Newspaper classifieds software for the paper's online pages.
Yclas is newspaper classifieds software for local and regional publishers: a classifieds site under your masthead, on a subdomain like classifieds.yourpaper.com, where readers place and pay for ads themselves. Notices, motors, property, garage sales and services, with your own prices per category.
Free for 15 days · No credit card · Online ads only, on your own subdomain
A classifieds platform for publishers of any size.
Classified revenue moved online years ago. A paper's name, its readers and its local trust are still worth more than a national portal's reach in one town.
A newspaper classified ad system, online.
Real screenshots of the Harlow Bay Herald, a made-up local paper on Yclas with the Masthead look. The ads are invented; the pages are the real product.
Your sections, with the details readers search.
Recreate the paper's classified sections as categories, each with its own fields: make, year and mileage for motors, bedrooms for homes, a date and venue for notices and events. Readers filter on them; search engines read them.
- Ready-made vehicle and property packs, switched on in Settings.
- Events with a venue, end date and repeats, on a calendar page.
- Expiry per listing, so old ads leave by themselves.
Charge per section, per extra, per month.
Set a price to post in each section, free for some and paid for others. Sell featured placement, bumps and boost packages. Sell banners by the week to local businesses, with your approval. Payments go to the paper's own Stripe or PayPal account.
- Business prices: a second price per section for trade advertisers, on Professional.
- Memberships for dealers and agents who post every week, on Professional.
- Coupons for print subscribers.
Your team handles phone-in ads too.
Readers who still call can be helped by your staff: log in as the reader to place or fix their ad, or post it from an advertiser account. Moderators approve ads before they go live, and every order is listed for accounts.
- Moderator and editor roles on Professional.
- Approval before publishing, after payment or straight away.
- Import existing ads from a spreadsheet.
Online ads only: Yclas has no print workflow (ad sizes, insertion dates or page layout). If you also print the ads, your team copies them across.
Everything newspaper classifieds software should do.
Starter is $19 a month; Professional at $99 adds memberships, business prices, staff roles and a multilingual site.
For readers
- Sections, filters and search
- Notices and events
- Saved searches and alerts
- Message the advertiser
- Works on every phone
For advertisers
- Place and pay for an ad at any hour
- Featured, bump and boost packages
- Banner bookings with views and clicks
- Business accounts and memberships, on Professional
- Coupons from the paper
For the paper
- Prices per section
- Moderation and approval
- Orders list and stats
- Your subdomain, SSL, your branding
- The Masthead look, or your own design
- SEO for every ad and section
Where a paper's online classifieds earn.
Price online ads like the print ones you already sell, then add what only the web can do.
Prices are examples: you set your own, in your currency. Yclas takes no commission on what you earn. All the ways to make money →
From sign-up to the first paid ad.
- Set up your sectionsCopy the printed sections as categories and add their fields.
- Brand itStart from the Masthead look, add your logo and colours.
- Set pricesA price per section, featured extras and banner rates.
- Connect the subdomainPoint classifieds.yourpaper.com at Yclas and connect Stripe or PayPal.
- Tell readersRun a house ad in print and on the news site.
What is newspaper classifieds software?
Software that runs a paper's classified ads online: readers choose a section, write their ad, pay and publish it themselves, and the paper moderates, prices and earns from it.
Does the newspaper classifieds software handle print ads?
No. Yclas runs the online classifieds only. It has no print workflow: no ad sizes, insertion dates, page make-up or export to a print system.
Can it run on our own domain?
Yes. Use a subdomain such as classifieds.yourpaper.com or a separate domain. SSL is included and paid plans show no Yclas branding.
Can our staff place ads for callers?
Yes. Staff can log in as a reader to place or fix an ad, and on Professional you can give the ad desk moderator or editor roles.
Can we charge different prices per section?
Yes. Each category has its own price to post, and on Professional business accounts can pay a second price.
Can we sell display ads?
Yes. Banner zones in the header, between listings and on listing pages, booked by the week and approved by you. Advertisers see views and clicks.
Does Yclas take a share of our ad revenue?
No. You pay the plan price; payments go to your own Stripe, PayPal or other provider.
Can we import our current ads?
Yes. Import listings from a spreadsheet, or ask us to move you from another script.
Related pages.
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Photo credits
The screenshots show demo sites with made-up sellers. Their photos come from Wikimedia Commons, some cropped or with signs and plates blurred; these ones are under Creative Commons licences: