GBS Developer
Sprout Venture
Sprout Venture is the Featured Developer for all GBS Projects.
Since 2009 Sprout Venture has been working diligently on creating and expanding the capabilities of Group Buying Site (GBS). Our contributions to GBS have helped it evolve into a remarkable social buying platform that’s utilized by many businesses worldwide. Along the way we’ve also designed and developed several GBS themes and custom built features for our clients.
Our Company Bio
Based in Ventura CA, we specialize in web solutions that grow businesses on the internet. Whether you’re a website owner that needs some help or a small business that’s starting out or a large social networking site with over a million users we can help.
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Promotional Deals Widget and Embeds
Place widgets on your GBS site to provide your members and merchants with embed codes to place on their own site. This allows for your merchants to advertise deals being sold on your site to be advertised on their own…
Buy it! $49.00 Learn MoreCheckout Notes
Adds a notes field to checkout for customers to add custom purchase messages that are shown on the purchase and voucher reports. Option to add a textarea next to the add-to-cart fields is also available if you’re using the attributes features.…
Buy it! $39.00 Learn MoreMembership w/ Subscription Payments
Create a deal to sell memberships to your content or even exclusive deals on your site. GBS Memberships is easy to use since it takes advantage of Paypal subscriptions to automatically collect and manage payments for recurring billing. Common Uses…
Buy it! $99.00 Learn MorePiggy Pro Integration
Piggy is a web-app that provides mobile access to view sales data. Works on both iOS and Android. This add-on allows for your GBS site’s data to be integrated with Piggy.
Buy it! $19.00 Learn MoreAdvanced Google Analytics Integration
By using Google Analytics with your Ecommerce website, you can gain valuable insights about your transactions, ROI, and customers. Use Google Analytics goals and funnels to understand where users are converting. By seeing where customers leave each step, you can…
Buy it! $29.00 Learn MoreAuto Cart and Widget
Provides a way for your registered visitors to easily add items to their cart without being redirected to the cart. After activating this add-on clicking the standard add-to-cart button the item will be added to the customer’s cart in the…
Buy it! $59.00 Learn MoreRestricted Registration w/ E-Mail Verification
Limit registrations to specific domains and requires email verification for all registrations before they can view deals on your site.
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Featured Merchants and Custom Meta
Allow for merchants/business to be “Featured” and be listed on at a new url (default is site.com/featured/merchants). Also, easily add new custom fields to the merchant admin page, template tags are available for the use within a child theme. This…
Buy it! $19.00 Learn MoreRestrict Locations for Editors/Admins
Restrict the locations that users (by role or specific user) can view, add, and edit in the admin panel. Great for location managers that need admin access to manage their deals.
Buy it! $39.00 Learn MoreLockdown – Extends Force Login
Lockdown the site so no one but users you specify have access to any deals. Visitors will have access to their account and WP pages though, including registration pages for visitors not yet members of your site. Fully compatible with the…
Buy it! $14.00 Learn MoreSagePay Payment Processing
Use SagePay for your payment processing solution. Making it safe and easy for your customers to pay you is essential – payment channels aren’t just a part of your business, but its lifeblood. At Sage Pay, we recognise that every…
Buy it! $199.00 Learn MoreBackground Image Resizer (backstretch)
Dynamically resizes the background image to fit the browser width. Much like Livingsocial.com. Works with the default background option found under “Appearance > Background” and the location specific background. Update: Version 1.1 Available
Buy it! $24.00 Learn MoreSingle Deal Purchases with Purchase Limits
What does this do? Disables the ability to purchase multiple deals by limiting the GBS cart, also provides new payment gateways for authorization and capture. Why limit the cart? Even though the GBS cart can consist of multiple deals ending…
Buy it! $49.00 Learn MoreSimple Charities
Adds a charity selection at checkout that doesn’t require deal attributes. New reports are also available. Charity Selection on Checkout Confirmation Messaging Reports
Buy it! $39.00 Learn MoreCredit Limiter
Add on creates an option for limiting the number of credits a customer can use per transaction. So if admin enters a limit of 10 credits, users can’t apply any more than 10 credits per purchase.
Buy it! $19.00 Learn MoreOffsite Purchasing
Allows the customer to checkout without settling payment onsite. Payments are done offsite and the admin will verify payments and activate vouchers manually. Example usage: Allow your customers to pay the merchant directly Allow for bank purchases
Buy it! $25.00 Learn MoreSnapshot Stats Widgets
Front-end widget for all users with some additional stats for site admins. Widget Customization Options: Title Customized stats based on pre-defined deal ids Show the entire widget only to admins Reset cache every X minutes Dashboard widget for quick stats.
Buy it! $25.00 Learn MoreSubscription Lightbox
Redirects new users to the latest deal and serves a lightbox for subscriptions. Complete background color control: New Release – Version 1.6.3 New Features: NEW – Bypass option Full IE Support Full Background Color Option Background Opacity Window Scroll…
Buy it! $39.00 Learn MoreRegistration Captcha (reCaptcha)
Simple way to add a captcha (reCaptcha) to your GBS site’s registration page.
Buy it! $17.00 Learn MoreLoyalty Pricing
Provide your customers with alternative pricing based on their loyalty to previous purchases from a merchant. Time restrictions allows scenarios for a customer to receive an alternate price if they purchased from Merchant A in the last X days. Options…
Buy it! $49.00 Learn MoreMember Pricing
Simple way to allow specific accounts to receive alternate pricing. Check a box on the customer’s account page and they’ll see the alternate pricing automatically. Loyalty Pricing Add-on Required.
Buy it! $31.00 Learn MorePurchase Limit Enabler
Enable purchase limits and dynamic pricing for gateways that explicitly disable them. You will be required to manually refund the difference in purchase costs, GBS will not do this automatically.
Buy it! $5.00 Learn MoreDigital Downloads
Sell digital downloads alongside your regular deals (with vouchers) or simply make your site a digital download store. Digital Downloads gives you the options to: Convert a standard deal to a digital download deal. Select a file from a private…
Buy it! $39.00 Learn MoreDeal Suggestions – Submit and Vote
Easily allow any registered user to suggest a deal and provide your community with the opportunity to vote up all deal suggestions. Details: Allow registered users (registered merchants or not ) to suggest a deal by submitting one on your…
Buy it! $49.00 Learn MoreBeanstream Payments
Provide Beanstream onsite credit card purchasing. “Your first choice for secure online credit card processing, online merchant accounts, and direct debit / direct payment solutions.” Purchase limits with this gateway have been disabled. Please read about it in the forum…
Buy it! $59.00 Learn MoreInvitation Only
Restrict registrations to invited guests that receive private tokens from admins or other members. Creation Simple and easy setup, wether it’s from the admin or from the WordPress widget for other members. Management…
Buy it! $59.00 Learn MoreCustom Registration Fields
This is an advanced plugin built for developers; support is limited to bug reports only. Allows you to add new custom fields to your registration page, account edit screen and add the fields to purchase and voucher reports. If you’re…
Buy it! $19.00 Learn MoreCustom Buy Now Url Redirects
Redirect the user to a custom URL when they click the buy now button. Very easy to setup.
Buy it! $9.00 Learn MorePayment Express – PxPay Offsite Payments
Allows offsite payments via Payment Express. “The DPS Hosted Payments Package is suitable for all web sites that need to process credit card payments in real time. It is suited to all sizes of merchants, is highly cost effective and…
Buy it! $99.00 Learn MoreRegistration Rewards
Reward a new user by crediting their account automatically.
Buy it! $19.00 Learn MorePurchase Restrictions
Allow merchant to determine amount of days that a user (with a billing address backup check) can purchase from them regardless of the amount of deals the merchant has available Custom Rules: Allow merchant, if they choose, to create a…
Buy it! $35.00 Learn MoreBluePay Payment Processor
Use BluePay for your payment processing solution. When you partner with BluePay, you receive high levels of service and security from a credit card processing company that knows the payment industry inside and out. From e-commerce payment gateways to retail…
Buy it! $29.00 Learn MoreCategory and Location Filtering
This is beta software and treated as such. The forum will be limited to major bugs and questions only no feature demands requests. Since it’s very likely this solution will only deliver 80% of what you want but the other…
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