The offer in CM Live Deal is limited-time and real-time offer which is created by site administrator or merchant. Offer can be started or stopped by merchant at any time.

User can browse for the deals in his/her city and claim the deals without paying to website. After getting coupon, user can print it or show it to merchant to redeem and receive discount from merchant.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Joomla! 3.x.x: CM Live Deal is NOT compatible with Joomla! 1.x.x or 2.x.x, only Joomla! 3.x.x is supported.
• Bootstrap: CM Live Deal is compatible with both Bootstrap 2 and 3. Bootstrap must be loaded on your site by Joomla! or by your template.

FEATURES

For merchants:

• Easy sign-up: User can register for a Joomla! user account and a merchant account at the same time.
• Easy profile management: Merchants can manage Joomla! profile and merchant profile in the same place.
• Create unlimited deals.
• Start and stop deals at any time: Create deals when merchants need traffic and customers, stop deals when merchants satisfy their traffic needs.
• Know how much their deals attract customers by impression and click values.
• Manage their coupons. Mark coupons as redeemed.
• Know if user is a trusted customer (user will come to redeem coupon).
• Know if user is a return customer.
• Upload photos of their stores, products,... to promote for their businesses.
• Integrate with membership component, currently only support Membership Pro and Akeeba Subscription. Limit how many deals merchant can create, how many days merchant's deals are available on the site.
• Limit how many coupons are available for every deal.
• Have a detail page for displaying merchant info and deal list.
• Integration with Easy Profile: show deals in merchant profile, get merchant profile from Easy Profile directly to show in deal detail.

For users:

• Search for deals by keyword, category and city.
• Get coupon just in few clicks.
• Ability to get coupon without registration.
• Manage claimed/captured coupons.
• Do not need to pay to get coupon, only need to pay directly to merchant, no more asking website owner for refund.
• Do not need to wait until deal reaches its minimum claim/purchase quantity like traditional "groupon" sites.
• No daily mail: Users are not bothered by marketing emails every day, they only find deals when they need and come to merchants to redeem instantly.
• Share deals to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.

For site owners:

• Create unlimited categories and sub-categories (powered by Joomla!'s Categories component).
• Easy to manage merchants and cities via Google Maps.
• Easy to manage the uploaded photos of merchants.
• Get coordinates by location address or by clicking and moving marker on Google Maps, no need for copy-paste coordinates from Google Maps website.
• Manually create new coupon.
• Integration with Jooma!'s Group: charging merchants for subscription/membership for posting deals on website by integrating with third party extensions of Joomla! (eg. Membership Pro, Akeeba Subscription or PayPlans).
• Responsive website: with the power of Bootstrap, website is responsive and nicely displayed on mobile devices, saving the cost for developing and maintaining iOS and Android applications.
• Provide coupon in HTML or PDF format.
• Modules for displaying the lists of categories and cities.
• Ability to list featured merchants in module.

Supported languages:

CM Live Deal comes with English by default. The following translations are contributed by CM Live Deal users but not 100% translated:
- Spanish (es-ES), translated by ServiApps
- Portuguese (pt-PT), translated by Eugênio Telles.
- Italian (it-IT), translated by Davide Boris Minniti and HolalaWeb.