WordPress OpenRealty vTiger Bridge

Posted on March 24, 2008
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Open Realty adds Sales Leads to vTiger

Open Realty is a great tool for a listings manager but when it comes to managing clients and or leads no listings manager should venture into that realm.  My attitude has always been the same when it comes to integration and the thing I suggest over and over again is BRIDGE, BRIDGE AND BRIDGE DONT INTEGRATE.  Integration is rarely a good idea largely because forcing applications to occupy one another can cause all kinds of potential issues and limitations. 

Take for example the Open Realty Joomla integration tool known as CMSRealty; Although a good product this tool would not be the ideal method in my professional opinion for making the two applications work together.  The greatest reason for such is the very unusable URL structure it produces.  However I must also be fair in noting that one of my clients who builds integrated website solutions for his customers recently took #1 place in google and is even showing up as an authority in google and the package they use is Joomla, OpenRealty and WordPress all of which are integrated.  To take #1 position in that market for the primary search term lends tons of credibility to CMSRealty, Open Realty and Joomla as a viable Real Estate website solution.  WordPress naturally has its contributing role. But lets move on to the vTiger Bridge.

A few weeks ago, Mike ( my programmer ) was working on a project for a person in Great Brittan where they want to manage contacts in vTiger for each of those that register via Open Realty and have those leads automatically added to vTiger which they could then assign to agents and or managers.  This project was a rather lofty one in which they wanted to sell properties via estate agents world wide in sort of a world wide property network.

The issue for a project of such caliber using Open Realty is the very limited features in user management that are present and the need for additional features like groups, group ids and group members to be added.  Once that hurdle was surpassed the project evolved and surfaced as the ideal Open Realty real estate listings manager / (slash) CRM or client resource manager.

Depending on the final outcome of the project, this could be made available free at some point for those interested in adding sales leads to vTiger.  Commercially it’s available now on a per install basis.

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