FW Real Estate – Documentation

Editing two hundred prices in a web form is a day's work and a source of mistakes. In a spreadsheet it is ten minutes. The FWRE CSV Import/Export add-on is what makes a large portfolio maintainable at all — move properties in and out of the site as a plain spreadsheet file, edit in Excel or Google Sheets, and feed the file back in.

Use Cases

• Moving in. Bring an existing portfolio onto the site in one pass instead of typing each property.
• A price round. Export id and price, edit the column, re-import.
• Bulk edits of anything. Reassign an agent, restate areas, correct a town's spelling across every listing.
• A backup you can read. An export is a plain file you can open, keep, and check independently of the site.

Both the Export and Import tools live on FW Real Estate → Data Management.

Exporting

Choose the columns you want. You get one row per property, in the active data language. Every add-on you have enabled contributes its own columns — custom property fields, floor plan rooms, open house slots, and so on — so an export reflects the site you actually have, not a generic template.

Importing

The import file uses the same columns the export produces. Two rules govern everything:

• A row whose id already exists updates that property. An export → edit → import round trip is an update, not a duplicate.
• Only the columns present in the file are updated. Everything else on each property is left untouched.

That second rule is what makes partial work safe. Export just id and price, change the prices, import the file — nothing else on those properties is at risk.

Important Notes

• Export first, always — even when importing from an external source. The exported file is the definitive statement of what your columns are called and what the values look like on your site. Building an import file from it is faster than reading any format documentation.
• Take a backup before a large import. An import that updates the wrong column updates it everywhere, and there is no undo.
• Try five rows first. Import a small sample, inspect those properties on the site, then import the rest.
• Spreadsheets damage data quietly. Long reference numbers become scientific notation, and leading zeroes vanish from postcodes. Set those columns to Text format before editing and verify them after saving.
• The data language matters. An export carries the active language's values, and an import writes to it — switch to the correct language before running either operation.

To install this addon, open the Add-ons panel inside FW Real Estate. See Getting Started → Add-ons for details on free addons, paid addons, and site verification.