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Free One-Time Listing Import on Housing Market Portals

Tutorial 57 of 115 · 1 min 19 s

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You do not need a subscription to bring your listings into your Housing Market Portals account. This tutorial shows the free one-time import: open XML API Sync, choose One-time import, pick a CSV, Excel, XML or JSON file, read the preview that counts the listings before anything is imported, and click Import these listings. It then shows the import report, and the option to read a feed link once instead of a file. A link is read once, now, and is not saved or read again. Nothing is scheduled afterwards and nothing is marked inactive: keeping listings up to date every day is the paid automatic daily sync, which has its own video. XML API Sync is in Beta, and the screens show invented example data.

In this tutorial you will learn

  • That the one-time import is free
  • How to import a file or read a link once
  • How to read the preview before importing
  • How this differs from the automatic daily sync

Follow along: the steps

  1. The one-time import is free on every plan. No subscription is needed.
  2. Bring your listings from a file, or from a link that is read once.
  3. A CSV, Excel, XML or JSON file, up to 5,000 listings.
  4. Choose your file. The portal reads it right away.
  5. We count your listings before anything is imported.
  6. Check how each one would be imported.
  7. The fields and values can be changed here too, as in XML API Sync.
  8. When it looks right, click Import these listings.
  9. The import runs in the background. You can leave this page.
  10. The report shows what was created and what was skipped.
  11. You can also read a feed link.
  12. A link is read once, now. It is not saved and not read again.
  13. Nothing is scheduled and nothing is marked inactive.
  14. To keep listings up to date every day, use the automatic daily sync.