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Introduction

Vertical Markets, Vehicles, Content Construction

With Autostand it's simple to manage your vehicles, boats, trucks, motorcycles, etc, with multiple categories and subcategories, different templates for categories and/or vehicles.
Autostand includes several modules and plugins, and with the new Autostand 7.1.1

Control panel update
Tailwindcss
Mobile update

Features

Multiple categories and sub-categories
Multiple templates and assign. Allows to have different templates for cars and categories
Compare cars
Select the options available in search or category
Import/Export cars
Metakeys & Description for vehicles and categories
Image resize
Videos
Additional Files (Ex. Spec Sheets, Car Manuals, etc)
Labels
Show Cars in main pages (Car list and Main site)
Content plugin to include cars in content

Modules
Module Search
Categories
Filter Cars
Label Cars
Latest Cars
Manufacturers Module
Random Cars
Plugins
Cars into content
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Best Service I could imagine



Posted on 27 July 2009
While I will agree that there are things I wish were a little easier to use and understand with this package, it does all that he says it will.



I have ALWAYS received fantastic service from Nuno, the developer. He even did the upgrade to my site for me. He has been very patient and replied to all my emails in a timely manner as well. I have had a great experience with him and this package.



I will be using this package again soon and would recommend it to anyone needing this type of site module.

Great Potencial



Posted on 08 June 2009
Installed,tested, all acoording to client specs, site delivered to client. Simple to use, as great potencial,and now the "but" part, it does request some work from you. Not very complicated I may say, but will always depend on your goals. Frontend admin is possible, but should have more options.

As a sugestion, check demo site to see it in action. For our needs, we just used one module to create a simple site but like many other extensions needs some "personal adjustments"



Regards

Nice and Clean



Posted on 24 May 2009
The component is well thought off, but should be a little more intuitive and provide the user with some more possibilities. Although you can do the changes yourself, sometimes you don't really need to change the code, and like the example in demo, just using J! and some available options you can make things happen.

However, we think it's in the good way and with some more improvement will be one of the top.SEF option, more detail search, and some adjustments in the layout, and in our case is more then enough. Frontend is possible, although is more focus to work with backoffice.

Overall we do recommend this component if you plan to start a simple site to show your cars, or for your clients, since it as a simple backoffice not very complicated to work with.

The component not run properly



Posted on 29 April 2009
My english it's very bad, but I try to write my bad experience with this component.

This component have a very lot of errors and Nuno not response after my second colaborative email.

The thumbnails (mini pictures) dont look when I acces to edit a car in Back-end, it's posible this is un error of enroutment (direction to take picture). The pictures exist and if you open the list an select again, it's ok.

The form not is totaly visible.

The modules dont use a css and I have very problems to put in the templates beacause this. It use the colors and sizes in the module, not in the css. It's the same error whith the languages, beacause put parts in english in the code, not in the file of language.

It don't use the configuration of the component in Front-end (ex. I try to unmark the Fields 1 to 6 (why don't use) but in the car it's displayed.



This component not run properly with Templates.

This component not run with Joomfish.



I proposed two solutions to Nuno: "you correct all the errors in the pack and you send me a new version correctly, or you send me my 39,95 Euros and I search an other commercial product", but I don't have a response.



It's very disagreeable when you lost a money, be careful!
Owner's reply: I really don't understand some users...But ok, I have no control with the reviews, and even if we did, we would not edit them. The component could not rund perfet with some templates, but probably like many other extensions works with J! default template, works with some attached in the pack, works with many other templates we tested, but we did not tested it with for example comercial templates. And when problem comes, blaim extension..
About Joomfish have you check demo site?See it working? Like we said we DID NOT made the language files, and as notice where users who sent them, so probably the files where done acoording to that user needs
And last but not least have you checked your reply at 11.05.2009? Before you post such coments...Paypal 149650406 11 May 09 04:30 rings a bell? So again why such reviews? We anounce something wich users can get, a site like the demo! Modules used are exactly the same. Even the WORKING template, all in the pack.
And again, sory for the english, mine is also very bad

Best Regards
Autostand Team

Please research the developer forums before buying this!!!



Posted on 28 April 2009
Unfortunately, I would have to agree with cefnlly. I also found the food extension items buried all over the code, in addition to other snippets



For the price, I did not expect robust docs or instant support. All I ask for is an extension that does what it says.



I have spent the better part of a couple of weeks trying to get this to look/work correctly, but I'm afraid I have to abandon ship. Even after the last 'update' from Nuno, I still continue to have the same issues.



Simple things are just not handled. For example, if a user inputs a price with a separator in it (i.e. 15,000), then the search by price feature will not work. Prices need to be entered without the ',' or other separator. Of course, the system does not TELL you this, you'll get this surprise later. So, you say, just enter the price without the separator. You can do just that - if you want your front-end product display to look amateurish. It's a no-win.



The component does not play nice with many templates, and I could not even get it to perform well with the developer's own.



Simply put, please be VERY careful about paying money for this.



Oh, and my forum posts didn't receive adequate answers, even when they received a response. As cefnlly says, take a look through the forums and see the sort of answers Nuno gives. He can be extremely condescending - so be warned.
Owner's reply: Hello

Thank you for your comment. The price is set like that because when we want to say 1000 (ten thousand) we don't write 10.000 or 10,000 but 10000. So when the search was done, I just follow the same analogy. Perfect extention? No, is not! But belive me, will be one of the best!!! An the updates will still be free, even to momentis ;))
The extention works fine with joomla default templates, works fine in the demo template, but in some templates could have some incompatibility with css. All the users have their opinion but things like ..."please be VERY careful about paying money for this.." or "...He can be extremely condescending..."??? Does this really help the users? In what? Users have a demo site, can have backend access to demo site, the pack includes everything you need to make a site at least like the demo or better, the price is public (yes a fortune, for users who will sell the sites using it 20x the price of Autostand pack) but that's the idea, otherwise we would not sell it. XML files, templates, etc., have free updates, so why do they need to be THAT careful when buying a PACK??? I'm really sory if the english is not perfect. I do try to make some sense when writing. If reply's where done in Portuguese, maybe it would help a lot, but probably no one would understand it, or just few ones...

Best Regards
Nuno - Autostand Team

Dont waste your time



Posted on 12 April 2009
I buy a lot of extensions and I have to say this has got to be one of the worst paid for extensions I have ever bought. This comes without any manual. The support in the forum is non existant. Rarely do questions get answered and if you mail Nuno directly he (in almost uninteligable english) gives vague and incorrect answers or just refuses to answer your questions. Life is too short to waste on this! If you do go hacking around the code you will see that there is little originality in this. There are bits taken from lots of other peoples extensions with no effort to clean out unwanted code or to adapt to a consistent naming convention. For example there are bits of code taken from a food menu extension and bodged into autostand. The code is full of redundant food and menu related references. This sort of thing give paid for extensions a bad name.

Lacks pro qualities



Posted on 06 March 2009
I have been trying this extension on my website since yesterday. I think this extension does not have several qualities that is expected in a pro/commercial extension. I found the following issues on this version:



1. Only one view (detail view) is available. (in other words, you don't get any option to select various views while adding the component on a page)

2. There is no search module. The only option for search is on the default view. When enabled, it is displayed on every single page, even on the page that displays form to add a car.

3. It is difficult to customize the look/style of the page because the source code is not well structured. For example, the view folder is inside the model folder. The helper program is utilized to display search forms. Tons of nested tables are used for formatting.



Overall, it is good for money and worth buying if you are prepared to learn PHP and CSS.
Owner's reply: Like most of other extentions you have one detail view.
You do have search module in the full pack.Check modules folder of the received file.In fact this module is used in demo site and since it's release...About the code we've clean and adjust many of this not needed tables/code

Excenlent for small auto-sellers



Posted on 06 March 2009
I bought this extention after seeing the demo in www.autostand.net. After checking with admin, I've notice that is possible to have a site exactly like the demo, one of things that lead me to aquire it.Clearly very good for beginers. Simple, easy to use, great for small sites, but lacks some more detail search and textfields/extras.

After email author, I was informed that the new version will have this part solved, with more extras possible to edit and config in control panel. Pack very complete, including templates, modules, multilanguage, etc however, and should have more extra fields to fill. It is without doubt a reference at vertical markets, not only for cars. Editing language file is possible to adpat.In my case it was used for industrial machines, as a catalog.



Regards

Machietta

Keep the good work



Posted on 22 December 2008
As a user of Autostand pro,I was a waiting for this new version for joomla 1.5, since my sites where starting to be done using the new joomla. Recently I had a new site for autos, so I try this new version.

Many new features, much more simple to use, and some of the options that where really missing in previous version finally where implemented. Since I already knew the "way to work", this version is very simple to use, and as great potencial. With some more options would improve it a lot.

Does the job very good. Thumbs up

Jon

Autostand

Version:
7.1.1
Developer:
WebStyleCreations
Last updated:
Feb 13 2025
1 month ago
Date added:
Nov 28 2008
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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