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Housing Market CRM XML API Sync: Automatic Daily Feed Import

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If your website already publishes your listings as an XML or JSON feed, Housing Market CRM can read it for you every day and keep your listings in step. New listings are added, changed ones are updated, and listings that leave your feed are marked inactive, never deleted. This tutorial opens Properties, then XML API Sync, and shows the two ways in: a free one-time import from a file or a feed address, and automatic daily sync, which needs a subscription that your portal and your CRM share. It then shows what the page looks like once a feed is running: when it was last read, how many listings were created, updated and marked inactive, any listing with a problem, and the buttons to pause, sync now, edit the matching or remove the feed. XML API Sync is a Beta feature.

In this tutorial you will learn

  • The two ways to bring your listings in: once, or every day
  • What automatic daily sync does and does not do to your listings
  • How one subscription covers both your portal and your CRM
  • How to read the dashboard of a running feed

Follow along: the steps

  1. Open your Housing Market CRM account.
  2. Open Properties in the left menu.
  3. Click XML API Sync.
  4. Connect your feed once and your listings are kept up to date every day.
  5. One-time import is free: bring your listings in once, from a file or a feed address.
  6. Automatic daily sync reads your feed every day.
  7. Automatic daily sync needs a subscription.
  8. It is shared by your portal and your CRM: subscribe once, use it in both.
  9. Subscribe opens a secure payment page. We stop here.
  10. Once a feed is running, this page shows how it is doing.
  11. Here is your feed.
  12. It is working.
  13. See when it was last read…
  14. …and how many listings were created, updated and marked inactive.
  15. A listing with a problem is named here, with the reason.
  16. Sync now reads the feed straight away.
  17. Pause stops the daily sync; your listings stay as they are.
  18. Listings that leave your feed are marked inactive, never deleted.