Release Notes
The Out East Team is committed to continuously updating and improving your experience on our platform and improving your day-to-day so you can be out helping buyers, renters and sellers find their dream home in the Hamptons. This post is where you’ll find a running list of recent updates to Out East Agent Tools as well as features to come. The Out East team will be updating this doc on an ongoing basis.
Do you have a suggestion for the Out East team? We would love to hear your feedback — email us at help@outeast.com to let us know what you would like to see in future versions.
What’s Coming Next:
- In 2020, Out East will transition from a subscription-based model, where brokerages pay a per-agent fee to use Agent Tools and advertise listings on Out East, to a free platform for agents and brokerages.
- There are no changes to the Out East Agent Tools platform functionality at this time, and Out East will continue offering trainings to help agents make the most of it.
- RealNet, the listing entry software replaced by Out East Agent Tools, will sunset in early 2020. It has been operating in read-only mode since early 2019.
Recent Updates and New Features
October 1 - 13
- Added visibility to other open rental prices
- Extend professional Share to function for logged in professionals viewing listing
- Add label to easily identify an expired rental registration date
- Add label to easily identify upcoming or expired exclusive date
- Auto-suggest professional’s email address when Sharing with an agent
- Improvements to Notifications line items and actors
September 16 - 30
- Help professional avoid entering duplicate open house times on a listing
- Display 2020 Rental Prices to consumers
- Default OREX search results to newest first
- My/Our Listings: Filter listings by Agent
- Professional Share Email: Agent View
September 1 - 15
- When professional posts an Exclusive, set all Open listings for the property to My Brokerage Only and notify listors
- My/Our Listings: Filter by Visibility and by Exclusivity
- Rearrange listing card order in folders (drag and drop)
- OREX Search: Added Open House dynamic dates filter
- Allow professionals to duplicate a listing
- Print: Sold listings show sold price and date
August 2019
- Notifications page for professionals to see all recent important edits to listings from My/Our Listings
- Listing History page with log of changes
- Add fields for professionals to enter 2020 rental prices
- Allow professionals to choose which rental price period to advertise in Share email
- Improve amenity copy on consumer site listing pages
Week of July 22
- Add village taxes to professional print
- Allow professionals to enter the rental price to be advertised on Zillow
- OREX Search: Filter by SOLD date
Week of July 15
- Update logic for displaying a rental’s average monthly price
- Add pagination to Folders page to resolve slow loading times
- Option to ‘select all’ listings on current page
- Listing selections persist across different pagination
- Office managers have visibility to all listings of the office
July 1 -14
- Improve listing photos: automatically optimize images so that thumbnail, gallery, and listing card formats are all resized appropriately
- Once share with recipient, add the contact’s email to the professional’s Address Book
June 17 - 30
- Improve listing syndication rules
- Provide agent details popup when hovering over agent image on listing cards
- Add photo gallery on professional listing cards (in My Listings, Folders, Search)
- Fix problem in reordering listing images
- Autocomplete recipient emails from address book in Sharing
Week of June 10
- Make information consistent between listing cards in My/Our Listings, OREX, and Folders
- Map is full width in Agent Tools
Week of June 3
- Improve Support tools to manage and edit property addresses
- Progress to handle duplicate listings
Week of May 27
- Map: Fixed zoom buttons and added satellite and street views
- ‘Fair Housing Standards’ word check
- Remove price history from Rentals
Week of May 20
- Allow professionals to share listings with multiple recipients
- OREX Search: Listing cards display Sold Price and estimated Sold Date
Week of May 13
- Professionals can add a Land version of a property even if have an exclusive, active Sale
- Lands can be added to a folder
- OREX Search: Lands only appear in Land search, not Sale
- OREX Search respects only active rental periods
Week of May 6
- OREX Search by Owner information
- OREX Search: Move most used components to top (Open House range, Dates Added and Edited Since)
- Professional Share: Respect selected rental period in emailed listings (ex. June price vs average monthly)
- Hide firm from Price History
Week of April 29
- Option to expand or collapse OREX search results listing cards
- Rental Available periods appear in expanded listing cards
- OREX Search by Address: ‘this address only’ without proximity, and search by street name
- Print capability with Open House times and Agent Only information
- My Listings shows listings where agent is Primary but also Secondary or Tertiary
- Added field for village taxes
Week of April 22
- Thumbnail property image added to listing cards in My/Our Listings
- Updated text to better describe Advanced Display publish options
Week of April 15
- Print capability V2 for Consumers: Basic listing card view or Advanced detail view
- OREX Search by IN#
- Allow agents to enter in Sold Price and Date when changing a listing to Sold
- Indicate if listing has limited visibility (My Brokerage Only) on "My/Our Listing" and OREX listing cards
Week of April 8
- Zillow syndication improvements
- Filter My/Our Listings by Owner
- Added Owner info to OREX search results cards
- Brokerage agent link added to Profile page
- Fixed error marking a rental property as RENTED
- Sharing listings allows for multi-line messages
- “My brokerage only” listings are no longer visible from Agent's profile page
- You can archive agents without an office manager
- Brokerage admins can elevate other users to brokerage admins
- OREX Search: Sort results by price, address, newest
- Map view options on OREX Search and My/Our Listings
Week of April 2
- OREX Search by Address V1
Listing Entry
- Corrected Exclusivity date start/end times
- Exclusivity can be longer than 1 year (up to 3 years)
- Listings can be made more visible (My brokerage only => OREX only => Default) but not less visible
- Publish listing button is no longer impacted if there is a server error
- Removed virtual tour restriction to YouTube and Vimeo
- Updated Sag Harbor area [select `Sag Harbor Area` if listings in Sag Harbor are neither North Fork or Sag Harbor Village]
Personnel
- Ability to add agents on a listing regardless of the office they belong to
- Users can be archived
- Archived Professionals no longer appear in the Personnel list
Week of March 18
- OREX Search: Filter for Pool material, Tennis court and other
- OREX Search: Filter by subarea
- Imported Home Buyers information
Week of March 11
- Print listings in a folder. Compact version
- Added a map view of listings saved in folders
- Allow professional to receive a copy of the shared email
- Added OREX Search filters:
- Age of Home
- Water Frontage/View
Week of February 25
- Broker Only open houses
- Fix a bug in the Archive Folder section that prevented to move the folder back to active
- Listing can be published as “Do Not Advertise on the Internet”
Week of February 18
- Ability to upload Surveys
- Required fields are now marked with asterisks so you can easily see which fields are needed to complete your listing
- Ability to add SCTM# (tax map) when you create listings
- Updated amenities, such as types of pool, tennis, garage type, and more!
- Ability to search by keyword in title and description
Week of February 11
- Open Houses can now set for shorter than 1 hour
- Listing thumbnails can be viewed in folder
- Bug fix when uploading photos
- Updated the commission label values
- Ability to select acreage by 0.25
- New brokerage admins can upload and update brokerage logo
- Cleaned up bottom bar navigation for easier use