SMS

BDP can send automated one-way SMS messages via the rules engine and replies are not supported. Your from name must be less than 11 alpha-numeric characters which we need to set-up for you. Please contact us first to activate SMS in your account. Let’s now look at how to add an SMS message rule. In […]

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Email templates – adding Applicant and Vendor placeholders

Applicant placeholders. The Applicant details can be retrieved by prefixing available fields with aContact. For example

will insert the group salutation of the contact. The contact group can be drilled-down into. For example:

will retrieve the email address of the primary contact. Available fields for retrieval are: salutation Contents of the Salutation box if […]

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Multi-property email

When matching properties to an Applicant, it is highly likely that there will be several properties matching their criteria. In this instance you will use the Multi-Property email template to email the details of all matching properties to the applicant. The default template uses the logo you uploaded to the Branding > Logo and Colours widget. This […]

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Creating a new template-based document

Once you have created a set of templates and fee parts if required, creating a new document based on any of your templates is very straightforward. In the Property Detail screen, open the Document Store widget by clicking on the heading if it’s not open already. Adding a document based on an existing template Click […]

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Document manager overview

The document manager facility in BDP is a powerful document creation engine that is designed to Use MS Word document templates to pre-populate new documents with data held in BDP Create PDF versions of documents with one click Allow fees to be listed and totaled within the document Allow uploading of non-BDP generated documents to […]

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Customising templates – Variables

Variables can be placed in templates using the syntax {{ variable name }}. Basic true or fasle boolean can be used in the form {{ mbDBool (variable name) ? some content to appear when variable is true [[ some variable name ]] }} or {{ mbDBool !(variable name) ? some content to appear when variable […]

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URL Querystring parameters for API and JS plugin

The listings returned by BDP can be controlled via the URL (web address) parameters of the page called. This is referred to as a Search Query and takes the form outlined below. This enables you to have a menu on your website that could be, for example, linking to properties by area, properties by price […]

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Homepage appearance

The BDP output to your website homepage, or the page that you choose to embed the BDP snippet into to output the homepage-style content, can be totally customised to suit your design. There are a number of different elements that can be output to this page, all individually called via a <div> in the appropriate […]

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