What is Property Hive?
Property Hive is a 3rd party company that provide a WordPress plugin that creates a custom property search on your WordPress website.
Documentation from Property Hive:
How can the Agents benefit from this?
If you're not in a position for AgentsInsight to build your website or property search, but equally they won't have a website developer / entire web team building out a whole new property search page, Property Hive can provide a good middle-ground as the plugin helps simplify the development work needed to implement our XML feed (i.e. the developer isn't building the site from ground up) which saves considerable time and money all round!
Any steps for set up
Property Hive have have a great article with steps on their website, but a simplified version is below:
Step 1: Download Property Hive
Property Hive is free to use and is available on the WordPress plugin repository.
Download it using the link below, or search for ‘Property Hive’ within your existing WordPress website.
Step 2: Choose Your Add Ons
Add that extra oomph to your website with our extensive range of free and premium add ons. We have over 40 add ons available, from tools aimed at importing your properties, to features like Map Search to improve your users experience,
Step 3: Build Your Theme
Property Hive can be integrated into any theme. You can build your own, or if you’re looking to get up and running quickly or on a budget, use our free Honeycomb theme.
Supporting docs
FAQs
Can any website use Property Hive?
No - this is a plugin for if your website is powered by Wordpress only.
Is it quick to implement?
Yes, they take our XML feed so setting up a property search couldn't be much quicker.
What are the cost implications?
You'll pay Property Hive for the plugin, which is a one off fee of £149.
If I use Property Hive, can I still automate my inbound enquiries to fall into AI?
Yes! Theres an article on their website here showing you exactly how to do this.
Will I Need To Know How To Code To Use Property Hive?
It all depends on how the agent wants their website to look and how bespoke and complex they want the site to be. If they want everything to come styled out of the box and not get involved in coding and CSS then Property Hives free Honeycomb theme is there and ready to go. Alternatively, if they want to use their own theme, then they can use Property Hive to receive the data and then they may need to amend the design to how they want it to look
Do we need to ask the web team to implement our XML {ID} structure?
No - When enabling this for Property Hive the URL field should look like this: https://DOMAIN.co.uk/?imported_id={id}
