2023 Wrapped, ShowMojo Edition: A Recap of 2023’s Greatest Feature Releases
Ah, the beginning of the New Year.
The leftovers are gone and dumpsters are full of cardboard. There’s a mix of ambitious resolutions and post-holiday blues in the air.
We’re just past the time of year that music streaming companies like to roll out curations of all the data they’ve been tracking on you — Spotify Wrapped, and its copycats.
But we’ve got a different kind of recap. A recap that you can use, rather than one that shames you for your questionable audio entertainment choices. It’s a recap of all the new features that came to ShowMojo in 2023.
For fun, it’s divided into themes, represented by headers with musical references. And it’s going to go fast. So if there’s a feature you can’t believe you missed, don’t worry — there will be a link with more details.
Off we go.
Text Me Baby One More Time
Fun fact: The Writers Behind “Hit Me Baby One More Time”, thought “hit” was American slang for “call”.
But that was the late 90s, and this is 2024. Prospects want to text to get the information they need. And ShowMojo is always giving them new ways to do that. In 2023, we made two big steps in that direction:
- Two-Way Text Messaging in ShowMojo: Allows you to text message prospects using the ShowMojo mobile app and receive new message alerts right on your device.
- All Text-Based Showing Notifications: You can read more about this new feature but there’s nothing you need to do. Residents receive an additional link in their emails in which they can access their text-based showing notifications.
Nirvana for Your Calendar
When you’re managing property, a love-hate relationship with your calendar emerges. But two new launches this year tipped the scales in favor of calendar love:
- The New Calendar View: This view on your ShowMojo dashboard makes it easier to access and work with your calendar.
- Native Support for iCloud and CalDav: So you can integrate with Apple iCloud and other CalDAV-based calendaring systems.
Lease Me Up, Scotty
This is not a Star Trek reference. In fact, in No Episode or Film of Star Trek did anyone say “Beam me up, Scotty.”
But it is the title of a 2009 mixtape released by Nicki Minaj, so the musical theme of this post’s headers is fully intact. And while that may be a reach, this long series of leasing-related features released in 2023 is anything but:
- Two Not-So-Small Steps Toward Effortless Rental Applicant Processing: Enhanced control of automations for pulling credit reports and running background screens plus rental application categorization and filtering.
- The Bulk Update Bullet Train Beta: Updates on a selection of settings on individual listings, listing groups, or all of your listings at once.
- ShowMojo Flags the Leads That Need a Reply: The new leads filter on the ShowMojo Dashboard flags messages from leads that have asked a question that could be answered by a human.
- All Showings to One Agent: This new (optional) setting tells ShowMojo to keep each prospect assigned to the agent they initially communicated with. Worth a note: This is optional, because the last thing we’d do is lock you into any specific process.
- A Final Guard Against Self-Showing Fraud: With this new Phone Call Verification feature, which can be enabled and disabled listing-by-listing, you can require prospects to verify their presence at a self-showing via phone. Your team answers the call and completes the final screening.
- Scheduling for Short-Term Guests: A brand new set of short-term rental features that lets you enter and manage guest stays, communicate with guests via text and email, distribute access codes, and more.
Integrate Wide Open
When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released “Learning to Fly”, the first single from their album, “Into the Great Wide Open,” they probably didn’t see it as an anthem for ShowMojo’s push for property management software democratization. But here we are.
In 2023, we kept up our push for openness in property management software with two big integrations:
- The AppFolio Integration: ShowMojo is officially part of the AppFolio Stack™ Marketplace. That means never-before-seen integration capabilities that save time, improve scheduling, secure self-showings, automate prospect nurturing, and much more.
- The ShowMojo Entrata Integration: With the wall between ShowMojo and Entrata™ officially torn down, ShowMojo and Entrata™ users also get all of the features and benefits listed in the previous bullet.
Unlockin’ on Heaven’s Door
If you keep up with our blog posts, you already know about The Biggest New Product Introduction Fiasco Ever.
It’s about the new MojoLock G4. And we’d rather not talk about it yet. It’s a little traumatic. But you can Read the Details for Yourself.
What’s anything but traumatic, though, are the ways we made it easier and more secure for you, your prospects, residents, vendors, and visitors to open your properties’ doors this year:
- Up to Four Permanent Access Codes for Every MojoLock and Every MojoBox.
- New, Custom Access Codes for Residents.
And in case you missed it earlier, The MojoLock G3 Is Dead. Long Live the MojoLock G4.
What’s up Next?
As of now, the details are scant. But rest assured we are busy making new Leasing Automation music for the year to come. Whatever’s next, you can expect it to free up the time you spend in your business so you can spend more of that time on your business… or anywhere else you’d like.
Happy New Year from the ShowMojo Team!
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