AlstraSoft E-Friends

Product Overview

AlstraSoft E-Friends is an online social networking software that allows you to start your own site just like Friendster and MySpace. The E-Friends software allows members to connect to people in their personal networks and community, creating a new online interactive resource that is based on a trusted network of friends and associates on the internet.

Members can use this abundant network to make friends, find their love ones, locate jobs, buy and sell stuff, locate a roommate, and accomplish much more with the help of groups and individuals who they know and share the same interests.

With our version 4 release, you can now start a profitable social networking business by creating custom membership packages using Paypal payment gateway. In addition, we have added several new exciting features including online blog, forums, text-based chat, events and many more! Enhancements are also added to the admin backend and with our integrated banner ads system, you can earn extra income by publishing paid banner ads on your E-Friends site.

Start your own social networking community just like Friendster and Myspace in minutes with AlstraSoft E-Friends! Join the already many of our satisfied clients that has been using E-Friends in their sites.

How does E-Friends work?

Well if you have use Friendster and MySpace before, then you should know how our system works. Once members are registered with E-Friends, they will be able invite people they know to join their personal or professional network. A member's friends will come to E-Friends and invite their friends. As the network grows, members will have more opportunities to interact easily with people they know, make friends, and use the E-Friends network to enrich their social life.

What is a E-Friends Network?

E-Friends network consists of 1° friends (people a member knows), 2° friends (friends of the member's friends), and 3° friends (people who know friends of the member's friends). A member's personal network on E-Friends will connect with people as far as 4° away. The larger the personal network becomes, the more useful and fun it will be and members will have access to more listings, messages, Groups and events.

What can members do on E-Friends?

E-Friends makes it easier for your members to communicate with the people they know, as well as friends of friends that they have not meet before.

Find a friend - Expand members' social network by using E-Friends to find and meet new friends.

Dating - With E-Friends, members can find their life partner or just someone to hang out with by becoming part of the E-Friends community.

Locate/List a Job - Browse through the listing directory and post job listings created by people in E-Friends network.

Get a roommate - Why live with a complete stranger when members could live with the friend of a friend?

Buy and sell stuff - Why buy stuff from an unreliable source when members can get it from your friend at a cheaper price? Members can also sell old or unused goods to their friends who will cherish them instead of selling it to someone they don't know.

Find places to go - Looking for some fun activities to do during the weekend? With the E-Friends, you can search for events in your area or even organize events for your friends to join.

Create and manage groups of people - Use E-Friends to organize existing groups and/or identify and draw together individuals who share a common interest. These Groups can be focused on any subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals.

Blogging - Members can share their thoughts and voice their own views on the web through their own online blog be it a personal diary, a news page or a political commentary.

Messaging - E-Friends message system allows members to send a note to friends, colleagues and people who are listing items that interest them. Members can communicate with their Groups via group message boards and they can also schedule events to inform everyone in their Group of an upcoming event.

Make Money - With the affiliate module members can now invite friends and earn money when new members signup for paid membership packages! Members can also earn extra revenue by selling tickets for their own events

Personal Organizer - E-Friends comes with a built-in calendar for members so that they can organize their daily schedules and activities on the go.

Create Custom Widgets - E-Friends social network features 6 fully customizable widgets for your members to use including photo cube, send cards, countdown timer, crystal ball and create photo borders

 

"Proven Money Making Business Model. Learn How You Can Run A Social Networking Site And Earn Income Automatically 24/7"   With the revolutionary Advance Affiliate Module System (AAMS) integrated into E-friends, our clients can now take advantage of social networking and affiliate marketing to generate more income on their site! Your members can now not only built up their friends network but also at the same time earn cash when they referred a paid friend to join the site. When a member registers for a regular account on your E-friends site, they will automatically be enrolled into the affiliate program   And that's not all! Our AAMS also have these features: Support up to tier 2 affiliates Recurring payment for affiliates Detail affiliate stats available for both admin/members Your members can use the affiliate commission to pay for their monthly member account membership fee   With the new v4.96 release, our E-friends system allows event creator to create events and charge members for a ticket fee per person. You can now earn extra revenues by charging ticket sales commission and feature listings fees. Our E-friends social networking model is a fully commercialize system and you are not limited to only earning profits through banner ads. AlstraSoft next-generation E-friends software in our upcoming version 5 will be based on this business concept targeted for our clients who are not only looking to start their own unique social networking site like Friendster and MySpace using our PHP script but also making your site automatically generate income for you 24/7!

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Requirements

MySQL (version 4 or higher)
MYSQL database
PHP (version 4.2.3 or higher)

CURL library (Optional for MSN email import)

GD library for PHP with FreeType enabled

Features

Widgets Pack

E-friends social networking script now offers customizable widgets for your members to insert them into their member profile page, blogs or even on their websites. Get the exclusive widgets pack FREE for a limited time with every purchase of E-friends.

Photo Border   This widget allows your members to upload photos and attach a border around the photo. Options include ability to select border types, texture and effects.   Demo: Click here

Member Functions

General Member Features

• Password forget system
• NEW Email Importer:
• Members can create their unique username during registration for their personal profile URL (eg, yoursite.com/friends?username)
• Ability to edit personal profile, upload photos to the photo albums, change account settings and many more!
• NEW Security image code during registration to prevent automated signups
• Display site statistics including total members in the social networking site and number of members who are online
• Ability to upgrade membership plans using paypal payments
• Recurring billing for paid membership plans and member can view transactions by date range and next billing period
• Members can see who has view their profiles
•  Member voting system
• 5 most recently updated member profiles will be listed on main page
• Members can edit and customize their profile layout [Demo]
• Members can upload multimedia content in their profile which can be broadcast through online windows streaming
• Allow members to cancel their account
• NEW Members can upload multiple photos to their account
• Members can create a member ignore list
• Ability to bookmark a Group, listing or a member
• Write a testimonial for a friend
• Email notification which will send an email to the member when there is a new action to be taken (i.e invitations, new friend request, new testimonial and more)
• NEW Members can now view who rated them
• View History - Members are able to view the history of member profiles or groups they have visited.

Messages

• Compose new messages just like any ordinary emails and send them to the member's network of friends
• View inbox/sent/saved messages
• Bulletin Board: Bulletin board messages created by a member will be broadcast to al friends

Search

• Search for new friends and increase the member's network of friends
• Basic Search: search by first name, last name, email, distance and degrees
• Advance Search: enhance search functions where members can search for friends by age, schools, gender, occupation, interest, company and many more! Members have the ability to display only friends with photos and sort search results.

Listings

• Members can create listings which will be posting in the Listings Directory
• Members can select the category where their listings will be posted and have the ability to upload photos, select the period of the listing (up to 30 days), make the listing anonymous. Members also have the ability to publish a listing to their groups (which only group members can view) or selected network of friends
• Ability to search listings by keywords, category and subcategory, distance and degrees
• Members can notify friends through email about their new listings

Groups

• Groups draw together individuals who share a common interest. These groups can be focused on any subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals
• Members can create groups which will be listed in Groups Directory
  • Group Events - Members can create a group event
  • Discussion Board - Enable members to post messages in a group
  • File sharing system
  • Manage Group - This feature allows a member to manage the group type (public, moderated or private) and change other settings such as group URL, title, description and category
• View the most popular and newest groups in the directory
• Ability to search for groups by keywords

Invite

• Member can invite friends to join their network
• Support for multiple invitation
• Members can view the invitations they have sent to their friends and its status (whether their friends have signed up)
• Member can now use tags to display either normal invite or affiliate URL

Blog

• Members can start their own online blog with a unique blog URL
• Blog search function
• Ability to create blog categories
• Ability to edit/delete blog entires
• Allows customization of blog layout such as custom header/css, background settings including music/image, blog font, color, time format
• Built-in HTML editor for blog entries
• RSS 2.0 support  

NEW Articles

• Members can post articles for fellow members to read
• Built-in WYSIWYG editor for article posting and members can upload an image for each article
• Members can leave a comment on each article
• Ability to search for articles by keywords and date published

Forums

• Members can view all topics and forum stats (number of post/ topics and last post)
• Member can search for forum posts
• Members can now be set as forum moderators by admin and have additional privileges to edit/delete existing postings
• Ability to create new forum topics and post replies

Events

• Ability to browse event categories
• Members can search for an event by keywords, category, dates degrees and distance.
• Ability to create new public/private events
• Event creator can specify the max number of guests each member can bring and allow comments by members
• Built-in RSVP for each event: participating members can reply with yes/no/maybe and specify number of guest they are bringing
• Event creator can invite friends in existing network or enter the email addresses for non-members to join event
• Members can now add events to their calendar
• NEW Event creator can export guest list in excel. The details include name, username, number of guest attending, status, ticket ID
• Option for generating a unique ticket ID for attendees
• NEW Event creator can have the option to charge members a fee for attending their event. The profits will be credited to the member's account
• NEW Event creator can also have option to allow attendees to print ticket after payment [view screenshot]
• NEW Event creator can set the event created as "Featured" and admin can set the amount for the featured listing fee
• NEW Unique event URL (i.e yoursite.com/friends/events/?username)
• NEW Members now have the option to view events posted by them as well as events they are attending

Chat

• Ability to chat with other members
• Members can select chat rooms to talk to other members
• Members can send private message or chat invitation to selected members
• Ability to configure chat rooms (set display layout and sound controls)

Calendar

• Members can have their own personal online calendar
• Ability to view/add new events

Instant Messenger

• Members can send/reply IM to friends and view who is online
• NEW Members can block friends
• NEW Ability to view recent chats
• NEW Configure advance IM settings such as auto-accept IM request, set time zone and select language preference

HotorNot

• Image rating system where images of members are randomly displayed
• Show top 25 men and women
• Show most rated men and women
• Show men and women by age

Affiliate Program

• Unique affiliate link for each member
• Support for Tier 1 and tier 2
• Support for recurring commissions
• Displays affiliate account stats overview
• Shows affiliate commission details including amount earn and date
• Members can withdraw affiliate earnings via paypal

Admin Functions

• Template-based software
• Easy to install. Run your own social networking site in minutes!
• NEW Admin can set the social networking system to allow public registration or set it to "private invitation only"
• NEW E-friends now supports more custom member data form fields such as textarea, radio buttons, checkbox and drop-down menu. Admin also has the ability to set them as searchable on the member search system
• Admin can customize email messages and system messages
• NEW Admin can set the % commission for each ticket sales and "Featured" event listing fee
• Create/Edit custom profile themes for member
• Admin can set the number of days to notify members of their upcoming events by email.
• Admin can view payment history for all members by date and set min account balance for each member's account
• Option to turn off security image during registration
• NEW Admin can post announcement which will be displayed on member's account page
• NEW Ability to restrict predefined email domains during member registration. This can be used to disallow signups using free email address
• Users Manager
  • Ability to delete/ban members
  • Admin can mass mail or email selected members
  • Show member stats
  • Add/Deduct credits in each member's account
  • Admin can set a member as "Featured Profile" in main page
  • Add a new user account
• Search Users
  • Ability to email address and name
• Listings Manager
  • Ability to view/edit listings
  • Admin can add/delete categories
  • Ability to add sub-categories
• Groups Manager
  • Ability to view/delete groups
  • Admin can add/delete categories
  • Set max file size and restrict file extension type
• NEW Article Manager
  • Ability to manage article categories
  • Admin can add articles and edit/delete articles posted by members
• NEW Image Manager
  • Admin can now manual approve images upload by members
  • Ability to batch process unapproved images
• Statistics
  • Display real-time statistic which includes total members, total visitors for the week and month, daily visitor stats, number of signups and signins for the week and month
• Package Manager
  • Create/Edit custom membership packages
  • Admin has the ability to set prices for each membership plan with limited access to Groups, Listings, Events, Blog, Chat, Forum and number of photo uploads. Great for creating a profitable social networking business!
• Events Manager
  • Ability to view/delete events
  • Admin can add/delete event categories
• Blogs Manager
  • Ability to view/delete blogs
• Forums Manager
  • Ability to view/delete forum postings
  • Admin can add/delete forum categories
• Banner Manager
  • Admin can add/edit new banner ad for header and footer
  • Supports flash banner ads
  • Set duration for banner display by date range, number of clicks or number of impressions
  • Ability to block/unblock current banner ads
  • View banner status and statistics (number of clicks, impressions and click-though rate)
  • Advance IP blocking system
• Chat Rooms Manager
  • Ability to edit chat rooms
• Affiliate Module
  • Ability to set affiliate settings such as tier 1 and 2 commission amount and minimum withdraw for affiliates
  • Admin can view commissions (including recurring commissions ) by month and year showing username and commission amount
  • Admin can track where referrals are coming from and traffic log for each member will show IP address and HTTP referrer. Traffic stats report also include total hits, unique hits and number of registrations.
  • Affiliate Payout: all withdraw requests will be shown here and a
    paypal link will be automatically generated for each payment.

More Features Coming Soon In our Future Updates

• Job posting system Add-on
• Web directory module
• Online music store module
• And many more!

Product Demo

Admin Demo (Username: admin, Password: admin)

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Main Page Demo (Username: user123@alstrasoft.com, Password: user123)

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Cost: US$280 Item: AlstraSoft E-Friends (Single license + 1 year updates + Free 6 Widgets Pack)