Handling rent and sale within the same property

  • Resolved redstormj

    (@redstormj)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hey, not sure if this is actually a feature request or perhaps just me fishing for some ideas but while importing properties from another system into WPCasa using All Import I noticed that the system I am importing from (called Easy Broker) allows for on-sale properties to also feature a rent option (and vice versa). I suppose this makes sense for properties which are on-sale but also offer short rentals or for vacation home which are generally rented out but also want to be sold on a long term listing.

    This seemed like an interesting idea to implement. Currently in WPCasa, each property is one or the other and cannot be both. I reckon this would require two different price fields which will complicate everything else from there on but it is still an interesting idea worth considering.

    In my particular case, I am still trying to figure out the best approach towards this, do I “duplicate” entries when I have properties that offer both, a sale price and a rent price and handle the duplicates that way or should I just focus on one of those options and just have the alternative as an additional field?

    Would love to gather some thoughts and ideas. I’ve invested quite a lot of time into this website and have developed quite a few snippets and functions. Also some fun WP Import All functions to validate some data, etc., which I am happy to share (just not entirely sure how exactly). I am just missing this portion of the puzzle to tie it all together.

    Looking forward to thoughts and comments.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author WPSight

    (@wpsight)

    Hello,

    thank you very much for your message.

    Yes, WPCasa is currently only able to have properties either to be for rent or for sale (or a custom listing offer which can be added through a filer hence it is limited since there is currently no way to easily define the pricing scheme for a custom listing offer).

    But yes, you’re right that it would make sense to have the ability to have one and the same property for sale and for rent. And we’ve received this request a few times already. However, as you can imagine it is not as easy to implement right away since as you already pointed out it would make things a little bit more complicated. And we also have to keep in mind all the other users who are just fine with the system as it is of now.

    Nevertheless we have this on our roadmap and will discuss this heavily as soon as the times comes, so we can find a good solution for this. But yes, for now and the next time, the only way to have the same property for sale and for rent would be to have it double in the system. I’m really sorry for that and I understand that this could be frustrating since it is actually the same property with the same data and so on, but there is really no other way for this right now.

    Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.

    All the best

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