Please Note that both below and on the right hand side you will find accordions. To open and close them, just click on the headings of anyone of the accordion toggles. The accordions below display the images of the form you need to fill out to create an open house, where the content of those fields go on any of your open houses and where those fields are located on your open houses. We have also given examples of what the light box looks like when people click on an image when viewing an open house, what your open house card looks like as well as what the search page looks like when people are doing searches for open Houses on Home to Castle. Almost everything you will find here is self explanatory, but some fields are not so obvious. after going through this help page, please feel free to also watch the short videos we’ve created on how to create an open house. Doing this will make creating your open houses an easy process.
Getting Started
Please use the corresponding accordion on the left hand side with the one below to learn how to create an open house.
1. Open House Address and/or Name – This is the title of your Open House and is not displayed on the front end. It is used to store your open house on Home to Castle and for you to easily find it when you might need to do edits to your open house. If you like, you can use the address in conjunction with something like the name of the owner of the property and so on if that makes it easier for you to find it if you need to make edits.
2. Heading – Please come up with a brief heading to catch the attention of potential buyers. Like any listings you create, This will be displayed at the top of your open house. To see an image of this, click on the accordion toggle to the left labeled Open House Field Locations which is right below the toggle titled Open House Form Fields.
3. Display Address – As with your listings, this displays below your heading and above your hero image. To see this, please click on the toggle to the left of this text labeled Open House Field Locations.
4. Open House Map Location – Please enter the address of your listing here. This will display on the map of your open house as well as on the search page map. to see an example of this, click on the toggles to the left labeled Open House Field Location and Open House Search Page.
5. Hero Image – This is the image that you will find displayed at the top of your open house right below your heading and display address. To see an image of this, click on the accordion toggle to the right labeled Open House Field Locations. the dimensions for your hero image is 1920px (wide) x 900px (tall).
6. Search Grid Header Image – This is the image that is displayed on your open house search card. When people are doing searches for an open house, in the search result grid is where your search card is located. To see an example of this, please click on the accordion toggles to the left labeled Open House Card Example and Open House Search Page. The dimensions for the search grid header image is 500px (wide) x 300px (tall).
7. Realtor Image – If you would like, please select an image of yourself to be displayed on your open house. this will be located on the top right hand side just above your contact information. To see an example of this, please click on the toggle to the left hand side labeled Open House Field Locations. The dimensions of your Realtor Image is 500px (wide) x 700px (tall).
8. Image Gallery – Please select between eight and forty images for your Gallery. This will display right below your hero image as a carousel slide show and viewers will have the option to click on any of these images to see and enlarged slide show in a light box. To see what the carousel looks like please click on the accordion toggle labeled Open House Field Locations and to see an example of what the slider looks like after someone clicks an image, please click on the accordion toggle labeled Light Box Slider Example. The dimensions for your gallery images is 500px (wide) x 300px (tall).
9. Neighbourhood – Please select the neighbourhood that your open house is situated in. If you can’t find the neighbourhood name here, please select other and put the neighbourhood name in the next field. We will add this neighbourhood to the list for the future.
10. Other Neighbourhood – If you can’t find the neighbourhood for your open house in the previous field labeled Neighbourhood, please select Other in that field and type in the name of your neighbourhood in this one. We will put that on your listing and make the necessary updates so it is now include it in the Neighbourhood field.
11. Square Footage – Please put in the square footage of your property here.
12. Property Class – Please select your listing’s property class from the drop down menu.
13. Property Type – Please select your listing’s property type from the drop down menu.
14. Property Style – Please select the property style from the drop down menu for your open house.
15. List Price – Please enter the list price of your property here.
16. Year Built – From the drop down menu, please select the year your property open house was built.
17. Email Address – Please enter your email address in this field.
18. phone Number – Please enter your contact phone number into this field.
19. Property Description – In 1,000 characters or less please enter a description of your open house. An easy way to fill this field out would be to copy and paste the description you gave it when you created your listing for Realtor.ca
20. Excerpt – In 120 characters or less, please enter an excerpt here. If you like, you can copy and past from your property description. It doesn’t matter how much text your select for it will automatically cut it off at 120 characters when you paste it into the expert field.
21. Bedrooms – From the drop down menu please select the number of bedrooms for your open house.
22. Bathrooms – From the drop down menu please select the number of bathrooms your open house has.
23. Parking – Please select the type of parking your open house has. If your open house has multiple types of parking you can make more than one selection. Please note that the default value for parking is No Parking. To remove this, just click the x that you will see in this field right in front of the the that says No Parking.
24. Basement – From the drop down menu please select the type of basement your open house has.
25. Basement Development – Please select the level of basement development your open house has from the drop down menu.
26. Date and Day – From the Calendar, please select the date of your open house. This will show up on the front end in the form of the date as well as the day.
27. Start Time – Please enter the start time of your open house here.
28. End time – Please enter the end time of your open house here.
29. Add Open House – After filling in all of the required fields, you can now click on the Add Open House Button. This can take 24 hours to display on the front end, but is usually posted within a few hours if it’s been submitted during our hours of operation which are 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on weekdays and between 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturdays (we’re closed on Sundays).
30. Help Bar – This is the help bar to help you create your open houses. Here you will find videos along with a link to this help page. If you haven’t already, please view the help videos to become more proficient at creating your open houses. This video will show you a step by step guide in creating a open house.