Open-Realty and CRM vTiger
Posted on June 12, 2007
Filed Under Design, Products, Real Estate News |
Integration Bridge for vTiger and OpenRealty
About a year ago I commissioned the development of a bridge between SugarCRM and Open Realty which was received with minimal demand and request at time. Recently however I’ve got that bug again to spend some money and hire a coder to bridge Open-Realty with vTiger using my small inventory of Open-Realty notification and custom form scripts into an all in one FREE package for people to use.
Now as I begin to write more and more on the marketing side of websites for Realtors and such I’ll be suggesting the use of vTiger in many many articles and this bridge tool will be maintained as a result. Granted, the UltimateIDX we have does include some CRM features mainly geared toward persistent tracking and management and conversion of contacts, but vTiger goes beyond to the point of extending an ongoing relationship between you and your prospects.
So with my $350 spent on the coder today (broke again, I hate that) to get this bridge done I explained this in terms an complete novice would understand. A) Make it EXTERNAL from Open Realty entirely. Open-Realty changes way to much for me to maintain an addon that could literally break from one release to the next (a common situation with Open Realty) and B) play well MySQL and Postgre and then C) Should NOT require both applications to be installed in the same database.
I like having my email server on one machine and the web server on another simply for convenience. I know from experience there are people who would host vTiger in once place accessible to employees of a Real Estate agency and the actual site elsewhere. I myself would use that if I were a Realtor. Keep the Real Estate site on its own domain and the CRM in a sub or different domain all together. So unique database connectivity is essential in this package.
Now PRIORITIES are exactly that. This project is taking second place to the WordPress Listings plugin which is to be back in swing before we get completely side tracked and move on to this new project. I’d love feedback and ideas.
Oh yeah! Did I tell you this is FREE?
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I am interested by this bridge because we want to ad a CRM on Open Realty and it is very difficult to find a good IT consultant nowadays.
Sounds very interesting, but you didn’t say where to order it.
I am currently doing this via Joomla. I am about to code the AgentsStats addon to provide the leads data to vTiger.
Which version of vTiger are you going to integrate with 5.0.3. - better becuase it is the only one that has true webmail functionality…..
Thanks for considering vtiger as a back-end CRM system for your implementation.
You may please consider posting your requirements in “vtiger Bounty Forums” or “Jobs Board” at vtiger.com, so that our community will provide some insights. Of course, you may find some interesting volunteers for development/testing.
Regards,
Gopal