An Equipment Listing Site

Kitmondo (www.kitmondo.com) is an online marketplace for used equipment. Although this web space is majorly focusing on used industrial and business equipment; but people who are looking for new products will also find Kitmondo a useful place. Buyers and sellers throughout the world can visit Kitmondo to find new and used equipment and to list new and used equipment for sale. With listings in 12 major used equipment categories and hundreds of sub-categories, Kitmondo is one of the fastest ways to find used equipment on the Internet. Being a commonly accessible online place, the website is helpful for both buyers and sellers to find each other.

Both sellers and buyers of industrial and business equipment can get registered with the site. Being a common platform, Kitmondo is equally alluring for both buyers and sellers. While sellers can list their products under various product categories; buyers can browse through the categories to find a suitable product and can buy them online from the site.

The admin of the site has been empowered with a lot of authorities to control as well as perform an array of tasks. Let’s discuss the admin section in details here:

Admin can manage (view/edit/delete) both buyer and seller user profiles. Additional abilities like renewing the product and category list as well as setting CID1 and CID2 of any user also comes under admin functionalities. Uploading the bulk or single listing details in correspondence to the seller is also a task that the admin of the site can perform from his panel.

Creating and updating root parent category also comes under the administrative tasks. When the root parent category banner gets updates, all the banners of its corresponding sub-categories will be updated automatically with root banner.Listing:

Under this section, admin can manage (add, edit and delete) various listings. There are two types of listing: “Want to Buy” and “For Sale”.  Admin can also manage the generated invoices which are generated by the window service that is running (started) on the web server.

Leads are the type of inquiry which can be sent by the buyer to seller against any commodities. Leads were allotted as per the membership plan. Admin can manage leads from its panel. Under the lead section admin can view and perform various tasks as follows:

Under this section admin will able to manage articles along with other textual things of the site.

In this section, the admin will able to add different words which will be considered as banned for the site. This will disable the users to enter these words to search any product or product category.

Under this section admin can manage the Google text feeds for all commodities under specific format as per the SEO requirements, especially for Google. After downloading feed, the admin can upload this feed into Google. It will help the listing to be displayed on Google search. Admin can also manage the newsletter XLS file and email bulletin.

The Protx payment gateway has been integrated into this site to facilitate all the payments. The admin can raise or manage the payment request as per the membership plans of the users. Window service will automatically cross-check the due date of upgrade membership plan and generate invoice. This invoice is sent to the client for the payment.Customer Quotes: 

In this section, the admin will able to manage different customer quotes which will be displayed at frontend.

‘Subscriber Control’ is the old lead approval system which will send contact details to buyer/seller on lead approval.

Buyer control is the new lead approval system which will approve/convey messages without sharing contact details of buyer or seller to each other.

The home page of the site shows all the product categories including the 5 subcategories, features equipment, customer quotes, most popular equipment categories, recently used equipment listings, customer resources etc.

The login page for users is meant for authenticating the users to access their account for listing/searching, upgrading etc.

There are different plans under which user can register himself like Seller, Seller Pro, Seller Plus, seller star, Club 100, Unlimited. Each plan has some specific features for the client. All plans are integrated with Protx Payment Gateway. After filling registration form user can proceed with its plan.

In this section user have a facility to check their uploaded listing. Users can also update, add, delete, renew existing or new listing which we discuss in next section.

In this section user can check his enquiry which has been made by him related to any product listing for buying.

Under this section user has facility to create an alert to keep track of equipment that interests to user.

In this section user specify for which countries he wants to receive inquiries from, simply tick the relevant boxes. System will make user listings invisible to buyers from the countries user has not ticked.

Under my account section, users can view his lead history, invoices and his account information.

User can upgrade his existing plan as per his choice. Then existing plan will be replaced with the new plans and its features.

There are two types of listing in the Kitmondo i.e. “For Sale” and “Want to Buy”. And inquires are made to corresponding to these types by seller and buyer.

There are two types in which user can upload there listing I.e. Single Listing (One by one) or Bulk listing (multiple listing). For bulk listing client has sent a request for upload bulk listing to admin with XLS file and images zip folder of listing. For single listing client needs to fill up the form on site. These listing can be viewed in the show saved listing section.

At this page, site user can view all listing under selected categories and their sub-categories wise. Site user can able to sent newsletter request for selected category. URL rewriting has been integrated for this page. Each category pages access by using this name defined into admin section.

Site user can view sell listing details, save listing, view other listing, report abuse listing and contact to listing seller. We have integrated URL Rewriting for this page. Listing pages access by using their manufacture name and model name.

Site user can view buy listing details, save listing, view other listing, report abuse listing and contact to listing’s buyer. We have integrated URL Rewriting for this page. Listing pages access by using their manufacture name and model name.