Note: Templates and references for both - Ads import and Ads Import Plus methods for the most part are similar. Differences would be distinguished and highlighted as you go down the fields reference below.

After you download template, save it to your local hard drive. The name of the template would be something like:

100002_import.xls - for Ads Import (may hold up to 1000 ads)
100002_import_plus.xls - for Ads Import Plus (may hold up to 500 ads)
where 100002 is your user ID at our classified.

For multiple templates, rename additional  template using indexing. For instance: 100002_import1.xls, 100002_import2.xls, .. etc

Open template in a Microsoft Excel and start entering ads data. Each row in a spreadsheet should hold the data for a single ad. After you finished, send us prepared template along with the images (in case your ads require images attachments).
 

Note: Required fields within the reference below are highlighted in Red, optional in Green.

category (to the top) (Required) -The most important field in a template. Must be properly formatted. You would need to specify the correct Category/Subcategory for each ad in the list. Because there is no way to create a proper category field formatting manually, the tools below would allow you to receive a properly formatted category names. Please note, this is the only valid way to acquire properly formatted category names. Depending on a number of categories you are planning to import your ads to, please make an appropriate selection below:

I would like to receive a list of ALL Categories and Subcategories

I would like to receive a list of ALL Subcategories for a few Categories

I would like to receive a list of SOME Subcategories under a given Category

After you download the categories reference list (or copy/paste from the last method), save it at your local computer for further references. Select appropriate  single line from the formatted categories list and enter at the category field for each ad you are planning to import.

subject (to the top) (Required) - 90 characters max. The subject or title of your ad. No carriage returns  or new lines are permitted. No HTML code may be inserted. This field is important from a Search Engines stand point because it will also be rendered as a page title and keywords (when your ad is displayed at our classified). Make sure to use appropriate for your ads keywords in subject so that your ad can be found thought Internet Search after newly created ads are crawled by various search engines.

description (to the top) (Required) - 10,000 characters max. Enter ad description here. Description could be a plain text or HTML formatted. New lines or carriage returns are permitted. If description is formatted as HTML please make sure the HTML code is valid. Missing or improperly formatted HTML tags within description may result in "broken" or "out of shape" page when ad is displayed at our site.

Pay extra attention to link tags such as <a> or <img>. If you copy some HTML code (from your site for instance) and paste it into description field, make sure URL links are fully qualified. Fully qualified means they contain an http:// prefix and contain a domain name of the site where they are pointing to.

For instance: <img src="/images/property12.gif"> would not work. The correct tag would be:
 <img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/property12.gif">

In addition following tags in an HTML code are not allowed: <script> <meta> <style>

website (to the top) - 500 characters max. Provide a web site address if available. Must be a Fully Qualified URL address which starts with http://. Example: http://www.domain.com/items/property12.html

phone (to the top) - 30 characters max. Provide a phone number if available.

webimage (to the top) - 200 characters max. Provide one Fully Qualified URL address to the image stored at your web site and which related to the posted ad. The link to this image (not the image itself) would be posted and displayed at the full ad view page. Example: http://www.yourdomain.com/images/property12.gif

hotlist (to the top) - Must be 0 or 1. Indicate 1 if you would like to post your ad in What's Hot list. Else, leave it as is (0).

images (to the top) - 500 characters max. This is the field to specify image attachments to your ad. Physically image files would be hosted on our  web server. You may specify up to 10 images. Please provide images file name only separated with with a comma (,). Example: property12.gif,property14.gif,house 9.jpg
Do not enter a comma after the last image and make sure the image file name does not contain commas (,) and non-print characters such as (©) for instance. For the best compatibility it's also a good idea to have image names containing Latin alphanumeric characters only (dashes and underscores are OK).

Note: Images may only be in .jpg and .gif format. Image size and dimensions are not restricted but after image processing they would be scaled and formatted to the image specifications set at our classified.

If you are planning to attach images to your ads make sure to collect all images for all import ads into a zip file and send it to us along with import template.

option1 - option20 (to the top) - 200 characters max. for each field. There are 20 option fields may be filled for each ad while building the import list. Depending on a main category the ad is submitted to, option fields may be different in numbers and definition. Some categories might have 20 option fields available, other might have none. Option fields are essentially designed to allow listing a specific information related to the ad - such as price, color, age .. etc.

Option fields within import template are titled as option1, option2, option3... etc. But the actual definition for each option and for each category you intended to post the ad under would differ. For instance the "option1" for category "Automobiles" might be the "price" but for category "Personal" it might be the "age".  So that if you are submitting ads into category "Personal" and "Automobiles" from the same import template, then you must know the definition of "option1" for both categories in order to properly fill the fields for each ad. If you are planning to utilize option fields while building ads list, then please download the list of the option fields definition and possible values for all categories by clicking a link below (click "Save" at the prompt and save this page at your computer for fast future reference):

I would like to receive the list of the optional fields for each category

The category filed must already be filled before you start entering option1-20 fields. First look at the category field within the template. If for instance you inserted the Automobiles > BMW ¦10002¤50093 then the main category the ad would be posted under is Automobiles. Now go to the page you just downloaded from a link above and click Automobiles at the categories list. You would be taken to the options definition part of the page for category Automobiles.  There you see that option1 corresponds to "Make", option2 to "Model", option3 to "Year" ... etc. Now you may enter  proper values for each option field which is related to your ad posted under Automobiles... Or you may skip if not willing to provide this information.

city  (to the top) (Required) - 200 characters max.

Ads Import method - Enter the city name which you specified when created a user account. Note: It is not mandatory to have the city name match the exact user account entry. It may vary depending on an ad you're posting.

Ads Import Plus method - Since each ad would be attached to the newly created user account, specify a city for each ad entry to the value which would correspond to the user location under which the ad would be posted.

user_option1 - user_option7  (to the top) - 200 characters max for each field. This is user optional information displayed within the ad. The values would be different depending on an Import method you have selected. You may arbitrary choose which option to display within the ad and which not.

Ads Import method - This is optional user information provided while you created an account with us. Table below outlines a default user option information related to your account. Please use it to fill user_option1-7 fields for each ad in the import list. You may change this information for each ad if you wish to do so.

Ads Import Plus method - This is optional user information, which would be attached to each created user account as well as to the ad posted under that account. As with category option fields, each user option field has a definition according to which you may provide an addition user related information. Table bellow outlines the user fields definition and possible values. Please use this table to fill (if necessary) user option fields for each import entry. You may also download this list in an HTML format:

Download user options definition as an HTML page

styles  (to the top) - Each ad may be configured for different display style. If this field left empty, then the default style would be used to render ad view page. Available styles are outlined in a table below (click "Expand Style Options" to view the styles list). Select respective style value and paste it to the styles field or leave empty for the default style.

- Expand Style Options

email (to the top) (Required only for Ads Import Plus!) 80 characters max. NOT available in Ads Import template. This is a primary email address which will be used to create a user account under for the Ads Import Plus method.

Important! Make sure you provide a correct and valid email address. After the account is created, the confirmation email with the logon password to our classified would be sent to each account specified within the template.

duration  (to the top) - This fields is for Ads Import Plus only! You may specify the ads duration for each ad in the list. This field must be a number and would reflect ad duration in "days". If intended to run ad for 3 month the value would be 90, 1 year would be 365 ..etc

The field is optional. If you whish to have ALL ads to be active for the same period of time you may leave the field blank or you may specify duration for a few ads and leave it blank for the rest. But please let us know about common ads duration for blank fields when submitting the template.

Note: This option is not valid nor available in Ads Import template. All ads Imported with this method would have the same duration.