Request: Plugin for managing advertisers locally.

I totally expect that this would take some time if accepted as a new feature, but I'd love a plugin for vBulletin (or Xenforo for that matter) that would create a page for an advertiser to sign up, create and manage ads, make payments, all without leaving my forum/web site.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how this works, I need to send my advertisers to digitalpoint (I believe http://advertising.digitalpoint.com/advertiser.php is the correct page) where they need to register, find my forum in the list of available advertisers, and then do the normal ad creation steps.

I would hope that a plugin could streamline these steps, and simplify the registration for the advertiser. Of course the plugin could have the option to allow the advertiser to search the system for other venues to advertise in.

I'm only just starting to work with Digital Point for advertising, and I know my advertisers, if they need to jump through too many hoops, they give up.

This is more of my pie in the sky vision for this system, it may be too much to ask.

 

Shawn,

That's great news.

In the mean time, I'm planning to create an instructional video for my site to help advertisers find their way.

Also, is there a way to adjust the javascript dropdown notice about advertising being available? Right now it dumps advertisers directly on Digital Point, and I'm considering creating a landing page with information about advertising and such before sending them here. On the other hand that's another step, counter to my previous post, but I'm trying to use a "handholding" approach with my advertisers.

Thanks for the feedback, good to now the direction we are heading.