When posting a new property listing, the first thing you want to do is to choose either Commercial or Residential. Sure, you you can post both types on RealtyZapp but they are different when it comes to creating the listing.

At first, the Listing is in Draft mode meaning it will be displayed on RealtyZapp. After you have completed at least the minimum required information, you can switch the Listing to Live.

At the bottom of the page are a couple of floating buttons, Save and Exit. The Save button is disabled until you have completed the bare minimum information (property type, name/title and sale or lease). Then the property button becomes enabled. Click on the Save button as often as you want to save your work in progress. If you click on the Exit button you will leave the page so think of it like a discard my changes if you have not saved changes.

At the top of the page is a Show (eye) icon. Click this icon to see your listing in a preview popup. Note that the show icon is disabled if you have unsaved changes.

The listing page is divided into several sections, you can expand/collapse each section individually.

Required Information & Validation

Required information is highlighted in red. The required information changes depending on your selections e.g. property type. Information validation rules may also cause a field to be red e.g. you cannot enter -999 in the Heated SqFt field, it must be > 0.

Just above the top section are some indicators (checkmark and x)...

• Required fields - indicates if all required information is complete and valid.
  
• Photos - indicates if you have uploaded at least one photo. Every listing has to have at least one photo.
  
• Published - indicates if the Listing is Published. Published means the status is neither Draft nor Deleted. You can't publish a listing until it passes required fields and photos.
  

As you change information, it may highlight blue just to show you that this information has been changed since the last save.

Publish Your Listing and Modes

Keep your Listing in Draft mode until you are ready to make it Live (published). When ready, CHange it to something other than Draft or Deleted e.g. Live and it save it. You will then see indication that the listing is Published.

You can change a listing back to Draft or Deleted to un-Publish it. For example you may start out publishing a listing as Live. At some point in the future you may change it to Contract Pending and eventually to Sold. The listing will still be published and visible on RealtyZapp when in Contract Pending or Sold mode. At a later date, you may want to remove the listing from view on RealtyZapp. To do so, you just change the listing to Deleted mode and save it.

A listing in Deleted mode will not be removed from the RealtyZapp database for at least one year, even if you cancel your subscription affording you opportunity of reviving the listing.

In this section you provide not only the mode (status) but also other identifying information...

• Property Type - what type of property is this.
  
• Sale and/or Lease - must choose one or both.
  
• Listing Name - this ths display name of the property, typically something catchy and not the address.
  
• Market Date - the date the property went on the market.
  
• About - the long description of the property. Make it good but not too long. You will know if too long when the display on the site and/or flyers no longer looks good.
  
• Bulleted Features - a list of key features or highlighs about the property. Will be displayed in bulleted fashion so don't add bullet characters, just enter one item per line.
  
• SEO Short Description and SEO Keywords - this information is invisible on the listing page and is used only to enhance the listing's rankings on the Internet search engines. If you omit these fields then an excerpt of the About will be used. Some social media sharing services pick up on these field values.
  

Property Address and Map

In this section you provide the property location and map information...

• Street Address - start typing in the address, a dropdown will show matches. Pick one and then all the other fields will automagically populate. We will even try to place the map marker for you. You can override any of the prepopulated values. You can even reposition the map marker if need be.
  
• Market - choose one the markets from the dropdown that best fits the property's location.
  
• Submarket - optionally, you can choose a submarket.
  
• Suburb or neighborhood - this could also be the name of the business park, etc.
  
• Map and Map Url - You can position the marker exactly where you want it. The map url can be url but is intended to be a link to view the property on a map. You could use Google Maps builder to create a custom map and then paste the custom map link in the map url field.
  

Property Details

Too many fields to list them all here but know that the fields vary depending the property type, etc. Fill out as many as you can as this can only help your listing.

Sale / Lease / Spaces

Again, the fields here vary based on property type, sale, lease, etc. If Sale is checked then you msut provide a Price. If Lease is checked then you must complete at least one space and provide the Lease Rate.

Sale Price can be $0.00 which will result the price being displayed as Market meaning market value or negotiable.

The use of spaces varies between Commercial and Residential, Sale or Lease, Property Type, etc. These all determine whether the listing warrants zero, one or more spaces. A space can represent the individual available spaces in a commercial building or a space can represent the units in a residential Tri-plex.

Photos

Each listing can have its own photo gallery. Photos really make a listing pop. It is worth it to make them as good as possible. There is no limit to how many photos but too many is too many. Each listing is required to have at least one photo. This, photo is use as the default thumbnail for the listing.

Uploading* photos is easy. Just make the promise and then drag-n-drop one or several photos into the drop area. You can also click the drop area to get the good ole file picker. The photos will be munched and when finished, they will appear in the list.

The first photo at the top of the list is the listing's default photo. You can re-arrange the images in the list using the up/down icons.

Photos will show up in 3 places: listing's photo gallery; agent profile's slideshow; default image thumbnail on the find page.

In the photos list, you will see a thumbnail preview of each photo and several other fields that you should complete so your listing really pops.

• featured - check this box if you want this image to appear in your agent profile page slideshow. Keep in mind the slideshow should be limited to 10 or less photos so it doesn't bore your visitors.
  
• gallery - check this box if you want this image to appear in listing's photo gallery.
  
• title/name - The title is defaulted to your photo filename. You should change this to something that pops because the title shows on the listing's photo gallery.
  
• taglines - the next two fields are taglines. If featured is checked then these two values will show up on the slideshow. Leave them blank if you do not want taglines on the slideshow.
  
• about - optionally, provide a short but good blurb about this photo. The about will show on the listing's photo gallery.

• Landscape vs Portrait - if possible use photos that are landscape, especially for the default photo. Portrait pictures can be included but you will have judge for yourself how good they appear.
  
• Size & Dimensions - We welcome you to upload large, high quality images. You do not have to downgrade them before uploading. Photos straight from your camera are best, 1-12 Megapixel are fine. When uploaded, Realtyzapp munches on the photo and resizes it to fit inside 1200x800 pixels. This is called a 3x2 aspect ratio and is fairly popular. We know that photos come in all shapes and sizes but keep in mind that most of the time your photos will presented using 3x2 aspect ratio mask. This may appear as though the image is cropped. The exception is the photo gallery where your photos are presented as-is.
  
• Quality - photo quality is a very subjective subject. Technically speaking, a photo taken with most modern cameras, tablets and smartphones should be great in terms of size and resolution. But that does not have anything to do with what makes a photo pop. Photography is an art more than a science. Focus, exposure, angle, lighting, perspective, and on and on are what makes a photo great and that is a matter too lengthy for here. Check out our Talk RealtyZapp site where our community has some pretty good advise.

File Attachments

You can upload* one or more files as attachments to your listing. They are presented as links on your listing page that when clicked will download the file to your visitor. Pdf files are preferred but you can also attach MS Word, MS Excel and image files.

Please give each file attachment a Title and a short Description.

Links

You can provide one or more Links on your listing page. The Link Url is the raw url you want to go to e.g. http://example.com/ whereas the Title is what is displayed e.g. "Example website". Optionally, you can provide a short Description. A Link could even be a link to something on RealtyZapp's website e.g. a related or similar property.

Demographics

You can provide one or more Demographic records on your listing page. First, you can use the default 1 mi, 3 mi, 5 mi headers or you can provide your own. Click on the +New button to add a new record. Enter in a Characteristic and the Stats. All of the fields are text fields so, don't forget to provide prefixes, suffixes, and formatting e.g., $125,000.

Syndication

If you are participating in any syndications, you may see a message at the top of the page indicating that this property in being syndicated. With some syndications, the property information is flowing from the "parent" system to RealtyZapp. If you make changes to the listing/property in the "parent" system, your changes will automatically flow to RealtyZapp. With a property that is being syndicated, it is recommended that you always go back to the "parent" system and make your changes and let the changes flow (syndicate) to RealtyZapp.

With syndicated properties, the listing may be automatically published (Live) even though one or more criteria are not met e.g. Required Fields. This is OK but know that you will not be able to make any additional changes to the Published listing in RealtyZapp unless you meet all the criteria. The Save button won't be enabled unless all criteria is met.

In the event you really want to make changes to a syndicated property in RealtyZapp, it is recommended that you first go back to the "parent" system and turn off syndication for that property. Then come back to RealtyZapp to post your property. Depending upon which syndication "parent" originated the property, the property record probably still exist in RealtyZapp but and it is just marked as Deleted or Draft. Keep in mind that the syndication process sometimes leaves behind several "Deleted" copies/versions of any particular property. Watch that you don't Publish more than one copy/version of a property.

*If a photo/file with the exact same name has been previously uploaded, a prompt will appear asking you to choose what to do. If you click OK, the original photo/file will be replaced with the new photo and added to the listing. If you click Cancel, this photo/file will be skipped, it will NOT upload and it will NOT be added to the listing's photos. This is safeguard against accidentally overwriting a photo/file that may have been uploaded to another listing.