We’ve been busy over here at RTV tooling away on our Fusion virtual tour software platform. Please review the video below for a list of our most significant updates that we’ve made to the system over the last few months. Get ready because we also have a few other tricks & surprises up our sleeves coming this summer. We are dedicated to ensuring that professional photographers using our platform dominate their market!
Fusion Manager Updates:
July 2020
Lightning Fire Storage Update – We have updated the way our media files are both stored and accessed across the cloud. The result has significantly improved the load time of our virtual tours and property sites. Have a look for yourself – https://tours.BlueLaVaMedia.com What were fast loading tours and property sites before, are now instantaneous. The resulting file structure is RTV’s Lightning Fire format, which we will be using moving forward as we continue to grow and build out the system.
June 2020
Syndication Control – When syndication is turned on in your tour options area, both your virtual tours and property websites syndicate out to your gallery pages, your RSS feeds, and your embeddable maps. By default, both the property sites and tours are available in these areas of Fusion. You are now able to syndicate ONLY your property websites, virtual tours, or both your property websites and virtual tours using the syndication settings area of your virtual tour manager. For example, if you would like your gallery pages to populate only with your property sites, you can turn off virtual tours, and your gallery pages will only display property websites. This is very helpful for those using the RSS feeds, the Hot Sheet code, and marketing the new gallery pages.
New Reseller Forms – We have updated the RTV Reseller forms. They’re now fully responsive, and they don’t look like a reseller form! Example – https://manage.realtourvision.com/trialform/13/form These are perfect to use on social media sites, and you can also embed them into any website knowing they are 100% responsive and mobile-friendly. The reseller section can be found in the settings area. You can easily access your commissions and referred customers from this section too. Did you know that RTV pays out 20% on tour credit sales when you bring a photographer over to RTV? Ask about our lifetime commission reseller program.
May 2020
Audio Automation – With over 300 royalty-free tracks for you to choose from, putting a few music tracks on each of your tours was starting to take up far too much time. Our system now allows you to favorite as many music tracks as you like, and it will automatically add some of your favorite tracks to your tours and property sites for you each time you create a project.
Music Track Sorter/Favorites – We’ve completely overhauled our music area. RTV Radio and background music have merged into one section. Best of all, we are letting you toss the tracks you hate to the bottom of your list, and with a single click, you can now “Star” or favorite clips and send them directly to the top of your list. After you identify and “Star” your favorite music tracks, our system will even randomly and automatically place these on your projects for you!
Social Media & About Us Profile – We thought that our new gallery pages looked a bit naked, so we dressed them up by adding new fields in our database to support company biography for yourself and your customers as well as social media profiles. Check it out http://tours.bluelavamedia.com/mypage/31185 You can add in this new information for your company and your customers by clicking on the ‘profile’ section under settings.
MyPage/Tour Gallery Redesign – With the new RTV property websites rocking the scene and gaining in popularity around the world, it was time to give our gallery pages a facelift. We’ve updated agent, broker, owner and customer gallery pages, and they look amazing. We encourage all of you to update your user profile under settings to take advantage of the new about us and social media fields.
FusionSite Global Defaults – With so many options on our FusionSite property websites we made the turning on and off of features very easy for you to apply. We made it as easy to use and efficient as the Tour Options global defaults. Any changes that you need to one customer’s property sites or all of your property websites are just a few clicks away.
April 2020
Tour Options Global Defaults – We know that SO many of you dreaded the tour options (formerly buttons) section. Any company-wide change to your virtual tours was a manual effort and took a considerable amount of time. This meant a LOT of time clicking and saving on customers and updating old tours. Say goodbye to all of this with our new Global Defaults for your Tour Options. Now, any change that you would like to make can be applied to thousands of virtual tours and property sites with just a few clicks.
New Settings Area – As we strive to make the Fusion system easier and faster to navigate, we have decided to move all of the “Settings” related sections into one area. Our new settings area makes looking for things much faster, and if you’re setting up a back-office admin or training your customers on how to use your client portal, this new design makes it much quicker to use and easier to learn.
Smart Deliverables – Not having to spend thirty seconds flipping switches before you send your images and delivery links to your customer is something that we’ve wanted to update for quite some time now. We’re happy to report that our new Smart Deliverables allows for just that. Each of your customers will automatically pick up your settings unless you explicitly change that user’s settings. This even includes the image resize dimensions and type of resizing that you do. It should be called our Genius Deliverables section! For those of you that do three thousand productions a year, a 30-second savings of time is a total savings of twenty-five hours. WOW, enjoy the vacation team!
Auto-Affiliate – Do you set your company logo (.png file) as an affiliate on every virtual tour or property website that you create? If not, you should be! You’re losing your word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing if you’re not minimally doing this. We’ve made it very easy to add your affiliate to your productions now with our new automatic Affiliate feature that you’ll find in your Affiliate section under Settings. You’ll never forget to add your branding to your productions again!
March 2020
Animated Walkthrough Hot Spots – Several customers have been asking for updated Hot Spots. Admittedly, it’s been quite some time since we added any new ones. As of March, we now have six new animated hot spots for you to choose from. Thanks, Jake! They have all been designed with walkthrough style virtual tours in mind. They’re attractive, scalable, easy to see, and not overpowering on the images. You can see a couple in action in the RTV Demo Tour here – http://fusion.realtourvision.com/31741
Improved Hot Spot Editor – 360 Walkthrough style virtual tours are on the rise so making sure our customers can quickly upload imagery from virtual tour cameras like the Theta Z1 and others is on the top on our list. Recent updates to our Hot Spot Editor make it much easier to add in Hot Spots and link rooms together. The new system even has an option to automatically insert a reverse hot spot for you as you build your tour, cutting your Hot Spot placement time in half!
Tour Player Updates:
July 2020
ADA Compliant Tour – If you’re not familiar with ADA, you should take a few minutes to educate yourself on the subject. You can do that here https://adata.org/learn-about-ada Being in compliance with ADA is becoming more and more important and especially so in the hospitality, rental, and medical industries. If you create virtual tours in any of these spaces, you’ll more than likely want to mention ADA compliance to your customer. It could mean the difference between you getting the bid or not. To enable ADA, click on tour options and switch ADA to on. To our knowledge, no other virtual tour technology offers an ADA solution. Enjoy the leg up on the competition!
FusionSite Updates:
April 2020
FusionSite Lead Capture – RTV’s popular lead capture options for virtual tours are now also programmed into our FusionSite property website maker. To turn on lead capture, click on “FusionSite” from your menu and turn it on. It’s literally that easy! When the form is filled out the lead goes directly to the property website agent or owner.
Stay tuned for more exciting news from RTV!
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