Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

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By MikeF - October 24, 2010

Hi folks,
Just wanted to get the Rets and Idx, and lead management thang back on your radar...pretty please [;)]

I think there may be a revenue stream there for you. For example one company doing it is http://www.transparent-realestate.com/transparentrets.html

The application is designed to work with Open Realty. May be you guys could build something to work with your app.

See: http://www.transparent-realestate.com/supported_rets_map.html

and compatiblity to our MLS is here: http://www.transparent-realestate.com/supported_rets/index.php?state=FL

The main reason I have not purchased your application is I really need something that can import mls data and photos and have some lead management features.

Dave Edis and I discussed this back in 2008 and I have been waiting patiently. [;)] Howdy Dave!

There are also now import apps out there that work with Wordpress. See it here: http://www.wpidx.com/wordpress-idx-solution/

and here: http://wprealty.org/

I dont know your business plan...this may be something for you to consider. Hopeful.

There is a market for it. For a prominent player and gold standard in that market see here http://www.realestatewebmasters.com

Also if I may... with the pervasiveness of smartphones and IPads it is critical that real estate web sites are viewable on mobile phones functional and pleasing way.
Have GREAT day!
MikeF

Re: [MikeF] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By Chris - October 25, 2010

Hi MikeF,

Have you considered hiring our consulting department to build you these features? If you're interested, we could work through the requirements with you and build you a quote.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [chris] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By MikeF - October 25, 2010

I was trying to light a fire under you guys to consider building a commercial addon or plugin similar to what Transparent Technologies has done with Open Realty. [:)]

Hi MikeF,

Have you considered hiring our consulting department to build you these features? If you're interested, we could work through the requirements with you and build you a quote.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have GREAT day!
MikeF

Re: [MikeF] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By Dave - October 28, 2010

Hi Mike,

We've looked at this a few times, and it's a big big job, so it's not something that's on our radar right now. Plus it looks like there's a number of vendors that already do it.

One solution might be to find a vendor that already provides the service and see if we could get the data as a mysql database dump/export. That would be a lot faster and easier to build and maintain than an RETS/IDX import system.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com