FW Real Estate – Documentation

The Property Manager add-on gives agents a front-office: they add and edit their own properties and handle their own enquiries, without an administrator account and without ever seeing the site's admin panel.

This is what makes a multi-agent site maintainable. Without it, every listing change goes through whoever holds the admin login — a bottleneck on a good day and a reason listings go stale on a bad one.

Use Cases

• A branch office. Each agent maintains their own stock; the administrator reviews rather than types.
• Landlords or developers submitting listings. Give them an account and they enter their own properties, on your form, with your required fields.
• Enquiries answered by the person who knows the property. Each agent sees the enquiries on their own listings, not the whole site's inbox.

Requirement

Property Manager requires the Agents add-on. Property Manager gives agents a place to work; Agents is what makes them agents in the first place.

What the Agent Gets

Agents access their account area through a User Section menu item. Three sections are available to them:

• My Properties — their own listings, with the ability to add, edit, and delete.
• Property Editor — the property form itself, rendered on the front end.
• My Enquiries — the enquiries submitted on their properties.

One Form, Everywhere

The front-end property form is the same form as the admin one. It renders from the same definition, so every field that any add-on contributes to the admin property form appears on the front end too — Property Fields' valuation tab, Floor Plans' room entries, your own custom fields. There is no second form to maintain and no field that exists in one place but not the other.

Settings

Settings are found under Configuration → Add-ons → Property Manager.

• Email the admin about a new submission — notifies you when an agent submits a property.
• New-property notification — subject and body — controls the content of that notification email.
• Agent search-match email — subject and body — controls the email an agent receives when a new property matches a search they have saved.

Review Before Publishing

A property submitted by an agent still obeys the site's own publishing rules, so submissions can be held for review before they go live. Combined with the new-submission email, this gives you a real workflow: the agent works when it suits them, you approve when it suits you.

Notes

• Agents only ever see their own properties and their own enquiries. Each section is scoped to the signed-in agent, and signing in is required to reach any of it.
• Required fields apply on the front end too. If a field is required in Configuration, an agent cannot submit without it — the rules live with the field, not with the screen.
• Uploaded photos go through the same image pipeline as admin uploads, so an agent's phone photo is resized and processed like everything else.
• Disabling the add-on removes the agent's account sections. Their properties remain on the site and stay editable in the admin panel.

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.