I would love to see a calendar view of upcoming listings. REW already has a calendar, it would be nice for it to be populated with upcoming listings on their go-live date and link to the respective backend listing.
I was prompted because our system didn’t send an email alert that a listing was entered into the backend and it surprised me (that’s custom work, I believe). A calendar view would make it easy to confirm and visualize what’s on schedule for the week.
We list 3-10 properties per week and have to make sure we order signs posts, marketing materials and other items. We have to manage it outside of the back office. We currently use Microsoft Planner (screenshot of the calendar). Just the calendar in the backoffice would be a huge help!
This is a great topic to start as we’re currently looking at “listings” on a greater scale.
We’re currently looking at a few things on the “Deals” side (sell side)
Example: Pre-populate a checklist of items that need to be done for every listing (having several checklists in addition to the default checklist) would populate in the marketing activities section.
The next thing we’ve been looking at is how to have an “action plan” that is after x days, time, date specific etc that can be applied to a sell deal (a “listing”) and one thing I’d REALLY like to see - is the ability to have action plan items be applied to different people (for example a task can be assigned to an co-ordinator instead of agent within the same action plan @Rebecca this should be in the meeting this week).
On the subject of linking these elements “too a listing” - the challenge we face is that generally we have to wait until we receive the listing from the MLS before it’s in our system (because most customers add it there, instead of in the REW backend as the source of truth) and so once a listing is already added to the MLS, most of the checklist related items etc are already done, so it’s kind of moot.
Of course, the solution is to manually add the listing information to the REW Backend first, but then it is double entry (but could be worth it?) and then we’d need to come up with some way to “associate” the CMS created listing with the MLS listing once the MLS listing is live and true them up. Doable - just need to think through it.
Finally (been on the list for quite a while) the Brikoettter report (example of a customer who has done this themselves) that we have a spot to track all the pageviews, inquiries, times that listing was shown in a search on the site etc. Ideally we’d also be able to add new traffic categories (for third parties) that you could populate to increase the value of the report. Exmaple - if Zilllow or Homes gives you that data on their end, you could manually add to your listing report.
Good point. I’m the listing coordinator in our company working every listing, so I have lots of thoughts . Regarding your point, we double entry listings and it’s been fine for us. Agents just fill in the minimum backend listing requirements 1-2 weeks early (3-5 min of their time). I put it on my listing coordinator calendar, set up tasks like order post installation, etc (in Microsoft Planner). On listing day, I enter the data into the MLS from their signed forms. I also turn it live in the backend. The backend still has minimum data at this stage.
At this point our custom REW work kicks in. When the listing hits our IDX feed, on the front end of our site, it displays the complete data from the MLS (our MLS provides much more data than the backend listings). It overwrites anything on the front end with the MLS data. Essentially the MLS, and therefore our front end IDX listing, is the source of truth. The MLS doesn’t update the backend listing, we somewhat ignore it. The backend listing is basically a workspace or scratchpad. We didn’t feel the need to sync up the backend listing.
If REW added a robust listing coordinating action plan and calendar we might make different choices on where the source of truth should be and how we treat the backend listing. But double entry and our way of using the MLS as source of truth has worked well for us.
There is definite opportunity to add a coordinating system to the backend!
. Regarding your point, we double entry listings and it’s been fine for us. Agents just fill in the minimum backend listing requirements 1-2 weeks early (3-5 min of their time). I put it on my listing coordinator calendar, set up tasks like order post installation, etc (in Microsoft Planner). On listing day, I enter the data into the MLS from their signed forms. I also turn it live in the backend. The backend still has minimum data at this stage.