Marketplace and Classifieds Scripts Overview

We began our journey with a focus on boats and yachts, marking the origins of the classifieds scripts and marketplace software. Initially named reefLESS, the company envisioned smooth sailing in the competitive classifieds industry. Despite early challenges, it took us a year to develop the first version of the classifieds script, culminating in a successful launch.

The company rebranded to Flynax with version 3.2, signaling a new era of innovation and growth. Over the years, Flynax has evolved into a leader in the classifieds software and marketplace development, continuously raising the bar for quality and performance.

Our Team

Our Team consists of passionate and skilled IT professionals with over 17 years of expertise in developing top-notch classifieds scripts and marketplace software. Every theme, add-on, and mobile app you see is meticulously crafted in-house by our team, without relying on outsourcing. This approach ensures that our products maintain the highest quality standards, embodying years of industry experience and technical excellence.

Products

Today we offer eight scripts for launching marketplaces and classifieds sites:

  • Classifieds Software

    The classifieds software is a time-tested script for SEO-friendly categories and listings. With this script, you can start a classifieds site for ads of different types. You can tailor the script to a niche site, or expand it to support multiple product types.

  • Car Sell Website Software

    The car sell website software is a specialized script for renting or selling new and used cars. The software comes with all makes and models for private sellers and car dealerships. You can easily adjust the script to other vehicle types.

  • Real Estate Listing Software

    The real estate script is a professional PHP script for property listings. The software allows you to start a catchy site for renting and selling houses and apartments with integrated free maps. Our product is suitable for private sellers and real estate agencies.

  • Service Booking Software

    The service booking website script is an out-of-the-box PHP solution. The software allows you to launch a portal for people and companies seeking to advertise their services and for their potential customers who can book their services.

  • Boat Sell Website Software

    The boat sell website software is a turnkey PHP solution with boat and yacht categories. You can use the scripe to start a site for renting or selling yachts and boats. Using our sophisticated XML/JSON Import plugin you can populate the site with ads in openmarine format.

  • Pet Classifieds Software

    The pet classifieds software is a versatile platform for various animals and insects or for starting an animal shelter giving users the ability to add a description with multimedia and share their pets in social networks.

  • Escort Agency Software

    The escort agency script is a PHP-based escort directory software for launching a professional escort site, massage salon, or modeling agency. It supports individual profiles and agencies and allows you to control access to multimedia via subscriptions.

Framework

PHP classifieds software

Our classifieds scripts and marketplace software is a PHP-based solution built on the MVC architecture. It functions as a distinctive CMS, featuring a plugin system, graphical templates powered by the SMARTY engine, and a robust language system. Using MySQL as its database server, the software also incorporates various JavaScript libraries to create a dynamic user interface. With each update, we strive to integrate the latest technologies and web trends, continuously adding valuable and in-demand features.

Features

Our web-based software offers an impressive suite of features—over 400 by default—plus hundreds of features through optional plugins. This built-in functionality enables you to manage nearly every aspect of the front end without diving into code. Whether you’re building a niche-focused site or a large-scale marketplace with multiple listing types and categories, the rich feature set lets you implement your vision directly from the back end.

With our versatile CMS, you can rearrange your site’s layout, add custom sections with unique categories, plans, and fields, create and manage pages, and customize listing and registration forms. As we release regular updates, we continue to enhance the software functionality, making it even more powerful and adaptable to your needs.

Monetization

Our software offers two types of monetization options to help you generate revenue from your classifieds site or marketplace:

  • Built-in monetization tools: These are core monetization features already integrated into the software, such as paid categories, membership plans (subscriptions including recurring ones), and featured listings.

  • Plugin-based monetization tools: You can expand your revenue streams by installing premium plugins that can enhance your site’s earning potential, offering advanced tools tailored to classifieds and marketplace needs.

To collect payments on your site, you can install one of our payment gateways. Currently, we provide 19 widely used and popular gateways for you to choose from, some of which are available at no cost.

AI Friendly

Flynax supports AI technology through our OpenAI plugin, which integrates ChatGPT and DeepSeek artificial intelligence into the classifieds scripts and marketplace software. This plugin enables users to generate ad descriptions automatically using minimal input, leveraging OpenAI's advanced language models. Additionally, the plugin can translate generated descriptions into multiple languages, enhancing SEO and user experience.

Social Media Optimization

Realizing the significance and widespread use of social networks, we’ve integrated the following SMO tools to ensure our marketplace software is highly social-media friendly.

Search Engine Optimization

We use the following SEO tools to make SEO-friendly marketplace/classifieds software:

  • SEO-friendly URLs. You can build patterns for generating SEO-friendly metadata for various site elements such as seller accounts, listings, categories, and subcategories. By mixing variables (which are automatically replaced with field values) with descriptive text, you can easily create natural, human-readable titles and meta descriptions for these pages, improving their visibility and relevance in search results.

  • Sitemap. For indexing links, you can use our Sitemap plugin that generates XML sitemap files for Google, Yahoo and other search engines. To prevent duplicate content when sorting or filtering, the software offers canonical meta tags. The module adds URLs of accounts, account avatars, categories, listings, news, pages, and plugin-generated content to the sitemap.

  • Landing Pages. To target specific search keywords and locations you can generate landing pages to better promote products and items in the SERP.

  • Content division. The software has a clear division between contents of different language versions, which allows you to increase the content of your site and traffic to it accordingly.

Software Performance

By deploying an 8-core cloud, VPS, or dedicated server equipped with 8 GB of RAM and running a Linux-based operating system (such as Ubuntu with a LAMP or LEMP stack), Flynax can efficiently handle 50,000 users, up to 1 000,000 ads, and about 25,000 daily visitors—more than sufficient for a medium-sized project.

While these are average estimates that may vary depending on numerous factors, the software performance can be greatly enhanced by properly configuring the database, indexing heavily used fields, implementing caching at both the software and server levels, and using NGINX to efficiently handle static content.

The performance of your marketplace or classifieds site depends significantly on its ability to prevent bots, parsers, and other analytical programs from overwhelming it with excessive requests. Our free Bot Blocking module helps minimize this load, ensuring that your site maintains optimal performance—up to 95%—for genuine users.

To reduce the load on your primary server, consider storing static data such as photos and videos on third-party servers. Our advanced Remote Storage plugin makes this process simple and efficient.

Plugins

Plugins provide an excellent way to add extra functionality to your marketplace or classifieds site. Currently, we offer 97 plugins, with more on the way as we continue to develop and update them regularly. We offer both free and premium plugins. You can install any of our plugins with one click from the admin panel. Broadly, the plugins can be categorized into the following groups:

Gateways & Monetization

Collecting payments with pre-integrated payment gateways. Selling banner. Bumping up and highlighting ads. Shopping cart and bidding.

Social Community

Signing up with social accounts. Bookmarking and sharing listings. Social meta tags. Posting ads to social networks automatically.

Listing Management

Populating site with XML/JSON/CSV feeds. Displaying listing in relevant blocks. Generating Google and Yahoo sitemaps.

Content Management

Managing locations. Synchronizing users across sites. Importing additional data entries to the site. Filtering bad words. Adding FAQs.

Category Management

Populating the site with categories via XLS. Adding icons to categories and subcategories. Applying a category tree for better navigation.

Searching/Filtering

Filtering listings by field values. Searching ads within a range. Filtering listing and content by locations.

Mobile Applications

Mobile applications

We offer two native Mobile Apps built on the Flutter framework: one for Android and another for iOS. These Apps use a single codebase, ensuring consistent features and design across platforms. The Flutter Apps provide a smoother experience, quicker updates, and support for light and dark modes. With a new REST API and enhanced App Manager plugins, you can manage settings, configure the layout, and handle translations directly from the admin panel.

The Apps offer the most important functionality of the web-based software, allowing your sellers to post ads on the go, create accounts, search for ads nearby, get push notifications for new messages, and perform other essential tasks. Running the software along with the mobile Apps allows you to launch a fully-fledged marketplace or classifieds site.

The Progressive Web Application offers a cost-effective alternative to native mobile Apps. Unlike traditional mobile Apps, the PWA plugin emulates a nearly native mobile environment. It doesn’t require Apple or Google developer account subscriptions, and users can install it with a single click, which also adds an icon to their smartphones.

Fully Responsive Templates

All our templates—free and premium—are fully responsive. Partly built on Bootstrap 5, they ensure an optimal browsing experience on any device. This means all our templates perform equally fine across computers, tablets, and smartphones, maintaining cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. With identical access to the software and plugin functionality, your users can enjoy browsing your site on their computers, tablets, and smartphones.

Mobile applications

Our templates are built with modern technologies like HTML5 and CSS3, allowing them to adapt smoothly to any browser width. They also support high-pixel-density displays, offering an exceptional mobile experience. For added convenience, our latest templates include the Sass module, enabling developers to streamline and speed up theme customizations.

Free Lifetime Updates

To add new features and address reported bugs, we release plugin and software updates regularly. Typically, we provide 2-3 updates annually because we understand how crucial new features and fixes are for maintaining a successful site in our fast-changing world. All software and plugin updates are free for our customers. You make a one-time payment and receive all new features and bug fixes at no extra cost.

Support

We realize that support is very important for running a successful marketplace or classifieds site. With the purchase of our software, you get a month of free support to help you get started. We'll help you install your site and guide you through publishing mobile Apps. Our support service is optional, so you can pause or extend it as needed.

We offer the following support channels:

  • Presales Live Chat

    Chat is an excellent tool for addressing pre-sales inquiries and reporting urgent issues. It also serves as a convenient way to receive general guidance on the software and plugins.

  • Ticket System

    If you have a technical question, want to request a customization, or need an issue resolved, you can submit a ticket, which will be reviewed by a support operator or developer.

  • Customer Area

    The Customer Area is your personal account in our system, where you can download the latest software version, themes, updates, languages, and pay any pending invoices.

  • Forum

    The forum is an ideal platform for interacting with the Flynax community. Here, you can share ideas, ask questions, request bug fixes, and get access to solutions provided by other users.

As you can see, we offer a comprehensive range of solutions for launching marketplaces and classifieds sites, all supported by a robust framework, cutting-edge features, and extensive monetization options. With user-friendly responsive templates, powerful plugins, and continuous updates, we ensure our customers have everything they need to succeed in a fast-evolving digital environment.