PS. we also added a link called Corrections & Notes, which takes you to the old plan editing tool…if you are more comfortable with that. But we highly encourage the new Edit FloorPlans tool because you can change text, add a missing door or window, save, and update your tour, flyer and more within minutes! No more waiting!
Subscribers, Start Your Engines!
We are pleased to announce that Subscribers to our virtual tour system now have the ability to draw their own floor plans and add them to their tour, the flyer and printable plan within minutes. You can come back and edit them at any time. Plus, you can generate 2D and 3D images of the plans within your account on demand, just like this image!
Super Easy, Amazing Results
The drawing tool is easy to use and great for people that have their own person drawing plans (like an appraiser) or can get access to an appraisal from the seller or a marketing brochure. Just scan or take a photo of the source document and upload the image as a template for tracing the plan footprint. Then add in interior walls and features. Use it as a virtual staging tool by adding furniture, rugs, flooring types or even landscape details. Then generate a 3D image. You can even export a 3D model to use in Sketch-up or even get a 3D model printed, great for a closing gift.
Just $10 a Plan!
This feature is available as a $10 per tour upgrade for any subscriber to the FloorPlanOnline TourProducer Subscription program. If you are not a subscriber, you can convert by going to Edit Profile and selecting the Change Membership Plan button. Note, we do provide full service floor plan services for subscribers too…so if you do not have a plan sketch or do not want to deal with it, we can do it for you. Subscribers save $30 off the regular price for this full service option.
Office or Company Deal
Looking for a feature-packed virtual tour/listing marketing system for your whole office or company? Let’s Talk! We can offer our subscription system for your whole office or company – one account manages all sub accounts, and each agent can have their own personalized account. Plus, with our new tool to embed the tour into a WordPress powered website (or other sites that support javascript), our marketing system gets more buyers coming to your website with floor plans, keeps them ON YOUR site longer, and converts them into buyers. Don’t forget, our tool is a great listing tool too – use our iPad tour to showcase on the device or even on an Apple TV!
If you would like to talk to sales, please complete the from below and select Subscription Program as the subject or call us at 866-810-3816.
See an excellent example of the power of this feature by clicking the Video tab below or see http://www.seetheproperty.com/102379, provided courtesy of Best View Photography. http://www.bestviewphotography.com
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This is also an example of how you can embed the whole virtual tour into your website!
While we believe a great photo with animation to simulate movement is a powerful tool, a video clip can evoke emotion up and above what a photo might provide. So give it a try. It’s FREE!
As always, you can view all of our help videos here.
We now have a Craigslist posting tool that allows you to easily post an electronic flyer into Craigslist. It has a prominent Virtual Tour button as well, to capture the user’s attention and prompt them to view the tour. Note, currently, there is only one template and it does not include the floor plan. We are leaving that for display on the tour itself.
To use the tool, we suggest you first login to Craigslist. If you do not have an account, you can create one at craigslist.org. Then, login to FloorPlanOnline, go to Manage Tours, then click the link for Photos & Marketing Tools. Scroll down to the bottom and look for the button that looks like this.
Then simply copy and paste the html code for the flyer into a Craigslist ad and follow the directions to confirm your ad on Craigslist.
The button will only show for active, published tours. So you will need to approve and publish your tour first before you go through this process.
We would like to get some feedback on the tool, and what else you would like to see. Please leave a comment or send us an email using the from below.
We just released an enhancement to our cool new embeddable tour widget – a WordPress Plugin! The plugin makes it easier to add your tour content to your WordPress powered website. There are no configuration options for the plugin on your WordPress site. Just follow the instructions below to add the plugin to your site, and then all configuration options for the tour content are done within your FloorPlanOnline Account.
If you do not have a website powered by WordPress, you can ignore this whole post!
We also added a new option to show the actual floorplan image of the listing as the button for the pop-up tour, so you can put some “eye candy” on your site. Try it here by clicking the image.
This enhancement is a great way to showcase your listing content, keep users on YOUR site, and give buyers what they really want to see – FloorPlans!
You can view the help video on how to use the embeddable content widget by clicking this image (or go to Help Videos under Support).
1. You need to first download the WordPress plugin. You can download it here (or there is a link on the Embedded Content page in your FPO account).
2. Go to your WordPress admin login, select Plugins and Add New. Find the plugin you just downloaded (probably will go to your Downloads folder on your computer), and then upload it to your website, then Activate it.
3. Login to your FloorPlanOnline account, go to Manage Tours, and then click the Photos & Marketing tools link to get to the Marketing Center. Then click the Embeddable Tour Content button.
I am really excited to introduce the newest creation from the FloorPlanOnline Dev Shop – Embeddable Tours! We have had ways to embed the video or the floor plan widget into a website page for years now, but with this new enhancement, you can embed all or just a part of the tour into your website! You can pick what content tabs to show – show just the floorplan (which removes the tabs), the floorplan and roomplanner, or all content. A video on how to set it up is here – just click the image to the right.
You have two display options:
1. Embed it using a button (select one of ours or upload your own button style) that pops the tour over your website….so the user never leaves the site…they just click, the tour opens over the page, they view, they like, they call you with an offer. This is great for websites that might have a pretty narrow content area or you can’t mess with the overall layout, or the in-line embedded view just would be too small. You could also put this in a widget area on your website.
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Or you can select the Plan Based Button that shows the first floor plan image as the button.
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2.Embed it in-line with your content, just like this example below. We provide different sizes, but you can manually adjust the size to fit any pixel dimension you want. Just change the width and height dimension in the simple code you copy and paste. The content will adjust automatically and display it in an optimized format for the selected size!
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Each option allows the complete showing of all the tour content, on your site. It even works on the iPad! No more annoying pop-ups, page resizes, or LEAVING YOUR SITE! The user stays where they should, sees the content and leaves a happy camper. Plus, with either option, you get a full screen option to see the photos, video, or floor plan. You can even use our lead capture page to get the lead (we are working on some ideas here… :))
To get started, go to Manage Tours/select the Photos & Marketing Tools link for your listing, and then select the Embeddable Tour Content button. Configure it to how you want it displayed, including selecting what content to show first, and then just copy and paste it into your website (like a WordPress site), a blog, or many corporate websites. Your site and the users site does need to allow for javascript in order for the button to work…but most users allow for this.
The example above was done using the embedded tour option. Note, you can configure both the embedded tour and the button and use the code. Both work independently of the other. This is an example of just embedding the roomplanner tool.
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We would love more feedback on this feature. This is our first iteration, so I am sure there are some things to adjust or improve upon. Please comment below or send us an email to sales@floorplanonline.com and we can review your comments and ideas!
