jAnswers Factory provides the perfect Question and Answers Solution for the Joomla CMS integrating features from the well know Jahoo Answers system.

Users can ask questions, Community provides answers. Once a question placed, this can be extended (as period) if not answered. A Ranking system for answers is also available. Users can Report offensive text, mark Favourite Questions or use the extended search through the Knowledgebase.

jAnswers Factory brings also several charging posibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable bussiness. From this features it worths mentioning the followings:

  • Pay-per-Question
  • Pay for featured Question
  • Pay-per-Contact
  • Support for "beer money" payments
  • Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and Moneybookers
  • Native SEF integration (all question links are SEF!)

Other noticable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email) and Community Builder Integration.

On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here a short list:

  • set avatar size
  • set time period for questions
  • block offensive questions/answers
  • manage abuse reports
  • manage payments
  • import/export questions & answer
  • manage extended profile
  • user statistics 

The component comes also with a free 5.000 records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). Bigger database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Available modules are:

  • Latest Questions
  • Popular Questions
  • Open Questions
  • Random Questions
  • Featured Questions
  • Tag Cloud, etc.

Requirements:

  • Joomla 1.5.x

Installation: DO NOT USE directly the received downloadlink as a install kit! The file "jAnswers_Factory_CHECK_INSIDE_1.x.x.zip" contains inside two zip files, who are the actual installation kits:

  • jAnswers_Factory_1.x.x.zip (Install Kit),
  • jAnswers_Factory_sample_data.zip (archive including the sample data).