Floorplan provider Metropix is developing a tablet-enabled app version.
The business, which won an ESTA for ‘best in sector’ in April and is part of the Daily Mail and General Trust, said it continues to the industry’s leading floorplan provider, with the number of plans it produces still growing.
However, it has confirmed that both Countrywide and Reeds Rains are no longer using the service and are instead using their own bespoke systems.
Rachel Brookes, product manager at Metropix, said: “As we reach our 10th anniversary this year we have seen how some agents change between using in-house systems and a floor planning service like Metropix.
“Both Countrywide and Reeds Rains are currently following an IT approach of in-house development; equally, we have seen clients try this in the past and return when they hit barriers such as staff training and/or increased expenditure.
“Many Reed Rains franchises who aren’t governed by their group IT are still choosing to use Metropix, which is a positive statement for our service.
“The most important thing for us at Metropix is to continue to support our customers and offer the best service we can. We have a development plan designed in response to the key changes our customers want to see and one of these new features will indeed be a tablet enabled version.”
Comments (7)
There are phone apps now that can do this for you by touching the wall in the middle, is reads the flat very well
Really! I have emailed them 3 times in as many years asking when they are going to get with it and provide us with a mobile app. The answer was always the same…we are on with it.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Metropix software is the easiest to use so long as they replicate the same on the app. Some of the free apps are fairly complicated/not easy to use on the hoof, when it comes to actually drawing.
We stopped using them a while back. I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a company in the last 10 years come up with a standalone piece of software as good as metropix, flog it to us all for say £250, make a quick buck and we would all be happy, and up approx £500 per year going forward.
Can i ask what you use now IndAgent?
Third party photographer who draws the plans too.
I agree ammik,
I like metropix, but has become dated and i think their charges need looking at considering there are free apps and sites now.
10 years ago it was amazing but it has stood still and there are now other offerings, we have kept with them as we are use to it but I think this story has spurred me into looking around today to look at other alternatives.
Anybody got a rough idea on development for an inhouse package? (probably eye watering!)
Nothing like not being innovative and ahead of the game to make you realise you’re missing out!