Roommate Finder Solution APR.2009

Roommate Finder Solution APR.2009 provides you with a tool which helps to start quickly online service for those who want to rent or lease a home or a room, or to find a roommate.

After quick installation, you will get a Ready Roommate Site offering roommate matching service featuring roommate pictures, comments about the apartment and rooms to rent. You can also use it just as a section of your existing dating, real estate or other site providing your customer users with greater possibilities. Manage your users, their advertisements and options for renting rooms. Start your own online business, launch a Roommate Web Site in your country or city. Online demo is available so that you can enjoy the solution from inside. The support managers are available 20 hours per a day to answer all your questions, assist you in your site setup and help with managing your site.

Major Features:

1. PG Roommate Finder Solution - a web-based application built on PHP/MySQL for creating a roommate finder and roommate search service - a business that you can start with a minimum investment.
2. Your site members will be able to search and post their profiles, photos and videos, contact other roommates, list rooms, apartments and other property types to share and shared properties in specific countries, regions or worldwide.

Major Functions:

1. Roommate matching: The system will help your service members find compatible roommates providing in-depth roommate matching with lifestyle & personality factors, as well as household preferences. A good roommate is someone similar to you on a variety of variables. Roommate matching includes dwelling description/preferences, personal demographics, interests, attitudes and opinions preferences.
2. Rental ads: Along with Roommate Matching service, you will be able to provide rental services. Home owners will list their properties for rent with full description, photos and videos and its display on one of the integrated maps. Renters will indicate their preferences reflecting on what they are looking for. There is internal calendar for rental listings available. All dates on arrival/departure as well as booking dates can be entered.

 Major Features:

1. Search Options: Your site members will have 2 property search options available: "looking to lease" and "looking to rent" either in "Roommates" section of the site or "Rentals" one depending on their objectives. The search is made by means of 7 parameters: type of operation (lease/rent), property type (apartment complex, beach property and so on), location (country, state/region, city), number of bedrooms, with/without photos, move date and price. Search results are sorted out by: move date, price, publication date and other parameters. Also there's Advanced Search Option available to broaden search criteria.
2. Multi search option. You can search by different locations at a time. The script saves search history which can be used for creating location preferences in search. You can set one of your location search preferences as primary. Primary search location will be used by default in all the search forms.
3. Keyword search. Using this feature your site members will be able to search for suitable variants by keywords in ad description, headline, comments, loaded files, location and author's info.
4. Property type: The site represents 41 property type: starting with mobile home and apartment and finishing with island. You can either broaden it or limit via administration panel.
5. Property description: Extensive property description via different characteristics including 28 types of accommodations, 19 types of appliances, 18 types of activities available in the neighborhood, 18 types of environment, surroundings and other attributes needed to present rich description of the property.
6. Description of a person: It is important to have exhaustive personal information, when searching for someone with whom you might share a roof, considering the qualities of your ideal roommate. The questionnaire includes such information as "House rules" (pets, quests, parties, tidiness, smoking habits etc), food preferences, interests, sport activities, appearance description and more.
7. Photo, video, maps: Photos and videos can be added to Roommate or Rental Ads. Video files are stored in FLV format that allows site visitors view video files right on the site like on YouTube. Photos are displayed with your custom watermark (either your logo or some text on your choice) that prevents stealing your site ads content. If location of the property is indicated, it will be possible to view it on a map. Site administrator can choose what web mapping service application to be used for displaying property location from Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
8. View variants that match your criteria: Once you have created your own ad, you can use the option "View variants that match your criteria" and get a list of results according to your ad requirements.
9. The period of the ad to stay active: Administrator can set the time period for the ads to remain active once they are posted. After it expires, the ad will become inactive and won't appear in search results. There is also a possibility to set the status "Leased" for the leased property in case this option is turned on. Ads with such status are displayed in search results with a special icon. Site administrator can also set a limit of listings for members in 'Private person' status.
10. How to contact you: Every ad contains contact phone number. Members can also make use of internal mailbox system and online contact forms.
11. View Statistics for your ads: Your site members can track the statistics for their ads and see who viewed them, browsed their profile, added to Hot List or showed interest. Also, there's a Black List option to get rid of officious users. All members' listings are provided with search friendly links.

Enhancements: bug fixing

Requirements:

• PHP 4.0 or greater,
• MySQL 3.23.0 or greater,
• Zend Optimizer

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