By Lios on

I'm looking to make a site where people can make ads to sell items. The items do not have to be bought from the site, so I just need something to make the ads.

You should be able to either make a free ad, with limited options (just a titel and body) or use 1 of 3 ad types with more options (like 'bronze' has 2 more category fields, 'silver' has 4 and stays online longer, etc.). You should be able to choose and pay for a type per created ad, but also to buy a membership (bronze, silver, gold) allowing you to always make ads of one of those types.

Furthermore I need different payment methods; Paypal, creditcard, direct debit (ideally the dutch version) or they send the money by mail or bankaccount and the admin approves the publication of the ad when payment is received.

Any idea which module(s) I can use to set this up?

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paulnem commented

I run a similar site as what you're suggesting here, I'm not sure if there is a good module to do it all for you but here's an idea :

Create 2 content types, type 1 new users can create once logged in and type 2 can be updated by the author when they're in a certain role.

Limit type 1's create to 1 per user or whatever you want with node family.

Using node type you can manually approve new users type 1 content and change it to type 2.

Using views you can display all type 2 nodes and theme however you like, you can also split the nodes into different sections with cck or taxonomy modules.

Using workflow or just manual updates with actions and scheduled actions modules you can set each node to be published for a certain amount of time, 30 days, 60 days etc.

Workflow would take a fair bit of the work out of this for you and also do the emailing, unpublishing etc etc

There is a fair bit more to it all, but that should give you a basic start on an idea. Others may be able to provide a module that will do a lot of this for you.

Examples for prebundled modules :

http://drupal.org/project/ad
http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified