to messages regarding the listings they posted on the website. Admin users can moderate all messages among all registered users.
Blog
Loclz.world uses a canvas blog system that offers flexible and powerful blogging and content management functionality. It’s easy to manage blog posts, topics, tags through the user-friendly canvas blog backend dashboard.
Google Analytics
Loclz.world allows you to put your google analytics tracking code to monitor the website traffic from the General Settings page of the administrator dashboard. It also allows you to filter out administrator traffic.
SEO
Loclz.world puts SEO in mind too. Thus, the admin can easily set up the homepage title, homepage keywords, homepage meta description on the admin dashboard general settings page.
Highly Customizable Website
Loclz.world offers a website customization feature, in which you can change theme colours, homepage (also inner page) heading background (colour, image, or youtube videos), menu background colour, menu font colour, footer background colour, footer font colour, website logo, website favicon.
100% Editable Languages Text
All of the text in the Directory Website are editable. That means you can change any text that you see on the website to whatever other text you like to make it more suitable for your own business needs. To avoid future updates, you can also permanently sync and store all your changed text to the website database.
Photo Gallery
Upload photo gallery images for any directory and display them as justified waterfall photos on the business listing page. It’s mobile responsive and fantastic looking.
Youtube Video
Besides the photo gallery, you can insert the youtube video to the business listing page to get even more eye-attracting and positive impressions.
Products
You can insert product types of data to the listing page. For example, local store hot selling products, restaurant food menu, law firm services, hotel rooms, etc. The product type of data allows you to add unlimited, customizable features to each product. It gives you the maximum customizable ability to suit your needs.
Listing Sections
The listing page is customizable too. You can create/rank unlimited sections to each listing of your own. You can also add unlimited products to your section and show them all to your website visitors inside the section.
Listing Leads
The lead generation form on the listing detail page where non-registered website visitors can submit inquiries to the listing owner and website administrator. All listing leads can be exported to CSV, Excel, or PDF.
CSV Bulk Importer
Loclz.world included the CSV file bulk importer tool. You can import your business listing records (now support both basic info & custom fields) to the website in just a few steps without manually entering listings. It’s a time-saving feature, and you can set up and run your website instantly.
Set up website language
Loclz.world supports 63 languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
The default language is English. To use another language, click on General on the left sidebar; in the Info tab, you will find the Default Language selector, which allows you to switch languages.
Plan & Subscription
To accept payments from users wanting to list their items on your site, you must create at least one pricing plan, even if it’s a free plan. By default, the installation has created four pricing plans for your convenience.
You can specify the plan name, description, number of featured listings, price, and status in each plan
Feature Summary
- Location-Free Listing Support
- Multiple Country Support
- CSV Bulk Importer
- Business Listings & Directory
- Classified Ads
- Map View & Grid View
- Data Filter
- Multi-level Categories
- Multi-Categories per Listing
- Opening Hours
- QR Code Support
- Feature Image
- Photo Gallery
- Youtube Video
- Google Map & Directions
- OpenStreetMap & Directions
- Custom Fields
- Lead Generation Form
- The listing leads export to CSV, Excel, PDF
- Send Message
- Save/Favorite Listings
- Similar Business Listings
- Nearby Business Listings
- Claim Business
- 5-Star Review System
- Comments
- Social Share Listings/Blogs
- Products with custom attributes
- Configurable section content on listing page
- Blog & Tags & Topics
- Business listings search
- Business listings filter
- Contact form
- PayPal
- RazorPay
- Stripe
- Ads Spaces
- Google AdSense
- Media.net Ads
- Editable Website Sections
- Google reCAPTCHA
- SEO
- 62 Languages Support
- 100% Editable Languages Text
- Social Login
- Google Analytics
- Maintenance Mode
- Caching System
- Fast Performance
- Mobile Responsive
- Payment Subscription
- Admin dashboard
- User dashboard
- Image Crop
- Installer wizard
- Updater wizard
- CSRF Protection
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Protection
- SQL Injection Protection
- Secure Bcrypt Password Hashing
Benefits
- Simple location-based searching.
- Supporting local languages and localization
- Offers and discounts to your mailbox
- Zero distraction and to the point.
Benefits for businesses
- Value for money
- Online and offline presences
- Real feedback and reviews
- SEO friendly design to boost your online presence.
- Cost-effective lead generation
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