Accessing the pool of all listings through the MLS is, by necessity, a huge part of how you do business. Updates and improvements to your primary working tool are critical, and the release of changes has to be approached in a way that gives you time to adapt and adjust. The newer way of doing things is designed to save you clicks and wasted effort, but learning HOW it does that is key to meeting that objective successfully with minimal disruption.
With that in mind, we're excited to make available to all members a new type of search, display and print workflow (dubbed MLS 11) for the Rapattoni MLS system. You can turn on the new workflow by clicking on the banner that appears in the current MLS 10 system's grid/results display. The text says BETA: A new Listing Workspace, and you can click anywhere in that banner to try MLS 11.
Once you are using the MLS 11 Beta, you can always revert back to the current MLS 10 experience by clicking on the feature button (far right) to Leave Beta which will refresh the page for you.
MLS 11 GUIDED PREVIEW VIDEO
On October 9th we did a guided preview webinar of the new MLS 11 listing workspace with two of the product experts from Rapattoni. In it we discussed the key features and benefits of the updated design, and went over our strategy for rollout. If you'd like to catch up on that, the recording is available on our SFAR YouTube channel - you can also watch the video inline right here:
ROLLOUT SCHEDULE
We don't plan to flip the switch and make this change permanent until we've given members a chance to try it, ask questions, and suggest improvements or changes. To that end, we've opened this Beta evaluation period this October and that will run into January of 2025.
The software will be a mandatory change over for all users at some point after that, possibly at the end of Q1-2025.
MLS 11 WORKSHOP
If you've given the new MLS 11 Listing Workspace a solid try and have valuable feedback on parts of it that are good, things that are hard to understand, or specific blocking problems that you feel are just plain broken, you should request an invite to the upcoming MLS 11 User Workshop being held at 3:00pm on October 24th at the offices of SFAR on Grove Street.