Wedding photographer $2.5K-$4K
Austin, TX · Sat, Sep 19 · posted 4 min ago
5 cr
Listora Pro
Turn the directory into a paying business, on your schedule.
Charge for listings and featured spots, earn from the leads you send, or run a marketplace where buyers post and businesses quote. The parts that touch money ship switched off, so you turn each one on when you have decided to charge.
vendor.listora / activate-listing
Available credits
500 450 400
Holding 100 Committed
Choose a listing plan
1
Hold 100 credits
Reserved, not deducted
2
Validate + provision
Listing fields, payment, coupon
3
Commit + go live
Atomic, refundable if anything fails
Listing live Featured for 60 days · expires Jul 24
Ledger: -100 cr
- 4.8/5 on Trustpilot
- 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
- Stripe and PayPal Checkout
- Priority Support
- GPL Licensed
The only plugin of its kind
Four ways a directory earns with Pro
Switch on the ones that fit your market. Paid plans and the needs marketplace stay off until you enable them.
Making the directory pay
Three ways to earn, and none of them turn themselves on
A directory can charge for the listing, for the lead, or for the quote. Pro ships all three, with the two that touch money switched off until you say otherwise.
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Off until you switch it on
Charge for the listing itself
Pricing plans, featured placement and a credit balance, paid through Stripe or PayPal, with coupons and a transactions screen behind them.
The whole monetization side ships dormant, so activating Pro never quietly opens a checkout on a live directory.
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On from the start
Earn from the leads you send
A contact form in the listing sidebar that a guest can use, emailing the owner with Reply-To set to the sender so they answer directly.
Built to survive the open internet: three messages an hour per sender and listing, twenty a day per listing, and a honeypot that returns success rather than telling a bot it failed.
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Off until you switch it on
Run a needs marketplace
A buyer posts what they want with a budget, deadline and urgency. Owners of a matching listing within 25km are told, and reply with a quote for whatever you decide a quote costs.
Accepting one quote rejects the rest and closes the need, so nobody is left waiting on an answer that is never coming.
How the switches work
A feature that is off has no surface at all
- Twenty switches, thirteen on
- One registry is the single source of truth for what a fresh install runs, and the seven that start off are the ones you would want to decide about yourself.
- Off means gone, not hidden
- A disabled feature is never constructed, so its REST routes never register and leave the index entirely. Nothing is sitting there behind a permission check.
- That is why the money is opt-in
- A directory you already run should not gain a payment endpoint because you installed an update. You turn revenue on when you have decided to charge.
Needs marketplace
Buyers post what they need. Businesses send quotes.
Buyers describe a job with a budget, deadline, urgency and location. Once you approve it, owners with a matching listing nearby are emailed and can reply with a quote.
Matched by type and distance
Owners see open needs that match their listing type within 25 km, right in their dashboard.
A response cost you control
Set what a quote costs in credits, or zero. Credits are held first and deducted once the quote is saved.
Buyers pick one quote
Accepting a quote declines the others and marks the need fulfilled. Open needs expire after their deadline.
listora-pro / needs-marketplace
Engagement shoot $800-$1.2K
Austin, TX · flexible · 12 min ago
Family portraits $400-$700
Round Rock, TX · weekday · 38 min ago
1 quote sent · Buyer notified · vendor charged 5 credits on Hold-and-Commit
Free vs Pro
What free Listora covers, and what Pro adds
Free runs a complete public directory. Pro adds the parts that earn money and share the moderation load.
Listora
Free $0 forever
Pro from $69/yr
Earning
Paid listing plans with auto-renew
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Credit packs via Stripe and PayPal
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Coupons, receipts and refunds
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Featured listings
Set by admin
Bought with credits
Needs marketplace with paid quotes
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Leads and trust
Contact the owner from a listing
Contact form
Lead form + analytics
Reviews with owner replies
Per-aspect ratings and photo reviews
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Business claims
Verified Business mark and badges
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Discovery
Radius and map search
Leaflet
Leaflet or Google Maps
Compare 2 to 4 listings
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Saved searches with email alerts
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Type-in-location landing pages
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Quick view and infinite scroll
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Running the site
Moderation queue
Moderator role and audit log
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Signed outgoing webhooks
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BuddyPress activity and profile tabs
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Migrate from other directory plugins
WP-CLI
WP-CLI + admin screen
Other Pro tools owners switch on
Each has its own toggle on the Features screen, so you enable only what you use.
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Owner and site analytics
Owners see views and leads for each listing. You see site-wide trends and search keywords, with CSV export.
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Lead form on every listing
Visitors message the owner from the listing sidebar. The owner's email has Reply-To set, and rate limits stop floods.
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Per-aspect and photo reviews
Ratings for aspects such as food, service and value, a breakdown chart, and up to five photos per review.
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Compare listings
Visitors add two to four listings to a floating compare bar and open a side-by-side table.
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Saved searches with alerts
Members save a search and get a daily email when new listings match it.
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Location landing pages
Generate type-in-location pages, such as dentists in a city, with their own titles, schema and sitemap entries.
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Moderator team and audit log
Give trusted members the Listora Moderator role and a front-end queue. Every action lands in an exportable audit log.
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Private or Coming Soon mode
Keep the directory for signed-in members only, or show a Coming Soon page while you load listings. Hide just the directory so your blog, pages and shop stay public, or the whole site.
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Webhooks and Google Places import
Send signed events to automation tools or your own URL, and import businesses from Google Places.
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BuddyPress and white label
Post listing, review and claim activity to BuddyPress. Rename the plugin and its admin menu for client sites.
Pro, on screen
Revenue, trust and team screens in Pro
Credit Transactions with totals, filters and every top-up and deduction
Analytics overview with page views, clicks and top listings by views
Coupons with type, value, usage count and expiry
Badges with automatic conditions such as verified status or average rating
Open buyer requests on the Needs page with type and urgency filters
The audit log of status changes, filterable by action, type, user and date
Every Pro feature in each plan. Sites set the price.
Pay once and own it forever, or pick the annual plan. All features included in every plan, no hidden add-ons.
Listora Free
Unlimited sites
Free
- Unlimited sites, no license key
- 11 blocks, no page builder needed
- Faceted, radius and map search
- Step-by-step listing submission
- Business claims with admin approval
- Reviews with owner replies
- Honeypot, CAPTCHA and Akismet checks
- 9 demo packs
- REST API and WP-CLI
- Free forever, no feature locks
Single
1 site
$199 one-time
or $69/year
- 1 site license
- Every Pro feature toggle
- Paid plans and credit packs
- Stripe, PayPal and 5 plugin adapters
- Lead form and verification badges
- Needs marketplace
- White-label branding
- Updates and priority support, annual or lifetime
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Most popular
5 Sites
5 sites
$299 one-time
or $99/year
- Everything in Single, plus:
- 5 site licenses
- Priority email support
- Updates and support, annual or lifetime
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Agency
Unlimited sites
$499 one-time
or $199/year
- Everything in 5 Sites, plus:
- Unlimited site licenses
- Priority support
- 30-day money-back guarantee
The plugin keeps working. Updates and support stop until you renew.
Free forever. Annual licenses include a year of updates and support and renew at 30% off. Lifetime licenses are a one-time payment and never expire.
Money, payments and setup questions
Do I need free Listora installed?
Yes. Listora Pro extends the free plugin and needs Listora 1.7.0 or newer active. Both need WordPress 6.9+ and PHP 7.4+.
Can I keep listings free now and charge later?
Yes. Monetization is off on new installs, so owners submit for free. Turn it on from the Features screen when you are ready to sell plans.
How do owners pay?
Through Stripe or PayPal checkout, or through WooCommerce, WooCommerce Subscriptions, WooCommerce Memberships, Paid Memberships Pro or MemberPress. Every payment adds credits to the same balance.
What if activation fails after an owner picks a plan?
Nothing is lost. Choosing a plan holds the credits first, and they are deducted only after the listing activates. If any step fails, the hold is cancelled.
What happens when a plan's time runs out?
With Auto-renew ticked, the plan cost comes out of the owner's credit balance and the listing keeps running. If the balance is short, the listing pauses and resumes after a top-up.
Is any feature kept for a higher tier?
No. Single, 5 Sites and Agency include every Pro feature, including the needs marketplace and white label. Tiers differ only by site count.
What does white label change?
It replaces the plugin name on the Plugins screen and in the admin menu, and can hide the author details. It suits agencies handing a site to a client.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Every Pro plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Pair Listora Pro with these
- Not ready to pay Start on Listora free Search, maps, submissions, reviews and claims, with no licence key.
- Listing jobs, not businesses A paid job board instead Employers buy credits to post, and AI ranks who applied.
- A directory inside a community The 26-plugin community bundle Profiles, groups and messaging around the people using your directory.
Start charging for listings when you are ready
One licence covers every Pro feature. Tiers differ by how many sites they cover, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.