Blackmonk-cms_4.0

BlackMonk CMS Specsheet

Version 4.0

Index

1. Website features

2. Site backend

3. Integrations

4. Apps

5. Monetization features

6. Search Engine Optimization

7. Reports

8. Geo Location Features

9. Third Party/Affiliate Services

10. Payments

Note: Specifications color coded in orange are not part of the standard product. Features, apps or

functionalities not included in standard product are available at additional cost. Please write to us at contact@

blackmonk.com to know the price of add-on features, apps or functionalities.

1. Website features

Responsive Yes

Social Sign-in Option

(SSO)Google, facebook, twitter & LinkedIn

Branding and custom-

izationLogo, Favicon, date/time format

Localization settings Google Map customization, zip code index, currency settings

Sharing options Facebook, twitter, Google+, Pinterest

Enquiry manager One place to view/manage inbound emails/enquiries

Auto-responder tem-

plates

Customizable templates for auto-response (e.g. response mail ac-

knowledging business listing submission)

On demand Apps Control website features/functionality by enabling/disabling apps

Staff accounts & roles Create staff accounts and assign roles with predefined permissions

ModerationModeration settings for user generated content and comments/re-

views. Option to block user accounts to prevent spamming

Navigation Navigation settings for creating header, sub-header and footer links

Multi-city portal

• Dedicated website for each city e.g. city.website.com

• Intuitive interface for adding new cities and creating subdomain

based websites

• Flexibility to publish content globally as well as on specific city

website (subdomain)

• Staff account permissions to allow access to specific city web-

site or sub-domains

• Selective content submission (to all/specific sub-domains)

• Location based redirect to help users land on the right subdo-

main

Channels

• Create subject/interest based channels

• Option to display multi-format content on channel pages e.g.

articles, events, photos, videos etc

• Dynamic update of channel pages based on pre-defined content

aggregation rules

Membership Plans

(Pay Wall)

• Create and manage free/paid plans

• Control content access/contribution privileges for each plan

• Set plan pricing and subscription period

Custom Design• Intricate design customization as per specifications

• Unique layout/workflow based on custom theme

Backend

• Backend workflow customization in accordance to editorial pro-

cesses

• Dedicated staff/user backend interface for managing customized

functionalities

Widgets

• Dynamic (self updating) widgets showing top, latest, featured or

popular content from within the website

• Dynamic (self updating) widgets for social media feeds and con-

tent feeds from third party sources

Branding• White label solution

• Custom branding

Rest API • Syndicate content to third party sites

2. Site backend

Type Description Access

Admin Control Panel

• Website setup & configuration

• App level settings

• Reports

• Staff roles & staff account

• User account moderation

Super admin/Webmaster

Staff Control Panel

• Content submission

• Content management

• Content moderation

• Web service management/mod-

eration

Staff membersNote: Staff accounts enjoy access privileges as per as-signed role

User Content Management

• Content submission and manage-

ment

• Comments/reviews/discussion

tracking

• Web service subscription man-

agement

UsersNote: Free signup + sign in us-ing Google, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn account (SSO)

3. Integrations

API Feature Third Party Integrations

Ad Serving DoubleClick

Comments Disqus

API Feature Third Party Integrations

Weather Weather Network / World Weather Online

Videos YouTube, Vimeo

Photos Flickr

Social Feeds Twitter

Geo Tagging Google Maps

Classifieds Oodle

Videos Brightcove

Events Eventful

Business Directory Yelp.com

Movie/Showtime West World Media

News Any source linked to Google News

News Letter MailChimp

Radio P Squared (and other radio broadcast platforms with OCP support)

Hotel Booking Expedia

Sightseeing Tours Viator

Tee Time Booking GolfNow

MeetUp Groups MeetUp.com

Flower Storefront FloristOne

4. Apps

General Article Features

• Custom categories • Cover image

• Category pages with pagination • Rich formatting and in-text images

• Types: Article/PR/Advertorial/Review • Image gallery

• Keyword/category based search • Share buttons

• WYSIWYG editor for adding articles • Comment section

• Article scheduling

• Article featuring

• Monetization (see details under Monetization Features)

a. Articles

a. Articles

b. Photo Gallery

c. Video Gallery

d. Deals

e. Community/Forum

f. Business Directory

g. Event Calendar

h. Classifieds

i. Pages

j. Attractions Guide

k. Movie Showtimes Guide

l. Real Estate

m. Restaurant

n. Radio

o. eShop

p. Bookmarks

q. News

r. Contests

s. Polls

t. Banner Management

b. Photos

General Photo Gallery Features

• Custom categories • Viewing in slideshow mode

• Category pages with pagination • Comment section

• Photo gallery featuring • Share buttons

• Keyword/category based search

• Search & select from Flickr or upload images from computer

• Individual photo captioning

General Video Gallery Features

• Custom categories • Video player with full-screen viewing option

• Category pages with pagination • Comment section

• Video featuring • Share buttons

• Keyword/category based search • Related video suggestions

• Search & select from YouTube/Vimeo or upload images from computer

• Video captioning

c. Videos

d. Deals

General Listing Features

• Custom categories • Discount & availability

• Category pages with pagination • Deal description

• Deal FAQ page/How it Works page • Fine print/T&C

• Deal Featuring • Contact details

• Browse by category option • Integrated Google Map

• Keyword/category based search • Photos

• Interface for merchants through which they can add/manage deals and verify vouchers submit-ted for redemption

• Comment section

• Voucher sales stats • Share buttons

• Merchant interface for managing sold vouchers

• User interface for managing purchased vouch-ers

• Newsletter subscription option with subscriber management and import subscriber option



• Custom topics • Q&A format threads

• Topic page with pagination • One question many answers

• Browse by topic + search option • Comments on answers and questions

e. Community

f. Business Directory


• Custom categories/sub-categories • Cover image

• Category/sub-category pages with pagination • Contact details

• Attribute list feature for building category/sub-category specific listing template • Integrated Google Map

• Multi-level listing: Free, Sponsored, Featured • Description and category / subcategory relevant details

• Browse by category and subcategory • Reviews and ratings

• Keyword/category based search • Share buttons

• Widgets showing latest listings, listings with new offers and popular category • Photo section

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Reply button & contact form

• Contact management to allow users manage interactions with prospects • Offers

• Monetization (see details under Monetization Features) • Deals



• Category pages with pagination • Contact details

• Multi-level listing: Free, Sponsored, Featured • Integrated Google Map

• Browse by category or date • Link to ticket booking website

• Keyword/category based search • RSVP

• Listing submission through intuitive form with auto-suggest for selecting venue • Description

• Event timeline configuration: day event, ongoing event, repeat event • Comments

• Monetization (see details under Monetization Features) • Link to event’s social profiles

• Share buttons

• Photo section

g. Event Calendar


• Custom categories/sub-categories • Cover image

• Category/sub-category pages with pagination • Contact details

h. Classifieds


• Attribute list feature for building category/sub-category specific listing template • Integrated Google Map

• Multi-level listing: Free, Sponsored, Featured • Description and category/sub-category relevant details

• Browse by category and sub-category • Reply button & contact form

• Keyword/category based search • Comments

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Share buttons

• Contact management to allow users manage interactions with prospects • Photo section


• Promo pages• 'Ready to use' promo pages for marketing

with creative graphics, crisp copy and pleasing design

• Static pages • Generic pages with static content e.g. About Us, Company, Privacy Policy et

• FAQs • Inline editor for creating pages with rich format-ting and multimedia content

• Footer links

• Generic FAQ page for users/clients

• Interface for adding and managing FAQs

i. Pages

General UI Features


• Category pages with pagination

• Full details including activities, timings, admis-sion rules, official website/link to ticket booking website, links to related social media profiles (google/facebook/twitter), formatted description

• Keyword/category based search • Image/Video section with option for user contri-bution

j. Attractions

General UI Features

• Spotlight area for showcasing featured attrac-tions • Weather forecast widget

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Review section

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Share buttons

General UI Features

• Custom genre and language • Cover image with embedded trailer video

• Showtime finder (search showtime by movie/theatre)

• Description and full details including genre, director, cast etc

• Spotlight area for showcasing featured movies • Showtime finder (for the movie)

• In theatre, upcoming movies, trailers and poster gallery on home page • Embedded photo gallery

• Intuitive form for adding movies and entering showtime for each day of the week • User reviews and ratings

• Intuitive form for adding theatres • Critic reviews

• Option to integrate with World West Media (or similar third party service) for dynamic content feeds • Share buttons

k. Movie/Showtimes

General UI Features

• Custom category: house, apartment, villa etc • Cover image

• Listing type: rent, sale, holiday home • Contact details

• Attribute list feature for customizing listing tem-plate • Contact form

• Multi-level listing: Free, Sponsored, Featured • Description, features and price

• Search function for look-up on rented property, property for sale and holiday homes by ad-dress, type, price range and number of bed-rooms

• Integrated Google Map with option to view nearby parks, restaurant etc

l. Real Estate

General UI Features

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Street view option

• Contact management to allow advertisers man-age communications with prospects • Photo gallery

• Option to showcase top 10 listings, featured listings and latest listings • Comments

• Monetization (see details under Monetization Features) • Share buttons

• Suggested links to similar properties

m. Restaurants

General UI Features

• Custom categories/cuisine • Cover image

• Category pages with pagination • Contact details

• Attribute list feature for building category specif-ic listing template • Contact form

• Multi-level listing: Free, Sponsored, Featured • Description and categorized information about cuisine, timings, pricing, ambience etc

• Browse by category option • Integrated Google Map

• Keyword/location based search • Full menu

• Spotlight area for showcasing featured listings • Reviews and ratings

• Listing submission through intuitive form • Photos

• Monetization (see details under Monetization Features) • Share buttons

n. Radio

General UI Features

• Single channel/multi-channel radio website • Program guide showing show schedule for each day of the week

• Internet only radio or live streaming through integration with radio broadcasting platform

• Dedicated page for each show featuring cover image, description, presenter’s bio, podcasts and links to social profiles of the show/presenter

• OCP integration for dynamic text info about currently playing music

• Channel selector with browse by genre option for multi-channel radio

• Custom genre • RJ profile/Artist profile with link to social profiles of RJ/Artist

• Convenient interface for adding channels, shows, show podcasts, RJ profile, Artist profile etc

• Automatic program guide generation

• Music submission option for artists

• Playlist manager

o. eShop

General UI Features

• Option to sell downloadable and physical prod-ucts

• Attractive online shopfront displaying products from featured categories

• Custom categories/sub-categories with option to feature select categories • Convenient browse by category option

• Add/manage manufacturers and shipping/logis-tics partners • Keyword/category based search

• Add/manage SKUs and set inventory • Product pages with summary, images, descrip-tion, specs, ratings/reviews and suggestions

• Manual inventory control plus option to discon-tinue SKUs

• Shopping cart with change quantity and remove option

• Automatic price computation based on preset tax rates/shipping charges • Simple checkout workflow

• Order management system• User backend for viewing orders, order cancel-

lation/modification, order tracking and reposito-ry of downloadable purchased by user

q. News

p. Bookmarks

r. Contests

• Dynamic news aggregation from specified news sources

• Regular update and removal of old news items

• Custom categories

• Automatic tagging of news items to categories

• Browse by category option

• Allows users to view full content without leaving the site

• Custom category

• Browse by category option

• Display content title, summary and thumbnail for each bookmark

• Allows users to view full content without leaving the site

• Easy to add bookmarks (only enter URL and rest is fetched automatically)

• Create timed contests and sweepstakes

• Option to award points to sweepstakes participants for social sharing & friend invite

• Option to set number of winners

• Manual/automatic winner selection for contest/sweepstake after it ends

• Detailed contest page featuring contest title, description, terms & conditions, entry form, facebook share

button and option to invite friends

5. Monetization features

Service Features

Business Directory Sub-

scription

• Free/Sponsored/Featured listings

• Spotlight section on home page, business directory index and category/

sub-category pages for featured listings

• Priority ranking of listings in the order Featured > Sponsored > Free

• Full customization of listing plans in terms of features and pricing

(monthly/yearly fee). Category specific pricing for Sponsored listings

• Self-service transaction system

• Offline/online payment (PayPal, Authorize.Net, Stripe)

• Auto-renewal of subscription through PayPal/Authorize.Net

• Automatic downgrade of Sponsored/Featured listing to Free if subscrip-

tion not renewed

Events Promotion • Free/Sponsored/Featured listings

• Spotlight section on home page, events section and category/sub-cate-

gory pages for featured listings


• Full customization of listing plans in terms of features and pricing (daily

fee). Category specific pricing for Sponsored listings



• Automatic downgrade of Featured/Sponsored listing to Free beyond

specified duration

Classifieds • Free/Sponsored/Featured listings

• Spotlight section on home page, classifieds section and category/

sub-category pages for featured listings


• Full customization of listing plans in terms of features and pricing

(monthly fee). Category specific pricing for Sponsored listings



• Automatic downgrade of Featured/Sponsored

Promotional Content • PR/Advertorial/Reviews

• Custom pricing for each type of article (i.e. PR, Advertorial, Review)



Banner Ads • Connect with ad servers or allow advertisers to run banner ads (Cost per thou-

sand impressions model)

• Create custom ad-zones for each section of the website (e.g. articles, events

etc)

• Set variable CPM (cost per thousand impression) pricing for top, right, right

bottom and bottom slots

• No limit on number of ads per ad zone. Parallel support for ad server + ads

posted by advertisers

• Self-service transaction system for running banner ad campaigns with option to

select impressions in multiples of thousand

• Auto-reminder for repayment upon exhaustion of impressions

Deal/Coupons • Self-service system to allow merchants add deals, manage coupon Inventory

and set commission rate (publisher’s commission)

• Option for publisher to set minimum / maximum limit on commission rate.

• Option for publisher to approve deals submitted by merchants

• Customer buys voucher by paying a price (computed as per commission rate),

and the remainder is paid directly to the merchant while redeeming the voucher

• Online voucher verification system through which merchants can redeem

vouchers

• Self-service transaction system for buyers

6. Search Engine Optimization

• Webmaster tools verification

• Site map generation

• Home page SEO configuration

• SEO format configuration for sections,

sub-sections, category pages and content

pages

• Options to customize for section/category

pages

• Google rich snippet support

7. Reports

• Comprehensive traffic stats

• User activity: count of live users, top key-

words, top referrals etc

• Content volume and contribution report –

tracks content submissions by staff and

users across all sections of the website

• User registration report

• Traffic stats for individual content page

(e.g. specific article, event listing, clas-

sifieds etc) - allows tracking views and

impressions

• Payment reports with options to view pay-

ments by user

• Revenue report

8. Geo Location Features

9. Third Party/Affiliate Services

• Global map with search option for viewing nearby businesses, event venues, Movie Theater

etc. Map automatically adjusts to show venues in the proximity of user’s location

• Editable zip code index denoting areas where services such as: business directory, classifieds

etc are available

• Editable index of venues including: parks, auditorium, conference halls, movie theaters etc

• Dedicated page for each venue showing map and contact details

Hotel Booking

• Hotel booking through Expedia integration

• Display featured hotels and popular theme hotels for selected

destination

• Hotel finder allows users to check hotel availability by duration

and other preferences

• Convenient interface for checking-out hotel features and pricing

• Simple workflow with one time redirect to Expedia for booking

completion

• Commission awarded to publisher for each booking

Sightseeing Tours

• Sightseeing tour booking through Viator integration

• Feature top theme parks, outdoor activities etc on home page

for selected destination

• Things to do finder allows users to search for preferred type of

sightseeing destination

• Quick links to top attractions for selected destination

• Detailed info page about each destination with detailed descrip-

tion, reviews and photos

• Simple workflow with one time redirect to Viator for booking

completion

• Commission awarded to publisher for each booking

Flower Storefront

• Flower storefront through FloristOne integration

• Featured picks including flower arrangements and bouquet plus

option to browse by occasion/sentiment

• Keyword/category based search

• Simple workflow – redirects user to FloristOne website for trans-

action

• Commision awarded to publisher for each sale

Tee-Time Booking

• Tee-time booking through GolfNow integration

• Commision for each booking

MeetUp Groups

• Local MeetUp group finder through MeetUp.com integration

• Keyword based search

10. Payments

• Supported payment gateways include PayPal, Authorize.Net, Stripe

• Self-service transaction system to enable users sign-up without Hassel

• Reoccurring payment options ( monthly and yearly )for business directory subscription and banner ads

• Automated email reminders for reoccurring payments

• Transaction log for tracking payments and reports

Introduction:

BlackMonk 4.0 Release Notes

Article Module: Advanced Publishing tools

Gallery Module:

Community Module:

Design:

Banner Zones:

Improved Performance:

BlackMonk CMS 4.0 includes a whole new set of features for advanced publishing, and also some major performance

upgrades. With these new feature updates, BlackMonk will be better for publishers, editors and readers alike. Here is

the list of features and performance enhancements included in version 4.0

• Publish articles based on Authors/Editors

• Dedicated profile page of Author, Stories

• Editor's Pick stories

• Breaking News feature

• Top Ten stories feature

• Media Embedding Feature(Tweet, Instagram, vine and more)

• Ability to attach files

• Ability to embed video and audio files

• Read later/Favorite an article feature

• User subscription of articles

• Retrieve images from Getty Images and Shutterstockvva

• Updated Staff backend with ability to delete Q&A

• Incorporated social sharing

• Ability to configure custom themes with font styles

• Ability to dynamically change homepage labels from the website.

• New impressive horizontal banner zones

• Optimization of code for consistent loading

• Bug fixes in search and events

• Auto suggest for selecting venue

• Crone job adjustments in news

• Upgraded with Universal Analytics code

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