In 2005, the Toronto Real Estate Board led the way in Canada with their implementation of a showing request button on quick!Office Commander listings. Hamilton followed in early 2007. Since that time, the results have been so impressive that other Real Estate Boards such as Barrie have registered.

quick!Office Commander Appointments Online enables salespeople from all member broker offices to request showings directly from any office via the web with listing offices that use Leading Edge Software’s quick!Office Commander Front office software.

The potential to save both showing and listing offices time with this innovative use of technology is exciting to all participants. MLS® listings that include the quick!Office Commander Appointment Online option include an on-screen link to the listing office’s appointment booking software. Showing salespeople who click the link are presented with a calendar of available showing dates and times and can request an appointment via the web on a 24/7 basis.

In offices that confirm showings on behalf of their Sales Associates, once the appointment has been confirmed the showing salesperson's office is notified by telephone – or automatically via Commander’s email capability, if the showing broker has established an appointment email box.

In offices that do not confirm showings on behalf of their Sales Associates, listing agents are notified automatically on their enabled device (pager, phone, blackberry) to process in the normal fashion.

There are major benefits for both listing and showing salespeople. First, showing salespeople eliminate any potential inconvenience of having to call for their appointments within specific office hours or wait on hold. Second, listing offices see a reduced call load to their front desk, and have the added security of knowing that the person making the appointment is really a registered salesperson with MLS® access. Finally, options are available for the system to automatically notify sellers by e-mail of showings and/or showing feedback, so Sales Associates are able to stay in touch with their Sellers with no effort. Everybody wins.

Another benefit is the availability of detailed showing reports and an option to automatically request Showing Feedback from showing agents which is stored in quick!Office Commander. Listing agents have access to this information via the WEB any time of day or night, and with the push of a button can send the report(s) to their sellers.

With the optional ability to keep sellers in the loop for showing information as well as showing feedback, offices have a useful and cost effective marketing tool. quick!Office Commander works on behalf of the office and agents to stay in touch with sellers.

It's better than a personal assistant.