Publishing a listing is done from the listing card’s Publish tab.
Remember to add the listing photos before publishing. Before publishing, or shortly after, it’s also a good idea to create a brochure, as well as any marketing materials you need: a window card, a social media image, and a direct mail ad.
NOTE: If your brokerage uses the review feature, the listing must be reviewed before it can be published.
Below is a list of things to keep in mind when publishing:
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Contact details in publication lets you choose whether the publication shows the agent’s contact details or the company’s contact details.
(Note: publication portals may also have their own contact detail settings, so if needed, check the settings e.g. in Oikotie or Etuovi/Vuokraovi). - Before publishing, you can preview the listing publication in DIXU and verify, for example, that the images are in a logical order and there are no typos in the listing details.
(Note: for now, DIXU does not support publishing rental listings or commercial premises, so you can’t preview those publications either). -
Use the Publish listing button to proceed with publishing. Once the listing has been published, you can hide it from the same place.
- Under Select portals to publish, you can activate/deactivate the portals where the listing will be published.
- Under Publication contact details, you can also choose whether the publication shows the agent’s contact details or the company’s contact details.
- Under Timed publishing, you can enable scheduled publishing and then choose the publishing time.
After publishing, the listing is updated immediately on your own website and in DIXU. There may be a short delay before the listing is updated on external publication portals.
If the listing has been temporarily taken off the market and you want to publish it again later, republishing the listing (returning it to the For sale status) is done from the Publish tab in the same way as described above.
Good to know about publication portals
Oikotie:
- The logo used on Oikotie (which is also shown on publications) is managed in Oikotie’s company settings by the company’s main admin user.
Etuovi:
- The logo used on Etuovi (which is also shown on publications) is managed in Etuovi’s company settings (OviPro) by the company’s main admin user.
- If your company does not have an agreement with Etuovi for bidding sales, bidding-sale publications will not be shown as bidding sales. If needed, we recommend contacting Etuovi customer support/sales about this. (On Oikotie, a separate agreement for bidding sales is not required.)
Vuokraovi:
- If a listing is published from Linear using the agent’s details, but the agent’s details are not shown on Vuokraovi, the agent may not have a Vuokraovi account that matches the publisher of the listing. In other words, the agent must have their own Vuokraovi username so their details can be shown on publications. If needed, we recommend contacting Vuokraovi customer support/sales about this.