Publisher review:e-Properties is a product for a complete realty listing management solution. e-Properties is a product for a complete realty listing management solution.
It is customized and ready to go for your real estate site, rentals web site, independent agent site, or the listings section of your brokerage or agency web site.
e-Properties has been optimized for real estate listings with a new graphical interface, top-level geographic-based sections, county and metropolitan area subcategories, power search, and database fields.
User Interface and Layout
- Sophisticated interface that is intuitive and easy to use.
- Fifty three separate default real estate database sections for each of the U.S. states and territories.
- Graphics included
- Administrator can change the general HTML layout for the various pages displayed by the program
- Front page display for each section contains links for each category and can optionally display the number of listings posted in that category next to its listing.
- Can optionally display the total number of listings in each section on the front page for that section. Auto-generation of listing of sections in the toolbar, which makes it easier to add new sections, since the HTML will be automatically updated.
- Sophisticated navigation bar includes navigation arrows and buttons below search results to help users quickly jump to different sections of their search results without having to keep hitting the "Next" button.
- Navigation bar at top of pages that indicates current section and category, with links to overall site home page and Real Estate Listings home.
- Includes "Go Back" buttons on certain pages, such as error message pages.
- Displays "New" text or graphic next to sections and categories in which new listings have been posted since this user's last visit.
- "Tell Your Friends" option that allows users to e-mail their friends about your real estate listings section right from an online form. It's a great way to help build traffic to your site.
- Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages.
- Sophisticated Help section that includes intuitive and context-sensitive popup Help windows. In many parts of the program, these windows will automatically display the help topic relevant to the action that the user is performing.
Customization
- Easy customization of appearance of program through variables and subroutines for defining the
- HTML layout of all pages created by the program.
- Easy customization of categories through one variable for each section.
- Many options for controlling the appearance of the listings, such as the table width, border size, background color, bar color, and various text colors and fonts.
- Many options for defining the colors of various tables, forms, and other displays throughout the program so that the administrator can change the appearance of the program much more easily.
- Powerful database options that allow you to create your own unique sections or databases by simply editing a few variables. You can control the number and types of database fields, including the data types, names of these fields, the input formats (radio, checkbox, etc.), the output formats, display types, and many other criteria for each field.
Fee-Based Features
- Flexibility to set up free or fee-based listings.
- Administrator has option of whether to use credit card billing or postal billing.
- An exclusive new Credit Check feature for optional fee-based classified ads systems. Unlike other programs that claim to be able to handle fee-based systems, Credit Check can accept credit card numbers, check them for validity, compare them against a list of stolen credit cards, and then include the credit card numbers in the registration notice that it sends to the administrator.
- Exclusive ability to handle real-time credit card processing through six different vendors, including Authorize.Net, E-Commerce Exchange, ATS Bank, iBill's "TP Basic" account type, Plug'nPay, and Planet Payment (which allows customers from outside of the United States to use the Authorize.Net real-time credit card processing system, and which supports over 150 currencies). The system also supports Clickbank and most other vendors via an external form. The system can optionally create and require an access code, and it can optionally require a specific referring URL before it will create this access code. This allows you to earn money from your real estate section each day without any manual processing of charges, as the listing fees are automatically deposited into your account.
- Ability for fee-based systems to store credit card information online. If this is done, the card numbers can be stored either in an unencrypted format (not recommended) or in an encrypted format where they are automatically decrypted on the fly whenever the administrator needs to see this information.
- Option of charging users for posting listings.
- Option of charging users for renewing listings.
- Option of charging users for viewing listings. This can be set up to allow users to view the "headlines" versions of the listings for free, but to require them to pay to see the full size listings, or it can be set up to charge them for viewing any listing information at all.
- Option of charging users for replying to listings.
- Support for charging different fees based on whether this is the first listing posted by this registered user, or a subsequent listing. This allows for discounts for multiple listings, and by allowing the administrator to set lower fees for additional listings, it discourages people from re-registering under a different username.
- Administrator can optionally charge for multimedia file uploads.
- Administrator can optionally charge users who subscribe to the House Hunter feature.
- Administrator can optionally charge all users who register.
- Administrator can optionally charge users for including maps with their listings in certain sections.
- Priority ranking options that provide you the option of charging users extra who want to have their listings appear at the top of the search results. The prices, number of tiers, names of these options, and other options are completely customizable.
- Visibility options that provide you the option of charging users extra who want to have the visibility of their listings raised by having the listings placed in bold text, red text, or any other method that you choose. The number of tiers and visibility raising methods (bold, red, etc.) are completely customizable.
- Option to charge for listings based on the number of words contained in the listing.
- Option for admin to allow credit card payments or postal billing (via e-mail invoices) at the same time.
- Online variable for setting the credit cards to be accepted in a fee-based system.
- System automatically obtains the correct years to display in credit card forms.
- Ability to charge for posting or renewing listings in some sections and not others, and to charge different rates for different sections.
- Payments database and online reports.
Listing Display Options and Features
- One variable defines the section files, full names, and descriptions. The overall real estate listings front page is automatically generated using these settings, which makes it easier to change or modify sections.
- The administrator can set variables for whether to limit users' listing renewals, the maximum number of renewals allowed, whether to charge for renewals, and the amount of the renewal charge.
- The administrator can set options for allowing users to choose from varying lengths of time that their listings remain posted on the system, and the ability to charge different fees for listings posted for different lengths of time.
- Overall listings front page displays the number of listings in each section next to its name.
- Option to turn off the counter on the front page of each section that displays the current number of listings in that section.
- Ability to automatically keep track of the total number of listings posted by users as they move from screen to screen, even if a purge has occurred after they logged on.
- Optional use of pre-defined values for Cities and States. Otherwise, users write in their own values.
- Ability for administrator to set the default method for displaying the listings ("full size" or "headlines").
- Thumbnail photos displayed in the "headlines" format.
- Administrator can determine whether URLs in listings should be displayed as clickable links or plain text.
- Optional caption headers that can be turned on or off and have pre-set choices for the caption headers. These options can be configured separately for each section.
- Administrator has option of whether to allow HTML in the listings.
- Display of expiration dates within listings displayed using the long format.
- Can display URLs and e-mail addresses as clickable links.
- Can display photos, sound files, and even video clips in listings.
- If the admin allows this, users can upload multiple photos to each listing.
- Users can modify or delete their multimedia uploads for their listings.
- Users can specify automatic generation of a map for their listings in certain sections.
- Ability to limit the number of words posted in each listing.
- Ability for administrator to set the maximum number of words that may be contained in certain fields (such as the "text" field that contains the body of the listing).
- Size of included text in listings can be controlled by the administrator.
- Support for uploads by users of multimedia files to their listings, including photos, sound, and video clips.
- Preview feature that allows users to preview their listing before it is posted.
- Initial modification and deletion pages allow user to enter specific listing number to be modified or deleted, with options of viewing all listings posted by that user or using the power search form to search for a specific listing.
- Administrator can set maximum number of consecutive characters allowed in listings, thus preventing users from distorting the listing displays with really long strings of characters.
- Links to other listings posted by a particular user in either a particular section or in all sections.
- Counters within the listings for how many times the listing has been viewed and how many times the listing has been replied to.
- Alert Admin link from each listing so that users can alert the administrator about listings that are objectionable or otherwise may be in violation of system policies.
- Links within each listing for modifying or deleting the listing.
- Option for headlines display to have full text of listing displayed under the headline.
- Ability to scale thumbnails to maintain proportions of original graphic, and the option of having the program autoscale the thumbnails or allowing the admin to set the percentage in the e-Classifieds control panel.
e-Properties is a Perl script for Real Estate scripts design by Hagen Software Inc..
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
e-Properties script details 
