Set up a new development and every unit in it

A launch can mean a hundred units or more. Rather than build each one by hand, you tell Raptor Neo how the project is laid out, it draws up the unit table, and when you’re done every unit gets a sale listing of its own. You enter the photos, floor plans and commission a single time, and all the units share them.

Walkthrough video to followAbout two minutes on screen, from Create Property on the Properties page through each part of the form to the finished property page with its units.

What to have ready

• The property’s name. It can be up to 70 characters and no other property in your agency can share it.
• Where it is: the location from your agency’s list, plus the street address.
• The layout: how many towers or houses, the number of floors, the units on each floor, and whether your units carry letters (4A, 4B) or numbers (01, 02).
• The developer’s launch photos and floor plan, along with paperwork such as a brochure or a payment plan.
• Your commission terms and the deposit.

The form comes in four parts. It opens with the property details and closes with the commission; in between, it takes the unit layout and the photos.

Property details

1. Go to Properties and click Create Property.
2. Keep New Development switched on.
3. Type the Property Name, choose the Location from your agency’s location tree and enter the Address.
4. Add what you know about the building: when it was built, the developer, parking, whether pets are allowed, whether there’s a lift, and its features and amenities.
5. Write a description. If your team tags properties, add the tags here too.
6. Save this part. That creates the property and gives it its ID.

Screenshot to followThe first part of the new property form, with the New Development switch on and the property name, location and address filled in.

Units and listings

1. Describe the layout: the number of towers or houses, the floors, and the units on each floor.
2. Set the Unit Alias to match how units are named. Units called 4A and 4B take the alias A. Units called 01 and 02 take 1.
3. Choose the property type that most units share. You can still change a single row later.
4. Generate the unit table.

Screenshot to followThe units part of the form for a project with several towers, showing the tower, floor, units-per-floor and Unit Alias fields before the table is built.

5. Go through the rows and complete each unit: its status, type, size and layout.
6. To give many rows the same value, tick them, enter the value in the Batch Edit bar and apply it to every ticked row.
7. Save this part.

Screenshot to followThe generated table, units sorted under each tower, showing the status column and the Batch Edit bar above the rows.

The number of rows is the towers multiplied by the floors multiplied by the units on each floor. Three towers of ten floors, with six units on every floor, give you 180 units.

Photos and files

1. Upload the property photos. You can add up to 20, each a JPG or PNG of 2 MB or less.
2. Add the floor plans (up to 10 files, at most 5 MB each) and any other documents, like the brochure.
3. Save this part.

This flow collects property photos only. There’s no separate photo step for each unit or listing, so every unit’s listing shows the property photos.

Commission and distribution

1. Pick the Commission Type, Percentage or Fixed Amount, then enter the Commission Rate and the Deposit.
2. Set the Agent Split. The primary agent’s share and the co-agent’s share must come to 100%. If a co-agent is involved, choose them here.
3. Save this last part. Raptor Neo creates one sale listing for each unit, and every one of them carries the commission you just entered.

What you’ll see next

• The property page opens. Total Units, Available and Reserved sit at the top, and every unit is under Unit & Listings, in Card or Table view.
• Each unit now appears as its own listing on the Listings page, named from its floor, unit, tower and property. Open any one when its price, description or portals need to differ from the rest.
• To change a batch of units later, click Edit Unit Table under Unit & Listings, or Edit on the property and go to the units step. The Batch Edit bar works on units that already exist as well.