SRCAR Connect

We are excited to announce on December 3, 2008, your customers will be able to physically interact with their Auto Emails.  This improvement is called the Interactive Customer Portal.  This cool new feature will allow your clients to select listings as Favorites, Possibilities and Discard unwanted properties.  In addition, your customers will be able to rate these listings on a 5-star star system.

Important Note:  On December 3^rd, all listings that match your client’s criteria will be resent to your client to accommodate this new feature.  Please notify your clients to avoid questions or frustrations.

The Interactive customer portal will help you be engaged with your customers’ wants and needs.  To find your customer’s review of listings click on the Open Portal link in the Save/Automatic Searches in the My Matrix tab.

Sneak Peak at Matrix New Features

These new and exciting features are set to arrive December 3, 2008.

Driving Directions

• Get turn by turn driving directions to at least 20 listings at a time.

Interactive Customer Portal

• Customers have the option to rate and select listings as favorites or possibilities.

Visited Listings

• The ML# will change colors after you have reviewed the listing.

Quick Add to Contacts

• Quick link to add customer information during the email process

Refreshed new look and color scheme throughout Matrix

• A modern sleek look to the overall Matrix System.

Smart Search Menus

• Matrix automatically condenses search lists and links to what you frequently use.

Glowing Search Fields

• Search fields will change colors after some criteria as been specified.

Co-list Agents ability to Modify Listings

• Co- list agents now have the ability to modify and edit co-listed listings.

Detailed information will be published throughout November on these new and exciting features.  Keep your eyes peeled when you log on the Matrix home page.

Q.  How many active Auto Emails can I have?
A.  At any one time, you can have up to 250 Saved Searches that are activated to send Auto Emails to clients.

Q.  The status of my Auto Email says “Waiting Activation.” What does this mean?
A.  When you see an auto email status of “Waiting Activation,” MRMLS Matrix has sent an initial email to your clients inviting them to view your listings. The Waiting Activation status will continue until a client “Ops In” by clicking the link to view listings.

Q.  How do I re-activate an Auto Email that has been disabled by Matrix?
A.  If you see one of your Auto Emails has been disabled, you can re-enable it by clicking the My Matrix tab, Saved/Automatic Searches, Settings.

Press the Re-Enable Auto Email button.

Note: Do not re-enable clients who have willingly chosen to “Opt Out.” Sending emails to these clients could get you and MRMLS labeled as a “spammer” and could get the MLS system black listed.

Set a schedule for your client to receive listings. Then click Save.

MRMLS Matrix will be down for maintenance on Tuesday Night, April 8, 2008, at 8:00PM, and back up Wednesday Morning by 6:00AM. While the system is down, new Map Search features will be added!

With the new Map Search Upgrade, you can draw Rectangles, Circles (also known as a Radius search), and multi-sided Polygons to designate the areas on the map to include or exclude in your search.

In the example on the right, the circle is a designated “exclusion” area and the multi-sided shape is an “inclusion” area. The search results returned will include properties that are within the multi-sided polygon, but not within the circle.

When you plot the search results on the map, you can zoom in or out, pan, change views to Road, Aerial, Hybrid, and Bird’s-Eye. When you hover over a property with your mouse, a box pops up with brief listing information (See Below).

For instructions on how to use the new Map Search features go to: media.mrmlsmatrix.com/news_images/MapSearch.pdf