Monday, March 31, 2008

Recent enhancements for Agents

As promised, here is a partial list of some new or updated features we added to BAS for Real Estate Agent members last week.

1. New calendar and time selectors. We've made choosing the date and time of appointments just a little bit easier.

2. New "trends" report dashboard. You can now graph appointment activity for you, your office or the board anytime you want. Look for the "trends" report in the Reports menu option.

3. Desktop calendar sync. Synchronize all of your BAS appointments with your desktop calendar that supports remote web calendars (Outlook 2007, Mozilla Sunbird, Apple iCal, Google Calendar, etc). It's very easy to setup - just go to the Settings page and grab the calendar link. Look for detailed instructions (on the blog) for setting this up soon.

4. New NON-MLS account types when setting up appointments. Now when you setup appointments for people outside the MLS, you will create a special type of account that allows them to get email notifications and respond to showing feedback forms. Once added, these new accounts are visible to everyone in your board.

5. Improved the appointment detail view when looking at the details of an appointment.

6. New Blue check mark icon indicating a listing with showing instructions but no seller. We used to have 3 options but now we've added a 4th (blue) option indicating whether a listing has showing instructions or other information added but has no seller yet.

7. Auto approve and Allow showings not have an expiration date. A very popular option in BAS (auto approve) now has an expiration date along with the allow showings setting. If you need to turn these features on or off at a specific date, now you can!

8. A new client filter on the listings page.

9. Make changes to listings. You can now make small changes to MLS listings if need be right from the edit listings page.

Recent enhancements for Office Staff

As promised, here is a partial list of some new or updated features we added to BAS for Office Staff members last week.

1. Adding caravan appointments. This option allows you to quickly added "caravan" (aka hometours) appointments for multiple listings and multiple agents at the same time. Look for the "Add Caravan" link by the navigation menu (upper right corner).

2. New NON-MLS account types when setting up appointments. Now when you setup appointments for people outside the MLS, you will create a special type of account that allows them to get email notifications and respond to showing feedback forms. Once added, these new accounts are visible to everyone in your board.

3. Improved the appointment detail view when looking at the details of an appointment.

4. New Blue check mark icon indicating a listing with showing instructions but no seller. We used to have 3 options but now we've added a 4th (blue) option indicating whether a listing has showing instructions or other information added but has no seller yet.

5. Auto approve and Allow showings not have an expiration date. A very popular option in BAS (auto approve) now has an expiration date along with the allow showings setting. If you need to turn these features on or off at a specific date, now you can!

6. A new client filter on the listings page.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

BAS updated!

Last night we rolled out our extensive updates for agents, office staff and for buyers and sellers. Stay tuned for a complete write-up of all the new changes!

Monday, March 24, 2008

Beta testing

We've enabled agents to switch to the new updated BAS site to check out the updated version before its released to the masses. Look for the red bar at the top and click the "switch" link. If you have any feedback, we'd like to hear it!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Member safety advisory

The WRA just released a notice that an agent was found dead in vacant listing and the police are investigating. While this person wasn't a member of BAS, we felt it was important to pass this safety message on to all of our members as a precaution. For more information on safety precautions, the WRA site has some information (WRA members only) as well as the NAR site.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

BAS Welcomes the LUTAR Association!


BookAShowing.com has signed an agreement with the Lapeer and Upper Thumb Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS starting April 1st 2008. More information and training sign-up is available on our website. The LUTAR association neighbors an existing customer, the Flint Area Association of REALTORS®, and this new agreement will allow members of both associations to schedule showing appointments in either MLS. Welcome LUTAR members!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Duplicate account? Round 2

It appears we may have missed something with the IDX and RETS updates to cause more duplicate accounts. We have corrected this (for sure this time!) so it won't happen again. Again, we are sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Duplicate account?

Due to an error processing some IDX and RETS feeds in the last few days, our system may have created a duplicate account for you and sent you (via email) the new account information. You can safely ignore this new account information and everything has been corrected to prevent this in the future.

Also, one of our network providers experienced a major outage today which may have made BAS unavailable to you for a short time. This has also been taken care of and there should not be any further issues.

We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

New MLS for RANWW - BAS Update

For our members in the REALTORS® Association of Northwest Wisconsin (RANWW) who will soon be getting a new MLS system - please know that we are working with the new MLS vendor to incorporate BookAShowing.com just like you're used to. It should function exactly the same and you'll be able to access your BAS account directly or schedule up to 10 showings from your MLS search results.

We heard from one of our members the other day that they told their Association board that whatever they do, not to change BookAShowing.com! We love to hear that stuff and if you've got something to tell us, we'd like to hear from you.