Introduction The BDP Checklist helps you ensure all your property listings are complete, accurate, and up-to-date. It’s designed for solicitor estate agents to quickly see which items are missing and keep listings compliant and attractive to potential buyers or renters. Tip: Completing your checklist fully can improve your property’s visibility and appeal on portals. Getting […]
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Failed Emails and Deferred Emails
Your administrator can set an email address to receive notifications of failed emails sent from BDP in Configuration. The information contained in the failed emails can be limited. This is generally to prevent bad actors improving their understanding of how to bypass security measures. Sometimes the emails may be deferred for a period of time […]
Placeholders for Matching Preamble
The placeholders below can be used in the preamble section in the Multi-Property Emails widget that “holds” the branded templates for Matching emails and the text. To expand each section, click the headings below.
Estimated Marketing Date
You can add an Estimated Marketing Date for a property in BDP, allowing automated email rules to trigger based on this date. To enable, an Administrator can: Navigate to Configuration > Configuration > Account Configuration widget. Enable the Estimated Marketing Date option. The Estimated Marketing Date option will appear in the left hand Tool when […]
Dynamically Display Images in MS Word
If you want Microsoft Word to fetch and display an image dynamically from a URL each time the document updates, follow these steps: Step-by-Step Instructions Open a MS Word document and save it, naming it as required. Where you want the image to appear in the MS Word document, press Ctrl + F9 to insert […]
Supporting HTML in email preambles
We have implemented some changes so that BDP better supports HTML in email preamble, having a consistent approach in the following widgets: Business Rules (automated emails) Email Templates Multi Property Email Property Detail Email The following table outline the HTML tags supported. HTML Trigger Event Target Example Preamble <div> A block-level container for other HTML […]
ESPC BLM WordPress Plugin
The ESPC-BLM WordPress plugin provides a simple way to list and format properties on your WordPress website. It uses the BLM property feed provided by ESPC to show properties currently active in your BDP account live, from the BLM file provided. “BLM” is a simple file format, quite similar to a CSV file, that is […]
BDP for Elementor
Form Action Types The BDP id should be inserted into the form as a hidden field. The ID is available in the post metadata as '_reference_number': Home Report Request Field names required: bdp_id – the bdp property id, as a hidden field in the form message – a free text message first_name last_name tel – […]
BDP for Contact Form 7 (CF7)
Install the plugin. This will be supplied to you in a zip file by BDP support. Once installed, future updates can be made through the WordPress Plugins dashboard. Configure the environments. The BDP-for-CF7 plugin requires that you define the BDP setup in a global variable, in wp-config.php. Add environments you would like to connect to […]
Setting up the BDP property ID with PropertyHive.
First of all, make sure that the bdp_id is available in the Contact Form 7 (CF7) definition as a hidden field: [hidden bdp_id default:shortcode_attr] This CF7 tag copies a bdp_id attribute from the CF7 shortcode into the form data. So the next step is to add the bdp_id attribute to the CF7 shortcode where the […]