User:Rebronsi/classifieds

IUPost
IUPost is a privately held company based out of Santa Clara, California. It provides free local classifieds service for motors, pets, housing, services, jobs, personals, community and for sale categories. In addition to classifieds, it hosts user generate online retail store fronts that function as independent websites and incorporate products cataloging by sections and categories, dynamic inventory management, customer orders (processing and tracking), and instantly generated performance reports.

Description
The service was founded in 2007 by Andre Reznik, an Indiana University MBA graduate who ran widely popular not for profit local classifieds website for IU students prior to IUPost. This gave push for the classifieds service that is currently provided by IUPost with added features such as BuyNow with PayPal, business accounts (free), and user flagging system.

The stores concept was developed in addition to classifieds as the need for cheap online store fronts was discovered in local community. The solution for small brick and mortar businesses could not be fullfilled with classifieds. IUPost stores was then designed to provide all of the retailing functionalities needed to run online store fronts on separate subdomains that are dedicated solely to individual stores. Shortly, it became also available to pure online retailers.

As of October 2008, IUPost is available in all areas of the United States where visitors post their ads based on zip code. Search results can also be sorted by proximity to specific zip code that allows visitors to see the entire ad base (that matches their criteria) and decide what ads in what locations they are interested in.