Rating: 4 stars
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.
Rating: 3 stars
Great looking display. Support team needs improvement.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Rating: 5 stars
Our site is getting 10x the results since we moved to Showcsae IDX from IDX Broker in 2020. We had very little organic traffic in the past and very few of the clients we sent to the site actually used it. Is our site where we want it to be yet? No but it is getting better every month. There is no comparison if you’re looking at Showcase IDX versus IDX Broker or others. The modern way they deliver IDX data and the home search is incredible.
I’ve seen some agents complain about not getting results or wanting vanity features like sold data. Let me tell you, this plugin works if you do.
Consumers love it. Anyone that expects a $100/mo product to beat Zillow in Google search results without work doesn’t understand marketing in 2021. Hubspot, Mailchimp, Showcase IDX, Follow Up Boss, or any top marketing solution requires either you to do the work or you to invest in your business and pay someone to do the work. Success starts with the right tools and a good strategy.
Do the work and get superior results. Build community pages, invite past clients for listing alerts near their home, use a CRM like Follow Up Boss with it, and your business will grow.
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Showcase IDX excels at lead generation and providing a search that consumers actually want to use.
I was stuck with a website using IDX Broker for years because one of the big real estate website shops forced it as their “preferred” option. Not sure how a subdomain IDX plugin could ever be the best option. That IDX Broker website cost me two years of time and money.
Since moving to Showcase IDX, the result have been incredible. My clients no longer sign up and then go use Zillow for the rest of their search. 2021 will be a great year thanks to a new website developer and Showcase IDX.
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This plugin needs a lot of work… While it is the best WordPress IDX solution ive tried so far, there are many bugs and basic issues that need to be addressed. The support is pretty good though so I am able to get band aid fixes for all the major issues I’m running into. I have hope for Showcase for the future if they can get their stuff together. But I definitely expect more out of a plugin that costs $60/month…
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The product is ok when it works. My rentals are being shown as Single Family Homes currently, which is a big problem. I’m also very unhappy with their support. I’ve tried writing them, calling them… no luck.
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I was sold on the fact that I would get great SEO. After almost a year…nothing. Support seems to be going downhill as well. I’m going to try another solution.
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We have been using Showcase IDX for about three years. For the first two years our experience with the plugin was relatively positive; property feed data was mostly accurate and reported issues were addressed within a reasonable amount of time.
Within the last year, our experience has not been as favorable. Following are examples of issues reported to Showcase IDX Support:
1. Land being shown as Single Family Home – Reported 04 September 2019 – Problem not fixed.
2. All rentals being shown as Single Family Home – Reported 27 April 2020 – Problem not fixed.
3. Condos being shown as Townhouse – Reported 28 May 2020 – Problem not fixed.
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$100 a month for IDX, and I have to pay for my website and CRM separately. It just adds up to a lot of money. The IDX was ok. A little difficult to install, but I was able to get it to work.
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I was not impressed. I had problems with the integration and could not get help. I’m going to try out another provider.
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Create shortcodes that display a responsive display of real estate listings in a familiar UX. Each listing has information that I want, I don’t have to style anything. No sneaky subdomains or iframes. What more could you ask for? Truthfully, there aren’t many customizations for it, but there really isn’t anything better than this on the planet.
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The engine powering the best real estate websites. Our agency has built dozens of realtor websites over the past few years with another IDX platform. We kept hearing agents coming back from a few coaching workshops talk about Showcase IDX. Tried them and set up our first site in a fraction of the time. The way they bring in property information makes them the only organic IDX and will be great for google rankings. We’ll be moving over all of our clients to them as quickly as possible.
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I have experience with most the big IDX players. Showcase has the best user experience, easy to add properties to posts and pages, customizable and easy to use for both developers and agents doing their own marketing.
They also have flexible registration options to optimize lead acquisition. The premium content registration feature rivals other large websites.
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Showcase IDX provides a user-friendly search & powerful lead generation tools that seamlessly integrate into your website. For agents wanting a state-of-the-art real estate website that adds REAL VALUE for people in their community, Showcase IDX is an easy decision.
Showcase IDX’s clean, modern, and user-friendly search is unmatched with other IDX plugins.
Nothing less than 5 STARS working with the support team at Showcase IDX.
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Not great
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Used to be a fantastic plugin. Property data ceased to update when MLS was updated about 40 days ago. Photos and information would not update. Called Showcase, was reassured problem was with an API and would be corrected in two weeks. Three weeks later, problem still occurring, Showcase unresponsive to 18 calls and multiple email/chat attempts. Cancelling service. Buyer beware.
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Showcase IDX provides an SEO friendly IDX solution. As a web development agency owner, it is very important for me, and my clients to deliver an SEO friendly solution. It delivers everything you would need for an IDX solution and more!
My clients are realtors, they have a busy schedule. What’s important to me is how their clients work with them through their websites. Showcase IDX helped me provide them with solutions that are simple and help provide them maximum conversion throughout their sales cycle.
Before installing Showcase IDX the first time on a. clients website, I examined numerous solutions to be integrated with wordpress. I identified those solutions through the WordPress Repository, as well as examining HTML code on various websites for San Diego, CA realtors. And All I can tell you is that no solution even compares with what Showcase IDX offer. There is no way I would steer clients towards any other solution.
I collaborated with a couple support team agents, their reactivity through Live Chat, Email and Phone was first class. I’m very thankful for the information they were able to provide me at the time I needed it.
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I’ve worked with a few different brokers that provided a home search and they were just okay. Clients still used Zillow. We tried changing to IDX Broker but their support was horrible and their cheap plan is not useful.
We changed to Showcase and it’s been a completely different game. Support is available and made the change super simple. Our clients are actually using our site and our traffic is going up every month. After talking with one of their approved web designers it seems like there are some other things we can do to make the site even better and have more of a portal quality home search.
Glad we made the change.
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Our team moved over to Showcase IDX early last year. I can’t say enough good things about them. Polygon search and other property search are incredible and our Google rankings have continued to increase. My clients love it. Seeing much more referrals to. Would definitely recommend the plugin for any realtor or team websites. Best IDX WordPress plugin – great for SEO. So glad we’re not on IDX Broker anymore.
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Simplicity & Look – 5 Stars
Simply put, a non-developer can deploy absolutely beautiful IDX search functionality on their site in less than an hour. I have used many IDX plugins for WordPress, and nothing comes even close when it comes to simplicity and beautiful appearance.
Search Functionality – 4 Stars 5 Stars
I really want to give this 5 stars, because the search functionality is fantastic with nearly every item in the MLS feed searchable. The search function is also very fast. However, I have run into problems in the Austin market where Realtors need “Recently Sold” search functionality. For some, the lack of this feature is a complete deal breaker.
— EDIT: 7/9/2018 —
Although they still do not have a date for the implementation of “Recently Sold” property type I recently had a problem with a property being reclassified by MLS as a “Farm” causing it to disappear from listings. They rolled out a fix within 2 days to resolve this issue for me. The Showcase IDX developers going above and beyond to help make my customer happy brings this from a 4 star to a 5 star.
SEO – 4 Stars 5 Stars
For the most part, SEO is on-point. There are a few problems though. First, the lack of ALT tags for images hurts your listing’s SERP rankings considerably. I have tested the same website with both IDX Broker & Showcase IDX with same listing and Google is clearly preferring the IDX Broker listing. There are a few factors that could cause this. This is mostly a guessing game because Google does not publish their algorithm. But in my experience, the lack of ALT tags on 20 images on your main page does cause Google to prefer another site with similar content over yours.
— EDIT: 7/9/2018 —
They have fixed the ALT tags, and other SEO related problems. I am changing this part of my review to 5 stars. One thing I like the most about this company is their willingness to listen to their customers and fix problems.
Design Flexibility – 3 Stars
This is where the product lags behind other solutions the most. I have no idea why the developers chose not to use unique CSS classes and or CSS ID selectors in the design of their product, but it makes any style changes virtually impossible. There is a “Custom CSS” box in the control panel, but there is no default heretical preference to custom CSS so your styles will be overridden if you don’t have an !important flag. But with no ID selectors, this box is mostly useless anyway.
Support – 4 Stars 5 Stars
The support is mostly responsive with initial replies within 24 hours unless it’s a weekend. Staff is friendly and helpful. The support is nowhere near the level of terrible that is IDX Broker, but there is some room for improvement.
— EDIT: 7/9/2018 —
Recently the support has been more responsive, and they went above and beyond to fix a problem I had (see Search Functionality above,) so this is now also 5 stars.
Rating: 5 stars
I’ve been shopping a long time and have tried a lot of IDX products. With most of them out there, you usually don’t get the SEO value and you don’t own the website should you leave, making the set up cost of the website a waste. No set up cost here for an IDX solution is also great incentive in itself and should attract you to give a chance. While being a plug-in, you can with some tweaking achieve a very custom look on your website and achieve SEO value. I have not launched the new site yet since the dev team needs to look at some RETS mapping issues before I can, but this looks like a great product. I’m super stoked with the way our new site coming along. Customer service has been great. They really seem like they care about customer feedback.
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We support 4 different IDX options here at AgentFire.com and I can’t say enough good things about ShowcaseIDX (which I believe to be the best available WordPress IDX).
Simple to use (i.e. low bounce rates and high user engagement), great mapping with polygon search, search by schools, fantastic mobile responsive functionality, ‘login with facebook’, ultra-fast, mls updates every 10 minutes or less.. and they are always adding or updating functionalities.
Bugs are relatively non-existent, and their support is absolute top tier. Solid product and a solid team behind it.
My life is exceptionally better because ShowcaseIDX exists, and I mean that.
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As a developer with many years of using different IDX’s (Diverse Solutions, iHomefinder, etc.), I have to say Showcase IDX is by far my favorite and it is now the only IDX I recommend to my clients. Not only is it super easy to use, but the IDX is powerful and functions exactly how my clients need it. Visually, it is stunning and so much better than the other IDX’s. To top it off, customer service is top notch… I get most of my responses the same day! If you are looking for an IDX, I highly recommend Showcase.
Keep up the great work, Showcase.
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Plugs right in to my existing site design. Didn’t have to mess with things to get a great looking search. I love it, obviously! ??
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First, Yes – I’m a Realtor! I have experimented with too many IDX playgrounds! Finally, ShowcaseIDX blows the doors off, the roof off, knocks the ball out of the park! Staff is amazing, communication is fast and on point. I’m thrilled to be in my industry all over again with ShowcaseIDX and they just keep on rolling out improvements that make them not the top choice, but the only choice in my opinion.
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No income and commercial properties, propeties not displaying correctly on map.
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