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Improved front site design
New improved front site design featuring new sections like Featured Agents (the agents are able to upload in it their logo for a fee and link it to their properties on the website), Featured Video Property (a random property from the featured ones on the website and having video file uploaded is shown), Real Estate Quick Links (allowing to click on a location and list the property in it or it can be also replaced by clickable map), Latest Ads (showing the latest ads posted on the website), Featured Properties For Sale (showing random featured properties, a property can be made featured for a fee). |
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Multi level locations and AJAX form
New functionality allowing to define multi level locations, like Country -> State -> City -> Quarter. AJAX location select field with predictive writing on the front site. |
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Video support
Possibility to upload video files for the properties - virtual tours or video property presentations. The accepted video file formats as well as the maximum allowed file size can be specified by the administrator. The administrator can also create different packages (for both the private sellers and the real estate agents) allowing to upload (or not) a video property file. In this way the administrator/website owner could charge more the users who would like to post a video for their property on the website. |
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Improved middle and final results layout
New and improved middle and final results layout allowing to easily navigate between the results and show the property features. |
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Saved Searches
New functionality allowing the website users to save their searches. The functionality doesn't require registration so any website user could use it. Using the saved searches, later the users could easily visualize the results from searches they made in the past. They also have the possibility to search only the new properties - the newly posted properties which have been published after the search has been saved. |
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Google Maps integration
This new feature allows the users to enter the coordinates of the property they are selling or letting, which will show automatically after that a Google map on the page showing the detailed property information. This helps the visitors of the website to easily locate the property. |
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Improved user admin spaces
New improved agents and private sellers admin spaces. The agents could see in the top bar the number of credits they have, as well as direct links to the main website and their own website (the new feature allowing the agents to create a website, add the pages and information they prefer and which shows their listed properties) |
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Better system for charging the users based on credits
New and better system for charging the agents based on credits has been added. The agents can buy credits and then use them to pay for the different services offered on the website like posting ads, make them featured, post banners. The usage of the credits system increases the profits for the website owner, as well as make the website easier for use by the agents. Instead of making multiple small payments when they would like to use a service, they could purchase credits and spend them after for paying when posting ads etc. |
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Banners functionality
New functionality allowing the real estate agents to post banners in special banner areas created by the administrator. Possibility to create different banner areas on the website, each with its own size and position, different price for uploading a banner in it etc. The agent is charged automatically from his credits when posting a banner in a selected banner area. |
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Unique feature allowing the agents to create an maintain their own websites
A new unique feature has been added to the real estate portal - it allows the agents to create their own website with url like www.domain.com/agent . This website not only lists the properties of the agent, but also gives him the possibility to add additional information and new pages like About Us or whatever the agent prefers. There is also functionality allowing the agent to edit his website design and template - there are both WYSIWYG templates edit and option to edit directly the HTML code of the template. The agent can in this way freely customize the design of his website adding his logo, changing colors etc. Adding new pages to the website is as easy as dragging the icon for a new page over the desired position in the website tree. |
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Real Estate Agents Sub Accounts
The real estate agents already have the possibility to create sub accounts for their accounts. They can be useful if other people from the same company have to access the same profile and manage the property listings or information.The main user can set the permissions for the different pages available in the real estate agents admin space, so he could specify the permissions which sub account should have. |
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Improved admin panel
The admin panel has been reorganized and improved and also new pages have been added in order to allow to manage the new functionality (like managing the credits system and settings, the default settings for the for the users websites etc.) |
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Newsletter
The new newsletter functionality allows the administrator to send newsletter to the private sellers or real estate agents. The users can choose to subscribe for the newsletter when they sign up on the website and then change this setting from their personal admin space. |
| Advanced functionality for the administrators to define the property types, the associated fields with them and even set which fields are searchable! | |
| Email alerts (email notifications for the users when new properties matching their search criteria are listed) | |
| SEO optimized links, look like static html files with the property headline appearing in the link, for example: www.domain.com/ad/16/luxury-apartment-in-new-york.html | |
| Multi administrators back office - possibility to create multiple admin users and assign them different access rights for the system resources | |
| Improved property packages functionality allowing the administrator to create different packages for the private sellers with a different number of allowed pictures and a different price; special packages for the real estate agents | |
| Improved multi language functionality, now it's even easier compared to the previous version to run a multi language real estate portal |
| Search the database by defined criteria (rent/sale, type of the property and others) | |
| Browse and sort the results | |
| Post an ad (sale/rent) | |
| Signup for private sellers, agents and affiliates | |
| Functionality to contact the users posted a specified ad through the website | |
| When a private seller has posted an ad an account is created for him, he may login after with it and make changes in his profile, ads and personal settings | |
| Special functionalities for the agents after they signup and login to their personal administration space, to purchase multi ad packages and publish and manage multiple ads | |
| Affiliates functionality - the affiliates may signup and earn commissions from the price per ad post on the website, they monitor their statistics and earning reports through their personal administration space | |
| Publish featured ads on the home page | |
| Frequently asked questions | |
| News categories and news publishing | |
| Newsletter functionality | |
| Links section (with description and title for the links) | |
| Contact form with email notification |
| monitor, publish and manage the ads posted by the users | |
| consult, delete and modify the private sellers, agents and affiliates accounts | |
| add new pages to the website (and delete/activate/deactivate them) | |
| edit the content of the pages with a powerful WYSIWYG editor | |
| set custom extensions to be executed for selected pages | |
| unique interactive help functionality, right click on a page or element and get immediately help information for it | |
| use different templates for the website and a powerful templates functionality | |
| extend the application with ease with new Back office modules and application extensions written by yourself | |
| use standard, multiple levels and customized predefined menus, which are automatically generated according to the website structure | |
| set music files to played (for example in .mp3 format) on the pages of the website | |
| manage the URLs of the pages of your website, setup for example search engines friendly URLs to be used | |
| cross browser WYSIWYG editor to edit the website pages content | |
| define custom template tags and set custom extensions to be executed for them | |
| create custom server side forms, like Contact pages or product information request forms, with and integrated WYSIWYG forms designer | |
| consult the data sent by users through the published forms on the site | |
| see statistics and charts for the visits of the website | |
| optimize the site for search engines, set custom titles, meta keywords and description for the pages, check the queries that the visitors used in Google to find your website | |
| submit your website to the major crawler based search engines, like Google and Alltheweb for example | |
| check search engines index report | |
| see search engines popularity report for a selected page | |
| consult history for your login/log outs to the Back office application | |
| great security features to protect your website and the Back office application | |
| define custom welcome messages for the Back office users | |
| detailed security reports for the Back office | |
| define multiple groups and users for the Back office and assign them different access settings for the resources of the application | |
| consult history reports for the different users |