Comments on: Domain’s Little Secret!

By: Kevin Johnson-Bade

Kevin Johnson-Bade — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:39:50 +0000

Hi Sal, Coastal Agent and Sale Espro
Interesting discussion that seems to have included YesBookit to an extent. I thought I would firstly take the time to clear up a couple of matters. It is true that we have developed interfaces with several other systems mostly in response to our clients needs. In general YesBookit can manage its own property listings and optionally feed them to other collaborative portals. Alternatively we can take a feed from other property listings management systems like RENet, PortPlus etc.
All tariff and availability is managed by YesBookit internally, and this is fed to the agent

By: Charlotte exclusive buyer agent

Charlotte exclusive buyer agent — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:57:29 +0000

This is an interesting topic. i agree with Simeon. I also think there will be a different scenario in real estate. online searching will be more useful. Google will be able to create more strong position in that case. in real estate world it will definitely will be the number one property online address.

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:11:37 +0000

Coastal,
1.YesBookit takes a feed from your site in the same manner that REA does. It then feeds data back to where your webmaster has programmed an ‘acceptance’ area e.g. new ebrochures.

2. The problem in adding ‘external’ sales type modules to your existing system is that like YesBookit you have got to get your current web master/host e.g. Hubonline and Portplus, to do stuff and while they might agree to adding some non-competitive booking programming (and charging handsomely for it too!), they won’t do it for competing products.

By: Coastal Agent

Coastal Agent — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:49:37 +0000

Sal, you don’t need to feed them anything from REA. I’m not suggesting YesBookit would be a suitable suggestion, just the pricipal that they link our holiday website directly into our software inside the office giving a more complete package. No, it’s not magic! and I believe the system could be used for sales but I wouldn’t touch it for that purpose. It’s an excellent holiday rental system, thats all.

The theory is a good one and one that could be applied by website creators to make a complete real estate solution.

BTW, I don’t agree with shameless self promotion either but if people are getting up Scott from renet they should also be getting up Phil from Sherlock in the more recent post ‘some changes at hubonline’

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:57:26 +0000

Coastal,

Sorry for so many recent post everyone but
YesBookit isn’t magic.
You’ve got to ‘feed’ them an REA XML and then you have to have your website ‘master’ create a new property ebrochure template to display the ‘Is it available’ and then another to accept the YesBookit XML feed back into your own new ebrochures (for the calendar etc)

(They must have a compelling business case for anyone to undertake the time, bother and cost of all this!!)

By: Scott Schindler

Scott Schindler — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:29:28 +0000

Sorry Peter, I was not aware of the rule and was responding to the Questions Sale raised!

Sale, my apologies if I offended you and I hope your research goes well.

Scotty

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:01:58 +0000

Pps Thanx Coastal, Glenn and SSSR for your insight.
Sal

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:46 +0000

Ps What a tugger! Why would someone refer to the gross value of property agents manage on a piece of software rather than the number of clients?!

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:57:38 +0000

That was supposed to be;
Scott from ReNet,
You haven

By: Sale Espro

Sale Espro — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:56:20 +0000

You haven’t done yourself any favours in this forum with that waste of a non-comment. It makes me think of you as a petty corner, two dime hawker (which doesn’t say much for your enterprise!) and I think the moderator (Peter or Glenn?) owes it to the rest of us to delete your try-hard post!

Sal