Post a listing to Instagram and LinkedIn

You can post any of your agency's listings to your own Instagram and LinkedIn. Fondaro prepares the post from the listing: the photo slides with the price, the place and your agency, and a caption written from the listing's own description. You check it, change the caption if you like, and publish it or schedule it. Nothing is posted until you press Publish now or Schedule.

Before you start

Connect the account you want to post from: open Settings › Me › Inboxes and select Connect Instagram or Connect LinkedIn. You post from your own account; each person connects their own. See Connected inboxes.

The listing needs a price, a town, public photos and your agency's name in your branding.

Post a listing

1. Open the listing and choose Post, then Instagram or LinkedIn.
2. Fondaro prepares the post:
   • Instagram feed post: the listing's cover photo as a slide, with a caption. Instagram posts go out as one image for now.
   • Instagram story: one full-screen slide, led by a different photo from the feed post.
   • LinkedIn post: up to four photo slides, a caption and the link to the listing on your website. Choose to post as yourself or as a company page you manage.
3. Read the caption and change it if you like. It is written in your agency's language from the listing's own description, with the price, the town and the bedrooms.
4. Choose Publish now, or Schedule and pick a day and time.

Once it is out, the post shows Published with a link to it on Instagram or LinkedIn. The listing's Activity shows its likes and comments, and on LinkedIn how many people saw it.

Drafts that wait for you

When one of your listings goes live, or its price changes, Fondaro prepares a post on your connected Instagram and LinkedIn and puts it in your Inbox, under the posts. A price change leads the caption with the old and the new price. These drafts wait for you: open one to check it, then publish, schedule or discard it.

You can also ask for one in Ask Fondaro, for example "post FDR-1234 to my Instagram tomorrow at 6pm". The assistant prepares the post as a card; nothing is posted until you approve it, and approving publishes it or keeps it for the time on the card.

Scheduled and published posts

Scheduled and published posts show on your Calendar at the time they go out. A scheduled post goes out within five minutes of its time. Until then you can change the caption, move it back to a draft or discard it.

If your account stops working before a post goes out, the post shows Reconnect instead of failing quietly. Reconnect the account from the post or from Settings › Me › Inboxes, then publish it again.

Comments that are enquiries

A comment under your post such as "price?" or "is it still available?" is often a buyer's first word. Fondaro reads the comments on your posts from the last two weeks, about once an hour:

• A comment from someone you already linked to a lead appears on that lead.
• A comment that is about the home appears in your Inbox as a new enquiry. From there you can Reply under the comment, or message them directly.
• Any other comment is left on Instagram or LinkedIn and is not kept in Fondaro.

Your own comments are never counted.