Is there in existence a free document for businesses looking to accept Bitcoin in their store?

I live in quite an old town (Winchester) where there are a lot of wealthy businesses and market stalls who would likely be interested to accept the currency. I don't have the time to go around to each business and try to explain how everything works.

So is there a prewritten document that I could hand out to business owners when I talk to them, that would outline how and why they should look into accepting the currency?

 

Currently working on image upload for listings

It's a bit of a mess but it is almost working (slight issue with form resubmission reuploading the image I might have to ask for a bit of help with this if it turns out to be an issue)

I will try and get this working then all is required is admin customisation ie how much a listing will cost and duration of the listing and working out how to take payments

Hopefully I will have a working model by the end of the month which people can download and run

I think having a free directory script is like having a free faucet script, they're not needed by any means, but they mutually beneficial to the Bitcoin businesses and consumers, for a start there is only a handful of Bitcoin directories, some of which charge up to BTC20 for a listing which is absolutely crazy, no directory listing it worth 2k

As escrow stated it is just a base directory, I don't use or know anything about Json RPC nor know how I would use it to connect all the directories together. However, you are more than welcome to edit the script to include this functionality if you wish to

The idea is to really push Bitcoin on the web - lots of directories means lots of places businesses can submit their sites to get traffic. They won't hit #1 on google just from directory submissions but it will help

And anyway, it's free so if anyone has spare hosting space it's something that could make them some easy money on the side

Contact Form implemented as well as other miner changes with categories

Contact Form

https://i.imgur.com/Wqmv4C1.png

- Submit name, question, website etc
    - Captcha form validation

- Message successfully sent
https://i.imgur.com/4ny1JzX.png

- Messages do not get sent to admin - instead they are added to the database where the admin can respond to them
https://i.imgur.com/DxGzugp.png

- Once a message or inquiry has been responded to you can chose to leave it and return to other inquiries or delete it
https://i.imgur.com/QniXaMa.png


Still left to do

- Add admin login for backend

- Integrate payments with Inputs.io
    - Refund payment if listing is rejected

- Allow admin customisations
    - Change logo
    - Change site/directory name
    - Change Inputs address
    - Change pricing for Premium and Featured listings
    - Enable nominal fee for standard listings if wanted

- Listings
    - Upload photo for listing to be used on premium, featured and listing page


Download : http://ge.tt/2z944Mo/v/0

Stable release - payments are not integrated but all features working

 

Does anyone know any good file upload scripts?

Definitely looking forward to this

Thank you for the reply

Good to know that you have already verified the listing - perhaps a small symbol would be good to add to listings that you have verified ownership of?

The project definitely looks interesting as well, I look forward to seeing it when it launches, certainly something that holds great benefit

It might be worth funding the original bitcoinstarter project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclear/nfc-ring

For a start there's no clear evidence that the bitcoinstarter project is legit, and I doubt it would be worth funding the Bitcoin one anyway unless you have like BTC30

* YOU MIGHT GET SQL ERRORS *
_{I tried to find all sql errors I could ie tables don't exist - I might not have found them all so please let me know if the code breaks}

* THIS IS FAR FROM COMPLETION *
_{This project is a while away from production please only use the script below to test the system}


** New download below **

Error : there is an error on place-listing.php file - on line 31 replace $_SESSION['$featured'] with $_SESSION['featured']

There's more than just one error in the script I'm working on a more stable release that should be ready by tonight


Link to the project - sorry about the folder spam

To install you will need to either have online hosting or local host

Import the directory.sql into your phpmyadmin or whatever you use

Copy the directory files to your server/local directory

Load up the webpage - if nothing loads try domain/directory/index.php

Access admin via domain/directory/admin/[index.php]

Please let me know if you find any bugs or if you have any ideas

This is not stable for a live and production site - it is likely full of bugs and exploits so please dont use it in production yet

Luke

Cool I'll see if I can have it patched up and working (to a degree) and I'll let you know when it's ready to be tested, hopefully later tonight or tomorrow


Btw do you know any good hosting sites I could put the zip file on?

P.S due to the captcha files the total size is > 7MB - without the captcha < 200KB - I will try and find a smaller one for the actual release

I think a more important bet for BB would be what will happen to Jessie

He's the perfect spin-off character but could also get brutally killed in the last season, or even arrested

In terms of the out come for Walt

I don't think it is very likely he will survive, remember he has the DEA breathing down his neck (Hank hinted at knowing in the last ep) and he has cancer which has been in remission but I think it's likely to be the thing that kills him

Would people be interested if I did a prerelease so people can view the code and perhaps make their own customisation?
The script still has a while to go but it is a rather stable release, when I have submissions working I am more than happy to let people have a play with it

@ Cyrus

The site is all bootstrap 3 (RC1) I have fixed all the migration issues, of cause if they change the syntax more as they release newer versions I will update the script as needed

@ defaced

The project will be a free script to which anyone is free to edit and customize. I haven't looked into copyrighting and public licencing but I plan on making a free base script and make plugins which I can sell for a nominal fee to unlock features like google mapping and ratings

This is what I currently plan at least, if you think an open source project would be better, let me know why and I'll see if it would be worth making it open source

Luke

New features + changes


Homepage

Changed featured listing from 3 separate listings to just one


Listings page

Added listing page

- Enter website info.
    -Website name
    -Website url
    -Website description
-Captcha code to stop spam entries
https://i.imgur.com/BS1qWko.png

Listing page links to review listing page

- Review details from Listing page
https://i.imgur.com/hXyHGJX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GdPz6gn.png - Select from standard, premium and featured listings

Appreciate it, thanks

Working approve + decline entries

Icons in right hand corner of each entry will show whether the user has;

- Paid for their entry (Bitcoin)
- Paid for a premium entry (Star)
- Paid for a featured entry (Trophy)

New listings will show the total number of unapproved listings to the right of the tab title

That's pretty much all the updates for today

 

Still in a alpha phase - only have the menu and directory listings working still have to do the admin side


And because I just updated to bootstrap 3.0 there is a few design changes that need to be done