There is often confusion in relation to deleting ‘Team Members” from your Agent’s System. If the team member is assigned to any properties then when you attempt to delete them a validation error will appear.
It is compulsory that all properties added to Zoo Property contain at least 1 agent or team member, this is the ‘Primary Contact”.
Before you delete a team member you must make sure they’re no longer assigned to any properties. Why? because if you delete that member then the property they are assigned to won’t have a team member and will break the compulsory rule that properties much have at least 1 team member
There is an easy way you can re-assign properties from 1 team member to another and it will only take you around 20 seconds.
You go to “Tools” and then you select on the secondary navigation “Team Assign”. You will then select the “Primary Contact” you’d like to move properties from and then select another “Primary Contact” for who you would like to assign the properties to. Then press ‘Submit” and all properties for that team member will be assigned to the other team member.
You then go into the ‘Team” tab and you can delete the team member.
If you have any questions please feel free to post them here and I’ll answer them.
We’ve had a few questions as to whether you can NOT send a property to a particular portal you would normal send it to and if so how to do it. In the last Zoo Property update we added a section to each property called “Exports” which lists the 3rd party portals your office is subscribed to.
Most portals are set to automatically subscribe NEW properties, meaning when the property is created that portal will be checked. If you DO NOT want the property sent to a particular portal then this is what you need to do:
1. When you’re adding the property details you MUST select the “Draft” option when you are saving the property. This will save the listing as DRAFT meaning it will not be exported to any portals.
Note: DO NOT select the “Submit” option as this will save the listing with status “Available” meaning it will be exported to all portals. if a listed is created and not saved as a DRAFT when it is first created then there is no way to uncheck a portal for that listing.
2. Once step 1. is complete you then select the “Exports” tab at the top of the page. This takes you to a page where you can view the portals your office is subscribed to export to. You then uncheck the portals you do not want the listing to appear on and press ‘Submit”.
3. You then select “Status” at the top of the page and change the status for the property from Draft to Available. The listing will then be exported to the portals which are checked in Exports.
If you have any questions please post a comment on this post and we will answer it. This will also allow others to view the questions and answers.
Hello and welcome to Zooproperty.com, I hope you are enjoying our all new system.
Introduction
Hello and welcome to the all new Zooproperty.com platform. The system is a breeze to use once you get the hang of it. We have included a number of Video Tutorials here to make the transition as easy as possible.
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Your Dashboard
When you login, this is what you will see each time. We have provided database details, quick links, latest listings and updates and also the ability to create new and update listings directly from the Dashboard.
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Your Office
You can update your office details at top right hand side of the Dashboard. Simply click on the link and update the details.
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Your Team
Make sure your team details are up to date. We now have added features for each team member, including new photo sizes, testimonials, Twitter ID, Facebook ID, Linkedin ID and also VCards. Please make sure you login and update all of your team members. We also have new team preferences.
Clicking on the Listings tab will bring you to the listings page. This is where you can add new, update and view all of your listings. You can filter the listings by property type, status, contact and more. You can also update photos, open times and status.
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Your Listings Photos, Floor Plans, Brochures
You can add up to 26 property photos and floor pans and alos add up to 4 brochures for each listing. We are also testing the ability to place MP3 sound files with each listing. We will shortly be releasing the ability for you to add up to 200 megabyte videos through your own YouTube channel in the coming months.
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Your Open Times
You can update open times for individual listings at any time. If the listing in question does not have any associated open times, then the icon will appear grey, if it has open times, it will appear orange. You can click on the icon at any time to add multiple open times for each listing.
You are invited to open a free Zooproperty.com account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit http://agentaccount.com/signup If you haven’t already heard about it, Zooproperty.com is a service that makes building real estate website easier!
Here’s what Zooproperty.com Developer Version offers:
A complete real estate listings & team management system.
A complete API of all of your clients database in XML
An individual sub domain of your choice for you and your clients to log-into
A dashboard for managing all of your clients and their offices
Low-priced monthly fees per client office (you value add fees to your clients for hosting and support)
Please note that Zooproperty.com is only available for sign up in the USA, Australia and New Zealand at this stage with more countries coming on by request (see below) for our Country Roadmap.
Welcome to Zooproperty.com. Here is the login address to create your account with Zooproperty.com
http://agentaccount.com/signup
You will need to choose a unique sub domain for you and your clients. Try to choose a short memorable name.
FORUM:
http://support.zooproperty.com
We are busy building this system and are still in FREE beta mode, so we appreciate your patience. if you need help, please visit our forum and ask any question, we will try to answer all questions within the 4 hours.
STEP ONE:
Set up your developers.
These are the people that you will give access to your developer system. When you add a client they will need to select which developer to contact for different types of support.
Adding Clients. Once you are logged into your Zooproperty.com Developer Dashboard, just go to Clients and then click on the Add Client Icon at right. There is a quick help system to guide you through the process. It is very simple.
Currently Zooproperty.com supports 3 countries with the UK, Canada, South Africa coming on board in March 2010. We will then be opening up to all countries by June 2010. Please be patient, will will get to you shortly.
Beta:
As we are still in beta we hope you understand that there will be some issues and bugs in the system. We will work diligently to fix any issues that arise.We thank yuo for your patience and appreciate any topics you want to raise by going to our forums.
Themes:
If you would like to purchase any ready to go Zooproperty.com WordPress Theme please contact Ryan O’Grady in (Oceania) and Peter Ricci (USA and Canada)
This is the first in a series of Video Tutorials on designing the real estate agent homepage. This goes through all the basics we think are needed to make a great real estate home page.
The Search Result Page
The search results page can make or break the user experience, only provide information on this page that is relevant to the search. if you website only has a handful of listings, never make them use a full search tool, get straight into the listings and allow them to refine down from there.
The Property Page
Creating a property page can be fraught with danger, especially since there are forces pulling you towards what you want. By far the most important things for users are price, location information, photography and features and for the real estate agent, a simple way for users to share information socially and also contact the agent.
Other Pages
Here is a look at some of the other pages we will find on a traditional real estate agent website. These pages may share information dynamically to the home page and also be jumping points to further information across your website. This Zooproperty.com tutorial on how to design some of the other pages such as team member pages and individual team member pages.
Here is the first Developers video lesson for signing up to Zoo Property. If you were lucky enough to get an Invite you would have been presented with this. We continually add more invites each week to our system.
The second video is an overview for Zoo Property Developers System. This will give you a general idea of what we have for you the web developer/ designer.
