Freelance Clone Script facilitates service buyers to post their buying requirements and the service providers to place their best bids in order to get the job. It is powered by the PHP/MySQL combination, designed with all integrated tools useful for rapid deployment of a viable solution for freelance auction script. Freelance Clone Script easy to manage and very simple to deploy, comes with a web-based administrative panel has the capabilities to manage users, financial transactions, categories and all relevant aspects of the system, with few clicks of the mouse. The script also comes with a built in accounting system which helps to monitor earnings, transactions, choose payment solutions and set commission rates or a flat fee chargeable to freelancers and webmasters. The system also facilitates payment to freelancers after they successfully finish a job.

Front End Features:

• Projects are categorized into skill categories for convenient browsing
• Front page display for project skill categories, front page featured projects and latest projects
• Skill category ordering can be configured by admin or be set to alphabetic
• Support for featured / Paid project listings
• Contact us form for getting feedback from visitors
• Tell a friend system
• Email verification (Can be switched On / Off from admin panel)
• Password retrieval system
• Support for running Google ad words

Special Features for Freelancers / Service providers:

• Advanced Search based on keywords and skills
• Flexible keyword matching for search
• Latest / featured projects section
• Manage bids on projects
• Place bid, Retract bid, Accept / Reject projects upon selection
• View financial transactions
• Maintenance of online account for financial transactions
• Add funds to account
• Option to withdraw funds by Paypal
• Set project alerts to be sent in email
• Discuss projects on project discussion board
• Send private messages to Webmasters / Service providers

Special Features for Service Seekers / Webmasters:

• Post multiple projects
• Notification for actions regarding projects
• Rate and write review for service Providers / Freelancers
• Maintain online account of all financial transactions
• Close project bidding and select service provider to work on the project
• Manage open, closed and under work projects

Admin Panel Features:

• Number of Approved / Unapproved projects
• Admin overall control to a member
• Admin create a member in programmer or buyer
• Projects posted today / yesterday / last 7 days etc.
• Pending withdrawal / make featured requests notification on admin home page
• Switch ON-OFF email verification process
• View all billing transactions
• Extensive member management console
• View / Edit / Delete Members
• Search members
• Extensive project management console
• Search / Edit / Remove / Approve projects
• Extensive bids management console
• Search / Edit / Delete / Approve bids
• Email members individually or collectively
• Visitor feedback section
• Sponsored ad management
• Support for running Google ad words

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Freelance requires the following pre-requisites for your server:

• Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server
• PHP 4.4.0/5.1.0 and higher (register_globals must be Off, safe_mode must be Off, exec() must be allowed and allow_url_fopen also must be On) with mbstring, domxml and xsl extensions (they are required to run Orca forum and support UTF-8)
• MySQL 4.1.2 and higher
• Sendmail or Postfix
• 15 MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation
• MySQL DB space for an average user
• Minimum Web Space - 200 MB