{"id":345,"date":"2012-06-20T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-11-02T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:42:16","slug":"buyers-sellers-forms-and-virtual-tours-field-available-on-3-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/buyers-sellers-forms-and-virtual-tours-field-available-on-3-7-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyers &#038; Sellers Forms and Virtual Tours Field available on 3.7.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>We are excited to release yet another upgrade, to version 3.7.5. Along with many minor bug fixes and text changes, the most significant upgrade is the Buyers &amp; Sellers inquiry forms.<\/p>\n<h3><del>Update #1 &#8211; Buyers &amp; Sellers Forms<\/del><\/h3>\n<p><del>After a long debate on whether we should include this feature or not as a standard item, we have finally decided to give it a go. There was not enough demand for this previously, and also there was speculation on whether this would be effective since longer forms are less likely to be filled out.<\/del><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_347\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-19-at-6.49.29-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-347 \" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.49.29 PM\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-19-at-6.49.29-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><del>The buyers form gathers relevant info from your customers<\/del><\/p><\/div>\n<p><del>To see a demo implementation of this feature, you can <a title=\"Jacob Strigan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobstrigan.com\/buying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit Jacob Strigan&#8217;s buyers form here<\/a>. This is the first implementation of this feature, and the same website also has the sellers form located under the &#8220;Selling&#8221; tab.\u00a0<strong>The buyers form<\/strong> includes the following data capture fields:<\/del><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Name, phone &amp; email<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Timeframe of purchase<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>Which city &amp; neighbourhood<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>What type of property<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>The size and price range<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>and more<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><del><strong>The sellers form<\/strong> gathers similar data, except geared more towards the specifics of the property that is to hit the market so that you can get information on the potential listing.<\/del><\/div>\n<h4>The above feature has been deprecated as of 2015.<\/h4>\n<p>Having more fields to fill out makes it less likely for visitors to fill out content. We have completely removed this feature and will never offer it again. It&#8217;s our job to get leads for our Realtors. The data mining &amp; interview is to be done after the initial contact has been made, and these forms only turned people away due to its cumbersome nature.<\/p>\n<h3>Update #2 &#8211; Virtual Tour Fields Integrated<\/h3>\n<p>Now a &#8220;Virtual Tour&#8221; field is included in your back-end (found under the details tab, while editing property details). You can enter the full URL to a virtual tour webpage prepared by a vendor of your choice (if applicable), and the link can appear on the listing detail page. You can see a demo implementation on <a title=\"905 - 555 13th Street, Ambleside, West Vancouver - Dan Goluboff &amp; Charlie Cameron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoluboff.ca\/showlisting\/174443\/905-555-13th-Street-Ambleside-West-Vancouver-vancouver-realtor-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Goluboff &amp; Charlie Cameron&#8217;s property page<\/a>. Note that having a photo gallery on the virtual tour page is redundant and not necessary, as the BRIXWORK websites feature a fantastic photo gallery that works on all mobile devices.<\/p>\n<h4>Also available on MLS\u00ae integrated listings<\/h4>\n<p>The MLS\u00ae listing pool also has a field for virtual tour URLs, so this is not restricted just on your OWN listings. This feature can be enabled for all listings on the system.<\/p>\n<h4>To enable this feature on your website<\/h4>\n<p>Same deal as above &#8211; to add this feature, please <a href=\"http:\/\/support.brixwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit a support ticket<\/a> and we&#8217;ll take care of it for you. Charges may apply in some cases. <strong>There is an important downside to note however<\/strong> &#8211; whenever there is a virtual tour link on a property, that URL will belong to a 3rd party website <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>or<\/strong><\/span><\/em> the listing agent&#8217;s website, so there is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a risk that your viewers may end up leaving your site<\/strong><\/span><\/em> &#8211; use at your own risk. The best way to mitigate this is to create a true video tour and upload it to Youtube. Our system supports seamless embedding of Youtube videos on our property detail pages, without any 3rd party webpages showing up.<\/p>\n<h4>Coming Soon!<\/h4>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ve been discussing this for quite some time &#8211; QR codes are coming on the next update. We&#8217;ve been busy ironing out other details on our software to provide a more stable &amp; better experience.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buyers &#038; Sellers lead capture form for Realtors\u00ae now available, along with a virtual tour field to show off the real estate listings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[23,120,121,26,39,122,58,123,124,40],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-brixwork","tag-buyers","tag-lead","tag-marketing","tag-realtors","tag-sellers","tag-update","tag-version","tag-virtual-tours","tag-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brixwork.com\/realtors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}