How to Setup Online Tour Scheduling with your ILS

How to Setup Online Tour Scheduling with your ILS

Tutorial

In this article, you will learn how to set up online tour scheduling for a property with ILS. Various ILS uses the OpenTours API to communicate with Hy.ly, which results into enabling Hy.ly to get more prospects into it's CRM. 

Apartments.com / CoStar

Follow these steps to set up online tour scheduling with Apartments.com

Step 1 - Fetch Property Listing URL in Apartments.com

Search the property name using Google, for example, Avenue Grove apartments.com, and click on the link that takes to Property's Apartments.com page as shown below



Step 2 - Fetch the Property ID provided by Hy.ly

Hy.ly's Onboarding Team or the Success Manager provides a unique Hy.ly Property ID i.e. PID via email or the Handoff Sheet to be used for external purposes like Costar & Rentpath scheduling

Handoff Sheet > hyTours Scripts & Links



Property Page in Hy.ly
Login to Hy.ly > Go to Sub-orgs



Step 3 - Email to be sent to onlinescheduling@costar.com

The Property will need to reach out to Apartments.com using this email address: onlinescheduling@costar.com, this email should contain the unique Hy.ly Property ID and the Property Listing URL for Apartments.com
Here is an email template you can use: Email Template

Preview

Here is the preview of the 'Book a Tour' function once the set up is done



ApartmentGuide.com / Rent.com / RentPath

Follow these steps to set up online tour scheduling with ApartmentGuide.com

Step 1 - Fetch Property Listing URL in ApartmentGuide.com / Rent.com

Search the property name using Google, for example, Goldtex apartmentguide.com / Goldtex rent.com, and click on the link that takes to Property's ApartmentGuide.com page / Property's Rent.com as shown below

Apartmentguide.com



Rent.com


Step 2 - Fetch the Property ID provided by Hy.ly

Hy.ly's Onboarding Team or the Success Manager provides a unique Hy.ly Property ID i.e. PID via email or the Handoff Sheet to be used for external purposes like Costar & Rentpath scheduling

Handoff Sheet > hyTours Scripts & Links



Property Page in Hy.ly
Login to Hy.ly > Go to Sub-orgs



Step 3 - Email to be sent to RentPath rep

The Property will need to reach out to the RentPath rep, this email should contain the unique Hy.ly Property ID and the Property Listing URL for ApartmentGuide.com
Here is a email template you can use: Email Template

Preview

Here is the preview of the 'Book a Tour' function once the set up is done

Apartmentguide.com



Rent.com



Please contact your Success Manager or email us at support@hy.ly for any questions! 

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