Eggy Advertising Manager 1.0.0

Eggy Advertising Manager – Complete Advertising Solution for XenForo​

Future updates will introduce additional advertising locations, each with suitable banner dimensions. These will include native XenForo widgets supporting both square and rectangular advert formats, adverts displayed between thread replies, and more. All new placements will use the same live advert designer, allowing you to create adverts directly or upload your own custom banners.

Development will also be driven by customer feedback, with your ideas and suggestions helping shape future features and improvements.

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Turn your XenForo community into a fully managed advertising platform.

Eggy Advertising Manager gives forum owners the tools to sell, create and manage advertisements directly through their community.

From an integrated banner designer with animated effects to native payment processing, campaign moderation and automatic advertisement rotation, everything works within your existing XenForo installation.

Advertisers can manage their own campaigns, while administrators retain control over pricing, permissions, placements and publication.

No additional XenForo add-ons are required.

A Complete Self-Service Advertising Experience​

Give members a dedicated advertising dashboard where they can create campaigns, manage existing advertisements and monitor performance.

• Create and manage advertising campaigns.
• Upload finished artwork or create banners using the built-in designer.
• Save advertisements as drafts before purchasing.
• Choose advertising durations and complete payments.
• View campaign status, impressions, clicks and expiry dates.
• Edit advertisements and manage unpaid drafts.
• Access the advertising manager on desktop and mobile.

Advertisements can be displayed prominently above your website's header or beneath its navigation, with additional supported forum placements.

Upload Your Own Advertisements​

Already have a professionally designed advertisement? Upload it directly without using the banner designer.

• Desktop Banners: 970 × 90 pixels.
• Mobile Banners: Optional 800 × 120 pixel artwork.
• Supported Formats: PNG, JPG, WebP and animated GIF.
• Configurable Upload Limits: Set maximum advertisement file sizes through the ACP.
• Mobile Support: Optional mobile artwork is displayed on supported smaller screens.

Built-in Visual Banner Designer​

No external graphic design software needed.

The integrated designer allows advertisers to produce attractive banners directly inside XenForo.

Choose a layout, select a colour palette, upload a logo and customise the advertising text and call-to-action button.

• Multiple professionally designed banner layouts.
• 12 built-in colour palettes.
• Custom headlines and supporting descriptions.
• Customisable call-to-action button text.
• Optional company logo uploads.
• Live banner preview.
• Built-in animation effects with replay controls.

The designer updates the preview as settings change, helping advertisers see their creative before submitting it.

12 Colour Palettes​

Select from Navy, Ocean, Rose, Forest, Sunset, Midnight, Aurora, Amethyst, Ember, Glacier, Gold and Graphite.

These presets help advertisers create banners with coordinated backgrounds, text and button colours.

14 Animation Choices​

Make banners more engaging with optional effects that draw attention to headlines, buttons and other design elements.

• No animation
• Subtle shimmer
• Button glow
• Floating text
• Button pulse
• Light sweep
• Moving gradient
• Headline slide-in
• Logo bounce
• Text reveal
• CTA pop
• Spotlight sweep
• Border highlight
• Attention wobble

Advertisers can use the Replay animation control to preview the selected effect before publishing.

Animations are entirely optional.

Preview Before Publishing​

The integrated live preview displays the finished banner with its selected layout, colours, logo, text and animation.

This makes it easy to experiment with different designs before creating a campaign.

Native XenForo Payment Integration​

Start selling advertising space through your existing website.

Eggy Advertising Manager integrates with XenForo's native payment system, allowing administrators to select their accepted payment profiles without manually entering profile IDs.

• Native Payments: Use supported payment profiles configured in XenForo.
• Flexible Pricing: Set individual prices for advertising packages.
• Advertising Durations: Configure 7, 14, 30 and 90-day placements.
• Verified Activation: Paid advertisements require successful payment confirmation.
• Administrator Exemptions: Permit selected users to create advertisements without payment.
• Payment Notifications: Optional email alerts for confirmed advertising payments.

Advertisers review their selected campaign and duration before completing checkout.

Where moderation is enabled, payment confirmation and administrator approval are both required before publication.

Administrators can exempt selected members from advertising charges by specifying their user IDs in the Admin Control Panel, allowing them to create and activate advertisements without payment.

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Dedicated Usergroup Permissions​

Control access to the advertising system using XenForo's native usergroup permissions.

• Can view advertising system
• Can create advertisements
• Can edit own advertisements
• Can delete own drafts
• Can use banner designer

Permissions integrate with XenForo's existing usergroup permission system, allowing administrators to control advertising access for different member groups.

Comprehensive Admin Control Panel​

Manage your entire advertising service from dedicated administration tools.

• Enable or disable paid advertising.
• Configure advertisement placement locations.
• Set prices and supported campaign durations.
• Select accepted XenForo payment profiles.
• Enable or disable advertisement moderation.
• Configure maximum upload sizes.
• Manage payment-exempt members.
• Configure verified-payment email notifications.
• Customise advertising page titles, descriptions and labels.
• View, suspend, resume and delete campaigns.
• Navigate campaign lists using pagination.

The advertising interface follows the active XenForo style, rather than requiring a specific theme.

Administration and campaign management interfaces are also designed for mobile use.

Advertisement Moderation & Approval​

Stay in control of what appears on your community.

Advertisement moderation is enabled by default and can be disabled through the Admin Control Panel.

When enabled, submitted advertisements require administrator approval before entering rotation.

• Dedicated pending advertisement approval queue.
• Review advertisement content and campaign information.
• Approve or reject submitted campaigns.
• Prevent unapproved advertisements from entering rotation.
• Manage active, suspended and expired advertisements.
• Allow automatic activation when moderation is disabled and payment requirements are satisfied.

Moderation allows communities to operate a controlled advertising service while retaining the option of a more automated workflow.

Automatic Advertisement Rotation & Tracking​

Advertisements participate in a shared random rotation across enabled advertising locations.

• Automatic random advertisement rotation.
• Configurable above-header and below-navigation positioning.
• Forum index, forum view and thread view placements.
• Support for other advertising pages.
• Advertisement impression tracking.
• Advertisement click tracking.
• Campaign expiry and status management.

Administrators can control which locations display advertisements, while advertisers can monitor their campaigns from the self-service dashboard.

Designed for XenForo​

Eggy Advertising Manager integrates with XenForo's existing styling, users, permissions and payment infrastructure.

• Compatible with XenForo 2.3.0 and newer.
• PHP 8.0 or newer.
• No additional XenForo add-ons required.
• Mobile-friendly advertising and administration interfaces.
• Supports customised XenForo styles.
• Configurable public-facing advertising wording.

Bring Advertising Revenue to Your Community​

Whether you're running a small specialist forum or an established online community, Eggy Advertising Manager provides an accessible way to offer paid advertising without depending on an external advertising management platform.

Give members the freedom to create and purchase advertisements while keeping control of your community's advertising experience.