How to send properties to OnTheMarket before making them available on other property portals

Owned by Elliott
Oct 26, 2021
2 min read

You can now provide your property data to On The Market before other property portals.

In order to do so, you must ensure you have a priority export to On The Market already setup. Please speak to your Account Manager if you are interested in doing this, or for instructions on how to set this up, please see the following article:

To make your properties available to On The Market before other portals

  • Log in to VIA

  • Click the top tab labelled CRM or Property Editor

  • Click the Property tab

  • Search for the relevant property you want to make available

  • Double click the property, or right click and select edit

  • Ensure the Status field is set to For Sale or To Let

  • Ensure the Exclude from portals is ticked

  • Click Save & Close

This will ensure this property is sent to On The Market before it send to any of the other portals.

Please note these properties will not be automatically sent to the other portals. You will need to manually edit the property to make them available to the other portals when you want to market them. This allows you to customise how long the property is available on the On The Market portal so that you can make them available for more than 24 hours if you so choose.

To make your properties available to the other portals

  • Log in to VIA

  • Click the top tab labelled CRM or Property Editor

  • Click the Property tab

  • Search for the relevant property you want to make available

  • Double click the property, or right click and select edit

  • Untick the Exclude from portals box

  • Click Save & Close

  • This will instantly upload the property to Rightmove, Zoopla & Boomin, as well as On The Market. You can check whether this has been successful by going to the Exports section. You will then see date/time stamped confirmation of when the data has been successfully sent. It will also alert you to any issues which you may need to address

To easily see a list of all properties which are only being sent to On The Market so you can publish them to the other portals,

  • Go to the top tab labelled CRM or Property Editor

  • Click the Property tab

  • Click the Advanced option

    • In the Set To field, select For Sale or To Let

    • In the Availability field, select Excluded from portals

  • Click Search

  • This will then provide you with a list of all properties currently excluded from the portals who are only being made available to On The Market. Double click any property in the list and follow the instructions above to publish any of the properties to the other portals

 

From a purely marketing perspective, we recommend you make your properties available to all of the portals with which you have a subscription at the same time. This will ensure your properties get the maximum exposure to the most applicants and maximises the ROI of your subscriptions with them.