Price Comparison Script

What is Price Comparison Script? In this era of online shopping when more and more buyers are going online to make purchases, price comparison sites have really proved their worth. Studies show that more and more buyers use price comparison websites to compare the prices and features before making the purchase.

We are the pioneers in making price comparison script. We have been making and running price comparison websites since 2001 and have vast experience in this field. Using this experience and buyers suggestions we have adopted and adjusted our script to make it easier for the admin to build and manage a comparison website.

In price comparison websites, YOU (administrator) make money either by affiliate commission that is by referring visitor to the merchant website or by charging merchants subscription fees for listing their products or by CPC. Our script supports both methods and it is the sole decision of admin on how he wants to setup his charge policy for merchants.

After the great success of version 6, the version 7 is out. This new version is has some great features.

Script has four panels.

1. Front end
This is the area where visitors visit and browse/search for the product.
These visitors after searching or deciding for a product are redirected to merchant website where actual purchase for that product takes place.

2. Merchant area (online store area)
This is the area where merchants login and manage their account. Some of the features of merchant area are to manage company profile, manage Tax amount, manage data feeds, manage prices for their products, view reports, pay for the subscription charges or per click charges and manage prices for the products.

If admin give merchants’ privileges, merchants can also add new products into the database.
BUT it is recommended that you do not give such privileges to merchants. Script supports both.

3. Administrator area (that is YOU)
This is the most important area. This is the area where you manage categories, products, merchants, prices and everything related to the website.
Here you can also setup crawlers to crawl websites to get products and prices. You can also edit language files so that the site language is changed language other than English.

4. Affiliate area
In this area your affiliates login. There they can see the commissions they have earned by sending visitors/buyers to your website and can also see their payment history, can update how they want to be paid.

In this the area they can also download the CSV or XML datafeeds of your website products so that they can promote them and redirect traffic to your website.
It is just like an affiliate program of shopzilla, yahoo shopping, shopping.com (in business model) where you are sending traffic to them (a price comparison website) which inturn sends traffic to the merchant (online store) website for actual sale.

4. Members/Visitors area
In this area your site visitors can setup the price alerts, wishlists, post comments, reviews, discussions. If you have cashback addon installed then they can also earn the cashback on the purchases they have made.

General Features:

• Multi language support.
• Multi currency support.
• Search engine friendly pages.
• Add unlimited categories/products/merchants/prices
• Automatic import of datafeeds/CSV/XML files
• Automatic products addition
• Automatic import of products from CJ/linkshare/shopzilla/icecat/amazon/Ebay using XML api
• Automatic crawl of websites to gather data.
• Automatic sitemap generator as well as google sitemap generator.
• Automatic keywords, page titles, meta tags generator.
  
• Custom Meta tags and page titles.
• Custom Content Management System (CMS) from where you can edit text, add images, add links and edit meta tags.
• W3C compliant homepage.
• HTML sitemap, TEXT sitemap as well as Google sitemap.
• Automatic thumbnail generation using GD or imagemagick.
• Clickthrough tracking and reporting.
  
• Spam blocking features to prevent spam on your site.
  
• Google Analytics feature.
  
• Different predesigned templates to choose from and custom designing options.
  
• Tell a friend feature.
  
• Attractive merchant profiles page with information on their payment methods supported, their verifications.
  
• Easy ways to create new pages in the system.
  
• Minified css and js files.
• Used sprites and css images wherever possible.
• Better languages management.
• Better and accurate searche results.
• Speed improvements.
• Product filters & search filters
• Product comparison by features



• Auto DataFeed Import
  This addon will download datafeeds from different merchants' servers (or affiliate services like tradedoubler, affiliatewindow, linkshare, performics, cj -unbundled-) using FTP or HTTP and then will unzip (or untar or unGzip) them and then import those feed files into the system. Before importing feed file in database webmaster can setup to automatically perform filter tasks on the file like replace, split, insert.

Administrator Area:

• Unlimited categories supported (at unlimited depth).
• Unlimited products under each category supported.
• Unlimited merchants (online stores) supported.
• Unlimited products per merchants supported.
• Unlimited data feed import (server and hardware restrictions apply) supported.
• Data feed export supported.
• Unlimited brands supported and search by brands.
  
• Auto-Crawler, for crawling merchants' websites to get products and prices
  (It is useful if a particular merchant dont support datafeeds)
• Data Feed Import, for importing products from any affiliate data feed and automatically creating products. Supports virtually every format of datafeeds.
  
• Banner management (Google ad sense banners supported).
• Currency management. Multiple currencies supported.
• Multiple administrators.
• User rights for admin users.
• Admin area can be translated now.
• New WYSIWYG HTML Editor.
• Show product images on hover in Manage Products.
• Future Schedule for daily deal section.
• Newsletter unsubscribe link while sending newsletter email.
• Different clickthrough rate for every category. Cascade the top-level category rates to their childs.
• Allow admin to change affiliate passwords.
• Automatic category mapping based on the keywords and ignore keywords added for each category.
• Tags creator. It will have an interface to create script tags that will show our product(s) on pages where these tags are called.
• Email template editing from within admin panel.
• Languages’ management. Multiple languages supported.
• News management.
• Packages management. These packages are for merchants.
  
• Registered members’ management.
• Email to registered members.
• Management of newsletter categories.
• Newsletter management for subscribed members.
• Sending newsletter to the subscribed members.
  
• Manage affiliates.
• Approve affiliates commissions.
• Send affiliates payments.
• Generate CSV and XML affiliate datafeeds for your affiliates



• Reports:
  • Category wise products with lowest prices from merchants.
  • Merchant wise click through report.
  • Merchant wise payment report.
  • Monthly click through.
  • Yearly click through.
  • Keywords searched by the visitors.
    
• Product ratings review and approval.
• Merchant rating review and approval.
• Click through and package payment verification.
• Merchants’ proposed products review and verification (based on your settings).

Front end:

• PHP template based design.
• Table less design for homepage and other important ranking pages (like category page, products listing page, product price comparison, login and register pages).
• Interactive Product catalog.
• Featured products on homepage.
• Featured brands on homepage.
• Product search by keyword or manufacturer code (part no).
• Search tag cloud.
• Recent searches on the website.
• Product rating.
• Merchant rating.
• Newsletter subscription.
• Latest Site News listing and ability for visitors to leave comments on news.
• Visitor activity history saving recent searches by visitor, recent visited products and wish list.
• Price alert subscription so that member is emailed when price for a product reaches certain level.
• Email to a friend so that member can refer site or product to others.
• Discussion area for visitors for each product.
• Compare products by feature.
• Compare prices for a product.
• Shipping cost calculation.
• Tax calculation.
• Top stores ranking based on click through.
• Merchant profiles.
  
• Social networking support (website's page on Facebook, twitter, linked In, etc).
• Social networking share on all products in listings and on product page.
• Facebook login and register.
• Shortlist products using FEATURE FILTERS.
• Newsletter's features improved.
• Support for selection of Product of the Days at future date.
• Geo plugin enhancement to get visitor location and provide them a better experience.
• Improved SEO URLs.

XML API Integration:

• CJ XML API
• Linkshare XML API
• Kelkoo XML API
• Shopzilla XML API
• Google XML API
• Icecat XML API (as an addon)
• Amazon XML API (as an addon)
• Ebay XML API (as an addon)

We also have price comparison script fully powered with shopping.com XML API, yahoo shopping XML api, shopzilla XML api, Pricerunner XML api, Pricegrabber XML api.

We have been making and selling price comparison sites since 2001. Following are only some of the LIVE SITES for your review from a long list of clients.

Just compare quality of our work with our competitors. Our work speaks volume about the company.

Please BE AWARE of websites selling illegal copy of years old version of PRICE COMPARISON SCRIPT.

Always buy original copy of price comparison script from KAONSOFTWARES.COM website. We do not sell at forums, blogs or listing websites or any other place. We only sell at our website that is www.kaonsoftwares.com

Following are the three design templates available with the script. You can choose any one for your site.

If you are interested in an exclusive customized design of your choice, we can also custom design for you and integrate into the script.

There are also a number of addons available with the script to enhance the features and functionality of your website.

Following add-ons are available for the script purchased separately:

• Price history graph
  
  
• Coupons addon (ability to add and list auto expiry discount coupons)
  
  
• Cashback addon (offer cashback to your members from your affiliate commission)
  
  
• Proximity Search addon (search merchants within miles from a zipcode - works for US and for other countries requires database)
  
  
• Merchant bidding addon (merchant will bid higher cpc rate to get higher rankings)
  
  
• iPhone application
• Android application

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