Ability to Auto‐Update the Main Buyer’s Primary Address

Screenshot 1 shows the new option on the “Settled” pop-up

Screenshot 2 shows the confirmation message, as well as the reminder to update the Vendor’s details if applicable

Screenshot 3 shows that the Main Buyer’s details have been updated to the property address

For more information about the change, please review the August Release Release Notes.

In order to deploy this exciting new feature we require a short maintenance period:

Australia: Tuesday, August 3 2010, 8:00pm until Wednesday, August 4 2010, 6:00am
New Zealand: Tuesday, August 3 2010, 10:00pm until Wednesday, August 4 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.

1) New Portal Export: www.watersidepropertysales.com.au

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.

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.

You will also notice our new HubOnline Blog, where we’ll announce the latest news from HubOnline, This gives us another way to interact with and get feedback from our community, and share our industry and technology knowledge and how it relates to your business.

Check out the new site at www.hubonline.com.au. Your feedback is welcome.

1) Better Commercial Agent Support

Improves consistency of Commercial and Business property types between HubOnline, REA’s Agent Desktop and realcommercial.com.au.

Multiple Property Types for Commercial Properties

2) Opt-in to Hub Mobile beta

You’re now able to opt in to the Hub Mobile beta program, providing iPhone access to the primary features of HubOnline. For more details about the features available in Hub Mobile Beta, and for how to enable access to Hub Mobile, please see our Launch Announcement post.

Hub Mobile Beta

3) New Beta Project: Post to Facebook

Share property details with your personal or office Facebook page. To enable access, turn the feature on under My Office -> HubOnline Beta Workshop.

Share on Facebook

For more information about the release, please review the Release Notes.

If you have any questions about the release or feedback about the new functionality or enhancements, please contact Customer Care.

Regards,

The HubOnline Team.

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.

1) Selecting additional special features to enter more granular and detailed property attributes

Selectable features

2) Image Ordering Usability Overhaul

Property Images Usability Enhancements

3) My Diary Usability Overhaul

My Diary Usability Enhancements

For more information about the release, please review the Release Notes.

If you have any questions about the release or feedback about the new functionality or enhancements, please contact Customer Care.

Regards,

The HubOnline Team.

To enable this feature, you will need to opt into the Twitter beta program. Check out the twitter integration user guide, or jump straight to the Beta Workshop page to opt-in and try out the new functionality.

Twitter Integration in HubOnline

We’d love it you took some time to provide us with your feedback about the twitter integration functionality, or any of the other beta projects.

Thanks

The HubOnline Team

The new functionality is being deployed in Beta – which means you can opt-in to try it out.If you like it, you can continue using it and provide us feedback on how it can be improved. If you don’t like it, you have the opportunity to tell us what you’d like to see changed, and you can revert back to the old search functionality at any time.

Benefits of the new search functionality

• Improved Usability
• Speed up workflow for common tasks
• Better searching, filtering and sorting for property and contact search results

Benefits of trialing it during beta

• You get the chance to be amongst the first to utilize this new functionality
• It’s free
• You get to provide your feedback on how you would like to see the site improved or enhanced
• This also gives you a great opportunity to influence the products potential development plan to suit your business requirements

Read the Beta Property and Contact Search User Guide, or jump straight to the Beta Workshop page to opt-in and try out the new functionality.

Regards,
The HubOnline Team