Schedule Publishing a Listing
When publishing a listing for the first time, you have the option of scheduling what date and time that listing should go live. This works for both sales and lettings properties and can bed used to delay a listing from going live until you are ready or until the owner has requested.
It's important to note that this feature is only available on the very first time you go to publish a listing. If a listing has previously been published, you will not have access to this option.
How to schedule the publish date and time
To get started, go to Edit > Make Available For Sale or Edit > Make Available To Sale/Let.
Note - If you’re taken to the Property Onboarding page, you’ll need to complete the mandatory steps in the onboarding workflow before making the property available. If your role has the permission ‘Allow this user to publish listings when there are outstanding mandatory actions.’ enabled, you can make the listing available without completing all mandatory steps. For more information, see our Roles and Permissions help article.
Complete the listing details as usual and click Save Sales Listing or Save Lettings Listing. Once saved, you’ll see the blue Publish to Portals banner.
Click Publish to go to the Complete Publish page. If the property has both a sales and a lettings listing, click Publish Sales Listing or Publish Lettings Listing.
Note - If you dismiss the banner, you can also reach the Complete Publish page from Edit > Edit Property Sales Portals or Edit > Edit Property Lettings Portals.
In the Publish after field, select the date and time you’d like the listing to go live. The listing will only publish to the portals after this date and time.
Note - If you leave this field empty, the property will publish immediately.
Click Save and Publish. The property will show as Publishing Scheduled until the date and time you selected.
To change the scheduled date and time, go back to Edit > Edit Property Sales Portals or Edit > Edit Property Lettings Portals and update the Publish after field.
You can always edit the scheduled publish date and time by going back to edit > edit sales / lettings portals and adjusting what was previously entered.
Note - The scheduled date only applies to the portals. If the listing’s visibility includes your website, the property may appear on your website before the scheduled date.
Scheduled Listings and Your Spectre Website
Scheduling a publish date only delays the listing going live on the portals. If you have a Spectre website, the property will appear on your website straight away, even while it shows as Publishing Scheduled in Street.
If you’d like to keep the property off your website until the scheduled date, set the listing’s visibility to Portals only by going to Edit > Edit Sales Listing or Edit > Edit Lettings Listing. Once the listing has gone live, change the visibility back to Full Visibility so it shows on your website too.
Note - Whether a property shows on your website is controlled by the listing’s visibility, not the scheduled publish date.
Listing Failing to Publish
If a listing fails to publish to a portal 3 times in a row, your branch’s notification users will receive a notification in Street. You can use this to review the listing and find out why it hasn’t published.
And you will also see a red banner on the property that has failed:
Tip - Forcing a republish can often fix a listing that hasn’t published. For steps on how to do this, see our Troubleshooting Portal Publishing Issues help article.
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