A “Price Plan” is the tool that the admin uses to charge users certain prices for certain features, such as “featured listing status”, “listing bolding”, “price per picture”, “price per category”, etc. These Listing Extras must first be turned on site-wide in order to use them on your site and assign a price to each within the Price Plan. The software offers you a variety of ways to charge users, or not charge users. See the Price Plans of this User Manual for a more in depth explanation of your Price Plan configuration choices.
Something worth noting, is that your site visitors never really know that they are being placed into a “User Group”. Instead, they are signing up based upon the “Price Plan” that you have advertised to them. So, although you know that they are associated with a User Group, they only care that the Price Plan they fall under gives them everything that it was advertised to. So, you need to pay particular attention to the Price Plan that you associate to each User Group.
Another important feature of Price Plans is that you can set them to either “never expire”, or when they do expire, they will automatically expire into another Price Plan that you have already set up. What this means is that any User Group that has the expiring Price Plan associated with it, will automatically default to the new Price Plan without your intervention. This is extremely valuable if you want to set certain promotions to be available for a designated period of time. It is a “hands off” approach in that the system will keep track of your Price Plan Promotional periods and expirations for you.
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