Why Us?
A future with FBS and Flexmls is ripe with opportunity. Let's dig in.
A future with FBS and Flexmls is ripe with opportunity. Let's dig in.
We want to respond to your feedback that the user interface in Flexmls needs updating and that it may not be different enough from Rapattoni to justify switching. We hear your feedback loud and clear. Currently, we have a project underway to update the Flexmls user interface.
Upcoming Updates
We are pleased to report that we’re already far enough along with it to ensure that it will be complete before your MLS goes live with Flexmls. This refresh makes the style, colors, and navigation flows consistent throughout the system, while preserving the efficiency and flexibility the system already provides. To the right is a short montage of several of the pages we’ve already updated to give you an idea of what’s to come.
Innovations to Save Time and Increase Accuracy
At the same time as this refresh work is ongoing, FBS also is innovating listing entry in several ways. This work goes well beyond an updated user interface and focuses on new ways to save agents time and increase data accuracy and depth, all of which improve the long-term value of the MLS database. As the page linked below outlines, we’re very focused on leveraging mobile technology for listing entry both to enable agents to enter and edit listings wherever they are, and also to leverage the amazing amount of data phones make it possible to capture and validate.
FBS has led the industry in using mobile scanning technology to improve listing creation. This will not only improve the accuracy of existing listing data, but also enable agents to create new media such as floor plans that are highly valued by consumers. We’re also reducing the amount of time agents spend on listing entry and increasing accuracy by enabling collaboration with photographers, team members, and others, as well as leveraging new outside data sources (e.g., GIS data layers, HOA information, green fields, and more) to increase data validation, accuracy, and depth.
Below is a feature we recently released to enable a photography network Beaches MLS has started. Once the photographer is selected, they receive a notification and can add media to a listing. This makes it easy for the photographer, reduces the need for the agent or their staff to upload the photos, and ensures security and permissions of the MLS are followed.
FBS Co-Creates Flexmls With Our Customers
FBS’s development process and roadmap is focused on delivering outcomes important to our customers. We know from four decades of creating software for MLSs and real estate agents that you want to get in and out of the MLS system as fast as possible. You need to enter your listing quickly and accurately. You need to search for listings with as few clicks as possible so you can send them to your client, create a CMA, or run some market stats. You need the listings sent to your customers to be mobile-friendly, easy-to-read, and engaging with all types of rich media.
Mobile Moves
The user interface is critical to these outcomes, certainly, but FBS also understands that we can help our customers even more by reducing the amount of data they have to enter themselves. This is truly a case where less is more for users. If we can leverage mobile scanning and machine learning to collect data about the property without the agent or their staff having to type it in, everyone benefits. If our APIs enable more efficient integration with third-party software you’re already using to reduce duplicate entry, everyone wins.
Future-Focused
This is just one example of many as to why it is important for your MLS technology partner to be focused on outcomes that make your work lives better rather than just building new features. After all, if we add ten more features with brand new UIs that now take more clicks or don’t improve your life, what’s the point? Yet, many software vendors get caught up in exactly that kind of feature war, where it’s about a checklist comparison rather than whether the features actually benefit users. This is what FBS means by co-creating software with our customers.
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Our only purpose in building something new is to make it better for you. Our Product and Engineering Teams do this by talking to users every week and constantly getting feedback on what’s important to them. This level of engagement requires substantial investment in understanding and listening to our customers, which is both possible because of, and also the result of, FBS becoming the fastest growing MLS vendor over the last decade. FBS is constantly reinvesting both in our employee-owners and in our customers to ensure that our software is a platform that will enable our customers to grow and serve their members at the highest levels, not just this year but for the next forty years.
Are Flexmls and Rapattoni Too Similar to Justify Switching?
FBS has transitioned 22 Rapattoni MLSs representing 53,000 users, and those MLSs chose Flexmls because the system is more efficient and built on technology that enables long-term innovation. On the surface, the two systems may appear similar but the biggest difference is that FBS is always focused on helping you get in and out of the system quickly and efficiently.
