NRS user features include:

• creating page and search result alerts
• creating custom newsfeed or search pages
• selecting favorite categories for a rank boost in search results
• submitting listings to a directory
• submitting keywords for a listing to appear in premium advertising
• a basic mail account for organizing alerts and notifying buddies
• a bookmark store where the user can import his bookmarks and share them or keep them private
• organize bookmarks using tags
• install the NRS toolbar for quick access to search, metasearch, news pages, bookmarking button, and alert button
• creating reports from alerts and offering them to other users
• create new wiki pages
• edit wiki pages

NRS functions as an application server in which pages are called templates. When templates are organized in folders, it is called an application. When an application has a template of type "account" it activates user features for the other template types in the application. The account template gives you control over:

• pricing model of application: free, subscription, one-time cost
• signup of user
• logout of user
• forgot password page
• email user upon signup
• email verification for account activation
• accept user listings with or without review
• spider and index user listings immediately or only after review
• maximum user alerts, listings, keywords per listing, categories per listing, mailbox size, and number of custom pages

Users can potentially be given an administration interface to their own application. This gives them the ability to manage templates, configure template feeds such as RSS news, metasearch, SQL queries, XML streams, etc..

All user listings can be controlled by a "user listing" collection. The collection controls the spidering and indexing of the user listings. For example you can specify how many page to spider and how often to spider.