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How to Use the XML API Sync Page on Housing Market Portals

Tutorial 55 of 115 · 1 min 54 s

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XML API Sync keeps your listings on the Housing Market portals up to date from your own feed, once a day. This tutorial opens the API/XML Sync page in your agent dashboard and compares the two options: the free one-time import from a file or a link, and the automatic daily sync at 29 US dollars a month or 290 a year, which stops before the secure payment page. It then shows what you enter to connect a feed, the preview you confirm before anything is imported, and the status page with the last and next sync, the result of the last read and the problems found in individual listings. This feature is new and shows a Beta badge while we refine it.

In this tutorial you will learn

  • The difference between the free one-time import and the automatic daily sync
  • What the daily sync costs and what happens at the payment step
  • What you enter to connect your feed, and what you check before you confirm
  • How to read the last sync, the next sync and the problems with listings

Follow along: the steps

  1. Open your agent dashboard on the portal.
  2. In the menu, click API/XML Sync.
  3. This feature is new and shows a Beta badge while we refine it.
  4. A one-time import from a file or a link is free.
  5. The automatic daily sync reads your feed every day.
  6. Choose yearly billing to see the yearly price.
  7. 290 USD a year, or 29 USD a month.
  8. Listings that leave your feed are marked inactive, never deleted.
  9. Start the sync, and a secure payment page opens.
  10. The price is shown again before you pay. We stop here.
  11. Once you have a plan, this page shows it.
  12. Your plan, amount and end date are listed here.
  13. Click Set up your feed.
  14. Enter the link to your XML or JSON feed.
  15. Click Save and preview.
  16. We count your listings before anything is imported.
  17. Every problem is named in plain words.
  18. The table shows each listing as it would be imported.
  19. When it looks right, click Confirm and import.
  20. The first import starts within a few minutes, then once a day.
  21. Go back to the sync page.
  22. After the first reads, come back to this page.
  23. See your feed link, the last sync and the next sync.
  24. Sync now, Pause and Remove are here too. Remove keeps your listings.
  25. The last read: new, updated, marked inactive and failed listings.
  26. Problems name the listing and the field, and say if it was imported.
  27. Recent reads show when each one ran and what changed.