Monday, April 9, 2012

Leasing Tablet Enhancements


Brand Your Leasing Tablet™

Want your Leasing Tablet to better represent your image? Now it can! Properties wanting to add some flair to their Leasing Tablet can add a custom photo or graphic to the Leasing Tablet background. To enhance your Leasing Tablet with a custom background, contact your account manager.

Leasing Tablet™ Enhanced with Improved Offline Mode

The VaultWare Leasing Tablet has been enhanced with improved offline caching, making accessing your Leasing Tablet content more reliable when leasing staff are lacking an Internet connection. The new offline caching mode has been released to all Leasing Tablets and keeps your property photos, floorplan images and pricing & availability data* always at hand on your Apple iPad™ or Android tablet even when away from a WiFi or 3G/4G connection.

Collect Guest Cards When Offline

In addition to improved offline caching, leasing staff can now collect guest cards even when there is no available Internet connection. The Leasing Tablet will store the guest card information until the Leasing Tablet is once again launched while connected to the Internet. Once the Leasing Tablet detects that Internet connectivity has been restored, it will prompt the user to send all guest cards collected while offline.

Transform your property tours into interactive presentations, improve tour-closing ratios and be prepared for peak leasing season with the VaultWare Leasing Tablet. Schedule a demo today.

* Current pricing and availability requires using the VaultWare Reservation System in conjunction with the Leasing Tablet.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Craigslist Posting Tool enhanced, additional reporting now available

On Tuesday, January 17th, the VaultWare Craigslist Posting Tool will be enhanced with new features that will give properties additional options and flexibility when posting ads to Craigslist, as well as a new reporting function to help you monitor individual property results. View a brief video tutorial on how to use the new posting tool. Below is a summary of the enhancements:

  • Postings by Property report – A new reporting function has been added to VaultWare Tracking that gives a portfolio-wide view, by property, of your Craigslist advertising results.
  • Unit level postings – In addition to property level and unit-type level postings, you can now post ads for a specific, available unit.
  • More control over template colors – Now you can create custom color schemes to apply to your ads. You can set color schemes in the VaultWare Control Panel and select a color scheme when posting your ad.
  • Ghosting and Frequency Alerts – Configurable alerts can be set to warn when you are posting ads too frequently or not frequently enough. Be notified when an ad hasn’t received any traffic within a specified window, which may indicate that your ad has been ghosted by Craigslist.

To manage settings for the Posting Tool and get your link to the new tool, go to “Craigslist and Social Media” in the VaultWare Control Panel. Please note, beginning Tuesday, any previously used Posting Tool links you have bookmarked will no longer function and should be deleted and you should request a new link in the Control Panel to take advantage of the new functionality. If you have any questions please contact our Support department.

Zillow added to the VaultWare Distribution Network

The VaultWare Apartment Reservation System is now syndicating rental listings to Zillow as part of the Zillow Listings Feed Program. VaultWare joins the Zillow Listings Feed program as Zillow’s first source of multifamily rental listings direct from national property management companies.

Each listing VaultWare sends to Zillow represents an individual, currently available apartment. Listings from VaultWare will receive exposure to Zillow’s more than 22 million monthly visitors, more than four million of whom are currently renters. In addition to being displayed on Zillow, VaultWare rental listings will also appear on Zillow’s suite of mobile applications.

To begin advertising your available apartments on Zillow via VaultWare, select Zillow on the ILS Selection page in the VaultWare Control Panel. As always, if you have any questions please contact our Support team.