The Kobo classified ad technology goes wide and deep. It offers:

Syndication

  • Sites can be grouped so that ads are shared among sites in different territories
  • Search across syndicated sites

Category manager

  • Configurable categories
  • Subcategories up to 4 deep (usability tests show 3 is the most people can manage efficiently, with 1 being optimum)
  • Unlimited number of categories

User Accounts

  • Unlimited number of ads per account (can be throttled)
  • Unlimited number of email addresses per account (can be throttled)

Ad manager

  • Bulk uploads of ads
  • Paid ad option
  • Paid ads get preferred visual treatment
  • Community flagging
  • Configurable obscenity filter
  • Competitor filter (allows certain ads to be omitted from syndicated sites for competitive purposes)

Image management

  • Image manager with automatic image resizing
  • Throttling of image sizes
  • Unlimited images per ad (defaults to 12)
  • Over 2 dozen image types supported