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.

The price comparison script is a comprehensive solution to let you start your own professional price comparison website. The script comes with bells and whistles to make you start and run your price comparison website and keep it updated with the products and prices on regular basis.

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. Our script supports both methods and it is the sole decision of admin on how he wants to setup his charge policy for merchants.

Finally the wait is over. The new version of price comparison script (version 6) is available now.

This new version is a giant leap forward. There are many new features in this version. Some main features are:

• Admin Panel:
  • NEW, BETTER and FASTER admin panel.
  • It is easier and quicker to manage with new admin panel using AJAX.
    Page refreshes are minimized to give client a desktop application like experience.
  • Multiple database rows’ management using single click.
  • User friendly icons for better understanding of the actions available to the admin.
  • Better error checking and reporting to the admin.
  • NEW admin dashboard to give him quick overview of his website statistics and its progress.
  • Google sitemap generation

• Front end:
  • AJAX based member login for quick login.
  • AJAX based member registration for quick and easy registration process. This way, more members will register your website and visitor to registered member ratio will improve.
  • AJAX based price alert addition.
  • AJAX based “refer a friend” feature so that visitors will easily refer site to their friends.
  • More features for the visitors for their easy navigation like list of their recent searches and their recent visits.
  • Discussion area for visitors for each product. It is a great place where visitors can discuss about that product and its features with other members.
    

Script has three 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.

General Features:

• Multi language support.
• Multi currency support.
• Search engine friendly pages.
• Custom Meta tags and page titles.
• W3C compliant homepage.
• Table less design for homepage and other important ranking pages.
• HTML sitemap, TEXT sitemap as well as Google sitemap.
• Automatic thumbnail generation using GD or imagemagick.
• Clickthrough tracking and reporting.
  

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.
• 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.
  
• 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.
  

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.

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

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

Following is the list of them:

• Product filters & search filters
• Product comparison by features
• Advance Search
• Price history graph
• Popular products/categories (based on clickthroughs)
• Member's wishlist (ability to save products as wishlist and later view them)
• Advanced Search (search by manufacturer, by price range)
• 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.

If you still have some questions regarding this question, Please visit our FAQs page to look for your answers.

If your question is not answered there or you have some more questions, please contact us for that. We would love to answer your questions or queries.

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