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If you use Matterport 3D virtual tours on your property listings, Flex will now embed the virtual tours into the 'virtual tour' tab on property details on your website and default to this tab for your visitors. Here are instructions on how to add virtual tours and videos to listings: http://support.entegral.net/support/solutions/articles/1000147879-adding-external-videos-virtual-tours-links You can also use Entegral's free 360 tour option, if you have a 360 camera or application to make 360 tours: http://productblog.entegral.net/2017/06/free-360-virtual-tours-for-real-estate.html

A new 'occupation notes' field is now available in the OMS property mandate screen. This is a free text field and allows you to capture any notes related to the occupation status, available date, occupational rent or conditions: This field is private and doesn't pull through to any property portals. It can be included in custom OMS brochures.

We know that in real estate, listing photos are worth more than a 1000 words and that is why we have tweaked the OMS to support Full HD photos. The OMS will now be able to support full HD resolution photos , in pixel terms that mean a whopping 1920 x 1080 pixels! That is an impressive 87% larger than our previous format. Now if you thought that was the best part, you’d be wrong because all of this is free of charge to our clients, and the larger size doesn’t mean that you will be limited either! You will still be able to upload an unlimited amount of photos to a listing! Your beautiful full HD photos will be displayed on your Entegral Flex responsive website and all other portals that support full HD format photos in all its glory!

You have asked for it and our developers have delivered with the latest round of updates! You will now be able to display even more of a properties features on a listing, as you can see in the example below. The extra additional information will be displayed underneath your property description and can be added from the OMS dashboard. The information will be displayed on your Entegral responsive Flex website , as well as Property24. Contact us today to upgrade your older version Entegral website to a responsive Flex website or to update your existing Flex website.

With feedback from our commercial clients, a number of new commercial fields have been added to the OMS: You can now include the Block Number as part of the address: New lease fields including escalation %, tenant installation allowance, lease period and deposit requirements have been added too: A bit of a nip-and-tuck elsewhere with the items included & excluded now separate tabs to allow a bit more space for entering descriptions: The OMS supports residential, agricultural and commercial property capturing .

We now support the following additional property fields to Property24 from within the OMS and Sync: Kitchen Features Security Features Garden Features Pets Allowed Flatlet If you have marked these fields, or entered descriptions in them, simply save the property details again and it will update to Property24.

We've added landlord as contact type to new and existing property listings on the OMS:

Entegral clients are now able to feed to more portals thanks to a new partnership with Tivvit . The new portals are available to OMS and Sync clients. There is a R249 activation fee payable to Entegral for the Tivvit setup and its affiliated websites . The monthly support fee is covered in your Sync  costs that you already pay to paid portals like Property24, Private Property, Zoopla, IOL Property etc. Please  follow this help link  to get Tivvit activated for your office. You will need to sign a contract with them which includes a monthly fee to feed to their portals. Once set up, listings can be sent to Tivvit via the normal online marketing page on property listings as illustrated below. You will get a status indicator and link to the property once live. Your property listings will then be activated on the Tivvit website: Note: To avoid duplication, we only feed to the portals like Tivvit.com and Cyberprop.com not covered by Entegral's existing interfaces. Entegral of...

You can now easily find property listings in the OMS by simply entering the external property portal reference number in the OMS quick search area, as illustrated below. Here we entered the IOL Property reference number and it found the corresponding OMS listing: You can search popular portals like Property24, Private Property, IOL Property and MyProperty through the quick search. The external property portal reference numbers are also imported and displayed on your individual property listing, with a hyperlink to open it on the external portal: To get a global overview of the status of your listings on external portals, you can also visit your office's listing dashboard :

Property details in the OMS now has a new heading/title field allowing you to provide up to 250 characters of descriptive text for a property listing: Once saved, allow some time for it to pull through to selected portals, we currently support the heading field in Property24 and will cater for other portals and Flex websites soon where supported:

The OMS now supports a gross price per square meter indicator for commercial property rentals. This is pulled through to selected portals including Property24. 1. Simply enter your gross rental price/sqm on the mandate as you normally do: 2.Mark prices as 'gross price/square meter' on the commercial section of the listing features: 3. Once saved allow time for it to update to portals, here is a Property24 example:

Creating high quality online property listings for your sellers is key in generating buyer leads, but is also a great marketing tool for people interested to list with you. Why create average listings when you can create state of the art property listings with the OMS and Flex . Here is a great example where some of the key features of the OMS and Flex were used, including: Over 50 photos (The OMS and Flex allows unlimited photos ) with descriptions for each photo; Interactive map with integrated driving directions (simply insert your address for directions); Google Streetview split view with map; Virtual tour or Youtube video integration (Entegral's 360 virtual tours are free in the OMS); Teams ( you can load listings as teams in the OMS); Additional features ( you can create additional fields in the OMS); Social media links ( setup individual social media links including skype button for agents); EAAB PrivySeal integration that is easy to setup at no additional cost; There are a...

You can now setup teams in the OMS. The teams function is optional and can be used to market property listings under multiple agents on selected portals. Portals currently enabled for teams are: Property24 Private Property We are working to enable teams on Flex websites and other portals (where supported). How to setup teams for your office: Log in to the OMS and go to Setup / My Office / Office Members; Click on the new 'teams' tab; Click on 'new team'; Enter a team name e.g. 'John and Sandy' and press save. Note the team name won't appear on any external websites, it is for internal OMS use only; Now add the team members; How to link teams on listings; Open up a property listing with the mandate view selected; Under the listing/rental/auction agent you will notice a new 'Listing Team' field; Simply select the team you want to link to this listing and press save; The listing will update to external portals, with the team agent shown as agents on the...

We have tweaked and enhanced the Google Street view feature on Flex websites by moving the Streetview to a separate tab on the property listing view. Street View will automatically show for listings that are geocoded in the OMS and where the 'show on map' feature is selected. Google Street View is not available everywhere, but we do a check for availability. The view is split into a Street View on the left and map on the right. Panning left or right in the Street View will also adjust the directional marker on the map, to show where your view currently is: In the search results, a 'mapped' market will further indicate mapped properties for visitors:

Did you just sign the property listing of the year or is there a particularly stunning property you would like to showcase as a featured property on your website? If so, then this quick guide on how to add a property as a featured property on your responsive Flex website is a must. Your website will automatically showcase all your latest listings, but as we know new listings can come in quickly and sometimes there is a certain property that just needs to be in the limelight a little longer due to its fantastic price, prime location or unique design. Follow these easy steps to quickly add it as a featured property: In the OMS go to My Office / General Settings; Click on parameters and choose 'featured properties' ; Manually enter a list of properties you want to feature on the home page: Enter the property reference numbers and separate with a comma as per sample below; Press save - you will need to allow for a few minutes for your page to update before the new featured will re...

Click here to see the ranking at work in Sandton Developed and fine-tuned by our hard working developers, the MyProperty Property Ranking algorithm, aims to ensure high-quality listings are ranked higher. The algorithm uses over 20 factors to determine where the property appears in the search results and to ensure that no agent or agency can manipulate the algorithm, we have locked the exact dynamics away where only our developers can find it and continually improve on it. If you are wondering what determines a high-quality listing consider these factors when you are uploading a new listing: Fill in as much information as possible - such as bedrooms, bathrooms, garages etc Ensure that your listing description is informative and well written Although not every listing calls for a professional photographer, it will be advantageous to include good quality photographs. Geocode your listings where possible If you have a show day coming up, schedule it from your OMS dashboard Click here to f...

All portals are now selectable in the OMS Property Online Marketing section, allowing you to select where properties are exported to for each portal. Previously MyProperty, ImmoAfrica, PriceCheck, PropertyJunction and BidOrBuy was not selectable and exported by default. You can now select/deselect any of the portals. Note that depending on your office settings, you may not be able to deselect certain portals if your office administrator has disabled this. The ability to default certain portals to selected and enable selection for users can be set by the office for that whole office.

We've made a couple of tweaks to the photos section on property details in the OMS. There are larger photo thumbnails and the description of the photo now appears below the photo instead of hovering your mouse over the photo. We've also updated Flex real estate websites , it will now reflect the photo description on the bottom left over the photo. Various SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) tweaks were also implemented that should benefit you if you can provide good photo descriptions. You can edit existing property photo descriptions by clicking on the edit icon below the photo, allow +- 15min to reflect on your Flex real estate website. The OMS online property management system allows you to add an unlimited number of high resolution photos for every listing.

If your OMS properties export to IOL Property, you will now notice the IOL Property reference number on the online marketing section of properties. Click on the link will open up a direct link of the property on IOL Property. IOL Property forms part of the Entegral property syndication network . It is a free portal except for the large metro areas where charges are applicable. Enquiry with IOL Property for the exact costs.

The OMS online marketing section allows you to list once and advertise on all the major property portals. Direct links to property listings on portals are provided where we can, and we've now added a direct link to listings published on Property Junction . The property reference will show as ' external ' simply because we cannot retrieve the Property Junction reference number (at this stage), but clicking on this will open your property listing.