Adverts#
The posted listings. Find them under Inzerce → Inzeráty.
What an advert carries#
The content itself — title, description, price, photos — are parameters. Only these fields are fixed:
| Block | Contents |
|---|---|
| Classification | categories (possibly several), who posted it |
| Posting | time, IP, language; read-only |
| Activation | the editing password, activation key (read-only), confirmed on, approved (switch) and approved on |
| Moderation | paid, banned, deactivated, deleted, reported, sold |
| Validity | expiry, promoted until |
| Counters | views on the detail and in listings |
The moderation fields appear only once a category is picked
Until one is chosen the form is nearly empty. That is not a fault — the system does not know which parameters to offer.
An advert's journey#
- The user posts it.
- They confirm it by a link in an email — if confirmation is enabled for their kind of author (logged in, not logged in).
- You approve it — if automatic approval is off. Otherwise it is approved by itself.
- It is paid for, unless the category is free.
- It shows until its validity runs out.
Steps 2 to 4 are simultaneous conditions; there is no order to wait for. An advert is visible on the site only once it is paid (if the category is paid), approved and confirmed. After posting, the site tells the author straight away what the advert is waiting for.
Blacklist and disabled categories
An advert with an e-mail, phone or IP address from the blacklist is rejected on posting. A visitor cannot post into a disabled category or an Admin only category — see Categories. Neither limits you in the administration.
Approval and confirmation are two different things#
| Step | Who does it |
|---|---|
| Confirmation | the user, by an email link |
| Approval | you, in the administration |
The confirmation setting decides only at the moment of posting — flipping it later neither hides nor publishes adverts already posted. Details in Settings.
Keep both on until you know what people post
Confirmation filters out made-up email addresses, approval the rest. Once it is clear no spam is arriving, you can turn either or both off.
The advert list: approved and confirmed#
The list has Schváleno (approved) and Potvrzeno (confirmed) columns. Their filter offers Čeká na schválení (awaiting approval) and Čeká na potvrzení (awaiting confirmation) — handy when automatic approval is off and you are looking for what to review.
The activation key is read-only
In the advert's edit form the activation key field holds only a fingerprint, not the key from the email, so it cannot be copied or changed. To confirm an advert on the author's behalf, fill in Ověřeno dne (confirmed on) or approve it with the Schváleno (approved) switch.
Moderation flags#
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Paid | the paid category has been settled |
| Banned | an administrator stepped in |
| Deactivated | temporarily hidden |
| Deleted | removed by the user or by you |
| Reported | it has an unresolved report from visitors — see Reported adverts; read-only |
| Sold | the goods are no longer available — the advert leaves listings, its detail stays with a "Sold" notice and can no longer be replied to |
Deletion is soft
The advert disappears from listings but the data stays. It can therefore be restored — and there is something to go on in a dispute.
Reported adverts#
Visitors can report an advert. All reports are in Inzerce → Nahlášené inzeráty (Reported adverts); one row is one report. Diskuze → Nahlášené příspěvky works the same way.
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Advert | the reported advert; click to open its edit form. If it has been deleted meanwhile, it reads "(advert was deleted)" |
| Reported by | the user, or "not logged in" |
| Reported | when |
| Note | text from the reporter — the site does not send one today, so it is usually empty |
| Status | Unresolved or Resolved |
When opened, only unresolved reports are shown; the Status filter also offers Resolved and All.
Procedure: handle a report#
- Open Inzerce → Nahlášené inzeráty.
- Click the advert to open its edit form and decide — keep it, deactivate, ban or delete it.
- Go back to the overview and click Resolve on the row. It leaves the unresolved list.
A resolved report goes back among the unresolved ones with Reopen (switch the Status filter to Resolved or All). Delete removes only the report record; the advert stays as it is.
The Reported flag follows by itself
The advert is marked Reported while it has at least one unresolved report. Resolving or deleting the last one switches the flag off, reopening switches it on. That is why it is read-only in the list and in the edit form.
After resolving, it can be reported again
The same visitor (logged in by account, not logged in by IP address) always has at most one unresolved report per advert. Once you resolve it, they can report it again.
View counters#
The real counters Detail views and Listing views are raised by the website itself. In the form they are read-only — saving the advert does not change them, so it does not overwrite the views the website added while you had the form open.
Next to them are the optional figures Fake detail views and Fake listing views, which can be set by hand.
Hand-set figures distort your statistics and are visible to users
If you raise them to make an advert look busier, do it knowing that you are devaluing your own evidence about what people are interested in.
Editing an advert in the administration#
An ordinary edit in the administration sends no emails — not activation, not saved searches, not followers. The exception is four decisions about the advert, which the advertiser learns about by email:
| What you do | Email to the advertiser |
|---|---|
| you approve an advert that was not yet approved, with the Approved switch | "Advert activated" with a link to the advert |
| you ban the advert (the Banned flag is switched on) | "Advert blocked" for violating the rules |
| you mark the advert deleted (the Deleted switch) | "Advert removed" |
| you deactivate the advert (in the form or with the switch in the list) | "Advert deactivated" |
One save sends at most one email, in the order ban > deletion > deactivation > approval. Permanent deletion from the list and account anonymisation send no email.
This applies both to saving the form and to the Banned switch in the advert list.
The email goes out only after a successful save and only for an advert that has an
email address filled in. Approving a banned advert sends no email. You can edit the
message texts in the email templates under the keys
BZ_ADVERT_ACTIVATION_NOTICE, BZ_ADVERT_BAN, BZ_ADVERT_DELETE and BZ_ADVERT_DEACTIVATION
(in the company directory with the CC_ prefix).
The email about an edited advert
When the advertiser saves an edit of the advert on the website, they can get a
confirmation (BZ_ADVERT_EDITATION, in the directory CC_ADVERT_EDITATION). It is off
after installation — switch it on with the Active toggle in the
email templates. Deleting an advert on the
website sends "Advert removed" just like the switch in the administration.
Procedure: reject an advert#
- Open the advert in Inzerce → Inzeráty.
- Tick Banned (or switch it directly in the list, in the Banned column).
- Save. The advertiser receives an email saying the advert has been blocked.
The advertiser learns about a ban immediately
The email goes out every time the Banned flag is switched on. Banning and immediately unbanning "just to try" sends the advertiser a ban notice even though the advert stayed.
Other changes in the administration notify nobody
That is deliberate — otherwise every typo fix would send out dozens of messages. Count on followers and saved searches not knowing about your change.
The editing password#
An advert posted without logging in carries a password that allows editing.
The password cannot be deleted, only replaced
An empty field means "keep the current one". To take a user's access away, enter a new password and the old one stops working.
Price and sorting#
The price is a parameter; its value is also stored as a number for sorting and filtering.
Prices in different currencies are not converted
Sorting "by price" therefore mixes currencies. On a single-currency board that does not matter; on a multi-currency one, expect it.
If you change a price directly in the database or in bulk, it corrects itself at the next routine recalculation.
Followers#
An advert carries a list of people following it.
They are only alerted when the price changes
A change of title, description or photos alerts nobody. And deleting a follower is irreversible — unlike replies, it is not a soft delete.