I am redesigning a website, which will be built on WordPress, and require help with Web Site Integration to an Estate Agency CRM from Acquaint (Bright Logic) https://www.acquaintcrm.co.uk/default.aspx
Overview: The following document provides details of the interfaces available for displaying properties uploaded to the internet using Acquaint CRM.
1. XML Files downloaded from a hosted URL 2. XML Web Service 3. HTML Pages via Querystring/Form Post
Please note that once customer authorisation has been received a detailed specification will be made available to you.
1 XML Files
These are a pre generated XML files which are automatically created when customers add or change properties.
They are created at 15 minute intervals between 8am to 8pm and hosted on our servers.
Please note this feature needs to be enabled on a per client basis. If you require the XML files please contact us.
You would download the XML files and use them to populate your own local database. Your local database would then power your website.
If you are developing your web site using WordPress or Joomla there various 3rd party plugins available to process / import XML files.
2 XML Web Services
This is a very flexible means of obtaining data, however the technology does require programming skills to implement and a web development environment that allows the consumption of web services (e.g. ASP.NET, php)
The web services simply return XML data strings, leaving the display and processing completely up to the web developer.
Please note that you can either make a live connection from your web site to the web service, or use the web service to populate your own local database which then powers your web site.
If you are making a live connection then you should ensure that your code is able to trap for and process any errors returned by the web service. This could include the web service being off line for maintenance.
