Osclass review: a standalone PHP classifieds script

Getting paid with Osclass Pay

Osclass Pay costs EUR 27.99 and includes bank transfer, an internal wallet and manual payments entered by the admin. It charges for publishing, images, premium status, highlighting, moving to top and renewing a listing, and handles credit packs, member groups with subscriptions, and referrals.

Since version 4.1, gateways are sold separately at EUR 15.99 each, from 45 products in the store. Five take crypto: BTCPay Server, CoinGate, CoinPayments, CryptoCloud and NOWPayments. No high-risk adult card processor is listed. OsclassPoint will build a custom gateway, usually for EUR 120 to 260 and non-refundable, provided the processor offers its own hosted checkout page.

The free Osclass core

The core handles listings, categories, custom fields, user accounts, moderation, media and SEO-friendly URLs. It ships with the Sigma theme and supports 63 language packs. The ZIP is about 7 MB and needs PHP 7.4, MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB, and the CURL, MySQLi and GD extensions, with no WordPress, Joomla or Laravel. The stable release is 8.3.1, with 8.4.0 in beta. OsclassPoint, a trading name of the Slovak company AB profitrade, publishes it. The code is on GitHub, but outside pull requests are closed automatically.

OsclassPoint pricing and licenses

Each purchase is a lifetime license for one domain, with twelve months of updates and support. After that the product keeps working on its last version, and renewal costs 35% of the base price. An extended license covers twenty domains for three times the price.

Refunds at OsclassPoint

There are no trial versions, and downloaded products cannot be returned. A refund is possible only within one month of purchase if the product is technically defective, so use the live demos before buying. Support excludes customization and installation, and each account is tied to one domain.

Strengths and limits of Osclass