How to configure CONSOLE GATEWAY to send your rental listings to HousetoRent
To setup HousestoRent as an Advertising service in Gateway:
- Register on HousesToRent from this page http://www.housestorent.co.nz/Members/Register
- Contact illion Tenancy by Email or Ph 0800836268, before carrying out your first upload of listings. Ask to be assigned a username and password for the HousesToRent FTP upload site. This may be different from your illion Tenancy login.
- In HOUSESTORENT website add agents that are in your GATEWAY software as follows:
- Login to HousesToRent website www.housestorent.co.nz
- Go to "Listing Agents" under the “Landlord” menu
- Click on “Add Listing agent”.
- Complete the form. Use the "Agent ID" which is assigned in your GATEWAY software as 'ImportID". Make sure there is a unique id for each listing agent in the 'Agents' screen in GATEWAY. You can use your GATEWAY login names to keep things simple.
- In GATEWAY select Tools --> Send/Receive --> Weblink Wizard.
- Click ‘next’ and select the realestate.co.nz format
- Click ‘next’ and enter the details provided to you...
Enter the FTP Address ftp.housestorent.co.nz
Enter the Login Name (Provided by HousestoRent)
Enter the Password (Provided by HousestoRent)
Note: the file ID, user ID and office ID are not required for Housestorent however please enter you company name into these fields to ensure a successful upload.
Problem solving notes.
One customer had a problem where the upload said it was successful but it did not load on HousesToRent.
Answer was in the tenancy address in her Console software. She needed a comma between the suburb and city and it then successfully uploaded.