Fluent Community Directory: it recommends, earns you more and works for you

Your expert review on every listing, offers you build for professionals and for your readers, a directory connected to your tools, and a fully redesigned admin.

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Your directory was already very complete. Your members present their business there, you approve each listing, and professionals could already pay to be featured. With this version, it goes even further.

A directory helps people find. Yours will now recommend, earn you more, and work for you. All in a fully redesigned admin.

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Directory for FluentCommunity, what's new: it recommends and earns even more

It recommends

In a community, what matters most is trust. Your members come for your expert eye. Now it comes with every listing: your star rating, your words, and even your voice or your video. Your rating shows above the members’ average.

Your review can stay open to everyone, so your whole community benefits. You can also keep it for members, for certain groups or for your readers. You choose, category by category.

Your members no longer just find an address: they know which one to choose, and why. You compare a listing with the ones you pick, and the directory suggests similar listings to go further.

A directory listing with « My review »: a 4.5 out of 5 rating, the review on video and the review text.
Your rating, your video review and your text, on every listing.

It earns you more

Every community is unique, and so is every directory. A directory of coaches, places, tools or companies does not sell the same way. Your directory adapts to your trade and your audience, down to the smallest detail.

You build your offers

Your offers fall into two families: professionals who want to be seen, and readers who want to read. In each family, you create the offers you want. You set the duration, the price, one-time payment or subscription, and who sees it: everyone, members, visitors or certain groups.

Each offer carries the name you give it, used everywhere: store, sales window and emails. And before launching it, you see it in a demo, before and after, with your real listings and your real prices.

For professionals

They publish their listing, feature it, or choose Premium, the all-inclusive plan: top of the list, more photos, a video, a brochure and a badge. You can also offer them a custom package: you set each option and its price, the professional ticks what they want and sees their total.

Publishing is paid once, monthly or yearly. The listing stays online as long as the subscription runs: your income becomes regular. Three days before a feature ends, the professional gets a reminder to keep it. Your team’s listings stay free.

The demo of the Premium offer: the directory before and after, and what the listing owner gets.
Every offer as a demo, before and after.

For your readers and visitors

This is a brand-new family. Your expert eye has value. For each category, you decide what is free and what is reserved: your review, or the whole listing. Everyone reads the first sentence, enough to make them want more.

The first sentence of the review visible to all, then the « Unlock my review » button with its prices.
The first sentence for everyone, the rest for your readers.

You design your readers’ journey:

  • Free listings, per day, week or month, to spark interest.
  • Listing packs, opened forever.
  • The Reader pass, which opens the whole directory, once or by subscription.

A visitor signs up in one click and comes straight back to the listing they were reading. Your directory brings you new members, with the FluentCRM tag of your choice. Your readers are notified of every new review, and you can give the pass to a group of members.

A sales window in your colors

Each offer comes in its own sales window. You write it right on the screen, in your colors. Payment takes a few seconds with FluentCart, without leaving the community, and the member lands right on what they bought.

The Reader pass sales window: what the pass includes, two plans and the button to pay without leaving the page.
A sales window that looks like you, with payment right inside.

It works for you

Your directory opens up to your tools. It talks with FluentCRM, Make, n8n or Zapier, both ways. You import hundreds of listings from one file, with your reviews and ratings, and you export your data whenever you want.

And in the age of AI, you can connect your own assistants: they create and enrich your listings for you. Your directory fills up faster, and you save precious time.

Meanwhile, it shows you what it earns, month after month, with every payment and the renewals to come. Each listing shows where it comes from and keeps its history. And it looks after the quality of reviews: first review checked, links blocked and a « Report » button.

The directory Sales tab: total earned, sales by type of offer and the last twelve months.
What your directory earns, month by month.

You stay in control

You choose who sees the directory, each category and each offer, who publishes and who reviews: logged-in members, roles, spaces, tags or Gamification levels. What is reserved stays closed everywhere to those without access.

« See as… » shows you a listing as a visitor, a member, a reader or its owner sees it. You know exactly what your members will see.

Everything gets simpler

Every screen has been redesigned to get to the point. You start with guidance: five first steps that tick themselves off. « To do » gathers what is waiting for you: listings to approve, changes, possible duplicates, reviews to look at.

The listings table sorts and filters in an instant, and stays fast with hundreds of listings.

The Listings tab: the month's figures, the first steps, the « To do » list and the listings table with its filters.
Your figures, your first steps and everything waiting for you, on one screen.

Offers fall into two families, and each one first says what the buyer gets. For your readers, two questions are enough: what is reserved, and how the reader opens it. Settings are sorted by topic, so you find each one in an instant.

The Offers tab on the Reader pass: what is reserved in each category, then the free listings, the pack and the pass.
Your reader offers, set in two questions.

Always easy to find

Google reads your listings in full, reserved part included: your SEO is preserved, and your stars can appear in the results. In the community, Global search finds every listing, and everyone sees only what is open to them.

Already installed? The update arrives automatically.

Free extension

A directory that recommends, earns and works for you

The Directory is one of the free FC Extensions. One free key, and everything opens up.

✓ Native to Fluent Community
✓ Payment built in with FluentCart
✓ Automatic updates
✓ Free, forever

To go further, open the Directory page, watch every extension on video, or browse all the free extensions.

An idea or a question? Come and say hello in the FC Extensions space of the Sdravobiz community, or vote for the next extensions on the roadmap.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Directory free?

Yes, forever. It is one of the free FC Extensions. Your first name and email are all it takes to get your free key.

Does my review have to be paid?

No. It can stay open to everyone, or be kept for the audience you choose. Paid reading is an option, category by category.

What do I need to sell?

FluentCart. The directory creates the products in your store by itself. Your members pay by card or PayPal, without leaving the community.

Does Google see the reserved content?

Yes. Google reads the whole listing, which keeps your SEO.

Does a purchased listing stay open?

Yes. A listing opened with a pack stays open forever. The Reader pass opens everything for its duration, or as long as the subscription runs.

Can I import my listings and my reviews?

Yes. The file import accepts your listings, with your review and your rating for each one.

Can I use the directory without selling anything?

Of course. Each offer turns on with one click, whenever you are ready.

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