When you log in for the first time, the Setup Wizard will ask you series of questions. It should take you about 20 minutes to complete the Setup Wizard and activate your site. Remember: you can always come back to mysite.mrislingo.com and change any information that you entered.
Note: MRIS ID Number and MRIS system password fields are case sensitive. Make sure that you enter small and capital letters correctly.
Depending on whether you are a team of two agents or an individual agent you can choose your web site type accordingly. If you choose a team web site, you will have a choice whether you want separate or common description and contact data for both team members.
If you select common contact information, contact information on your web site will not be connected to any team member If you select separate contact information, you will be able to specify different set of contact information for each of your team members.
If you select common description, you will be able to provide single description of your entire team. If you select separate description, you will be able to provide separate description of each team member.
On the team web site you will also be able to combine listings from both team members in the Our Listings section.
You also enter your company name here. After you have completed all the fields, press Continue.
You can add more than one number or address in each section by clicking on the "add more..." link. You can also rearrange the order in which the components appear by dragging the box in desired position with the mouse.
After you have entered the data press Continue.
If you have previously chosen team web site type and separate contact data, you now need to provide contact information for your second team member. After you have entered the data press Continue.
If you have previously selected team web site type and separate description, you now need to provide description for your second team member.
Press Continue.
We offer you a selection of templates to choose from. Pick one that best suits your company colors. If you plan to use your MRIS Lingo personal page as a search engine on your other web site, choose the Template for Frames.
Press Continue.
Press Continue.
If your association is not automatically selected, select the Realtor Board that you are member of.
Enter your Agent MRIS ID Number. If you have chosen team web site type, enter second team member MRIS ID Number.
Mark the IDX solution option if you want to add Search Listings button to your web site. This will allow your user to search through all MRIS listings from your site.
Mark the Display Property Addresses on the Web Site option if you want the property addresses to be show with the listings.
The My/Our Listings option presents a button on your personal page named My/Our Listings. Clicking this button will show the list of all your listings.
Click the Open House check box if you want visitors to your site to view upcoming public open houses that you have scheduled for your listings and have entered into the MRIS database through Keystone. You cannot enter Open House information from your MRIS Lingo site.
Press Continue.
You can use a subdomain of www.yourlingo.net. The text that you enter here will become your web site address, e.g. if you enter 'smith' then your web site address will be: http://www.yourlingo.net/smith. NOTE: You can pick any name for your web site that is not already used by other web site. The web site name is limited to 40 characters and you can only enter letters, numbers and underscore sign ('_').
If you want to purchase an Internet domain from us, fill in the field and click Check availability. You will be taken to the payment page. The cost is USD$30.00 for one year period, and USD$15.00 for each next year. The domain is active immediately after purchase.
If you already purchased a domain from another vendor and currently don't use it for your site, or you want to switch your other site to MRIS Lingo personal page use the provided link. You will be asked for your domain and taken to the payment page. Cost for this option is USD$25.00. After the payment has been made a page with further instructions will be shown.
Note! All the images should be uploaded in JPG or GIF format. Try to keep picture file size as small as possible, so your page will load fast. Do not send files bigger than 30 kB.
To add a picture:
Choose as many appropriate logos from the list as you want. Your logos will be placed at the bottom of your web site (on every sub-page).
If the logo you are looking for is not on the list, you can add it using the upload form. To add a logo:
Make sure that that the size of the image is no more than 150x150 pixels. All pictures and images should be uploaded as GIF or JPG images. Please do not upload files larger than 30kB.
Press Continue.
You have just completed the construction of your MRIS Lingo Personal Web Site. If you ever need to make changes to your site, just go to mysite.mrislingo.com, log in and you will be taken directly to your Control Panel.
If you have selected individual web site type:
If you have selected team web site type and separate contact information and you want to change your first team member contact information:
If you have selected team web site type and separate contact information and you want to change your second team member contact information:
If you have selected team web site type and separate description and you want to change your first team member contact information:
If you have selected team web site type and separate description and you want to change your second team member contact information:
Note! The MRIS ID Number and Office ID fields are case sensitive. Make sure that you enter small and capital letters correctly, and there are no spaces before or after them.
Enter a text that will become your web site address in the box. For example if you enter 'smith' to the box your Personal Web Site address will be http://www.yourlingo.net/smith NOTE: You can pick any name for your web site that is not already used by other web site. The web site name is limited to 40 characters and you can only enter letters, numbers and underscore sign ('_').
If you want to purchase an Internet domain from us, fill in the field and click Check availability. You will be taken to the payment page. The cost is USD$30.00 for one year period, and USD$15.00 for each next year. After the payment has been made a page with instructions will be shown.
If you already purchased a domain from another vendor and currently don't use it for your site, or you want to switch your other site to MRIS Lingo personal page use the provided link. You will be asked for your domain and taken to the payment page. Cost for this option is USD$25.00. After the payment has been made a page with further instructions will be shown.
After you have finished click Save.
To add a picture:
Note! Images should be uploaded in JPG or GIF format. Try to keep picture file size as small as possible. Do not send files bigger than 30 kB.
If you want to count hits on your MRIS Lingo web site, you need to set up your hit counter account. There are many free hit counters on-line: for example: http://www.statcounter.com. When you setup an account with them you will be given a piece of HTML code. You need to copy it and add to Setup Wizard. To do it:
While you add the HTML code then you will be able to check how many people visit your web site after login to your account at: http://www.statcounter.com
The multi-lingual solution allows your visitors view your listings in the language of their choice. When you put Language Bar on your other web site viewers will go directly to your MRIS Lingo site and see your listings in their preferred language with contact information only to you.
This function will allow you to quickly enter a temporary listing that is
visible from the control panel only.
It is useful if you want to present how the listing would look like in other languages to your
prospective clients during a presentation.
The listing will not be added to MLS or visible on your MRIS Lingo site; this
is for presentation purposes only.
There are four options. You can:
To create new Listing Presentation click on the link Create sample listing. Fill out the following forms with the information from your client. Note that mandatory fields are indicated with "*". Click "Next" after you have filled out Page 1. Then fill out Page 2 and click "Finish" to finish creating your listing presentation.
To edit existing listing presentation click on the "Edit Listing" tab under selected presentation. Then change selected information and click "Next"/"Finish".
To delete a Listing Presentation click on the Delete Listing tab under selected presentation. Then confirm you action in the pop-up dialog. Click the OK button to delete the presentation, or, Click the Cancel button to close the pop-up box.
To review a Listing Presentation click on the Listing Details tab under
selected presentation. You will be presented with full listing view, exactly as it would appear on you MRIS Lingo page.
Click flags on top of the screen to view listing in other languages.
Click on the Edit Listing button to edit your presentation or Delete Listing to delete it.
To go back to Main Menu or Listing Presentation Screen click on appropriate link located above the flags.
Virtual Agent Manager, also known as Client Management Console, is a tool that allows you to view who has registered on your Web site. Registered users can save their search criteria, and receive emails with new listings that match their criteria.
When you click on the Client Management Console link in the Main Menu you will be directed to Virtual Agent Manager. There are 2 options available:
The User Details screen presents:
The Saved Searches sections have the following information:
If you click on the Recent Emails Link the Recent Emails Sent To Table will show.
The table contains email listings that were sent to the client over the past 90 days. The table shows the dates, number of listings sent on each date, and a "View listings" link in each row of the table. If there were no email listings sent to the registered client, "There are no recent emails" will display instead of the table.
To see the email contents click on the View Email link in the last column sent to the client on the date specified under the Email Date column.
Clicking on View Email will display the Sent Email Details screen. It lists the following:
Delete User Account Link
Click on Delete User Account located in the last column of the "Virtual Agent Registered Users" table to delete a registered client’s account. A pop-up dialog box asking you if you are sure you want to delete the user, will display. If you delete the user, all saved searches and all saved listings for this client will be deleted as well. Click the OK button to delete the user, or, Click the Cancel button to close the pop-up box.
The IDX (Internet Data eXchange) solution lets you show all listings from your Realtor Board under your own Personal Web Site, with contact information only to you. To activate IDX you should select the option on your Personal Web Site.
Setup Wizard takes you through the creation of your MRIS Lingo web site. When you log in for the first time, the Setup Wizard will be started and will ask you a series of questions. It should take you about 20 minutes to complete the Setup Wizard and activate your site. On the right side of the screen you have the navigation menu that shows you current page on the Setup Wizard. You can click on any of the already visited pages, jump back to that page and modify already entered data. Please do not use the Back button in your browser to go back and change the data. Almost every question that we ask has a help button associated with it. If you don't know how to answer a question, just click on the question next to the input field.
Once the site is set up and running you can always come back to mysite.mrislingo.com and change any of the information previously entered.
The system will log you off after 30 minutes of inactivity. The information you typed in up to that point will be saved automatically. If you want to make any changes on your Personal Web Site, you should log into the Setup Wizard again.
My/Our open houses option allows you to show your listings that are open for viewers. This option will show upcoming public open houses that you have scheduled for your listings and have entered into the MRIS database through Keystone. You cannot enter Open House information from your MRIS Lingo site.
The password fields are case sensitive. Make sure that you enter small and capital letters correctly.