Showcase IDX Real Estate Search & Lead Capture

Description

THE MLS SEARCH PLUGIN THAT HELPS YOU GET MORE CLIENTS

Showcase IDX is the leading platform for real estate search and consumer engagement. Our powerful combination of listing-portal-quality real estate search and lead capture tools help agents, teams, and brokers stand out among their competitors and grow their brand. This top-performing MLS search plugin is SEO-friendly, mobile-responsive, and fully integrated with WordPress.

Start your free 10-day trial—without a credit card or setup fee!

Everything a Real Estate Agent Needs on Their WordPress Website:

USER-FRIENDLY REAL ESTATE SEARCH

Upgrade your WordPress website with portal-quality MLS search capabilities that delight both buyers and sellers. Unlike with other real estate listing plugins, your website visitors can find listings across multiple MLS feeds and enjoy the quickest and most user-friendly real estate search experience available.

WIDGETS AND SHORTCODES

Easily add property search, maps, and galleries anywhere on your site using shortcodes—no complicated coding is required!.

CAPTURE LEADS

Prominent calls-to-action turn visitors into leads. Customize where, how, and when visitors are prompted to register for new listings that meet their search criteria. And since they can sign in using their social media account, you’ll get leads with accurate contact information.

GET HELP TURNING LEADS INTO CLIENTS

No more missed opportunities! Our IDX WordPress plugin is equipped with drip emails that feature new listings, status changes, and price changes to listings that fit the criteria of the search that a lead is subscribed to. Have a past client? Set up a search for them for listings in their area.

LIVE SUPPORT FOR QUICK & EASY RESOLUTIONS

Get one-on-one help when you need it. We’re here to give tips on how to get more clients with our plugin and answer any technical questions you might have during and after installation.

SEO THAT WORKS

Our customers see an increase of 79% in Google traffic, on average. Thanks to server prerendering, we’re uniquely equipped to ensure Google sees all your content (including listings) as fully being part of your website. As a result, your site’s SEO performance will get a significant boost that no other IDX plugin can offer.

MLS SEARCH THAT’S EASY TO ADD & EASY TO USE

Showcase IDX will enable your leads and clients to browse listings with lightning-fast response times using the fully integrated map-based search. And In addition to price and bedroom and bathroom count, they can even drill down to look for detailed MLS search features (such as square footage and amenities)—quickly, easily, and without ever feeling overwhelmed.

STATE-OF-THE-ART MAPPING TOOLS

With Showcase IDX, you get the #1 polygon search available for real estate websites and the only IDX plugin that allows for multiple polygon search. Your website visitors will benefit from unparalleled precision and customization options when searching for listings.

SHOWCASE EXPERTISE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD PAGES

No other agent knows your local market like you. Prove it with neighborhood and community pages showing listings matching your predefined search criteria—location, price, keyword, and more.

REVIEWS: DON’T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT

“Since switching to Showcase, my bounce rate is down 20%, time spent on my site has doubled, and most importantly I am getting 4x more registrations on my site.” – Will Rogers, Alper Real Estate Group

“Best IDX plugin by far! Showcase IDX is now the only IDX I recommend to my clients. Visually, it is stunning and so much better than the other IDXs. To top it off, customer service is top notch.” – Sinoun Chea, ShiftWeb Solutions

“Converts website leads at a high level. Showcase IDX is leading the way in the world of WordPress IDX solutions. Clients love utilizing the Showcase IDX product with original features not found in any other product.” – Wayne Stratton, Wayne Stratton Consulting

FREE TRIAL—NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED

Take a closer look at Showcase IDX (without a credit card, startup fee, or commitment): Start your free 10-day trial today! Want to learn more first? Visit ShowcaseIDX.com to get more details or chat with a member of our U.S.-based support team.

Screenshots

Installation

1. Sign up for an account at Showcase IDX.
2. Once you have an account with Showcase IDX, we will go through a paperless MLS confirmation process to confirm your valid MLS membership.
3. After validating your MLS membership, you will receive a welcome email with instructions on how to download, install, and validate your Showcase IDX plugin.

Installing in WordPress:
1. The simplest way to install is to click on ‘Plugins’, then ‘Add New’, and type ‘Showcase IDX’ in the search field. Navigate to our page and click ‘Install Now’. WordPress will handle the rest.
2. You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully. Click the ‘Activate Plugin’ link.
3. Navigate to ‘Showcase IDX’ which can be found near the bottom of the left navigation in your WordPress dashboard.
4. Click the button to activate your site.
5. You can now set up your default search page and start using our shortcodes to add hotsheets and other widgets to your site.
6. Sign up for an account at Showcase IDX. Once you have an account, we’ll again go through a paperless MLS confirmation process.
7. After we’ve validated your MLS membership, we’ll send you a welcome email with instructions to activate your Showcase IDX.

FAQ

What Happens When I Sign Up?

Step 1: Sign the HelloSign Agreement in Your Inbox
You’ll get an email with a link to an e-signature request for the MLS(s) you’ve requested access to. Please be sure to read and review your documentation completely, as there may be additional requirements needing your action on the first few pages of the agreement.

Step 2: Meanwhile, Familiarize Yourself with the Product
Check things out while you’re waiting for MLS approval! We’ll give you login credentials, allowing you to install the plugin and access demo data for 10 days. If it takes longer than 10 days to receive your signature or for the MLS to approve your application, you can request an extension of the demo data.

Step 3: We’ll Let You Know When Your Trial Has Started
Once you’ve been approved by the MLS, we will notify you via email that the 10-day trial, with live data, has officially begun.

Step 4: Follow the “5 Steps to Success Checklist”
To help you set up your IDX, our team will send you the “5 Steps to Success Checklist” via email. We’re here to help! If any questions come up during installation or setup, email us or call us at 1-800-478-0181.

Do You Have Setup Fees or Contracts?

There are no setup fees or long-term contracts with Showcase IDX. We have monthly and yearly plans. For more information and pricing, check out our pricing page

How is the IDX content hosted?

Feel confident knowing that we’re built on the cloud platform that powers Google, Spotify, and Paypal, with 100k miles of fiber optic cable powering your IDX solution.

How frequently is the property data updated?

For most MLSs, the Showcase IDX engine automatically checks for updates every 5 minutes or less.

Will my site get SEO credit for IDX listings?

Absolutely. We integrate deeply with WordPress on your site to create 100% search engine indexible content. Our IDX WordPress plugin turns your website and marketing into a living platform, with drip emails to clients with new listings, continually updated hot sheets and detailed listing pages. Showcase IDX NEVER uses a subdomain (e.g. search.yourwebsite.com) or iframe.

Is my MLS available?

Read more about our MLS coverage. Please note that some MLSs may charge you a separate fee for access to your IDX feed.

What CRMs do you integrate with?

You can use real-time Showcase IDX lead data to capture and distribute contact information without having to manually add it, trigger marketing automations, and keep close track of their activity on your website. Key integrations include LionDesk, Follow Up Boss, Prospect Converter and 1000s of apps with Zapier to automate your work and find productivity super powers.

What if I don’t have a website designer?

If you’re familiar with WordPress and how to update a theme, you can easily get started today. You can also find a list of approved website developers on our site here.

Where can I learn more about the features and pricing?

Please visit the Showcase IDX website for the latest news and information. Search & Results. Listing Pages. Mapping IDX. CRM Tools.

Reviews

Basically decent, own CDN is good

ashf May 11, 2024

It’s fine, it has basic features needed and fast. Not so flexible in design especially for the property detail page.But it’s ok, not critical. Other popular IDX plugins are a not so flexible also.Showcase IDX has own CDN to serve images which is one of its advantage. Since CRMLS blocks access from outside of the US, an IDX that has own CDN was only solution and required for us. iHomeFinder was not able to help it since they don’t have own CDN.Only thing I wish to Showcase IDX is that if it were translatable.

Good product, compared to what’s out there

TeamVMG April 12, 2024

Great looking display. Support team needs improvement.

Best Looking IDX

realtor September 26, 2023

Easiest and by far the best looking IDX that is out there. Support can be a little better, but the product speaks for itself. Glad to have my developer quickly integrate ShowcaseIDX onto my site. About the same pricing as other IDXs and would recommend every time.

Slow plugin with bad support

wyattsarmasagdesign October 26, 2021

I’ve had nothing but issues with Showcase IDX. The plugin caused issues with the load time on my website. I’ve tried everything (caching, removing other plugins), but it doesn’t help. Support, while nice, is really slow and not helpful.

Simply works and no subdomains

floridatopreal March 2, 2021

This plugin just works. I’ve tried IDX Broker, ihomefinder, and wolfnet and all of them have data issues. Good luck if you ever want to talk with support at one of those companies. It’s been a few months since my move to showcase. There have been a few minor glitches but the transparency from the team has been great and they’ve been small. and my clients actually use my website now

Lack of Features, Bad Support, Lots of Glitches

sebaskimdesign February 5, 2021 1 reply

Could not recommend this IDX, they have promised features over 4 years ago (when they still offered the old version of the IDX) that still have not been delivered as part of the new showcase IDX. Furthermore when you contact support they are not very responsive, they take DAYS to reply if you even get a reply. Their Facebook group doest not allow new posts as they control everything that is posted there and of course they only allow positive feedback be posted, they don’t approve questions or feedback on their product. They said with EXP Holdings acquiring the company it will get better but so far nothing and it has been many many months… Now EXP holdings have access to the leads of every single realtor that ever signed up for showcase IDX.. wow what a conflict, reminds me when Zillow acquired Diverse Solutions (which didn’t last long and zillow had to dump it because of all the negativity and pushback around it). Lastly, the Australian CEO of showcase IDX is arrogant, one time he said he is going on holiday, not to bother him that he needs to rest and doesn’t care… instead of telling customers to work with the rest of his team. I get people need to rest and take holidays but that is not way to communicate with your customers. Do yourself a favor and go with another IDX… Oh, did I mention for SEO purposes showcase IDX lacks a lot as well. The one thing is nice about this IDX is the design and layout, that is pretty much all they have. Full Disclosure: I am an SEO expert and have built websites that rank #1 in Google competing with Zillow, Realtor, Redfin and so forth. Trust me, this plugin is not good for SEO.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.2.12

• Performance enhancements.
• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.6.

3.2.11

• Improve documentation formatting and fix links.

3.2.10

• Update readme.txt for plugin description.

3.2.9

• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.4.

3.2.8

• Fixed warning message.

3.2.7

• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.3.

3.2.6

• Enhancing the error handling capabilities for listings, further aligning with SEO best practices.

3.2.5

• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.2.
• Addresses a PHP issue that occurred for some sites when installing the IDX plugin on PHP 8.

3.2.4

• Fixed an Elementor theme conflict.

3.2.3

• New Map Display – Take advantage of Showcase IDX’s new side-by-side map display option on all Premium Accounts!
• WordPress 6 made changes to how plugins can build custom pages. It introduced a new and better way, however, it caused our existing solution to throw a 404. While listing pages loaded without issue on sites, there was an underlying 404 and affecting Google results. As a temporary fix, we force a 200 status when we render the search page.
• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.1.1.

3.2.2

• Corrected PHP 8 issue during plugin activation.

3.2.1

• Added shortcode for a mortgage calculator widget.

3.2.0

• Added compatibility with WordPress 6.0.

3.1.8

• Tested with latest WordPress.

3.1.7

• Improve SEO compatibility with Yoast and Jetpack so that they use our SEO metadata for listing pages.

3.1.6

• Add support for new showcaseidx_nav attributes to control what items are included.

3.1.5

• Fix bug caused by AdvancedPostCache (built-in to WordPress.com) which caused the search page to display the home page instead.

3.1.4

• Fix compatibility with WordPress 5.5 when WP is configured with certain permalink structures.

3.1.2

• Tested with WordPress 5.5
• Improved error handling.

3.1.1

• New Javascript loading engine reduces plugin incompatibilities.
• Improved SEO compatibility with latest WordPress API (fixes bug with duplicate titles for Yoast users).
• Sign up for Showcase IDX directly within the plugin admin.

3.0.46

• Addressed spelling error on error page.

3.0.45

• Updates to error page when plugin subscription is in a revoked status.

3.0.44

• Removing images not relevant to plugin

3.0.43

• Ensuring compatibility with WordPress 5.1
• Updates to Readme
• Screenshots added

3.0.42

• Showcase widget added in admin dashboard.
• Showcase dropdown added into wordpress menu bar.

3.0.41

• Add new shortcode for search results count widget.

3.0.40

• Fix issue with duplicate open graph tags when used with Yoast.

3.0.39

• Update plugin read me text.

3.0.38

• Bug fix

3.0.37

• Fix bug with canonical tags

3.0.36

• Add canonical tags for Yoast on Listing Details Pages.

3.0.35

• Add shortcode for a nav widget

3.0.34

• Properly render as a 500 error when the plugin fails to load.

3.0.33

• Fix nested sitemap index error.

3.0.32

• Update the Tested up to, to signify that this plugin works on the latest version of WP.

3.0.23-3.0.31

• Bug fixes

3.0.22

• Text change

3.0.20

• Add ability to reset plugin

3.0.19

• Bug fixes

3.0.17-3.0.18

• Add new short code options

3.0.10-3.0.16

• Bug fixes

3.0.9

• Fix problems with menus and other widgets on the default search page

3.0.7-3.0.8

• Improve the plugin activation process
• Misc Bug Fixes

3.0.5-3.0.6

• Bug Fixes

3.0.4

• Fixes social sharing tags for 3.0

3.0.3

• Bug fixes for users upgrading from 2.0

3.0.2

• Bug fixes

3.0.1

• Bug fixes

3.0.0

• 3.0 is live!
• New Customers: You can sign up for an account now at https://showcaseidx.com/pricing/
• Existing Customers: This plugin will continue to work with the previous product (2.0), so you don’t need to do a thing. If you want to move to the new 3.0 product, we will be emailing you information on the upgrade process and one of our upgrade concierges will reach out to you soon.

2.7.12

• 3.0 launches Tuesday, May 30th!

2.7.11

• Bug fixes

2.7.10

• Fix for improperly-configured HTTPS sites.
• Support PHP versions with short open tags disabled.
• Better handling of multiple widgets on the same page.

2.7.9

• Note: The minimum version of PHP required is now 5.3. We check for this on plugin activation.
• Fix for hotsheets when multiple widgets are used on the same page

2.7.8

• Fix a small security hole

2.7.7

• Allow nested URLs for the default search page.
• Fix up SEO pages for certain MLSs.

2.7.6

• Tested on WP 4.3 and higher
• Updated admin UI
• Removed the disable routing option. This will make all search results pages use your page template as intended.
• Listing limit support on slideshow widgets
• API Key check performs better when the Showcase IDX service is unreachable.
• Implements an XML sitemap index, which will fix timeouts and errors for MLSs with large numbers of listings. You do not have to make any changes.

2.6.4

• Fix a bug where certain pages would unexpectedly show the search results.
• Slideshow widget [showcaseidx_widget_slideshow name=”XXX”]
• Fix for servers with outdated versions of OpenSSL
• Fix some shortcode attributes not pulling through
• Allow more shortcode attributes

2.5.0

• Contact form and new listings widgets

2.4.0

• Use SSL for increased security
• Last updated widget

2.3.3

• Don’t encode canonical URL
• Omnibox widget
• New SEO implementation

2.2.3

• Tested on WP 4.0
• Register and Login shortcodes: [showcaseidx_widget_register] and [showcaseidx_widget_login]
• SEO fix for Apache
• Add option to disable router for main search
• Fix custom hotsheets with quote characters

2.1.9

• Support Yoast SEO plugin with canonical URLs
• Fix SEO for certain WordPress installs
• Fix SEO listings for some MLSes
• Use SSL for API calls
• WordPress 3.9 compatibility
• Fix for network timeouts
• hide_map and hide_search for hotsheets
• Improved SEO

2.0.0

• Complete upgrade of Showcase IDX
• Added responsive templating and mobile versions
• Upgraded search to ElasticSearch
• Redesigned search and agent admin interface

1.4.0

• Initial public version of Showcase IDX.