Layout & Themes

• Various different themes (Blitzer, Flick, Le-frog, Smoothness, Ui-lightness)
• Compact or detailed list display
• Fully customizable CSS

Monetize

• Advertisements (displayed on the main chat window)
• IM Ads (popup windows displayed on user login or on a set interval)

Key Features

• Users can enable/disable the chat system
• Minimize chat windows and preserve position when navigating through the site
• Guests are allowed to chat (if enabled from backend)
• Online and Offline messages (users will receive offline messages when they log in)
• Changeable user status (available, busy, away, invisible)
• File transfers between users
• Friends list
• Ignore list (blocks messages from individual users)
• Group conversation
• Share message
• User avatars (own uploaded avatar or Community's Builder avatar if available)
• Customizable emoticons
• Sound notifications (received message, buzz, friend login)
• Message history
• Quick search for users

Standards

• Multi-language support, UTF-8 support, comes default with English INI language files
• SEO/SEF friendly
• Default integration with Joomla! user profile, allowing a single login for Joomla! and component
• Easy transition to RTL
• Simple installation, configuration and updating process

Main Settings

• Manage permission settings for groups (frontend access, change nickname, change avatar, send files, etc.)
• Set the default status of the chat for registered users and guests
• Enable/disable if links from messages are transformed in html anchors
• Enable/disable advertisements and IM ads
• Add banned words which will be filtered on chat
• Refresh intervals (users list update, messages check, registered offline, etc.)
• Enable and set up throttles in order to avoid server overload
• Enable/disable notification sounds
• Set up Cron Jobs

Modules & Plugins

• Chat module that toggles the online/offline status and the actual window
• User and system plugins

3rd Party Integrations

• Community Builder
• Love Factory

Backend Management

• Emoticons management (custom emoticons can be added)
• Advertisements management
• Check messages history

Requirements

• Joomla! 3.x
• PHP (min. 5.3.0)
• MySQL (min. 5.1 + )
• CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section)
• cURL, GD2 libraries enabled