Features
WaypointAds was created to give Joomla website owners a modern, intuitive, and professional advertising platform. We believe powerful advertising tools should be available to everyone, which is why the Community Edition is offered as a complimentary download. Whether you're managing advertising for a personal website, a non-profit organization, or a growing business, WaypointAds Community provides a solid foundation that can grow with your needs.
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Choose Your WaypointAds Edition
WaypointAds Community provides the essential tools needed to manage advertising on a Joomla website. WaypointAds Professional builds on that complete foundation with advertiser self-service, commercial tools, approvals, packages, and payment features.
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Getting Started |
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| Guided Setup Assistant: A polite, step-by-step introduction to WaypointAds, including system checks and sensible starting defaults. |  |
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| Interactive Learning Example: Learn how advertisers, campaigns, zones, and advertisements work together without publishing anything to the website. | |
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| Start with an Empty System Experienced administrators can skip the example and begin with a clean WaypointAds installation. | |
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Core Advertising Management |
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| Advertiser Management: Create and manage advertiser records, contact details, websites, and their associated campaigns. | |
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| Campaign Management: Organize advertisements into campaigns with status, scheduling, advertiser, and zone controls. | |
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| Advertising Zones: Define where advertisements may appear and control their permitted dimensions and display behavior. | |
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| Image Advertisements: Upload display advertisements with destination links, alternative text, alignment, and browser-target settings. | |
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| HTML and Affiliate Advertisements: Display advertising supplied as HTML, affiliate code, or other supported creative content. | |
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| Advertisement Rotation: Rotate multiple eligible advertisements through the same zone. | |
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| Campaign Scheduling: Set campaign and advertisement start and end dates. | |
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| Menu Assignment: Control the Joomla pages on which zones and advertisements are eligible to appear. | |
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| Standard and Custom Advertisement Sizes: Use common advertising dimensions or create sizes suited to an individual website. | |
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| Automatic Joomla Module Creation: Create the required Joomla advertisement module when a new zone is established. | |
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Control, Safety and Reporting |
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| Administrator Dashboard: View advertising activity, totals, campaign status, system guidance, and important actions in one place. | |
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| Impression Tracking: Record how often eligible advertisements are displayed. | |
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| Click Tracking: Record visitor clicks and review campaign performance. | |
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| Date-Based Statistics: Review advertising activity across useful reporting periods. | |
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| Safety Warnings: Receive clear warnings before actions that could interrupt active advertising. | |
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| Deletion Safeguards: Help prevent the accidental removal of records that remain connected to active advertising. | |
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| Competitive Group Controls: Help prevent competing advertisers from appearing together where campaign policy requires separation. | |
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Advertiser Self-Service |
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| Front-End Advertiser Portal: Give authorized advertisers a dedicated, branded area from which to manage their advertising. |  |
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| Advertiser Dashboard: Allow each advertiser to review their campaigns, advertisements, account activity, and available actions. | |
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| Guided Advertisement Wizard: Walk advertisers through adding images and preparing advertisements without requiring administrator access. | |
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| Advertiser Media Library: Let advertisers upload and reuse approved advertising images. | |
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| Campaign and Advertisement Submissions: Permit advertisers to prepare and submit campaigns and advertisements for administrator review. | |
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| Administrator Approval Center: Review advertiser-created campaigns and advertisements before they become eligible for publication. | |
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| Approval Notifications: Alert administrators and advertising managers when new material is awaiting review. | |
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Selling Advertising |
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| Public “Advertise With Us” Page: Present available advertising opportunities directly on the website. | |
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| Rate Cards and Offerings: Create clearly priced advertising opportunities for publication on the front end. | |
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| Advertising Packages: Combine duration, impressions, clicks, and eligible advertising locations into purchasable offerings. | |
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| Multiple-Zone Packages: Let advertisers select compatible locations through which advertisements may rotate. | |
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| Complimentary Trial Offerings: Offer a controlled introductory advertising opportunity without describing the service as permanently free. | |
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| Impression-Based Offerings: Sell advertising based on an agreed number of displays. | |
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| Click-Based Offerings: Create advertising packages based on a specified number of recorded visitor clicks. | |
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| Payment Integration: Connect advertising purchases with supported online payment services. | |
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| Membership Integration: Coordinate advertiser access and account status with supported Joomla membership systems. | |
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Edition and Support |
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| Core Advertising Engine: Both editions use the same WaypointAds foundation rather than separate or incompatible systems. | |
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| Community Support: Access documentation, community discussions, and shared product knowledge. | |
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| Professional Support: Additional assistance for customers using WaypointAds as a commercial advertising platform. | |
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| Upgrade Without Rebuilding: Move from Core to Commercial while retaining the existing WaypointAds advertising structure and data. | Upgrade available | |
Included Not included in this edition
Not included in this edition 
WaypointAds is a modern advertising solution for Joomla that makes it easy to create campaigns, manage advertisers, organize creatives, and display ads across your website. Built for simplicity, flexibility, and growth, it gives you the tools to keep your advertising running smoothly from a single, intuitive interface.
