Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - Mike Salway
Tonight, the HubOnline July Release will be deployed to production. A number of new features and enhancements will be made available in this release, including:
Reach a greater number of potential buyers by advertising water side properties or properties with water views on a new portal, Waterside Property Sales. You can mark a property to be sent to the Waterside Property Sales portal by selecting either “Water Views” and/or “Ocean Views” in the Features selector of a property.
Features Selector
2) Contact Requirements – enhancements for size criteria
Previously, when entering a contact requirement, you were only able to enter the size requirements (for commercial, rural, business and land categories) in square metres (sqm), and the minimum and maximum sizes were restricted to the values in the dropdown.
Now, you have the ability to enter free-text (numeric) for the minimum and maximum size and the option to select whether the search size is sqm, acres or hectares.
Contact Requirements - Size Options
Contact Requirements in Hub Mobile
This change applies to both HubOnline and Hub Mobile.
3) Various Hub Mobile Enhancements
A number of enhancements have been made to Hub Mobile with this release, including:
- The system now remembers your username and password, so you don’t need to re-enter it each time you want to access Hub Mobile
- Secondary Done/Cancel buttons are now at the bottom of the Edit Contact and Edit Requirements pages, so you don’t need to scroll back to the top to save or cancel the edit.
Secondary Done/Cancel buttons
- A new ‘Viewings Report’ feature has been added to the OFI section of a property. The report provides useful information to show vendors when giving them feedback about a recent OFI, such as the total number of viewings and the comments for those viewings.
OFI Section of a Property
New Viewing Report
- Improved Performance, so Hub Mobile runs even quicker on your iPhone.
Remember, if you haven’t done so already you will need to opt-in to Hub Mobile via the Beta Workshop page.
For more information about the release, please review the July Release Release Notes.
In order to deploy these exciting new features we require a short maintenance period:
Australia: Tuesday, July 6 2010, 8:00pm until Wednesday, July 7 2010, 6:00am
New Zealand: Tuesday, July 6 2010, 10:00pm until Wednesday, July 7 2010, 8:00am
During this time:
- HubOnline will be unavailable and will display a maintenance message
- HubOnline website consumers will receive a maintenance message if they try to register for the auto-email alerts during the maintenance period.
- Regularly scheduled auto email-alerts will be sent prior to the maintenance period starting.
- Please contact our Customer Care Centre on 1300 793 341 or email support@hubonline.com.au if you have any questions.
If you have any questions about the release or feedback about the new functionality or enhancements, please contact Customer Care.
Regards,
The HubOnline Team.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - Mike Salway
Over the past 6 weeks, a small number of our customers have been helping us in a closed beta-test of our mobile version of HubOnline, Hub Mobile.
We’re now pleased to announce that Hub Mobile has been opened up as a full beta-release.
Hub Mobile Property Search
The aim of the Beta Release phase is to get some “real world” feedback about Hub Mobile – what you like, what you don’t like, what’s easy to use, what you found difficult, additional features you’d like to see, and any other suggestions and feedback about the product. Your feedback is crucial as it will directly help shape the future development of Hub Mobile.
What is Hub Mobile and what features are available?
Hub Mobile allows you to access property and contact information anytime and anywhere. As this is our first beta release, the scope is initially limited to the most important functions that a sales agent needs out on the road. This includes:
- Search Contacts
- View / Add / Edit Contact Details
- View / Add / Edit Contact Notes
- View / Add / Edit Contact Requirements
- Search Properties
- View Property Details
- View OFI times
Hub Mobile Contact Search
Notes:
- Additional features and functionality will be added with each release.
- Updates made via Hub Mobile will appear immediately within HubOnline back at the office, and vice versa.
- The product has been designed for (and is limited to) iPhone users, but support for Blackberries and other feature phones will come in the near future.
How to access Hub Mobile
To access the beta version of Hub Mobile, you have to enable access using the Beta Workshop page then point your iPhone browser to http://touch.hubonline.com.au . You’ll be able to login using your normal HubOnline username and password.
Enable Hub Mobile in the Beta Workshop
Your feedback is important!
As part of the beta programme, you can simply use Hub Mobile out on the road as you would normally use a mobile web application. In addition, it would be most appreciated if you:
- Report any bugs you may experience using the product. Please keep in mind that this is beta release software and it may contain bugs.
- Provide feedback! We appreciate all and any feedback – good and bad.
To report bugs or feedback you can use the Hub Mobile Feedback topic on UserVoice, contact your Technical Account Manager or email the development team directly at betafeedback@hubonline.com.au .
OFI Listing
We are very excited about the release of Hub Mobile and look forward to your feedback! With your help, Hub Mobile will develop into a must-have tool for sales agents out on the road.
Regards,
The HubOnline Team.
