Website & Admin Panel

Overview

JobNect is a job portal and recruitment system: a Laravel 13 website with a full admin panel, plus one Flutter mobile app. Job seekers search and apply, employers post jobs and manage applicants, and both can work together in a built-in freelance marketplace with escrow payments. You run everything from one admin panel.

This page covers installing and running the website and admin panel. The mobile app has its own page, Mobile App; hosting details (cPanel, VPS, web server samples, SSL, backups) are on Server Setup. In a hurry? Start with the Quick Start.

Features at a Glance

Website

• 5 complete frontend themes: Classic, Vista, Spotlight, Momentum and Meridian. Momentum and Meridian restyle every page (home, jobs, job details, employers, candidates, blog, categories, pricing, contact, about, privacy, terms, login and register).
• Customize panel: theme, accent colour, font pair, corner radius, text size, light/dark mode. Admins can make a design live for every visitor.
• Job Hub search: category, location (world countries, states and cities), job type, salary, sector (private, government, semi-government, NGO), age range and experience, plus quick links such as Govt jobs, Overseas, New today, Closing soon, Fresher, Part time and Internship.
• Job details with apply modal and job location map, company and candidate directories, blog, pricing plans, contact form and CMS pages.
• Live support chat (real time with Laravel Reverb, falls back to polling) with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger buttons.

Job seekers

• Register and log in (email verification code, optional Google login), profile and resume builder (education, experience, skills, social links), resume PDF download.
• Apply with CV, bookmarks, follow companies, applied-job status, profile visits, notifications, KYC verification upload.

Employers

• Company profile with gallery and location, post and manage jobs, applicants per job with status, followers.
• Hiring pipeline: a Kanban board per job (Applied, Viewed, Shortlisted, Interview, Offered, Hired / Not selected), interview invitations with reminders, private notes and 1–5 ratings.
• Subscription plans with online checkout or bank transfer.

Freelance marketplace and wallet

• Companies and candidates post projects (fixed or hourly budget); candidates send proposals; shortlist, decline or hire.
• Contracts with milestones and escrow (fund, submit, request revision, approve and release) with a platform commission; disputes resolved by the admin; per-contract chat; two-way reviews.
• Wallet with balance, escrow, pending and earned totals, full ledger, manual deposits (admin approves), online top-up and withdrawal requests.

Payments

• 10 online gateways for wallet top-up and plan purchase. India: Razorpay, Cashfree, PhonePe, Paytm. International: Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Mollie, Paddle, 2Checkout. Plus bank transfer.
• Per-gateway on/off, test or live mode, charge currency and conversion rate, encrypted credentials, webhook URLs, server-side verification and a scheduled reconcile job.

Admin panel

• Grouped sidebar with search, Ctrl+K command palette, text-size control, dashboard KPIs with sparklines and "needs attention" items, notification bell.
• Manage jobs, categories, companies, candidates, applications, KYC, plans and subscriptions, payments, freelance, blog, pages, testimonials, homepage sections and widgets, languages and phrases, roles and staff, settings.

Mobile app

• Job seeker: onboarding, sign up and login, home feed, search and filters, job details, apply with CV, saved jobs, companies, profile and resume, KYC, notifications, freelance and wallet.
• Employer: dashboard, post and edit jobs (rich text), applicants, company profile and map location, subscription checkout, notifications, freelance.

Languages: English, Bangla, Spanish and Hebrew (right-to-left) are set up after installation. You can add more languages and edit every phrase from the admin panel.

What’s in the Download

Server Requirements

Installation

This is the exact flow we test on a blank server. It takes about ten minutes. Step-by-step guides for each kind of hosting are in Server Setup:

• Install with terminal access — a VPS, or cPanel with Terminal / SSH.
• Install without terminal access — cPanel with File Manager only; no commands needed.

1. Create the database

Create an empty MySQL database and a database user with all privileges on it (cPanel: MySQL Databases; see Server Setup).

2. Upload the files

Upload the contents of WebSourceCode to your server, for example to /var/www/jobnect, and point the domain’s document root to its public/ folder. Do not move files out of public/.

3. PHP packages (nothing to do)

vendor/ is included in WebSourceCode, so Composer is not needed.

4. The .env file and the app key (automatic)

Nothing to do: on the first visit the site copies .env.example to .env and adds an application key, and the installer later writes the database details and your site address (APP_URL). If you prefer to do it yourself:

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

5. Make folders writable

chmod -R 775 storage bootstrap/cache public/uploads
chown -R www-data:www-data storage bootstrap/cache public/uploads .env   # your web-server user

On cPanel PHP runs as your own user, so this is usually not needed. The installer also creates the public/storage link; run php artisan storage:link only if your host blocks it.

6. Run the web installer

Open your domain in the browser. A site that is not installed yet redirects to /install. Continue with Web Installer below.

7. Add the cron job

* * * * * php /var/www/jobnect/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

This runs the scheduler every minute. It re-checks online payments every five minutes, so a payment still completes if the buyer closes the browser before returning to your site.

Web Installer

The installer at /install has five steps:

1. Welcome: what you need. Click Start installation.
2. Requirements: PHP version, extensions and writable folders. Continue is enabled only when everything shows OK.
3. Database: host (usually 127.0.0.1), port (3306), database name, user and password. The connection is tested before anything is saved. If the database already has tables, the installer shows how many and asks before deleting them. A progress bar then shows the tables and default data being created, including about 156,000 world cities (one to two minutes; keep the page open).
4. Admin account: website name, your first and last name, email and password (8+ characters).
5. Done: the installer is locked and shows the cron line to add. Sign in at /login.

Along the way it writes the database values and your site address (APP_URL) to .env, fills in JWT_SECRET (used by the mobile app) and the Reverb keys (used by live chat) if they are empty, creates the public/storage link, and finally sets APP_INSTALLED=yes. After that /install no longer runs on an installed site.

First Login and First Steps

Go to https://your-domain.com/login and sign in with the email and password you entered in the installer. You land on the admin dashboard.

Recommended order:

1. Settings → General Settings: site name, contact details, currency, date format, and the Branding images.
2. Settings → Mail Settings: SMTP. Registration sends an email verification code, so mail must work before you open sign-ups (Mail).
3. Website Setup → Themes: pick a theme (Themes).
4. Jobs Manage → Category, Pricing Plans: your categories and employer plans.
5. Settings → Payment Gateways and Settings → Payment Setup: online payments and bank transfer (Payments).
6. Optional: live chat, Google login, reCAPTCHA, languages.

Server Setup Essentials

Document root

The domain must serve the public/ folder. Everything else (.env, storage/, source code) stays outside the web root. Ready-made Apache and nginx configurations are on Server Setup.

Writable folders

The web-server user must be able to write to storage/, bootstrap/cache/ and public/uploads/ (all uploaded logos, photos, CVs and documents go there). During installation it also needs to write .env.

Storage link

php artisan storage:link

Scheduler (cron)

* * * * * php /var/www/jobnect/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

The scheduled task is payments:reconcile, every five minutes. It checks pending online payments with the gateway and completes them if they were paid.

Queue

JobNect ships with QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync: emails and notifications are sent during the request, so no queue worker is needed. Keep it that way unless you know you need a queue.

After changing .env

php artisan optimize:clear

Run this whenever you edit .env or upload new files, so cached configuration and views are rebuilt.

Live Chat and Reverb

Visitors can message you from any page through the chat button. You answer in Live Chat → Inbox, with unread badges and seen status. The same widget can show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger buttons.

Settings

Live Chat → Chat Settings: turn the chat on or off, set the widget title and greeting, a WhatsApp number (with country code) and first message, and a Facebook page username or link. Leave WhatsApp or Messenger empty to hide that button. The Status box shows whether the real-time server is configured.

Real time with Laravel Reverb

Without a socket server the chat still works: it refreshes every 10 seconds. For instant messages run Reverb, the WebSocket server that ships with Laravel. The installer already generated REVERB_APP_ID, REVERB_APP_KEY and REVERB_APP_SECRET.

1. Point the public values at your domain in .env (browsers connect to these):

   BROADCAST_DRIVER=reverb
   REVERB_HOST=your-domain.com
   REVERB_PORT=443
   REVERB_SCHEME=https

   then run php artisan optimize:clear.
2. Keep the Reverb server running with Supervisor, for example /etc/supervisor/conf.d/jobnect-reverb.conf:

   [program:jobnect-reverb]
   command=php /var/www/jobnect/artisan reverb:start --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8080
   directory=/var/www/jobnect
   user=www-data
   autostart=true
   autorestart=true
   redirect_stderr=true
   stdout_logfile=/var/www/jobnect/storage/logs/reverb.log

   sudo supervisorctl reread
   sudo supervisorctl update
   sudo supervisorctl status jobnect-reverb

3. Proxy the WebSocket paths /app and /apps from your HTTPS site to Reverb. nginx, inside your existing server { ... } block for port 443:

   location ~ ^/(app|apps)/ {
       proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
       proxy_http_version 1.1;
       proxy_set_header Host $host;
       proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
       proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
       proxy_read_timeout 120s;
   }

   An Apache version is on Server Setup.

Website Themes

JobNect has five complete themes. Choose one in Website Setup → Themes: Preview opens the site in that theme for you only, Apply makes it the site theme for everyone. When you apply a theme you can also take over its colours and fonts.

The same page has a Mobile app theme section: pick Classic, Momentum or Meridian for the mobile app, or let it follow the website theme. See App Themes.

The homepage content of each theme (hero texts, counters, sections, footer) is edited in Website Setup → Sections and Website Setup → Widgets. Colours, fonts and corner radius are in Website Setup → Theme Appearance.

Customize Panel

When you are logged in as an administrator, a Customize button appears at the bottom-left of the website. It opens a panel where you try out:

• Theme (Classic, Vista, Spotlight, Momentum, Meridian)
• Mode: light or dark
• Accent colour (a set of colours that all keep white button text readable)
• Font pair: Theme default, Modern, Friendly, Geometric, Bold, Editorial, System
• Text size (A−, A, A+, A++) and corners (Sharp, Soft, Round)

Changes are a preview for you only. Click Make … live (or Save as site design) to save the appearance for all visitors. Exit preview returns to the saved design.

Branding: Logo and Favicon

Settings → General Settings has a Branding section with one card per image. Each preview sits on the background where the image is actually used, so you can judge a white logo on a dark background.

PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 2 MB each. Changes apply when you press Save changes. The mobile app downloads these logos from your site, so you change them here, not in the app code.

Homepage, Pages and Blog

• Website Setup → Sections: texts and images of the homepage sections and of inner-page headers.
• Website Setup → Widgets: which sections appear, in what order and with which spacing, for each theme.
• Website Setup → Pages: About, Privacy Policy, Terms and other CMS pages.
• Website Setup → Social Link and Website Setup → Testimonial.
• Blogs Manage: blog categories and posts. Contact Us: messages sent from the contact form. App Slider: the onboarding slides of the mobile app.
• Settings → Seo Settings: meta title, description and keywords.
• Settings → Map Settings: map provider for job and company locations. OpenStreetMap is free and needs no key; Google Maps needs an API key with billing.

Jobs and Job Hub Search

The jobs page is a full search with filters. Job seekers filter by keyword, category, location (country, state, city), job type, salary, sector (Private, Government, Semi-government, NGO), age limit, experience, overseas and deadline, and use quick links such as Govt jobs, Overseas jobs, New today, Closing soon, Fresher jobs, Part time and Internship. The home page of the themes can show a stats bar (live jobs, vacancies, companies, new today) and jobs by location (see Using JobNect in Any Country).

Employers post jobs from their dashboard (or the app); admins manage all jobs in Jobs Manage → Jobs, with categories in Jobs Manage → Category. Sector, age limit and experience range are fields on each job. The REST API (/api/v10) accepts the same filters; the mobile app's filter screen offers category, job type and skills.

Locations

Location holds countries, states and cities (about 156,000 cities are installed). Switch off the places you do not serve, or import more under Location → Location Data (Import).

Job Seekers and Employers

People register on the website or in the app as a job seeker or as a company. Registration sends a verification code by email. Each account type gets its own dashboard.

Job seekers

Profile and resume (education, experience, skills, languages, social links), resume PDF download, applied jobs with status and deadline, bookmarks, followed companies, profile visits, notifications, freelance workspace and KYC verification.

Employers

Company profile with logo, cover, gallery and map location; post, edit and close jobs; applicants per job with status; followers; subscription plan checkout; freelance projects; KYC.

Admin side

Company and Applicant list every account. know your customer lists KYC submissions to approve or reject. Designation holds the job titles used in profiles.

Hiring Pipeline and Interviews

Every job has a hiring board. Employers open it from the job's applicants and drag each application through the stages Applied → Viewed → Shortlisted → Interview → Offered → Hired or Not selected. The candidate sees each change on a timeline under the application.

• Interview invitations: online (with a meeting link), in person (with an address) or by phone. The candidate accepts, declines or asks for another time, and can add the interview to a calendar.
• Reminders: both sides get a notification 24 hours before the interview. This runs from the scheduler (hiring:remind, hourly), so the cron line from Server Setup must be in place.
• Private notes and rating: employers keep notes and a 1–5 rating per applicant; candidates never see them.
• Withdraw: a candidate can withdraw an application that is not finished yet.

The same board, invitations and timeline are in the mobile app.

Plans and Subscriptions

Employers buy a plan to post jobs. Create plans in Pricing Plans; they appear on the website pricing page and in the app.

Finance → Subscription lists purchased plans. Plans paid online are activated automatically after the gateway confirms the payment. Bank-transfer purchases wait for you: check the transaction ID the employer entered and approve the subscription. Finance → Payment lists the payments.

Payment Gateways

Settings → Payment Gateways lists 10 online gateways, grouped by region. They are used for employer plan purchases and for wallet top-ups, on the website and in the app.

Per gateway

• On/off switch. All gateways ship switched off with empty keys.
• Mode: Test / Sandbox or Live. Use test keys with test mode and live keys with live mode.
• Charge currency and rate: prices are kept in your site currency; each gateway charges in its own currency using 1 site currency = rate × gateway currency.
• Wallet top-up and Plan purchase: where the gateway is offered.
• Credentials are stored encrypted. A saved secret shows as dots; leave the field empty to keep it.

Webhook URLs

Every gateway card shows its webhook URL, in the form https://your-domain.com/pay/webhook/<gateway> (for example /pay/webhook/stripe). Adding it in the gateway’s dashboard is optional but recommended: the gateway then tells your site about a payment even if the buyer never comes back. Return and cancel URLs are sent automatically with each payment; you do not configure them.

How a payment is confirmed

The buyer pays on the gateway’s hosted checkout. JobNect then verifies the payment with the gateway on the server before it credits a wallet or activates a plan, and it does this only once per payment. The payments:reconcile scheduler task re-checks pending payments every five minutes, so set up the cron job. The mobile app uses the same hosted checkout and returns to the app through the jobnect:// link.

Bank transfer

Settings → Payment Setup has the Bank Transfer switch and the instructions shown at checkout (bank name, account, reference). The buyer pays outside the site and enters the transaction ID; you approve it. Configure Stripe and PayPal under Payment Gateways, not on this page.

Freelance Marketplace

The freelance board (/freelance) lets companies and candidates post projects and hire each other, with payment held in escrow.

1. A client posts a project: fixed or hourly budget, skills, experience level, deadline.
2. Freelancers (candidates) send proposals. The client shortlists, declines or hires.
3. Hiring creates a contract with milestones. The client funds a milestone from the wallet into escrow.
4. The freelancer submits the work; the client asks for a revision or approves. Approval releases the money to the freelancer minus the platform commission.
5. Either side can open a dispute. The admin resolves it by releasing or refunding the escrow.
6. Both sides chat inside the contract and review each other at the end.

Users work from My Workspace: My projects, Proposals, Contracts and Wallet. Admins use the Freelance menu: Projects, Contracts (including disputes), Deposit Requests, Withdraw Requests, Transactions and Freelance Settings.

Freelance → Freelance Settings: marketplace on/off, platform commission (%), minimum deposit, minimum withdrawal, and the deposit instructions shown to users (for example your bKash, Nagad or Rocket merchant number or bank account).

Wallet

Every user has a wallet with four totals: available balance, in escrow, pending withdrawal and total earned, plus a full transaction ledger.

• Pay online: top up with any gateway that has Wallet top-up ticked. The balance is credited after the payment is verified.
• Manual deposit: the user sends money (bKash, Nagad, Rocket, bank) and enters the method and transaction ID. You approve it in Freelance → Deposit Requests.
• Withdraw: the user requests a payout; you pay it outside the site and approve it in Freelance → Withdraw Requests.

Notifications

Admins, employers and job seekers have a bell with an unread badge that refreshes on its own, and a full notifications page with All / Unread filters, mark-all-as-read and delete. Events include new applications, follows, KYC results, payments, registrations, contact messages, freelance and wallet activity. The mobile app has its own notification screen with an unread badge; tapping a notification opens the related screen.

Mail (SMTP)

Settings → Mail Settings. Registration codes, password resets and notifications are sent by email, so set this up first.

Save, then use the test box on the same page to send a test email.

Google Login

1. In the Google Cloud Console create an OAuth client of type Web application.
2. Add the authorised redirect URI https://your-domain.com/login/google/callback.
3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret into Settings → Social Login, switch the status on and save.

A Sign in with Google button then appears on the login and register pages.

reCAPTCHA

Create a Google reCAPTCHA key pair for your domain, then enter the Site Key and Secret Key in Settings → Recaptcha and switch the status on. Switch it on only after both keys are saved.

Languages, RTL and Phrases

Language lists the site languages. After installation English, Bangla, Spanish and Hebrew are set up; Hebrew uses right-to-left layout on the website and in the app.

• Add a language: name, code (for example es), flag icon and text direction (LTR or RTL).
• Export / import: download a language as a ZIP pack or import one (see Language packs).
• Edit phrases: the translate icon opens the phrase editor. Choose a module (labels, menus, alerts, payment, freelance and so on) and translate each phrase.

Using JobNect in Any Country

JobNect is not tied to one country. Set these once after installing:

1. Market: Settings → General Settings → Market decides where the job board works:
   • International: jobs in any country. The home page lists Jobs by country; there is no Overseas link.
   • Home country + overseas: a national job board that also lists jobs abroad. The home page lists Jobs by location (the home country's states or regions with the most jobs, or Bangladesh's 8 divisions) and an Overseas jobs link.
   • Single country only: everything stays in the home country. Every country, state and city list (website, admin and app), every job post and every job listing is limited to it, and the country is preselected in forms.
   Pick the Home country on the same page for the last two. You can switch at any time.
2. Currency, date and time: in the same General Settings page (currency, date format, time format). Payment gateways convert to their own charge currency with the rate you set per gateway.
3. Default language: General Settings → Default language. Add your language as described below.
4. Location data: countries, states and cities for the whole world are installed. Hide the places you don't serve, or replace them for your country (see below).

Language packs: export and import

In Language each language has a download icon. It saves a .zip language pack with every phrase file (labels, menus, alerts, payment, freelance, hiring and so on) and a manifest.json. Send it to a translator, edit the JSON files, then use Import on the same page to load it. Importing creates the language if it is new (name, code and text direction come from the manifest) or updates its phrases. Untick Replace phrases this site already has to add only phrases that are missing. Packs move between JobNect sites the same way.

Location data: import and export

Settings → Location Import imports countries, states and cities from the bundled world files or from your own CSV files, for every country or just one. Export location data on the same page downloads countries, states or cities as CSV, for all countries or one, in exactly the columns the importer reads (id,name,iso2,phonecode, id,country_id,name and id,country_id,state_id,name). Edit the CSV in any spreadsheet and import it here or on another site.

Roles and Permissions

Roles And Users → Role defines roles, each with a set of permissions (read, create, update, delete and more per module). Roles And Users → User creates staff accounts; each staff user gets a role and can have permissions adjusted individually.

Admin Panel Tour

• Sidebar: grouped into Overview, Hiring, Money, Website & support and System, with a search box on top.
• Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac) opens the command palette: type a page name and press Enter.
• Top bar: View site, text size (Aa), dark mode, Cache Clear, notifications, language and your profile.
• Dashboard: KPI cards with sparklines, quick actions (post a job, add company, review KYC, open live chat), "needs attention" items, charts.
• Lists: every table has a live count and a quick search.
• Todo, Activity Logs, Login Activity and Backup (downloads a SQL dump of the database).

Updating: System Update

Every release ships as the same full WebSourceCode folder you installed from. System → System Update installs it in one of two ways and shows the installed version, a server check and what the last update applied.

Automatic update (recommended)

1. Back up the database and the site folder (see Backups).
2. ZIP the new WebSourceCode folder (or its contents). The ZIP is about 50 MB, so PHP needs upload_max_filesize and post_max_size of at least 64 MB (128 MB recommended) and nginx needs client_max_body_size to match; see Server Setup. If you cannot raise them, use the manual update below.
3. Open System → System Update, check that the Server check has no red items, choose the ZIP and click Install update.

Before changing anything the screen checks PHP, extensions, upload size, time and memory limits, writable folders, free disk space and the packages the release needs. Then it puts the site in maintenance mode, backs up each folder it replaces to storage/app/updates/backups/, copies the release and finalizes it: migrations, new permissions for the Admin role and its users, new settings, languages, theme homepage sets, world location data if missing, the storage link and caches. The site comes back up and the report is shown on the page.

• Never replaced: .env, storage, vendor, public/uploads and public/storage. If a release’s notes say its PHP packages changed, also upload that release’s vendor folder over yours (File Manager or SFTP) before you finalize.
• Translations are merged: new phrases are added, and phrases you edited in Language → Phrases are kept.
• Any newer release can be installed directly; versions do not need to be installed one by one.

Manual update (cPanel or VPS)

Use this if your host blocks large uploads or ZIP extraction.

1. Back up the files and the database.
2. Extract the ZIP on your computer and upload the contents of WebSourceCode/ (including jobnect-update.json) into your project folder, choosing Replace. Do not replace .env, vendor, storage, public/uploads or public/storage. With SSH:

   rsync -avz --exclude='/.env' --exclude='/storage' --exclude='/vendor' --exclude='/public/uploads' --exclude='/public/storage' WebSourceCode/ /path/to/project/

3. Sign in as admin. Every admin page sends you to System Update until the update is finished; the new version is detected automatically. Click Finalize manual update, or run php artisan jobnect:upgrade over SSH.

Manual update on a VPS (SSH)

# on your computer: copy the new release to the server
scp jobnect-update.zip user@your-server:/tmp/

# on the server
cd /tmp && unzip -q jobnect-update.zip -d jobnect-new
mysqldump -u jobnect -p jobnect > ~/jobnect-backup.sql          # back up first
sudo rsync -a --exclude='/.env' --exclude='/storage' --exclude='/vendor' \
  --exclude='/public/uploads' --exclude='/public/storage' \
  /tmp/jobnect-new/WebSourceCode/ /var/www/jobnect/
cd /var/www/jobnect
sudo -u www-data composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader   # picks up new packages, if any
sudo -u www-data php artisan jobnect:upgrade                     # migrations, permissions, settings, caches
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/jobnect
sudo systemctl reload php8.3-fpm
sudo supervisorctl restart jobnect-reverb                       # only if you run live chat

Adjust the paths, database name and user to your server. If the ZIP holds the folder contents instead of a WebSourceCode/ folder, rsync from /tmp/jobnect-new/.

Run database sync (on the Manual tab) applies new migrations, permissions and default settings without changing the version. It is safe to run any time.

Updating from 1.x to 2.0

Version 1.x has no System Update screen and runs on Laravel 10, while 2.0 needs Laravel 13 and PHP 8.3. So this one jump is a manual update with new packages:

1. Back up, and switch the site to PHP 8.3 or newer.
2. Copy the files as in Manual update step 2, and copy composer.json and composer.lock.
3. Replace your vendor/ folder with the one in the 2.0 WebSourceCode (or run composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader).
4. Run php artisan jobnect:upgrade (or click Finalize manual update).
5. Add to .env what is new in 2.0 if it is missing: the REVERB_* block and BROADCAST_DRIVER=reverb (copy from .env.example), and check that JWT_SECRET has a value. Add the cron job if you did not have one.

Your site stays on the Classic theme with the homepage sections it showed before until you pick another theme. From 2.0 on, updates use the System Update screen.

Update the mobile app at the same time: build the new app from AppSourceCode (see Mobile App).

Troubleshooting and FAQ

Changelog

Version 2.0.0 — 7 November 2026

New

• Two new full-site themes, Momentum and Meridian, alongside Classic, Vista and Spotlight, with a theme manager in the admin panel.
• Customize panel: theme, accent colour, font pair, corner radius, text size and light/dark mode, with "make live" for admins.
• New logo and favicon; Branding section with live previews.
• Job Hub: stats bar, quick links, jobs by location, job sector, age limit and experience range, new filters on the website and in the API.
• Hiring pipeline: Kanban board per job, application stages with a candidate timeline, interview invitations with reminders, private notes and ratings, withdraw.
• International: home country setting (or none for an international board), jobs by country or region, language pack export/import, location data CSV export, English fallback for untranslated phrases, Spanish ready after install.
• Redesigned job cards with location, experience, openings, salary and days left.
• System Update: install a new release by ZIP upload or finalize a cPanel copy, with a server check, backups, translation merging and an update report; php artisan jobnect:upgrade for SSH.
• Mobile app links: Google Play and App Store buttons in every footer and newsletter style, set in Settings → Mobile app links.
• Freelance marketplace: projects, proposals, contracts with milestones and escrow, disputes, contract chat, reviews.
• Wallet: balance, escrow, ledger, manual deposits, online top-up and withdrawals.
• Payment gateway layer with 10 gateways (Razorpay, Cashfree, PhonePe, Paytm, Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Mollie, Paddle, 2Checkout), plus bank transfer; server-side verification and a scheduled reconcile task.
• Notification centre for admins, employers and job seekers, on the website and in the app.
• Live support chat with Laravel Reverb, polling fallback, WhatsApp and Messenger buttons.
• Redesigned admin panel: grouped sidebar with search, Ctrl+K command palette, text-size control, KPI cards with sparklines, list tables with live count and quick search.
• Redesigned login, register and password screens and candidate lists.
• One mobile app for job seekers and employers, with the new features, notifications and payment return by deep link.
• Upgraded to Laravel 13 and PHP 8.3; app on Flutter 3.44.

Security

• The installer can no longer be run again on an installed site, and the admin password is no longer passed in the URL.
• The one-click demo login works only on a demo site and only for the demo accounts.
• The language-file endpoint no longer accepts paths outside the language folder.
• An application's detail page is only visible to its employer, the candidate and admins.
• Uploaded files are no longer altered by the input filter, so uploads on filtered forms validate correctly.
• Removed a public URL that reset the whole database for any visitor; clearing caches now needs an admin login.
• System Update refuses uploads on a demo site, and refuses packages with unsafe paths, older versions or missing packages before changing anything.

Version 1.2.3 — 31 March 2026

• Applicant app and employer / company app combined into one listing description
• Employer / company app APK demo link added
• Separate demo logins and feature lists for applicants and employers
• Employer / company documentation title and status note updated

Version 1.2.2 — 14 July 2025

• KYC verification: users submit their KYC documents through a dedicated form with image / PDF upload
• Date format: all dates follow the format set on the backend
• Job description now displays properly, without overflow or layout issues
• Currency: salaries and other amounts use the site’s currency symbol and formatting

Version 1.2.1 — 14 October 2024

• App: fixed the “LatestJobsController not found” error

Version 1.2.0 — 6 October 2024

• App: bookmarked and applied job lists now update correctly
• App: session issue fixed
• App: prevented a user from being signed in to another user’s account
• Web: applicant and company create / update fixed
• Web: app dark logo setting added

Version 1.0.0 — 27 September 2024

• Initial release

Support

Email [email protected] with your purchase code, your site address, what you did and what you saw (a screenshot and the last lines of storage/logs/laravel.log help a lot). Support covers installation questions and bugs in the item, as described in the Envato item support policy. Customisation and server administration are not included.