Support for integrating popular forum software: See our download page for a list of supported forums.

Share login credentials: Login to the Composr site with the same usernames/passwords as your forum.

Share usergroups: Control website access based on someone's forum usergroup.

Emoticon support: The emoticons on your forum will also be used on your website.

(Conversr only)

Virtual Forums: Find posts made since you last visited or within a time frame.

Remembers your unread posts even if you frequently change computers

Recent activity: See what topics you recently read or posted in

Unanswered topics: Find which topics have not yet been answered

RSS and Atom support

The usual: Categories, forums, topics, posts, topic polls, announcements / pinning, sinking, quick reply, topic closing

Forum and Topic tracking: Receive notifications when new posts are made on monitored topics and forums.

Password-protected forums

Present an 'introductory question' which members must answer or agree to before accessing a forum.

Full moderator control: Determine who may moderate what forums.

Inline personal posts: Whisper to members within a public topic; only those members will see the post.

Over 50 bundled emoticons: Also, support for batch importing new ones

Multi-moderation: Record and perform complex routine tasks; make post templates for those tasks.

Mass-moderation: Perform actions on many posts and topics at once.

Post preview: Read a topic's first post directly from the forum-view. Also see the latest posts when making a new post.

Highlight posts as ‘important’

(These features pertain to Conversr only)

Profiles: Browse through and search for members, and view member profiles.

Multiple usergroups: Members can be in an unlimited number of different usergroups. They can also ‘apply’ to join new ones.

Social networking: Create and browse friendships.

Custom profile fields: Allow your members to add extra information which is relevant to your website (or to their subcommunity), and members can set privacy settings on them.

Promotion system: Set up a usergroup rank ladder so members advance the ranks through their rank points. Members can view rank on their profile rank tab including unlocked and unlockable privileges.

Private Topics: A special kind of private messaging system between 2 or more members. Think 'on-site e-mail inbox'.

Invitation-only websites: Restrict registrations from the public; existing members can invite others to join.

Allow members to create and manage clubs (personal usergroups).

Avatars: Include avatars that members can pick from, or allow members to upload their own.

Member signatures, photos, and personal titles

Users online: See which members are currently online (unless they logged in as invisible)

Account pruning: Find and delete unused accounts, or merge duplicate accounts, based on defined criteria.

CSV files: Import and export members using CSV files, including support for automatic creation of custom profile fields and usergroups – great for migrating data

Users can communicate with staff privately through Support Tickets.

Assign to individual staff: Includes the ability for staff members to “take ownership” of raised issues, and for staff to discuss.

Allow users to e-mail in their tickets and replies to a designated e-mail address

Expanded access granting: Grant third party members access to individual tickets.

FAQ integration: Automatically search FAQs before opening a ticket.

Multiple ticket types: Set up different types of support tickets, with different access levels and fine-grained ticket notification settings.

Anonymous posting: Allow staff to post anonymously or as a designated support operator account so that customers don't always expect the same employee to reply.

Merging: If customers open multiple tickets for the same issue, you can merge them.

Closing: Let customers close tickets that are now resolved, or do it yourself.

Filtering: Filter the tickets you see by status and ticket type.

Paid membership: Sell access to sections of your website, or offer member privileges.

Shopping cart for running an online store

Extendable framework: Programmers can easily add new product types to sell, or payment gateways / tax services / shipping providers.

Multiple payment gateways: Accepts payments via PayPal or other gateways developers may add, and manual transactions (cash/cheque).

Invoicing support: Including status tracking and online payment tracking.

Basic accounting support: Input your incoming and outgoing transactions to get a basic ledger, profit-and-loss, and cashflow charting.

Currency conversions: Perform automatic currency conversions within your website pages (requires an API key).

Random quotes: Put random quotes (e.g. testimonials) into your design.

Awards: Showcase your most popular content, and optionally award the submitter with points.

Tags: Set keyword tags for content and display tag clouds.

Recent content: Automatically feature links to your most recent content (via main_multi_content block).

Show website statistics to your visitors (via stats graphs or page hit counters).

Random content: Feature random content from your website specified via a sophisticated filtering language.

Automatically create newsletter issues highlighting your latest content

Double opt-in: Prevent false sign-ups by asking subscribers to confirm their subscriptions.

Host multiple newsletters: Visitors can subscribe to the ones they want.

Flexible mailings: Send out mailings to all members, to different usergroups, or to subscribers of specific newsletters.

Welcome e-mails: Send multiple welcome e-mails to new users automatically, on a configurable schedule (Conversr-only).

Bounce cleanup: Automatically clean out bounces from your e-mail list.

Unsubscribe: Recipients can easily unsubscribe from newsletters through an unsubscribe link provided in the e-mail.

Change settings: Newsletter subscribers can change their subscription settings on-site.

Drip sending: Prevent overwhelming your mail server or outbound limits.

Choose what is searchable

Boolean and full-text modes

Keyword highlighting in results

Search boxes to integrate into your website

Logging/stats

OpenSearch support: Allow users to search from inside their web browser.

Results sorting, and filtering by author and date

Search within downloads: Including support for looking inside archives.

Composr fast custom index: Support full-text searches in instances where your database does not

Multiple types: Each one can specify its own width-by-height (e.g. skyscraper).

Smart banners: Integrate text-banners into your content via keyword detection.

Broad media compatibility: Image banners, external banner rotations, and text banners.

Determine which banners display most often

Run a cross-site banner network

Hit-balancing support: A site on a banner network gets as many inbound hits as it provides outbound clicks.

Targeted advertising: Show different banners to different usergroups.

Track banner performance

Use the banner system to display whole sets of sponsor logos or partners

Supports Geotargeting

Periodic content reviews: Reminders to check (or remove) banners

• Filtering constraints: Limits filtering options to those incorporated in the data structure.
• Historical data limitation: To maintain site stability, statistics older than 31 days aren't pre-processed. This may lead to data gaps if the system scheduler malfunctions or statistical data is manually deleted.

• GDPR compliance: Prevents indefinite storage of raw (potentially personal) data while preserving historical statistics.
• Computational efficiency: Avoids real-time execution of complex calculations, ensuring optimal performance.
• Scalability: Handles vast amounts of data without performance degradation.
• Responsiveness: Enables quick and seamless statistics browsing and filtering.
• Data accessibility: Makes generated data readily available for other Composr components.

• Quick reference: Available on the Admin Zone dashboard staff checklist.
• Target setting: Allows setting targets against KPIs, visualized on graphs and in overview summaries.
• Notifications: Staff members receive regular notifications regarding target achievement status.

• Random tracking code: Choose a random tracking code from a set and activate it for the user session.
• Conditional output: Generate different content variations based on the active tracking code.

• URL parameter: The _t URL parameter can contain any custom tracking code, automatically registered by the stats addon.
• Recommend addon: This addon automatically includes tracking codes for the referral source, referring member, and the referred page.
• Member joining: When a referred member joins, the referring member receives points and a friend request.
• Referrals addon: Allows manual tracking code input upon joining and facilitates a referrer reward system.
• Stats addon: Generates graphs of tracking codes, including conversion rate measurements.
• User lookup tool: Allows checking if a user accessed the site via a tracking code.
• Tempcode integration: Inject tracking codes into Tempcode using symbols like {$SET_TRACKING_CODE,some code} or {$SPLIT_TEST,some code,some other code}.

• Inbuilt events: Automatically recorded for actions like form submissions, purchases, newsletter signups, etc.
• Tempcode symbol: Use the {$LOG_STATS_EVENT,event} symbol within your templates to track events when the template is displayed.
• JavaScript function: Employ the $cms.statsEventTrack JavaScript function to track events from within your JavaScript code.
• HTML data attribute: Add data-click-stats-event-track="{ category: 'some event', nativeTracking: true }" to HTML elements. This method acts as a wrapper for the JavaScript function.
• URL wrapping: Wrap URLs in links using the {$STATS_TRACK_URL,URL,event} symbol. This approach records events via a redirection script and doesn't rely on JavaScript.

• Offers sophisticated functionality for professional marketers.
• Integrates with other Google products like AdSense and Search Console.
• Provides insights based on Google's marketing data, such as visitor demographics.

• Limited to web visit data unless custom programming or complex configuration is implemented.
• Relies on JavaScript for tracking, which can be blocked by users.
• Uses tracking cookies, raising privacy concerns and potential GDPR compliance issues.
• Data is potentially sold to third-party data brokers or used for targeted advertising by Google.
• Closed-source platform.

• Server-side tracking, independent of JavaScript and browser configurations.
• Contextual information and graphs for data beyond web visits (e.g., sales).
• Enhanced privacy as it only uses IP addresses, session IDs, and member IDs.
• Complete data control as it is hosted on your website.
• Open-source addon, fully customizable.

• Documentation & Tutorials: Utilize the extensive Composr documentation and tutorials available online to familiarize staff with the platform's functionalities.
• Mentorship: Pair experienced staff with newcomers to provide guidance and support during the initial learning phase.
• Private Forums & Chat: Create dedicated communication channels where staff can exchange knowledge, ask questions, and share best practices.
• Regular Meetings: Conduct regular staff meetings to discuss updates, share information, and address any arising challenges.
• External Resources: Leverage external resources like online courses or workshops focused on relevant skills, such as content management or community moderation.