Change messaging once someone adds a listing

everythingmorinville

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Hello, where do I change automatically generated messages like this one that people see once they click the button to submit their listing? The listing is not, in fact, live and the person who submitted it will now also get an email thanking them and telling them that we'll let them know when it is live. I just cannot figure out where this message lives to change it.

opadalton

In GD, Wpuser and Getpaid you can acitvate and deactivate email you want to send and alter the text. All can be foud under 'settings'.

everythingmorinville

Thanks, but the email is not the problem, the problem is the automatically generated message (or notification?) that pops up after the user submits a new business listing on the site.

My 'New listing default status' is set to 'Pending Review' but the message generated for the user upon clicking 'submit' is 'Your listing is now live and can be viewed here' (you can see in the screenshot I uploaded above).

The new listing properly shows 'Pending' as its status in the dashboard.

I still cannot figure out how to find/change this.

opadalton

Dumb thing to ask maybe, but are new ads indeed pending or does the system despite your settings publish them anyway?

On my websites the pending notices work just fine, so my guess would be that some settings are not correct for what you want.

everythingmorinville

Yeah, tested a couple more this morning and they are auto publishing. The email saying, 'thanks, we'll let you know,' did not get sent, only the one saying, 'your listing is live.'

Which would be great if the 'New listing default status' wasn't set to Pending Review.

Just tested my first 'Claim Listing' and same issue. Message 1 on the form: 'fill this out and we will be in touch' then Message 2 on the screen once you submit: 'Your request to claim has been approved. View the listing here.' Message 3 in the email: 'thanks for the claim, we'll be in touch.' And the claim request shows properly in the dashboard under Pending Claims.

Something's off the rails here. Back to the drawing board, I guess.

everythingmorinville

Got it ... here's the solution if anyone else arrives here. If you don't want new listings to automatically go live on your site:

Setting your Geodirectory Settings - New listing default status to Pending Review isn't enough - you also have to go to your Packages and set the Paid Listing Status to Pending Review (even on your Free listings).

To get the messaging right on Claim Listings, go to Geodirectory - Settings - Claim Listings - Settings (very subtle, in the top left) and turn off 'Auto approve on payment received'. (You may not need this if your payment system isn't kicking in to issue $0 invoices on your free listings - mine was).

shbbc

Did anybody figure out how to customise the wording of the notification / success message that pops up after the user completes and submits their listing?