Title: Upgrade listing button
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Upgrade listing button

 *  Resolved [Leisl Mott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leisl-mott/)
 * (@leisl-mott)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/)
 * Hi,
    I cannot see how to display a button for businesses to upgrade their listing
   from a free listing to a different fee type listing. I have quite a number if
   free listings already on my site and want to be able to allow the owners to upgrade
   and pay themselves. For new listings it is not an issue as the listing types 
   appear properly in the setup process – it’s just the ones that are not new listings
   I need help with. Thanks, Leisl
 * [http://www.smallandlocal.com.au/business-directory-2/](http://www.smallandlocal.com.au/business-directory-2/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/business-directory-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/business-directory-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901444)
 * Hi Leisl,
 * So let’s start with a few questions:
    – What version of BD are you running? –
   Who posted the ads in question? Was it the user or you (the admin)? – Do you 
   have registration turned on for your BD listings? – Is this a problem with all
   listings or only some listings? If some, which ones are working, which are not?
 *  Thread Starter [Leisl Mott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leisl-mott/)
 * (@leisl-mott)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901448)
 * Hi,
    – I am running version 3.0.2 of BD with the paypal module. – I posted the
   listings initially (admin), and then as I meet the businesses, I am creating 
   a new user for them and changing the listing author to that new user.(So far,
   to test, I have used one of my own emails for the user though.) – Registration
   is turned on (I am using Theme My Login to keep users on the front end of the
   site though) – The issue seems to be with all listings and all users. Even admin
   has no option on the front end to do anything with listings except VIEW, EDIT,
   DELETE (other users see those options too). When I look in View or run through
   the edit process, I can’t see any upgrade option.
 * One thing regarding Theme My Login… I have set all new users as CONTRIBUTORS.
   I just tried changing one of the users to AUTHOR but that didn’t work either.
 * Perhaps my theme or a plugin is affecting it?
 * Leisl
 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901463)
 * OK, one other question–do you have payments turned on or not?
 * If you posted the listing as a free listing (no payments on), then it will be
   forever free. You must have payments on to do upgrades of any kind.
 * Second–if you have payments on, do you have Featured/Sticky listings enabled?
   If not, that would allow you to do this, but you need to have payments enabled.
 *  Thread Starter [Leisl Mott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leisl-mott/)
 * (@leisl-mott)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901474)
 * Ahhhh. That must be what happened… I created most of the free listings first 
   and then turned the payments on. I have just tested it now (creating a new listing
   free) and I see the option to upgrade the listing when the user selects EDIT.
 * Thanks so much for your help.
 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901480)
 * You’re welcome. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-listing-button-1/#post-3901480)
 * Status: resolved