Magento 2 Business Directory

The admin can configure the module settings according to requirement -

• The admin can enable or disable the module from the configuration.
• Auto approval of the user-created directories from the admin side can be enabled or disabled by the admin. “Yes” for enabling and “No” for disabling the auto-approval.
• The admin’s email id is used to send email to the admin when any user creates /claim/report a directory and vice versa when the admin approves the user-created directory.
• The admin enters google map API for showing the location of created directories on Google map. 
• The admin can configure that the admin can delete already assigned reason or not.
• If the admin select ” Yes” then the admin can delete the reasons even they are assigned to a report and select “No” then the admin cannot delete the assigned reasons.

When any user reports on any directory, then he/she needs to select a reason for reporting. The reason selected by users are created and managed by the admin.

• Admin can easily add multiple reasons.
• Admin can easily edit or view any reason.
• Admin can update the status of reasons.
• Admin can view the created date of reasons. 
• Admin can see the reason in the report with the user message.
• Admin can filter the reasons by reason id, created date, status, and reason content.

The admin can delete any reason which assigned a report if the admin has configured in module configuration that the admin can delete assigned reason.

All the user created directories can be seen on their account from My Directory section. The users can manage their created directories very easily.

• The admin can update the status or delete any user-created directory. 
• The user can easily search any directory via the filter.
• The user can easily delete any directory. 
• Report and Claim count of any directory can be seen along with detail.
• The user can check the number of readers who contacted, along with the detail. 
• Any directory can be edited by the user very easily.

The user can create directories as per their requirements. The users just need to fill all the fields which are needed to create a directory like - directory name, company name, address, website title, business working days

The Business Directory page has a really smart and advanced search option for easily reaching out to any directory. The advanced search option has a keyword search with multiple scope options like -

• Searching for any word of the keyword among all directory names
• Searching for all the words of the keyword among all directory names.
• Searching the exact word of the keyword among all directory names.

The advanced search option can be extended by Extended Search option which has options like -

• Search by category
• Search by city name of the company
• Search by country name of the company.

The user can do the following action on the directory such as:

The user can view all the details of the business directories from the front end and report, claim and contact with the business directory owner.

• Report any directory with a reason for reporting.
• For reporting, users just need to enter name, email, reason, and message.
• The reasons which are selected, are created by the admin.
• The user can claim any directory. Users need to enter name, email, phone number and message.
• The user can contact the owner of the directory. Users need to enter name, email, and message.

The admin can see all reports, claims, and contacts from the backend. The admin can also see the details like - name, email, message, etc.