The Business Directory aims to showcase businesses affiliated with your school in a clean, easy-to-browse listing format. Whether it's current families, alumni, or community partners who own or operate businesses, this directory is a great way to support and promote them.
Why use a Business Directory?
A Business Directory is a powerful way to:
Celebrate your community: Highlight businesses and sponsors run by current or former students, families, and other school supporters.
Encourage local support: Give families and the wider community an easy way to find and support each other’s businesses.
Strengthen connections: Showcase how your school’s community extends beyond the classroom and into the wider world.
Add value: Offer a platform for business owners to promote their services in a trusted environment.
What’s included in each listing?
Each business profile includes:
Business name
Category tags (to help filter and sort the directory)
Logo
Contact information (email, phone number, location, website)
Business description (a short overview of the services offered)
Visitors can search by name or filter businesses by category to quickly find what they're looking for. You can even feature selected businesses to give them extra visibility.
How to add businesses to a business directory
To add the business directory to your website navigation to the “Entries” Tab within the CMS.
Under the Entries sidebar you should the Business directory listed. If you don’t see the item listed please contact your CSM or Project Manager to enable for you.
Before you can add the directory to a page you must first add businesses to your directory. To do this navigate to the top right hand corner and you will see '+ New Entry' button.
Enter your business details. Create Entry.
To add a category, press ' + Add a category'. From here, in the modal in the bottom left hand corner press ' + New Business Directory category'. Type in the category you are after and then press ‘Create Category’.
Continue to add Businesses and Categories as required.
How to add your Business Directory to a page
Navigate to entries > Create New Entry
On the content tab of the page > Add new section > Select the Business Directory section from the list.
The Business Directory section will open in a modal. From here, enter the details you require for the directory.
If you’d like a heading and description attached to the Directory fill out the fields in the modal. Please note that the Title field is mandatory and NOT displayed on your page but rather an indicator in the CMS as to what this section is Eg “Health Business Directory”.
If you would like to showcase all categories of the business Directory allowing users to filter and search multiple categories make sure the ‘Support Filtering by category’ is toggled on (Green is on/ Grey is off).
If you would prefer to just feature one category make sure “Feature One Category” is toggled on and select the category you wish to display. This feature is helpful if you plan on adding multiple directories.
Design options for configuring your Business Directory
Navigate to the ‘Design’ tab within the Business Directory Section on the page.
Select your Container width. Depending on the width you select your business directory will either fall into one column (Standard) or Two columns (Wides)
Select if you would like borders around the cards or without them.
Determine if you want your Directory to be vertical or horizontal with or without divider lines.
Horizontal View (More Visual)
Vertical View
Selecting the colour tab will also allow you to determine what backgroun colour you wish to apply to the module.
Save.