Requirements: - Build a fully custom WordPress marketplace and review platform from scratch, modelled on TrustATrader.com combined with Myjobquote.co.uk - Design a clean, professional, and mobile-responsive layout focused on trust and ease of use. - Develop a trader application and onboarding flow with manual admin vetting before profiles go live (document uploads). - Build comprehensive trader profiles including services, photos, location, and customer reviews. - Implement search and filtering by trade type, location, and rating. - Integrate Google Maps for location-based trader browsing. - Implement a job-to-review linkage system where verified customers can leave reviews only after a job has been completed or a quote has been accepted. - Build a user-to-user messaging system including direct trader-customer chat (inbox-style) and WhatsApp. - Support contact form (attached to FAQ page). - Integrate a payment gateway with a monthly subscription model with automated recurring billing invoice generation (WooCommerce Subscriptions) - Optional Traders premium listing upgrades (desirable). - Configure an auto-approval workflow with the flexibility to switch to manual publishing anytime for verified traders profiles. - Optimise the site for SEO including clean URLs, meta tags, page speed, and mobile performance. - Provide clear instructions for managing traders, reviews, and content via the WordPress admin panel. - Build a customer job posting system allowing users to submit service requests with details such as trade type, description, location, budget (optional), timeline, and media uploads (photos/videos). - Implement a job listings system where posted jobs are stored, categorized by trade type, and visible to relevant traders (based on permissions/settings). - Develop a quote submission system enabling traders to respond to posted jobs with structured quotes including price estimates, messages, timelines, and optional attachments. - Build a lead matching and notification system that automatically matches new job posts to relevant traders based on trade category, location, and other filters, and notifies them via email and/or WhatsApp (click-to-chat). - Implement job expiry and auto-closure rules, where jobs automatically expire after a configurable time if no action is taken. - Add automated notifications system for: New job matches sent to traders New quotes received by customers Messages and updates related to jobs Job status changes Pages included in this project: - Homepage - Trader Profile Page - Job Listings / Browse Jobs Page (traders) - Customer Profile Page - Job Posting Page (customers) - Job Detail Page (with quote submission) - Trader Application / Sign-Up Form - Customer Job review & Feedback Form - FAQ Page / Contact form - Trust & Safety Page - Terms & Privacy Page FYI - Being a start up business we expect around 300-500 traders/customers to sign up within the first 12-18 months, we require the website to be sufficient for this traffic and more once the business scales up. We have gone onto Chat GPT and this is what it recommends for our website, please advise of any additional low cost but reliable plugins that you would recommend? Please be mindful that we would like to keep costs to the very minimum whilst achieving a sleek and well functioning website with the opportunity of expanding. Theme: - MyListing / lightweight custom theme Plugins: - Core - Marketplace & Filtering - Forms - Messaging - Reviews - SEO & performance - Language Translator (English/Portuguese/Spanish/French) Domain and hosting in hand. Let us know if you require any further details.