by Kris Cone | Jul 22, 2015 | Listing Tools, What's New
Great news for non-Showcase agents linking tours to Realtor.com
As of July 1, 2015, linking the FloorPlanOnline virtual tour to Realtor.com is now completely Free! In the past, Realtor.com charged us a fee to link non-Showcase tours to Realtor.com, and we therefore passed on this cost by charging $25 to link to Realtor.com. Going forward, linking to Realtor.com, whether you are a Showcase member with them or not, is free!
We made this change in our pricing system a little after the first of the month, and we did attempt to refund any charges for non-Showcase linking made from July 1 to July 7th. If you find a charge for Realtor.com linking in July that we missed, just shoot us an email at support@floorplanonline.com and we will issue a credit.
Behind Zillow/Trulia, Realtor.com is the 3rd most vistited real estate website, so it benefits you to link the tour. In additon, if you are a Showcase member only because of the tour linking savings (it was free), you might be able to save some bucks now with the nonShowcase membership.
How to link your tours to Realtor.com
It is easy, you just need to do a few things:
1) Update your linking profile to make sure Realtor.com selected.
To add Realtor.com, login, go to Edit Profile and click the Edit Tour Linking & Distribution button towards the top. Then just make sure Realtor.com is checked. Go to the bottom and save.
Then select the box for Realtor.com
2) Add Realtor.com to older tours.
Go to Manage Tours, then select the Edit Details link (it is a blue text link) under the Tour Details column, scroll to the bottom and make sure Realtor.com is selected for that particular listing (and that we have the valid MLS number) and then save.
3) Manually link to Realtor.com
Go back to Manage Tours an on the far right under Tour Actions, select See Tour Linking and hit the relink option to manually link the tour to Realtor.com.
You can also send us an email to support@floorplanonline.com with a request to set this up and relink for you. Note if you have a lot of tours, it might take a few days for us to complete this task.
For new tours, if we have the MLS number at the time you Approve & Publish the tour, the virtual tour will get added to Realtor.com within a few minutes automatically. It shows both on the small thumbnail view as well as on the lower right of the main photo slider. Granted…it is not that visible, but at least it is there on the listing!
Call2Action Photo
As a reminder, you can get more people clicking on the virtual tour by uploading the unbranded version of the Call2Action photo into your MLS photo gallery, which then will make its way to Realtor.com, Zillow and other sites to call out to the user to click on the virtual tour link. Click here to read more on the Call2Action Photo.
Note for the Northwest MLS
Some MLS systems (namely the NWMLS in the Seattle area) make you jump through some hoops to get your listings pulled into Realtor.com in the first place. If your listings are not on Realtor.com, we can’t link the tour there. So you need to make sure Realtor.com pulls your listings in from the MLS first.
What you need to do:
The following forms need to be completed and faxed back to MOVE® at 480-556-4508.
1) REALTOR.com® Designated (BDCP) – Broker Data Content Provider Agreement
2) NWMLS Form 110 – Data License Agreement – This needs to be downloaded directly from the NWMLS website
3) Realtor.com NWMLS Broker Website Agreement
You can also contact Realtor.com directly at
REALTOR.com® Customer Care: 800-878-4166
E-mail: CustomerCare@REALTOR.com
by Kris Cone | Jul 1, 2015 | Real Estate Info
Introducing our own version of a time machine – Video History!
We recently added an ability to look back and use prior saved versions of your Photo/Video timelines!
How it Works
Once you have made at least one save to your video, there will be a History button. Click it and you will see prior versions of the video. So, if you made changes or something happened to your video, and you want to revert back to a prior sequence, just select one of the other saves. It will load, and then hit Save & Close.
That’s it! Enjoy.
by Kris Cone | Jul 1, 2015 | Real Estate Info
Introducing a major enhancement to the Custom Video embed option for the Full Screen HD tour. Now, you can embed up to 4 custom videos!
Previously, you could embed one custom video…but what about the area tour video, or the aerial video, or maybe even a custom virtual tour you want to add to your main FloorPlanOnline tour? Well now you can embed up to 4 videos or other tours if you are using the Full Screen HD Tour viewer! Simply go to Edit Details for any listing (select the Full Screen tour at the top if you want to use the custom video updates) and paste the embed code from any video into the custom video fields. The main video is featured larger on the page, and 3 other videos are displayed below. The user can then use the full screen button to pop the video in full screen, if desired.
You have an option to also show on the unbranded tour version as well….but remember if any video has your branding or contact info, do not show it on the unbranded version. Also, this should work on the iPad version, but it is not supported for the smartphone version at this time.
You can see an example
here where we embedded some random videos, as well as a Matterport tour.
by Kris Cone | Jun 9, 2015 | Real Estate Info, What's New
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by Lisa Gaviglio | Jun 9, 2015 | Listing Tools, What's New
Introducing Co-Listing Support! In the past, you had to create a separate account to support the display of two agents and their contact info, which was time consuming and laborious. Now you can easily add another agent to a listing just by typing in their name or manually adding their contact info. This is done on a listing by listing basis, making it a lot easier and faster to add a co-listing agent. Once you add a co-list agent they will show up on the tour as well as on one of the co-listing flyers that we have added.
Click here to see an example.
There are two points where you can add a co-listing agent to an account:
Creating a New Tour
1. The first is during the process of creating a new tour. When you reach the Customize Tour step you are able to add a co-listing agent to the listing, just by searching for an agent already in our system, or manually add them.
Managing Tours
2. The second is adding it to an already existing tour under the Manage Tours tab of your FloorPlan Online account. Click on the edit details link next to the Listing ID. You can then add/edit the co-listing information there.
As mentioned above, there are two ways to add an agent. Select from an already existing agent or manually add one, as you see below.
1. Choose from an Already Existing Agent
2. Manually Add an Agent
We have added 3 flyer templates that include the colist agents and the great photo and floor plan content we create too. We hope you enjoy this long anticipated enhancement! It has actually been on our list of things to develop for many years, so we are glad to put our manual work around to bed!
by Kris Cone | Apr 27, 2015 | Listing Tools, Technology
We have long had a way to add a custom video to your tour, such as a YouTube or Vimeo video. Well, this same tool can be used to embed a Matterport 3D home scan into your tour. Just copy and paste the embed code provided by Matterport into the Custom Video section on Edit Details. We are working on some enhanced ways to embed content, including being able to change icons and multiple embeddable content options…so look for that soon. In the meantime, see this example tour.
or here is the embedded version, where you can embed your whole tour on a webpage or blog post, just like this, and easily provide all that great content on your own website! Just click Video to see the Matterport Tour.
[fpotour emt=”embeded” bgc=”ffffff” ftc=”1d1363″ bnm=”1″ tbs=”01111111″ swi=”3″ oid=”134590″ mtp=”0.80″ uid=”FG7IK3IE” wid=”800″ hid=”600″]
Note, we drew the floor plan from the top view of the home scan. So, you can provide us the embed code and we can create the floorplan just from the scan. As a Subscriber, that is just $30, or if you create a self service tour, it is just $69 to clean up a plan, up to 10,000 sq ft! The photos were taken from screen shots of the tour as well, so that is why the quality is less and you can see the dots of the scan placement.
While at this time we do not officially provide the matter port Scan service, this at least allows you to embed it into the overall virtual tour and still use our platform for the print marketing (customizable brochures with the clean floor plan), tour distribution, YouTube Videos and even lead capture on the tours. Plus you are in complete control of when and where the virtual tour shows and what people can see, since your system has supported virtual tour functionality for the last 10 years!
-enjoy
Kris Cone
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