Required : A portal for buyers and sellers of businesses.

-Buyers or Sellers of businesses will have to log in and register an account in order to post a listing.
- there will be a search function for guests to select businesses by category and /or value amount.

Member can post message to sell/buy a business
- Admin has function to edit/approve/reject any posting
- Once admin approved a posting, it will automatically displayed on business for sales/wanted listing page

Guest can only see limited posting info
- Member can see more details
- Buyer and Seller must send PM in order to get contact
- Admn control the PM and can view all Contact request log

Admin Management
-Functions to control all members: add new/edit/delete account
- Functions to monitor/manage posting: edit/approve/reject post
- Functions to control contact request: view/approve/decline

-Registering as memeber is free of charge , but when the transaction is successful, a fee (%) is payable to the website. The challenge is to ensure that the members to do bypass the admin , and there must be a control function.

-Must also need to be able to maintain our customer database and send out newsletters on a regular basis to our customers.
-Back end control panel must be easy to use.


Please send in suggestions for the kind of software for this project; and also please send in samples of similar work done before.

A similar site ( althought the business model is different : http://www.rightbiz.co.uk/, although we are looking for something better.