The Site Manager is the one who decides on what item levels to offer to the Members. These levels are the options from which a Member chooses when he/she is adding a new directory item.

You are a Member and you are currently in the process of adding a new listing. Before you provide information about your listing, you are asked to select the level that you want. For this listing, you chose Showcase from the other available options like Free, Basic, and Premium.

The different item levels do not only vary in price and features. The order that items appear in a search result has a lot to do with levels.

When a site visitor searches for a specific listing, the related listings in Showcase level always appear at the top of the search results, followed by those in Premium and then those in Basic, and last are those in Free level.

To manage the levels for different item levels, do the following:

1. In the top navigation panel, click on Settings > Manage Levels. After doing this, a form will appear like the one shown below:

   

2. Go to the area of the item level that you want to manage (e.g., Listing-Level Names).
3. To make the level/s available: In the Active column, check those levels that you want.

   For the application to work properly, at least one level must remain active. We do not recommend turning off the Showcase listing because by default, promotions can only work with Showcase listings. Showcase listings are the most important listing level to sell and promotions are a great feature that Members can offer to their customers.

4. To change the default level names: In the New name column, place the new names.
5. Click on the Submit button.

In eDirectory version 7.0.15, the Site Manager can choose the listing levels that will have promotions (image shown here). This way, you can manipulate which listing level would you want a promotion to appear, and not only on the Showcase (default) level. To do this, check those levels that can have promotions in the Promotion column.