Later this summer Realtors at West + Main Homes will have a choice to pick between ShowingTime or BrokerBay for managing showing appointments. We will support both.
It’s extraordinarily awesome for your MLS at REcolorado to be evaluating new vendors that provide showings services to Realtors in Denver. Showingly is another one integrated recently.
Even though ShowingTime and BrokerBay and other options coming to the market seem wonderful and may get the job done - we think it’s best for our Listing Agents to decide.
It’s important to know you aren’t being forced to decide between one or the other at this time.
Since we haven’t used BrokerBay to set up a listing or schedule a showing yet -we think Agents will get plenty of opportunity to decide which tool is better for them once everything goes live.
Buyer Agents should prepare to see listings managed in both BrokerBay and ShowingTime and will have to learn two systems as they navigate a new period where Listing Agents have choice.
Ultimately one day we’d love to see “interoperable” showings for MLS subscribers and allow Agents to choose their preferred software for both scheduling and managing showings.
We work for that future today as a member of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO).
Competition and collaboration are needed so that listings, contracts, and showings products are differentiated and improve the experiences offered to customers in the real estate market.
We trust our Agents to let us know what is working and will help them every step of the way.
And if you’re concerned about Zillow buying ShowingTime we had a conversation about that here
