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5 Ways Alto Marketplace Saves Estate Agents Time on Admin

5 Ways Alto Marketplace Saves Estate Agents Time on Admin

22 August 2024

5 Ways Alto Marketplace Saves Estate Agents Time on Admin
Victoria Crisp

Written by Victoria Crisp

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What is Alto Marketplace?

Alto is cloud-based estate agent software that brings sales, lettings and property management together in one place. 

Alto Marketplace is your one stop shop to customise your estate agency CRM to best suit your business needs. Through our library of integrations, we offer a variety of different connections with a range of proptech providers as well as referral partners.

Our partners provide services for your branch, anywhere from tenant referencing and maintenance to services for your clients such as packing and moving home.

We’ve built our Marketplace integrations so you have a seamless experience in Alto with other technologies, getting more from your overall Alto investment.

5 reasons to connect your estate agency CRM with Alto Marketplace:

1. Improve transparency

With our integration partners, you can do more in one place, making Alto your single source of truth and helping communications inside and outside the branch run more smoothly.

For example, our partner ViewMyChain gives you more transparency by providing insights with automated key buying and selling milestones such as searches being ordered or mortgages applied for. With its data-driven chain management solution, agents achieve lower fall-throughs, faster completions and less wastage.

“ViewMyChain is having a significant impact on our completion times at Connells. Our branches are finding it easy to use and enjoy the clarity and transparency provided by the one-screen view of properties and milestones in the chain and the automatic updates which help them to reduce the time they spend on manual chasing.” – Anthony Glasgow, COO of Connells Estate Agency

2. Foster better communication

Speaking of communication, with better data collection you can facilitate better communication between multiple parties and through multiple channels, making experiences for your clients better by removing barriers.

We have a partnership with Tappter, whose instant messaging platform is designed to improve the way estate agents can manage communications between teams, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and partners.

“Tappter provides property businesses with a safe and secure way to tap into the instant messaging revolution,” said Keith Bainwaitt, CEO at Tappter.

“Agents can demonstrate they are putting the customer first by providing them with a cutting-edge digital customer experience which provides convenience without losing an agent’s personal touch.”

“At the same time, we are also helping agents reduce communication delays, improve compliance, improve team performance and reduce costs,” he added.

3. Save time and increase productivity

Our integrations not only save you time from having to enter data in multiple systems, they can also help you focus on what really matters.

An example of this would be our partner Snappily, which works with estate agencies to support home buyers and sellers right from the start of their moving journey.

Snappily helps you make sure properties are listed compliantly with all necessary compliance information and documents digitally available, providing peace of mind with regulations.

Snappily centralises all compliance tasks, removing the need for multiple logins and various apps. By cutting down on paperwork, it facilitates an efficient property transaction process, allowing agents to focus on what they do best.

Increase productivity with automation

Our partnership with Bridge AI helps agents use AI to automate more processes and save even more time.

Bridge AI can make decisions based on email or WhatsApp conversations with applicants to schedule appointments, understand their requirements and feed this information back to the agent. It works like an AI personal assistant.

“Bridge AI partnered specifically with Alto as the CRM of choice. With both our technologies working together, we are not only innovating the real estate space but offering ways to help agencies automate tasks using AI to save valuable time and resources,” said Laith Bani Slamh, CEO at Bridge AI.

“Agents can now turn the hours spent each morning reaching out to customers into securing new business, as Bridge AI will handle everything from the initial inquiry to booking viewings and much more.”

4. Help with letting occupancy rates

For letting agents, there are several partner solutions in Alto Marketplace to take the pressure out of managing relationships between landlords and tenants, or finding potential tenants. 

Good letting agent software should make this easier, and the right integrations are a big part of that.

Partnerships like we have with FCC Paragon provide agencies with services for every step of the letting process, allowing you to customise based on your business needs.

5. Improving customer experiences through our referral integrations

Alto Marketplace also has referral offerings to help improve your client experiences.

There’s no cost obligation to add a referral integration, and it’s simple to get started with just a click of a button. And the best bit: you’re eligible for agency commission every time you refer via Alto.

Currently we have three referral partnerships you can add by logging into Alto:

AnyVan: Whether your client is moving their entire home or shifting a few boxes, AnyVan can help. Better still, they’ll even pay agency commission for moves of any size your client books with them.

Houzecheck: Give your clients access to high-quality RICS surveys and valuations in under 48 hours, so you can progress sales faster. Every time you refer a client to Houzecheck you’ll earn agency commission.

Zero Deposit: Guarantee your landlords six weeks’ protection on every tenancy, even when tenants pay a cash deposit. This helps make renting easier and fairer, and lets you stand out from the competition. Every time you refer a tenant who selects Zero Deposit, you’ll receive agency commission.

In summary

Do more in Alto for one source of truth and a seamless experience

Our integrations are solutions we know some of our agents already use. By using them in Alto, you can save time by removing the need to manually input information twice across different systems.

Find the right integration partner to modernise and automate

Agents often get bogged down with manual tasks that eat into time and lead to inefficiencies.

Look at areas in your business that are taking up time and resources and chat with our partners to see which ones best address your needs. Automation can help agents work more efficiently and free up more time to help more clients.

Offer more digital services as a differentiator

Technology is constantly evolving and it’s important to keep up with the trends. Slow adoption can mean you fall behind the competition and limit the USPs you can offer customers.

We want to support you with new ways to get more from your Alto investment so you can focus on building and retaining customers.

Discover more

Log in to Alto and check out the partners on Alto Marketplace today. Go to Alto Marketplace

Book a demo to see how Alto and its Marketplace integrations work in practice.

Victoria Crisp

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Victoria Crisp

Vic is our Senior Content Manager at Alto. Vic is an experienced content professional with a background spanning tech, career development and staffing. Specialising in content strategy and SEO, she leads Alto's content programme, always making sure agents get genuinely useful answers, whether they're searching Google or asking an AI. From practical guides to industry insight, her focus is content that helps agents work smarter.