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If you or your clients are experiencing dropped or partial text messages being delivered, this is a known problem with T-mobile. BookAShowi...

BookAShowing.com has partnered with the Dubuque Board of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS starting in December...

BookAShowing.com has partnered with the SouthEast Minnesota Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS st...

Due to popular demand, we've expanded the custom branding options in BAS to include agent-to-agent and agent-to-office email communicati...

Today we've released the ability for agents, offices and companies to brand BookAShowing for all their client communication including em...

BAS will be unavailable Friday, March 18th from 11PM Central to 4AM Central for some planned system maintenance. We apologize for any incon...

BookAShowing.com has partnered with the West Central Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS starting ...

We've gotten many questions about "missing" email lately, especially with Gmail. Here are some instructions on adding BookAS...

With the recent conversion of agent IDs to the NRDS format, there was some concern that agents wouldn't remember their new ID number and...

The BookAShowing.com office will be closed on Thursday, December 23th and Friday, December 24th. We will also be closed on Friday, December...

From time to time we get questions regarding printing reports and having large orange/blue lines at the bottom of the report. If this is ha...

The BookAShowing.com office will be closed on Monday, September 6th.

BookAShowing.com has partnered with the Greater Lakes Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS starting...

In observance of Independence day, the BookAShowing.com office will be closed on Monday, July 5th.

BookAShowing.com support will be closed for the holidays on Thursday December 24th and Friday December 25th.

If you are having trouble logging into BookAShowing.com with Internet Explorer, make sure to check the date and time of your computer for a...

Just a reminder to agents/clients using the text messaging feature in BookAShowing.com - you cannot reply to the text message! In order to...

When we recently updated BAS, we also made some changes to the BAS Mobile site. 1. Add an appointment calendar for easier viewing of your s...

On Sunday, June 14th, we released some updates to BookAShowing.com for both agents and office staff. Below is a list of some of the changes...

We'll be shutting down BAS access for a short time starting at 12:30AM central time to install some upgrades. We shouldn't be gone ...

BookAShowing.com has partnered with the Warren County Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begin using BAS startin...

Starting today, March 11th 2009, all agents of the Regional MLS of Minnesota, Inc. can schedule showing appointments directly from the MLS!...

Starting today - February 18th, agents and office staff administrators can access BookAShowing.com through the Matrix MLS system. For more ...

Starting very soon, agents and office administrators of NorthstarMLS will be able to access BookAShowing.com through Matrix to setup your a...

We've updated BAS and added lots of new features and enhancements. Several of these changes include (broken down by account type): Agen...

During this holiday season, the business hours for BAS will be: Wednesday, December 24th - Open until 12PM Central Thursday, December 25th -...

Today, Wednesday December 17th, the Northstar MLS beta period for BookAShowing.com begins. You can access BAS through your Matrix Staging ...

BAS offices will be closed on Thursday November 27th, 2008 for Thanksgiving. We will be open as usual on Friday so if you have any question...

BookAShowing.com has signed an agreement with the NorthstarMLS (Regional Multiple Listing Service of Minnesota - RMLS) to allow their agent...

We hear from agents that use BAS from time to time and I just wanted to pass this experience along for those that are considering BookAShowi...

Due to a technical problem, buyers and sellers are unable to receive text messages from BookAShowing.com. We are working to restore the fea...

We've made a change to the initial feedback reminder email sent out for showing appointments to be sent right after the scheduled appoin...

We've added a couple new features and fixed a few outstanding issues tonight. As for what's new, we've added a way for office s...

We've added a feature to BAS that will automatically notify showing agents of listing status changes or listing price changes. If your ...

Is your Association looking for a custom IDX search to offer your brokers/agents? If so, we've developed a custom IDX search for the No...

Our summer 2008 edition of the BAS newsletter is now available .

We've released a new version of our popular BAS Lite system for offices or agents who are not part of an Association/MLS participating w...

I know some of you have been waiting for this feature and it's finally ready! We've updated BAS to include custom feedback questions...

If you're a Cellular One (now AT&T) customer wishing to use the text message feature of BAS, be sure to leave the text message carri...

We've added the ability to export clients in BAS to a format that can be used to import clients in MLXchange. Here are the necessary in...

With the new MLS system for RANWW, we're able to pull new listings every hour instead of every 6 hours with the previous system. Let us...

As all the agents of RANWW know by now, the new MLS system becomes permanent May 6th. With this change, BAS will begin to pull data via RET...

Our sring 2008 edition of the BAS newsletter is now available .

If you've tried to get in touch with us via our online contact form , it hasn't been working the last few days. While it's all ...

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 calenda...

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 a...

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 a...

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 WRA just released a notice that an agent was found dead in vacant listing and the police are investigating. While this person wasn...

BookAShowing.com has signed an agreement with the Lapeer and Upper Thumb Association of REALTORS® to allow their agents and offices to begi...

It appears we may have missed something with the IDX and RETS updates to cause more duplicate accounts. We have corrected this (for sure th...

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 yo...

For our members in the REALTORS® Association of Northwest Wisconsin (RANWW) who will soon be getting a new MLS system - please know that we...

We're working on a few new reports to go along with some other BAS enhancements to be released in early December. The most exciting and...

BAS Support will be closed on 11/22 for Thanksgiving. If you have an emergency, please email us at help@bookashowing.com and we'll get ...

BookAShowing.com has a feature to capture showing leads from potential and existing buyers directly from your own personal or company websi...

Every day we get at least several calls from people calling to find out why they aren't getting any showing notification emails. Most o...

BookAShowing.com will be at the National Assocation of Realtors (NAR) Conference and Expo this year in Las Vegas, NV happening November 13t...

If you are attending the Council of MLS expo in Seattle October 10th - 12th , stop by and visit with Jeff Ratcliff from BookAShowing.com. H...

The text message alerts that are sent to agents when a showing appointment is setup or confirmed now includes the showing instructions as we...

Buyers and sellers can now use BAS Mobile and the new BAS Google Gadget ! To access BAS Mobile, just visit bookashowing.com on your mobile...

To make it easier and faster to access information about a listing (such as the calendar, reports, feedback, etc) we've added a new menu...

We've released a BAS Gadget for iGoogle so you can integrate your showings, feedback, listings, clients and more into your iGoogle hom...

It seems every day we get questions about how the showing feedback forms work in BookAShowing.com. To help clarify how they work (and expla...

Ruth Ann, an office staff administrator, has written a testimonial about BookAShowing.com . Thanks Ruth Ann! We are always looking for goo...

We've added a new feature (at the request of our users) to be able to add a feedback message/comment/question to each listing that will ...

Angie Ridley, Broker/Owner of Complete Realty, LLC and a member of the Flint Area Association of Realtors , has written a great blog post o...

BookAShowing.com would like to welcome the FLINT AREA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®! FAAR will begin offering BAS as an MLS enhancement to its me...

Are you making the most of BookAShowing.com? Did you know that Agents have the ability to receive a text message alert for showings? To re...

BookAShowing.com has been integrated with CTI Navigator to allow agents to schedule showing appointments directly from property searches or ...

BookAShowing.com would like to welcome the AMELIA ISLAND - NASSAU COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® ! AINCAR began offering BAS as an MLS enh...

We've added a few new usability enhancements for office staff accounts. I'll cover the highlighted changes and how to best use them...

We've enhanced the 1 day calendar (for both agents and office staff) to show the appointment details directly below the appointment inst...

We've added a small enhancement that makes setting up multiple showing appointments (up to 10) a little faster. Now when you choose a c...

We've added the ability to "prioritize" client phone numbers in BookAShowing.com. When you are editing a client's phone n...

We've added a new MLS member search to BAS called Phonebook . It's available by clicking the Phonebook link next to the navigation ...

We get calls from people occasionally asking us why their web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc) is "running slow" ...

We've made a few changes (mostly cosmetic) to the email confirmations generated by BookAShowing.com. You'll notice an easier to rea...

We've added the ability to schedule a new showing appointment from BAS Mobile. If you're on the road and need to setup a new showin...

If you are attending the NAR Midyear Expo in Washington DC this week, don't forget to stop by booth # 813 and visit BookAShowing.com. W...

We've added a few more features to BAS designed to help Office Staff manage activity for the entire office. The new updates include: 1....

We've experienced some brief periods of outages this morning with BookAShowing.com and we have traced the problem back to a power outage...

We've added a couple of new features for Agents. The first is a new dashboard for upcoming showing activity on your listings. We'v...

We've added a few enhancements to BookAShowing.com to make your overall experience better. We'll touch on each one briefly and if y...

We've added a feature to all clients in BookAShowing.com that allows you to hide the name of your client from the listing agent/office. ...

We've just heard that the integration between BookAShowing.com and FlexMLS for the St. Cloud Area Association of REALTORS® will be ins...

Starting Sunday, April 1st, the St Cloud Area Association of Realtors (SCAAR) has chosen BookAShowing.com as the system to manage showing...

BookAShowing.com (BAS) Mobile is now available for all members of BookAShowing.com. You can access all of your information from any intern...

We used to have agent types of Buyers, Sellers, and Other. To satisfy the new disclosure rules for real estate, we have updated the list of...

We've added the ability to assign a "co-listing" agent to a listing so that the co-listing agent can receive a copy of any ema...

We have updated our training videos to more accurately reflect the recent changes to BookAShowing.com. If you need to know how to login int...

We have recently added the ability for your sellers to receive text message alerts for showing activity on their listings. They can get a t...

If you are an office staff member logged into BookAShowing.com, you have the ability to minimize and maximize showing requests on your home ...

It happens from time to time - an agent calls you to setup a showing or they were in front of the house, etc. Regardless of the reason, you...

We've updated our website with an enhanced look to make it easier to find the information you need, contact us, or keep an eye on the la...

We will again be attending the NAR Midyear Expo held in Washington D.C. this year. If you are going to be attending the trade show, please...

We want to thank everyone in the Realtors Association of Northwestern Wisconsin (RANWW) for using BookAShowing.com! Here are some usage sta...

A new feature we've recently added to BookAShowing.com is displaying the number of incoming tentative showing requests in your browser...

BookAShowing.com gets calls or emails every day it seems from people who don't get their BAS alert email (or text message) and don't...

We constantly work to improve the search box for finding MLS members (agents) when setting up appointments. We've tweaked the showing a...