Yclas vs eDirectory
eDirectory is directory software sold as a cloud plan or a source licence, with plugins for reviews by criteria, branches, messaging and lead distribution. Yclas is a hosted directory with those built in, plus bookings, a cart, open business data and 44 languages.
- 10 AI tools, built inIncluded in eDirectory: 5 of them. The rest are paid, partial or missing.
- 21 of 40 featuresin the comparison below are paid add-ons, partial or missing in eDirectory, each with its source.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- Real businesses from day oneBusiness records from open data included in your plan every month, imported as listings their owners can claim.
eDirectory has run directory sites for many years, with listing levels, deals, events, banners, AI review tools and a mobile app builder. Ratings by criteria, review photos, several locations, messaging and lead distribution are plugins, and its Professional plan shows "Powered by eDirectory". Yclas is a hosted directory and classifieds platform with one plan for all of it.
Last checked: 22 October 2026. Facts about eDirectory come from its own website; the sources are listed at the end of this page.
AI that does the work for you.
Yclas puts AI into every part of a directory: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what eDirectory offers.
Describe a change, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview. 109 ready-made looks and drag-and-drop sections.
Say what your marketplace is for and the AI writes your categories, subcategories, tagline and About page in your language. Live in about two minutes.
Sellers add a photo; the AI writes the title, description and price, and picks the category and fields.
Visitors search the way they talk, such as "red bike under 300 near Valencia", and get the right filters.
Every new listing is checked against your rules for scams, prohibited items, spam and wrong categories. Risky ones wait in your queue with the reason, and buyers are warned when a message asks for gift cards or off-site payment.
On multilingual sites each listing is translated into every site language, with its own page for search engines (Professional plan).
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
"What people say" from each listing's reviews, and visitors ask a question and get an answer from the listing and its reviews
The business gets a reply in the review's language and the tone it picks, and edits it before posting
A search title, description and intro for each "plumbers in Dallas" page, which you edit before saving
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that eDirectory doesn't include.
Yclas includes all of these, on every plan unless a plan is named. For eDirectory we list what its own website offers, and the price of its plugins.
| Feature | Yclas | eDirectory |
|---|---|---|
| Business listings | ||
| Opening hours and "Open now" | Weekly hours, holidays and special days, an Open now badge and an Open now filter in search | Partly Business hours on listings; an "open now" filter and special days not listed [6] |
| Several locations per business | A business adds its other branches with address and phone; they show on its listing and the map | Paid add-on Multiple Locations plugin, $97 [4] |
| Business details | Services and price list, social links, attributes such as wheelchair access or women-owned, and your own custom fields per category | Included Custom fields and listing types in a template editor [6] |
| Events | Event dates, weekly, monthly or yearly repeats, a calendar of the month and "Add to calendar" for each event | Included Events with recurring dates and a calendar; "Add to calendar" not listed [3] |
| Compare listings | Visitors put up to 4 listings side by side | Not offered Not listed [7] |
| Claim your business | By a code sent to an address at the business's own domain, a code texted to its phone (with an SMS add-on), or your review; optionally only with a paid plan | Included Visitors claim imported listings; you approve the claims [8] |
| Fill your directory with real businesses | Open business data from Overture Maps included in your plan each month, CSV import, Google Places with your own key, and lists pasted and sorted by AI | Partly CSV import of listings, events and images; no business data or Google import [3] |
| Making money from the directory | ||
| Paid listing levels | Plans you sell to businesses, each with its own number of photos and deals, statistics, a badge and members-only content (Professional plan) | Included Listing levels that unlock fields, images, video and deals [6] |
| Featured listings and paid categories | Featured listings, bump to top, boost bundles, paid categories and coupons, paid into your own account | Included Featured placements [7] |
| Sponsored results | Businesses buy a sponsored place above a category's results for a number of days | Included Sponsored listings [7] |
| Banner ads you sell | Advertisers buy a banner zone for some weeks, you approve it, and they see its views and clicks | Included Banner module in 4 sizes; geo-targeted banners in a $197 plugin [3] |
| Deals with vouchers | Offers on listings and a Deals page; each customer gets a voucher with a QR code the business scans to mark it used, with a report of vouchers given and used | Included Deals with limits, codes or a QR image, countdowns and redemption reports [9] |
| Charge businesses for leads | Per lead, or a number of leads included in their plan | Partly Leads from listing contact forms; selling leads not stated [6] |
| Bookings | Appointments and rentals with a calendar and instant booking (Professional plan); paid online with deposits on the Marketplace plan | Not offered Not listed [7] |
| Reviews and trust | ||
| Reviews with owner replies | Star reviews with photos and ratings by criteria, and the business replies under each one | Included Reviews with replies from the owner, and moderation [10] |
| Review invitations | The business emails customers a personal review link, or prints a QR poster for the counter | Not offered Not listed [7] |
| Rating badge and yearly awards | A badge with the listing's stars for the business's own website, and "Best of" awards for the top-rated each year | Not offered Not listed [7] |
| Fake-review protection | Reviews that look bought or self-written wait for your team, and you can put a consumer alert on a listing | Partly AI moderation checks reviews before they are published [2] |
| Verified and licensed badges | ID and business document checks, and Licensed and Insured badges from the documents a business sends | Partly Custom badges on listings; no verification process described [5] |
| Leads and keeping businesses | ||
| Quote requests to the nearest businesses | One request goes to the closest matching businesses, and listings show how fast each one usually replies | Paid add-on Enhanced Lead Distribution plugin, $299 [4] |
| Messages | Visitors and businesses write to each other inside the site, with photos and PDFs | Paid add-on Instant Messaging plugin, $149, through Messenger, Telegram or WhatsApp [4] |
| Statistics for each business | Views, calls, website, WhatsApp and directions clicks and the searches that found each listing, and a monthly report by email | Included Owner statistics: search appearances, views, website clicks, emails and leads, with a monthly email [12] |
| Newsletters and automated emails | One-off newsletters, and email series after signing up, a first listing or going quiet, with opens and clicks per email, sent through your own email service | Partly Newsletters through Campaign Monitor, or a $99 MailChimp plugin; no automated email series [3] |
| Growth and reach | ||
| Category and city pages for search | A page for every category in every city, with your own title and intro, LocalBusiness structured data, sitemaps and IndexNow | Included Sitemaps, structured data and SEO addresses and meta tags [3] |
| Maps and "near me" | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map, by distance or near the visitor | Included Google Maps or OpenStreetMap; browse by map in a $199 plugin [3] |
| Many languages | 44 languages, right-to-left included; several at once on a multilingual site (Professional plan) | Partly 7 languages; right-to-left not listed [3] |
| Your own iPhone app | Your directory as a branded app on the App Store, with push notifications, published for you (Marketplace plan) | Included Native iOS and Android app builder with push notifications [13] |
| API, webhooks and MCP | An API on every plan, webhooks for Zapier and Make (Professional) and an MCP server for AI assistants (Marketplace) | Partly An open API; webhooks, Zapier and MCP not listed [1] |
| Running the directory | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included in every plan, with support | Included Included on the cloud plans; version upgrades on Professional need a support package [1] |
| Members-only content | Pages and listing details only members on a plan can see (Professional plan) | Not offered Not listed [7] |
A working site in year one.
The plan and the plugins that the features compared below need, from eDirectory's own website.
eDirectory
| Enterprise cloud plan, white label, 5 plugins included, paid yearly (25% off $199 a month) [1] | $1,791 |
|---|---|
| Or Professional, with "Powered by eDirectory", paid yearly (25% off $99 a month) [1] | $891 |
| Plugins beyond those included [4] | $97 to $299 each |
| Setup, SEO and custom development services [1] | Price on request |
| Year one | About $1,791 |
The Enterprise cloud plan, paid yearly. The source licence costs $1,499 once, with 30 days of support; version upgrades need a support package.
Yclas
| Starter up to 5,000 listings · $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month | $678 |
|---|---|
| Professional up to 100,000 listings · $99 a month | $1,188 |
| Marketplace up to 300,000 listings · $149 a month | $1,788 |
| Included in the price | Hosting, SSL, updates, backups, support |
Year-one totals for each plan, from the pricing page. 15 days free first, with no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan. Prices in US dollars; EU customers pay VAT unless they add a VAT number.
eDirectory and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | eDirectory | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Directory software as a cloud plan, or a PHP source licence you can host yourself | A hosted directory, classifieds and marketplace platform |
| Software price | Professional $99, Enterprise $199 a month; source licence $1,499 once | $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month (Starter). Every plan includes hosting. |
| Branding | "Powered by eDirectory" on Professional | No Yclas branding on any plan |
| Filling the directory | CSV import of listings, events and images | Open business data included every month (200 in the trial, 1,000 on Starter up to 20,000), CSV, Google Places and AI-sorted lists |
| Selling to businesses | Listing levels, sponsored and featured listings, banners and deals | Paid listing levels, featured listings, sponsored results, banner ads, deals with vouchers and leads |
| Reviews | Reviews with owner replies, AI summaries and reply drafts; criteria and photos in a $197 plugin | Replies, photos, ratings by criteria, invitations, a website badge, awards, AI summaries and reply drafts |
| Selling online | Not listed | Bookings (Professional); paid bookings with deposits and a cart (Marketplace) |
| Languages | 7 languages | 44 languages, right-to-left included, with listings translated |
| Phones | Native iOS and Android app builder with push notifications | Your own branded iPhone app on the App Store (Marketplace plan); mobile-first themes |
| Latest release | eDirectory 14.2 | Updated continuously, with nothing for you to install |
Also on every Yclas plan
- 44 languages, right-to-left included, multilingual sites and any currency
- Your own domain with one DNS record, and SSL set up automatically
- 17 payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Mercado Pago and Razorpay
- A money wizard that sets up paid posting, featured listings and plans in a few clicks
- Cookie consent that holds back analytics and ad code until visitors accept
- Reporting of illegal listings with a review queue, as the EU Digital Services Act asks
- Captcha with no setup, listing drafts that save themselves, and favourites
- Custom CSS and code, conditional custom fields and a catalogue of add-ons
- Ready-made connections for Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot
- A share kit with WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and X buttons and a social image for every listing
The AI features and the page builder work with the Nova theme, the default for new sites. Compare plans →
Make it yours without hiring a developer.
With eDirectory, a design beyond the theme's options usually means paying a developer or designer. Yclas includes a page builder you use yourself: describe what you want, or change it by hand.
The Yclas page builder
- Describe the change in plain words, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview before you publish.
- Start from 109 ready-made looks for cars, property, jobs, services, equipment and more, then change colours, fonts, buttons and spacing.
- Build pages from a library of sections: hero with search, categories, latest listings, how it works, locations, map, text, image and text, features, testimonials, FAQ, stats, call to action and logos, plus custom code sections for anything else.
- Drag sections into place, edit text right on the page, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone, next to your live site.
- Write and rewrite text with AI, and use free photos from Pexels and Unsplash or your own.
- Add pages, save blocks to reuse, undo any step, restore an earlier version, schedule publishing up to 90 days ahead, and share a preview link for 7 days.
Included in every plan. Want us to do it for you? Our team also does custom design and development.
The usual route with eDirectory
| Theme customization and custom development by eDirectory [1] | Price on request |
|---|
Hourly work adds up with every change: a new section, a seasonal banner or a fix after an update is another job to brief, wait for and pay for.
Moving from eDirectory
Bring your listings across as a CSV file with the Yclas import.
- Export your listings as a CSV file.
- Start a free trial, choose a business directory in the sign-up wizard, and open Move your site to Yclas, then choose CSV.
- Match the columns, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Listings come across with their categories, addresses, websites and photos from their web addresses, and their owners as accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When eDirectory may be the better choice
- You want the PHP source code on your own server.
- You want native apps for both iPhone and Android, built from your directory.
- You need a sales-led setup, with training sessions and a team that sets the site up for you.
- Your directory publishes articles and a blog as much as listings, with the modules eDirectory has for them.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your directory than on a server, try Yclas.
Questions people ask
Other comparisons:
Is eDirectory cheaper than Yclas?
No. eDirectory's Professional plan costs $99 a month and shows "Powered by eDirectory"; the white-label Enterprise plan costs $199 a month, 25% less paid yearly, and several features are $97 to $299 plugins. Yclas starts at $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month with no branding.
Does Yclas have AI review summaries and reply drafts like eDirectory?
Yes, both, plus "Ask about this listing", AI search, listings from a photo, scam checks, translation and AI text for category and city pages, with monthly use included in the plan.
Can I sell deals with QR codes on Yclas?
Yes. Businesses add deals to their listings and a Deals page; each customer gets a voucher with a QR code the business scans to mark it used, and the business sees how many were given and used.
Can I move my eDirectory site to Yclas?
Yes. Export your listings as a CSV file and bring them in with the Yclas CSV import, after a dry run you can check. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
Do I need my own server for Yclas?
No. Hosting, SSL, updates, security fixes and backups are part of every plan. You start on a free yourname.yclas.com address and can connect your own domain.
Sources
Checked on 22 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
- eDirectory pricing: Professional, Enterprise and source licence
- eDirectory AI features
- eDirectory specifications
- eDirectory plugin store: prices
- eDirectory June 2025 release: AI features and badges
- eDirectory listings features
- eDirectory features overview
- eDirectory support: approving claimed listings
- eDirectory support: QR codes to redeem a deal
- eDirectory: listing owner area, reviews and replies
- eDirectory Advanced Review plugin
- eDirectory support: the monthly statistics email for owners
- eDirectory mobile app builder
- Yclas pricing
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