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Posted on August 31, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
There will be scheduled maintenance for the Zoo Property system on Saturday 4th September 2010 from 1.00pm AEST. There is no planned outage for the system but we’ll be deploying the latest updates which have been complete during the past 2 months.
Although the work has been performed through a testing environment their could be minor teething hick-ups experienced late Saturday afternoon. Therefore, to avoid any inconvenience on your behalf we advise it’s best to complete all property updates for the weekend prior to 1.00pm on Saturday.
Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause as we’ve attempted to select a time which will have minimal impact on your businesses.
Please feel free to contact me or leave a comment on this post if you have any questions. In the coming days I’ll provide a summary of the new features and enhancements which will be deployed over the weekend.
Posted on August 29, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
Agentpoint have just finished the first mobile phone real estate website which syncs with the Zoo Property system. This will allow you to market your current listings, sold listings, agent profiles and latest news to any user through a mobile phone. The mobile phone software will also monitor the number of browsers to your website and can be set-up to remit this information back into Zoo Property.
For all existing Zoo Property clients if you order your mobile phone website during September then we will provide you with a 50% discount on the cost, meaning you’ll only pay $175 + tax for your site.
You can read more about the features and benefits of the Mobile Phone websites at the Agentpoint website and to sign up fill in the form there.
Posted on July 8, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
Zoo Property now synchronises with MyDesktop meaning real estate agents who are currently or planning to use MyDesktop can take still take advantage of Zoo Property. MyDesktop (Desktop) can feed all of your properties through to Zoo Property every 30 minutes allowing us to populate your website.
Zoo Property is now remitting contact details captured through the websites (and soon manually entered by agents in the system) back into MyDesktop. This allows agents using Zoo Property to automatically build their database of subscribers which the manage in the MyDesktop CRM.
We’re always on the lookout for other real estate based applications to synchronise our system with so please get in contact with me if you have any requests.
Posted on July 7, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
We’ve added an enhanced property listing preview option in the Listings and Dashboard sections of the Agent’s System. You can find it by clicking the ‘Preview” tab on any property listing. This tab will open a styled window in A4 size and outlines all the information entered for that property including open inspection and Auction times. We also display all images and floorplans in a thumbnail format.
This window can then be printed and used to check over the property listing, show to vendors and even as an advertising tool to market the property.
Posted on July 3, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
We’ve adjusted the way open inspection times are handled so that now if a property is marked as sold, leased or withdrawn any future open inspection times are automatically removed and withdrawn from the office website along with 3rd party portals.
We’ve also set up a daily cron which automatically removes any open inspection times from the past from the system, office website and 3rd party portals.
Previously, both of these functions were required to be performed by the agent manually. Often it would not happen and just makes the overall listing display a little messy given past or non existent open times are displayed.
Posted on June 22, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
We’ve just set up an export to Flickr.com for Zoo Property. This means your property images along with the description for each property and key tags relating to the property type, suburb and listing type will be tagged for the image in flickr. In recent tests we’ve found that properties with a page on flickr are ranking high in search engines largely due to the high page rank of Flickr.
All an agent needs to do for their properties to appear on flickr is to request their developer to check this option for their export settings.
Posted on June 11, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
At Zoo Property we have just deployed an upgrade to the Agent’s System adding enhancements for users in the “Listings” tab. The upgrade makes it a whole lot easier for users to locate listings as they can now filter and sort listings by a larger number of categories.
Users now have the option to configure their Dashboard or Listings page how they like it. They can remove columns and only display property listing data which is relevant to them. They can also reposition columns so the data is presented how they would like to read. For users with smaller screens they can make the columns/fields smaller allowing them to fit as much property information as they like on the property page.
Another great addition is that we now show the total number of listings for each filter result and the user can quickly jump through this data through the pagination installed.
We welcome any feedback about the enhancements and obviously would love to hear your thoughts in relation to how we can improve it further. Please post any comments here.
Posted on June 10, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
We’ve added a quick search feature to Zoo Property which allows you you enter the suburb, street or property id for a property. It will then predict the remainder of the word and display results from the database which match your criteria. It is a great way to easily find a property you know is in the database.
Posted on May 24, 2010 • by Ryan O'Grady • No Comments »
Stayz is the leading holiday accommodation website in Australia and Zoo Property is now exporting our client’s holiday accommodation listings to this website. Client’s need to have a registered account with Stayz but once setup (and we have your account id) your listings will automatically appear there.
