MRIS Announces Alliance with ShowingTime and its ShowingAssist Online Showing Management Service

CUSTOMERS OF MRIS – THE NATION'S LARGEST MLS WITH OVER $36B IN ANNUAL SALES – WILL BENEFIT FROM STREAMLINED APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING, CONFIRMATIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS

Chicago, IL – June 2, 2011—ShowingTime, the real estate industry's leading showing management technology provider, announced today that Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS), the largest MLS in the nation with 45,000 customers, has selected ShowingAssist to help customers manage showings directly through the MLS. The system is planned for implementation in the third quarter of 2011.

"ShowingAssist will give MRIS customers time-saving tools to schedule showings and get showings on their own listings," said MRIS Chief Marketing Officer John L. Heithaus, who noted that MRIS currently has approximately 80,000 active listings. "That will enable them to provide better service to buyers and sellers. ShowingAssist works with many of the other showing services and the SentriLock lockbox system to provide real time business intelligence to real estate professionals in the MRIS system," he added.

Using ShowingAssist, listing agents can post showing instructions and enter available hours on an interactive appointment calendar to indicate when a listing is available for showings; showing agents can request showings by clicking the "Schedule a Showing" button next to a listing. Showing notifications are routed instantly according to the listing agent's preferences. Agents can also carbon copy smart phones and receive automatic voice notifications so they are informed of showing activity while in the field.

Hundreds of offices in MRIS also use ShowingDesk Web Edition, ShowingTime's web-enabled front desk software. For them, showing requests made via the MLS download automatically into a "Task List" to facilitate prompt follow-up. ShowingDesk is the industry's most popular front desk software for managing showings.

"We are pleased MRIS has selected ShowingAssist to be part of its Gen M (next generation) of MLS tools," said ShowingTime Executive Vice President Michael Lane. "ShowingAssist removes some of the obstacles to showing a home, which can be very helpful especially during challenging economic times."

The ShowingTime Appointment Center, a service for offices that want to outsource showing tasks, is also available to MRIS agents and offices and works seamlessly with ShowingAssist. The Appointment Center provides fully or partially outsourced showing management services, a dedicated appointment center staff to fully confirm showings, and branded phone calls, as if the appointment center staff is in the subscriber's office.

About ShowingTime

ShowingTime equips real estate agents, brokers, offices, Associations and MLSs with tools to schedule showings, generate feedback and measure marketing effectiveness. Its products are used by more than 6,000 offices nationwide and integrated with more than 185 MLSs to manage more than 3 million showings every month. Visit http://www.showingtime.com for more information.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Tom Denk, ShowingTime, 312-568-8000 x130 [email protected].

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