Job Board Software for Publishers Outside the US

Quick Answer

Choose software that runs the board in your readers' language with separate indexed pages per language, lets you charge in your own currency through your own payment account, and accepts invoices for the employers who cannot pay by card, such as NGOs, UN agencies, governments and large companies. Then check whether Google for Jobs is available in your country, because it changes where your search traffic comes from.

Run the Board in Your Readers' Language

Kardow boards ship in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Albanian. A board can run in one of them or several. With more than one turned on, each job is translated automatically into the others, readers see the board in their browser's language when it is available, and every language gets its own pages with the right language tags, so each one can be found in search.

Job alert emails follow the reader's language too, so a reader who signs up in French gets French alerts.

Currencies and Card Payments

Employers who pay by card pay into your own Stripe account, in the currency you set on each plan. Kardow takes 0% of what you sell. Stripe supports accounts in 51 countries; our payment coverage by country lists them.

Your own payment link is the answer for markets where cards are not how businesses pay. It sends the employer to a page you already use, whether that is a PayPal page, a mobile money page or bank transfer instructions, and you mark the order paid when the money arrives.

Invoices for NGOs and Large Employers

In many markets the employers with the biggest hiring budgets are the ones least able to pay by card: international NGOs, UN agencies, embassies, governments, universities and large companies. They pay on an invoice, often against a purchase order, on 30-day terms.

On Kardow's Scale plan, any plan can be sold by invoice. The employer posts the job and you bill them from your own accounting system. When the money lands, one click marks it paid and publishes the job. Kardow keeps the list of what is owed, moves anything unpaid after 30 days to overdue, and copies the billing details for you. It does not produce the invoice document itself.

Google for Jobs Is Not Available Everywhere

Google's job search is a large source of traffic for job boards in the US, but it is not available in every country. We maintain a country-by-country dataset checked against Google's own list: of 199 countries, it is available in 129, not available in 56, and Google makes no statement about 14.

Some examples matter for publishers. Kosovo and Albania are not on Google's list. Lebanon is. Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia are covered because Google includes the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. Where Google for Jobs is not available, your job pages still appear in ordinary search results, and your own site, newsletter and social channels carry more of the traffic.

Jobs From Day One

A jobs section needs listings before it can sell posts. Kardow imports jobs from careers sites and job feeds in over 100 countries, in any language, filtered by location and keyword, so the board has local listings the day it launches. Paid posts from local employers then sit on top.

What Kardow Does Not Do

• Right-to-left languages. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu layouts are not supported yet.
• Languages outside the six. The board's own text can be rewritten, but system screens and alert emails come in the six languages above. Ask us before you start if you need another.
• Invoice documents. You bill from your own accounting system; Kardow tracks what is owed and publishes on payment.
• Built-in PayPal or mobile money checkout. Card checkout runs on Stripe. Everything else goes through your own payment link.

For the bigger picture on what a jobs section can earn, read how news publishers make money from job listings.

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