Method 2 - XML Feed

You can design a site, a database and the updating mechanism from scratch then ask us to make the data available to you. We create an XML file which is made available on our ftp server for 11 hours on the hour from 7am onwards. Once set up it will be available on the next hour.

To request an XML Feed be set up please log a ticket with our Support team under Help > Get Support. There may be an extra charge if you already upload to 3 portal sites. – up to £20 per month per branch.

If you go with this approach, you’ll get a unique look and feel but will suffer by not having “instant live” data on your site – price changes, new instructions etc will take up to 4 hours to appear. Also, who do you call first if ‘5 Acacia Avenue’s’ price change hasn’t appeared?

• Pros: Complete Design Freedom
• Cons: At least an hour out of date

Lots of extra support hassles for you and us – whose fault is it if 5 Acacia Avenue’s price change hasn’t gone live today?

The cost to you of constructing, supporting and hosting a database

Examples:  http://www.kivells.com/ – the latter use our Registration, and client login components – information and code for using these iframes can be found in the standard powering section (see Method 1 - Standard Property Powering).

If you would like to view our sample xml feed or would like to have your own set up please log a ticket with our Support department and they will be able to create this for you.

More:

XML upload specification

XML upload example