Blog
We continuously refine and add new features to our websites. See our blog posts below.
Reminder: Quick Notes Feature
Here is a reminder about a feature that can make life easier. Quick Notes is a quick and easy way to make notes on each property. It is useful for noting viewings, commission splits, owner interactions and anything else that you would like recorded for a property.
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| Quick notes for a property |
Property24 Video Uploads
In our constant quest to make your website work as hard for you as possible, we’ve worked with Property24 to allow any videos you load to a property in your web-box admin console to now automatically pull through to your listing on Property24. No more extra work of sending your videos separately to them for you!
Just follow these quick steps to ensure your videos go through to Property24:
Upload your property as normal. Once uploaded, go back to the property and under “action” click “edit”. Then scroll down to the bottom and click on “add a video”
Enter the video link and click “update”
You’ll be taken back to the upload screen, where you must remember to then click “update” at the bottom too!
Ta da! Your video will now be on your Property24 listing.
Remember, you will need an account with Property24 if you want your properties to feed through to them. Please feel free to contact us on support@webbox.co.za for any assistance.
New feature - Quick Notes
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| Quick Notes for a property |
It’s great for writing down viewings, interactions with the owner, negotiations, updates in the transfer process, mandate info, commission split info, owner info, interested buyer details and much more.
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| Link to view Quick Notes on admin Properties page |
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| How to view Quick Notes for all properties in the admin console |
It’s also easy to print a report for the owner showing all the Quick Notes for their property. You can even select which notes are to appear in the report.
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| Link to print Quick Notes for a property (from Quick Notes in the admin console) |
Change To Facebook Sharing in Admin Console
Facebook recently changed their security settings so you will no longer be able to share properties to your personal Facebook page from the admin console. However, you can still share them from the property page on the front end of your website:
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| Click Facebook button to share the property to your personal Facebook page. |
Sharing to your business Facebook page from the admin console is not affected by the new settings.
Don’t forget, we can help you set up your Facebook business page for R1670 + VAT (once-off cost ), or if you already have an existing page we can ensure it is optimally set-up for R940 + VAT (once-off cost)
Read more about our online marketing services.
Please contact us if you have any questions, we would love to assist you!
Improved Search Function In Admin Console
We have refined the search in the admin console properties page by removing the general search box and replacing it with a search field for each column.
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| New search in the admin console properties page. |
This was done because the previous search sometimes gave unexpected results. The new search addresses this and gives you more precise search results as it is limited to one column.
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| Multiple column search. |
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| Download or print search results. |
New Portal: PropBay
We are excited to let you know that RentBay, one of the current free portals we automatically feed your rental properties to now has a for sale section for residential and commercial property - propbay.co.za
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| New portal. |
We have enabled the feed so your for sale properties will automatically be copied to this portal. Like the other free portals, you don’t have to do anything - it happens automatically. The link to the property on the portal will appear alongside the other portal links in your admin console.
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| Link to Propbay in your admin console. |
We hope you get great exposure from this new portal and would love to know what you think so please contact us.
Feature Reminder: Document Management System
We recently introduced a new document management feature for our standard and responsive websites. These documents can be either for your own internal use.
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| Documents in your admin console. |
Or you can make them available for visitors to the website to download.
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| Documents on your website. |
Call Directly From Quick Notes
Our Quick Notes are a great “on-the-run” tool for agents to make notes on each property. You can record things like viewings, owner interaction and commission splits.
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| Quick Notes for a property with clickable phone numbers. |
Updates to your admin console Properties page
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We have just completed a major update to the web-box admin console Properties page. You can now search, sort by column, download to excel/pdf or print. You can even choose which columns are displayed and change their order.
We know these changes will be of great value enabling you to quickly find properties, easily see the information you need and print reports.
We also know all these changes can be confusing, so at the top of the page (in your admin console) is a link to further help. Or please (as always) just call us and we will very happily talk you through any issues you might have.
Feature Reminder: Additional Users / Multiple Login Function
Did you know you can add additional users with their own logins to your website’s’ admin console? This means agents can upload and edit their own properties, but not those of other agents. You set their permissions so you decide who can manage and view properties, agents, subscribers, the portal feeds, your website stats, enquiries and others tabs in the admin console. This will free up your time, as well as give you a good overview of your agents productivity in terms of how many properties they are uploading.
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| Manage users in your admin console. |
The first 10 additional users each cost R21 + VAT per month, thereafter R16 + VAT per month. If you would like us to enable this feature for you please contact us
Please note this is only available for standard and responsive websites.
New Default Property Sort Order
We have changed the default order of “for sale” and “for rent” properties on your website to highest price first. We’ve seen this makes your website (and therefore you) look better since it generally presents your better quality stock first. These properties also tend to have better pictures and descriptions.
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| New default sort order for ‘for sale’ and ‘for rent’ properties. |
We’ve made your web-box admin section more secure
You might have noticed when you log in to your web-box admin that the URL (website address) looks slightly different.
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| New URL for your web-box admin section |
Instead of http at the beginning it now says https, with the ‘s’ standing for secure site. This is because the information travelling between your web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera etc) and our server is now encrypted (converted into a code especially to prevent unauthorized access) with the same type of encryption used by banks.
You will also see the Comodo Secure logo at the bottom left of your screen while you are in the admin section. If you click on this logo a pop-up box will appear with our security credentials and some info on just what security this provides.
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| Comodo Secure Logo |
We take your security seriously. Please contact us if you have any questions.
New Look Search Function
While others have been easing back into the work year, we’ve already rolled out a new look for the search function on our standard websites. Have a look below!
The new suburb search is much quicker, and there’s the additional search criteria under “more options”.
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| New look search |
If you have a standard website with us, go and take a look - the upgrade has automatically been rolled out to the properties pages of your website.
We think it’s a fantastic new look - let us know your thoughts. And as always, please don’t hesitate to contact us should you need anything.