Pro settings reference
Pro adds tabs to Career Board > Settings: Resumes, Job Alerts, Analytics, Boards, Field Builder, Credits, AI Settings, Job Feed, Integrations and License. This page lists the options on them, with the default a fresh install starts with.
Shared settings (jobs, applications, emails, Brand) live in the Free docs.
Resumes
Section titled “Resumes”| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Max resumes per candidate | 2 | How many resumes one candidate can keep. Allowed range 1 to 20. |
| Candidate directory visibility | Public - anyone can browse | Who can browse Find Candidates, on the page and through the API. Other choices: Logged-in members only, Approved employers only. |
| Single resume visibility | Public - anyone can view | Who can open one public resume. Same three choices. |
If the Find Candidates page is not set, the tab shows Create Missing Resume Pages. See Resume builder setup.
Job Alerts
Section titled “Job Alerts”| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Guest alerts | On | Lets visitors without an account save an alert with an email address. They confirm by email first, and every alert email has an unsubscribe link. |
| Alerts per person | 10 | Most saved alerts one member or one email address can have. Range 1 to 100. |
Below the options the tab lists saved alerts (subscriber, search, frequency, last sent, status). An alert shows “Waiting for email confirmation” until the guest confirms. See Job alerts.
Analytics
Section titled “Analytics”Read-only. Shows job views (30 days), applications per job, total applications, published jobs and top jobs by views. When credits are in use it also shows credits issued, spent and outstanding, revenue after refunds, and a button to export the credit ledger as CSV. Below that, a Transactions card lists every Stripe and PayPal purchase and refund, filtered by All, Purchases or Refunds, with a Receipt link and a Refund button on refundable purchases. Figures refresh every few minutes. See Analytics.
Boards
Section titled “Boards”Lists boards with search and paging, lets you add, edit and delete boards, and manages each board’s pipeline stages. When you edit a board, its Board Settings box has these options:
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Cost Per Job | 0 | Credits an employer pays to post on this board. 0 means posting is free. |
| Moderation | Use global default | Or Auto-publish, or Requires approval. Global default follows the site-wide Auto-publish jobs setting. |
| Listing length (days) | 0 | How long a job stays open when the employer sets no deadline. 0 follows the default listing length under Settings > Jobs. |
| Currency | Site salary currency (USD if unset) | Currency shown for jobs on this board. |
See Multi-board and Configure pipeline stages.
Field Builder
Section titled “Field Builder”The field builder app. It has no options of its own. See Field Builder overview.
Credits
Section titled “Credits”The tab warns you when employers cannot buy credits (credits off, or no gateway and no mapped product) and when a board charges credits while nothing can sell them.
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Low Balance Alert | 5 | At or below this balance the employer dashboard shows a “Low balance” banner and a reminder email is queued. 0 turns both off. |
| Featured upgrade | 10 | Credits to feature a job. 0 turns the paid upgrade off. See Featured upgrade. |
| Native checkout | On | Stripe and PayPal checkout without leaving the page. |
| Product mapping | On | Buying credits through a mapped WooCommerce, PMPro or MemberPress product. |
| Credit packs and pricing | none | Fixed packs and a per-credit rate for custom amounts. See Credit packages. |
Checkout and receipts (defaults):
| Option | Default |
|---|---|
| Billing details | Name, email and country (or Full postal address) |
| Tax rate (%) | 0, added on top of the pack price |
| Tax label | blank, shown as “Tax” |
| Business name | blank, uses the site name |
| Business address, Your VAT / GST number | blank |
| Receipt number prefix | INV- |
Coupons is a table of code, discount (Percent off or Amount off), amount, expiry date, usage limit and active. Fill a blank row to add a coupon, clear its code to delete it.
Other cards on the tab: Direct payment gateways (Stripe and PayPal credentials, see Stripe setup), Credit mappings (provider, product or plan, credits), Detected providers and Admin credit adjustment (see Manual adjustments and refunds). The Transactions list is on the Analytics tab.
AI Settings
Section titled “AI Settings”Everything here is optional. See AI overview and AI providers.
| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Analysis and ranking | Disabled | Provider for application ranking, AI job descriptions and chat search. Claude, OpenAI or Ollama. |
| Matching (embeddings) | Disabled | Provider for candidate-to-job matching. OpenAI or Ollama. Claude has no embeddings. |
| OpenAI API key, Anthropic API key | empty | Saved keys are not shown again; leave blank to keep. |
| Ollama URL | http://localhost:11434 | Address of your Ollama server. |
| Claude model | claude-sonnet-4-6 | Haiku, Sonnet or Opus. |
| OpenAI model | gpt-4o-mini | Also gpt-4o. Embedding model default text-embedding-3-small (or 3-large). |
| Ollama models | llama3 and nomic-embed-text | Completion and embedding model names as installed. |
| Auto-score applicants on submit | Off | Scores each new application in the background. One model call per application. |
| Show an AI-use notice on the application form | On for new installs, off for sites upgraded from before this option existed | Tells applicants employers may use AI to review applications. The notice shows only while an analysis provider is set. |
Index existing jobs runs once to index jobs created before AI was on. It needs an embedding provider.
Job Feed
Section titled “Job Feed”| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enable feed | Off | Publishes an XML feed at /wcb-jobs.xml. |
| Contact email | Site admin email | Shown in the email field of each job entry. |
See Job feed.
Integrations
Section titled “Integrations”| Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Profile tabs | On | My Jobs and My Career tabs on BuddyPress member profiles. |
| Application notifications | On | In-app BuddyPress notifications to employers for new applications. |
| Group job boards | Off | Each BuddyPress group gets its own board and a Jobs tab. |
| Map provider | Leaflet / OpenStreetMap | Or Google Maps (API key) or Mapbox (access token). Leaflet needs no key. |
| Google Maps API key, Mapbox access token | empty | Saved keys are not shown again. |
The three BuddyPress options are greyed out until BuddyPress is active. See BuddyPress integration.
The PWA settings card has no option of its own. It links to Settings > Brand, whose colour the installable app uses. See PWA and Job map.
License
Section titled “License”Shows product, status, expiry (or Lifetime), activations used, the license key field and a usage-data setting. The license gates updates and the mobile app connection only. Every web feature keeps working without it. See License activation.
Pro adds these pages to the shared page list: Hiring Pipeline, Job Map and Find Candidates. Assign or recreate them under Settings > Pages.