Yclas vs LaraClassifier
LaraClassifier sells you Laravel source code to install on your own server, with payment gateways and reviews as add-ons. Yclas is a running classifieds site with AI built in, hosted, updated and supported for one monthly price.
- 7 AI tools, built inIncluded in LaraClassifier: none. Each one is paid, partial or missing.
- $109 in plugins to match3 paid plugins and services for LaraClassifier, and 11 features you can't buy at all.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- Switch without starting overThe importer brings your listings, users and photos across.
LaraClassifier, by BeDigit, is a classifieds script built on Laravel: you buy a licence once and install it on your own server. Messages, premium listing plans and several countries are in the core; card payment gateways, reviews and GDPR tools are add-ons. On 24 October 2026 the script and its add-ons were marked temporarily unavailable on BeDigit's shop. Yclas is a hosted service: we run the servers, updates and backups, and you run the site.
Last checked: 24 October 2026. Facts about LaraClassifier 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 marketplace: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what LaraClassifier 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. 44 languages.
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that LaraClassifier doesn't include.
Every Yclas plan includes all of these. For LaraClassifier we list what its own website offers, with the price where it is a paid add-on.
| Feature | Yclas | LaraClassifier |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and money | ||
| Paid listings and memberships | Featured listings, bump to top, paid categories, memberships and coupons, paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or other account | Paid add-on Premium listing plans in the core; card gateways are add-ons, such as Stripe at $35 [3] |
| Offers in the chat | Buyers make an offer; sellers accept, decline or counter; an accepted offer can be paid online | Not offered Not listed [2] |
| Auctions | Proxy bidding, reserve price, buy-now and anti-sniping | Not offered Not listed [2] |
| Bookings and rentals | Availability calendar, per day, night or hour, and request to book | Not offered Not listed [2] |
| Ready for your niche | ||
| Vehicles | Make and model catalogue, VIN decoding, standard vehicle fields, a key specs block, similar vehicles, compare up to 3 side by side and a finance calculator | Partly Custom fields per category; no make and model catalogue or VIN decoding listed [2] |
| Property | Bedrooms, bathrooms, size, energy rating and more, floor plans, a mortgage calculator and a map-first property search | Partly Custom fields per category; no property fields, floor plans or mortgage calculator listed [2] |
| Buyers and trust | ||
| Messages between buyers and sellers | Built in | Included Built-in chat between buyers and sellers [2] |
| Reviews and badges | Two-sided reviews and badges sellers earn, such as Fast responder and Top rated | Paid add-on Reviews add-on, $39 [3] |
| Seller verification | ID and business document checks, and trader details for business sellers | Not offered No ID or business document checks listed [2] |
| Easy and safe sign-in | Google, Facebook, Apple, X, Microsoft and LinkedIn, a code by SMS, one-click email links and two-step login | Partly Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn login; no Apple or two-step login listed [2] |
| Growth and SEO | ||
| SEO toolkit | Title patterns, redirects and a 404 log, structured data by listing type, sitemaps for every listing and IndexNow | Partly XML sitemaps, RSS, meta tags and clean URLs; no redirects manager or IndexNow listed [2] |
| Maps and map search | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map or near a place | Partly Google Maps settings in its documentation; no search by map area listed [5] |
| Webhooks, API keys and MCP | Signed webhooks, scoped API keys, and an MCP server so AI assistants can work with your site | Partly A REST API; no webhooks or MCP listed [2] |
| Running the site | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included in every plan, with support | Not offered Not included: you run your own server [1] |
| Moving your site in | An importer for Osclass, Flynax, LaraClassifier and WordPress exports and CSV files, with a dry run and undo | Not offered No importer from other classifieds software listed [2] |
| Data download and account deletion | Users download their data or delete their account themselves | Paid add-on GDPR & Cookie Consent add-on, $35 [3] |
A working site in year one.
Software, support and the things you need to keep a site online. Hosting for self-hosted software depends on the host you choose, so it is left out of their totals.
LaraClassifier
| Regular licence, one-time, 6 months of support and updates [1] | $69 to $79 |
|---|---|
| A card payment gateway add-on, such as Stripe [3] | $35 |
| Reviews add-on [3] | $39 |
| Server, domain and SSL | Paid separately |
| Year one | $143 to $153 + hosting |
BeDigit's product page shows the Regular licence at $79 in its sidebar and $69 in its FAQ; the Extended licence is $499. No price is given for support or updates after 6 months. Other add-ons: GDPR & Cookie Consent and Site Statistics $35 each, Newsletter and Blog $39 each, domain mapping $499. On 24 October 2026 the script and its add-ons were marked temporarily unavailable.
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.
LaraClassifier and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | LaraClassifier | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A PHP script on Laravel, bought once and installed on your server | A hosted service: nothing to install |
| Software price | Regular licence $69 to $79, one-time; Extended licence $499 | $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month (Starter). Every plan includes hosting. |
| Can you buy it today | Marked "temporarily unavailable" on 24 October 2026, with its add-ons | Yes: a 15-day free trial with no credit card |
| Custom design | 12 skins in the core and the Aurora theme ($69); no design service offered, so a developer you hire | Included: an AI page builder where you describe changes in words, 109 ready-made looks, drag-and-drop sections, versions and scheduled publishing |
| Server | You rent and run it: PHP 8.3+, MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+, exec() enabled, open_basedir off | Included, with SSL on your own domain |
| Support and updates | 6 months of each from the author; no renewal price published | Tickets in English or Spanish on every plan, and updates for as long as you are a customer |
| Taking payments | PayPal by default; Stripe, Razorpay, Paystack, Flutterwave, Adyen and other gateways $35 each | Built in: Stripe, PayPal and regional gateways, for featured listings, bump to top, paid categories and memberships |
| Messages between users | Built in | Built in |
| Reviews | Reviews add-on, $39 | Built in, with badges sellers earn |
| Languages | 14 language files, several countries, right-to-left; AI translates the language files | 44 languages, and on multilingual sites each listing translated by AI |
| Phones | No official app; a REST API to build your own | Mobile-first theme you can add to the home screen; browser push notifications; a branded iPhone app on the Marketplace plan |
| Source code | All of it, Laravel source | Hosted: no code, database or FTP access; custom code sections and webhooks on Professional and Marketplace |
| Latest release | 19.1.5, 30 September 2026 | 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 LaraClassifier, 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 LaraClassifier
| Aurora theme add-on [3] | $69 |
|---|---|
| A mid-level freelance PHP developer in the US [6] | $62 to $100 an hour |
| The same in the UK [6] | $38 to $62 an hour |
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 LaraClassifier
Yclas reads a LaraClassifier database export directly.
- Export your LaraClassifier database as a .sql or .sql.gz file, the kind phpMyAdmin or your hosting panel makes.
- Start a free trial, choose "I already have a site" in the sign-up wizard, and upload the export in Move your site to Yclas.
- Match the fields, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Your listings come across with their categories, cities and photos, and so do user accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one. Photos come from your old site's storage folder addresses. Archived listings come in as expired, and deleted ones are left out. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When LaraClassifier may be the better choice
- You or your developers want the Laravel source code to change and extend.
- You want to pay once rather than monthly, and you already run servers.
- You plan to build your own mobile apps on its REST API.
- You need a payment gateway from its catalogue that Yclas doesn't offer, such as iyzico or Cashfree.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your marketplace than on a server, try Yclas.
Questions people ask
Other comparisons:
Is LaraClassifier cheaper than Yclas?
On the price tag, yes: the licence is $69 to $79 once, and a working site with a card gateway and reviews comes to about $143 to $153 before hosting. Support and updates last 6 months. Yclas Starter costs $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month, with hosting, updates and support included.
Can I buy LaraClassifier today?
On 24 October 2026 BeDigit's shop marked LaraClassifier and its add-ons "temporarily unavailable", with a note that it will be back. The newest version in its changelog is 19.1.5, from 30 September 2026.
Can I move my LaraClassifier site to Yclas?
Yes. Export your LaraClassifier database as a .sql or .sql.gz file and upload it in Move your site to Yclas. Listings, categories, cities, photos and user accounts come across after a dry run you can check, and 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 on any paid plan.
Can I change the code, as I can with LaraClassifier?
Yclas is a hosted service, so there is no access to the code, database or FTP. Professional and Marketplace add custom code sections and webhooks, and our team does custom design and development.
Sources
Checked on 24 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.
- BeDigit: LaraClassifier product page (licences, support, requirements, availability)
- BeDigit: LaraClassifier features
- BeDigit: LaraClassifier add-ons and their prices
- BeDigit: LaraClassifier changelog (19.1.5, 30 September 2026)
- BeDigit: LaraClassifier configuration docs
- SecondTalent, cost to hire a PHP developer (rates updated 25 September 2026)
- Yclas pricing
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