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Save Living Properties launches their responsive Flex website

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Operating from one of the fastest growing nodes in Pretoria, Save Living Properties are real estate agents that not only sell property in Pretoria East but also the family-friendly lifestyle that goes along with it. Visit Save Living Properties' Website With the launch of their new Entegral Flex website solution using the Canvas Theme , they can now showcase their properties for sale and to rent on any screen size without compromising on design and most importantly functionality. This not only eliminates the need for an additional mobile website but also ensures a sleek, professional experience no matter where the website is viewed from. Furthermore it also boasts with a news section, an affordability and bond calculator ensuring that visitors can do more than just search for properties. The office relies on Entegral’s Office Management System (OMS) to manage and advertise their listings on all of the major property portals including their own Flex website. You can fi

New OMS Integrations: Mitula and Custom RSS feeds

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We've released OMS Integrations this month , allowing automated integrations with 3rd party apps with the OMS. TPN Rentbay, Showday and Trovit was introduced with the initial release, allowing you to integrate your listings with these portals and apps for free if you use the OMS. Now we have two more integrations available: If you have an  OMS account , This allows you to integrate your OMS listings with the international Mitula search portal. When visitors click on the properties they are routed to your property listing on MyProperty South Africa . Various web applications or service providers can use RSS feeds to integrate external data into their systems. We have developed a Custom RSS Feed service  that allows you to setup a custom RSS feed based on location, agent, price range, minimum photos and property type. Once set up, it provides you with a unique URL containing the data, that can then be integrated with systems that support this. Read more about the OMS real estate inte

Send more photos to Property24, Private Property and ImmoAfrica through our Sync Interface

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Sometimes you get that one listing where loading 20 photos is just not enough to tell the full story of the property. Because we'd like to help our clients create high quality listings we've increased the number of images that can be sent to partner portals Property24 and Private Property.  Estate agents will now be able to send their first 30 photos uploaded on to the OMS to the above mentioned portals.  For ImmoAfrica, you will now be able to send up to 20 photos per listing. An unlimited number of property photos can be uploaded per listing on the OMS and all images will display on your Flex Real estate website and MyProperty South Africa or MyProperty Namibia . Should you have any property listing with more than 30 images listed on the OMS and you would like to send these images to our partner portals , simply open the property listing in the OMS and resend the listing to the selected portals at the Marketing and Content section in the OMS . For any further assistanc

Prestige Properties upgrades to a Flex responsive real estate website

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Launched in late 2007 by Janene Potgieter, longtime clients Prestige Properties, is a unique real estate business that allows registered principal estate agents to operate in association, without being bound by the restrictions usually present in the traditional franchise business model. Visit Prestige Properties For an agency that operates as an alternative to the traditional, nothing but an industry leading solution such as a Flex real estate website would do! Powered by hours of careful development and groundbreaking Cloud Infrastructure their new Folio-themed website is not only a showcase of their property listings, but also a reflection of what they stand for. The key feature of their new website is its responsive technology that allows the site to adjust and adapt to any screen size it is viewed from, without compromising the aesthetic and most importantly functionality of the website. This eliminates the need for an additional mobile website and also assists with SE

Our priority: Better uptime with Entegral's real estate systems

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Entegral provides a transparent view of the system status of all our products and services. This can be viewed on  http://status.entegral.net/ . It will indicate any problems and more detailed info if there is a particular service issue. The status is also shown on your OMS dashboard . We proactively monitor our systems with 24/7 health checks performed on all products including Flex , OMS , Sync and Email . This includes system uptime, response time, and more detailed transaction analysis, for instance suburbs not matching with external portals. Our cloud systems are engineered for automatic failover and auto scaling and our team is constantly exploring how we can improve response times for key services. This includes super fast update of listings to property portals . On a domain level we provide an advanced worldwide AnyCast DNS platform as a standard feature for all our clients, ensuring your domain is always available and resolves in the quickest possible time to visitor

Responsive vs Mobile websites, which is best for your real estate agency?

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Thinking of getting a real estate website for your estate agency or contemplating whether your current solution will keep up with the ever-changing technology landscape? You will essentially need to choose between 2 very distinct solutions: A) Responsive websites Responsive websites are designed and optimized for a multitude of devices with different screen sizes; they automatically adjust the layout of their content to the available screen size. One site is programmed to cater for all devices. Responsive websites are the latest trend in web design and are seen as an evolution of the older more traditional desktop & mobile websites. Google also recommend it as the best approach to follow. B) A combination of mobile and traditional desktop websites You essentially run a full desktop website and compliment this with a mobile website to cater for instances where your clients want to access your website through their mobile phones (Because your desktop website will effective

New OMS Integrations: link to 3rd party apps/services including Showday, Rentbay and Trovit

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Our new  Sync and OMS API Platforms  launched makes it possible to build customized real estate solutions by providing an interface to our OMS management system and Sync portal syndication platforms. Following the release of the OMS API, a number of companies have already completed or started integrations to the OMS and we are now publishing an OMS Integrations page , where these systems that seamlessly integrate with the OMS, are featured. We are launching with 3 integrations from Showday, Trovit and TPN Rentbay. Visit http://www.entegral.net/oms/integration s  for more information and check back soon for more integrations to popular apps. We welcome any external companies/developers to start integration with us using our open  OMS API  RESTful web service. The OMS Integrations compliments our Sync Portal Syndication platform and provides the most comprehensive marketing tools for South African and Namibian estate agents. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter and signup for our newslet

AWS Polly: hear how an intelligent robot will read your property listing

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What would it sounds like of a robot markets your property listing? Last night Amazon launched a new AI service, called Polly at their yearly reInvent conference in Las Vegas. It allows intelligent text to speech conversion. Entegral's real estate products and services are built on top of the AWS cloud, so we are always eager to test new products and prototype stuff. So we were intested to find out how Polly would read a (South Africa) property listing description. Hear Polly in action on one of our client's listings: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Entegral_test_bucket/aws+polly/sound.html Although this is a basic example, you can programmatically adjust the speech rate, pitch, or volume. You can also modify the pronunciation of particular words, such as company names, acronyms, foreign words. Application for property listings? Maybe not, but we do see opportunity with this in real estate back end services and home IoT systems.