CT Automated Home Valuations

Our CT Automated Home Valuation WordPress plugin is a must-have tool for real estate agents and brokers seeking to maximize conversions of home seller leads. This innovative plugin provides instant and personalized home valuations by utilizing up-to-date local market data.

Plugin Install

1. Login to your WordPress Admin
2. Go to Plugins > Add New
3. Upload the zip file you downloaded from your Account Dashboard > Downloads panel
4. Activate the plugin

Plugin License

1. Login to your Account Dashboard
2. Go to License Keys > find CT Automated Home Valuations
3. Copy your License Key
4. Navigate back to your site’s WordPress Admin > Settings > CT Valuations
5. Paste your License Key > Save Changes
6. Click Activate License

Configuring the Settings

The CT Automated Home Valuations plugin includes a few settings that need to be configured.

1. Login to your WordPress Admin
2. Go to Settings > CT Valuations
3. In the General tab > Add your API Key, it’s available in Account Dashboard > License Keys > find CT Automated Home Valuations > API Key
4. Still under General > Add your Google Maps API key, see Google Maps to create one or copy the same one from your Real Estate 7 Options > Google Maps panel
5. Configure your email information and email content
6. Save Changes, and you’re all set to start using the module in your pages

Email Template Examples

• New Valuation Notification Email Template
• Lead Email Template

To use the email template examples:

1. Follow the link to copy the HTML code
2. Navigate back to your site’s admin > Settings > CT Valuations
3. Find the corresponding template > click the “Text” tab (screenshot)
4. Paste the HTML code
5. Click the “Visual” tab (screenshot) and edit however you see fit

Zapier

To connect the CT Automated Home Valuations plugin to any application supported by Zapier using a Webhook URL and push valuation data, follow these steps.

1. Log into your Zapier account and create a new Zap
2. For the trigger, select “Webhooks by Zapier”
3. For the event, select “Catch Hook”
4. Click continue twice until you get to “Your Webhook URL”, copy it
5. Go to your WordPress Admin > Settings > CT Valuations > General > paste into “Zapier Webhook URL” > Save Settings
6. Go to the page where you have inserted the CT Home Valuations Elementor module or shortcode, and run a valuation test
7. Go back to Zapier > click Test Trigger, confirm you see the data you just submitted
8. Continue to set up your Action, and finalize your new Zap

Adding the Valuations Module to Your Page

Two options for adding the CT Automated Home Valuations module to your page:

Elementor

1. Login to your WordPress Admin
2. Go to Pages
3. Add New or Find the page you’d like to add the module to
4. Click “Edit with Elementor”
5. In the left side panel > scroll to “Real Estate 7” then find CT Home Valuations or search for “Home Valuation”
6. Drag the module into your page and configure the settings
7. Publish your page

Shortcode

1. Login to your WordPress Admin
2. Go to Pages
3. Add New or Find the page you’d like to add the shortcode to
4. Paste the following shortcode into the page content

   [ct_hvp search_placeholder="Enter your home address" required_name="1" required_email="1" required_phone="0" accent_color="#03b5c3"]

5. Attributes:
   • Search Placeholder: This refers to the default text that appears in the address search field
   • Name, Email, and Phone Fields: These fields have two options. When set to “1”, it means the field must be filled in; when set to “0”, the field is optional
   • Accent Color: Change the hex code to align with your website’s branding & color scheme
6. Publish your page

Wrapping a Shortcode with a Background Color and Border Radius

To enhance the appearance of your shortcodes, you can wrap them in a div element and style it with a background-color and border-radius. Below is an example of how to do this directly in the WordPress page editor.

Example

Suppose you have the following shortcode from our documentation:

[ct_hvp search_placeholder="Enter your home address" required_name="1" required_email="1" required_phone="0" accent_color="#03b5c3"]

To wrap this shortcode with a white background and rounded corners, use the following HTML under the “Text” tab (screenshot) of your page editor in WordPress:

<div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 10px; padding: 10px;">
    [ct_hvp search_placeholder="Enter your home address" required_name="1" required_email="1" required_phone="0" accent_color="#03b5c3"]
</div>

Explanation

• background-color: white; — Sets the background color of the div to white.
• border-radius: 10px; — Adds rounded corners with a radius of 10px.
• padding: 10px; — Adds padding inside the div to space the content away from the edges.

Feel free to adjust the border-radius, background-color, and padding values to match your site’s design.

Common Issues & Fixes

If your website fails to display data or encounters other problems, they often stem from several typical issues. Fortunately, these can be quickly identified and resolved. Below, we outline the most frequent problems and their solutions:

1. Invalid Automated Home Valuations License Key: This issue often occurs after moving your website from a development to a live domain, requiring an update of your license key.
   1. Login to your Account Dashboard
   2. Go to License Keys > find CT Automated Home Valuations > click “Manage Sites” (screenshot)
   3. Deactivate your old domain (screenshot) > close the modal
   4. Copy your License Key
   5. Navigate back to your sites admin > Settings > CT Valuations > remove a single character from the License Key > Save Settings
   6. Paste your License Key > Save Settings (again)
   7. Your new domain is now activated
2. API Requests Blocked by Bot Protection: In this scenario, you’ll see a “Our Apologies… License activation error: missing_url” error message when trying to request a valuation, to fix this you’ll need to contact your hosting provider to whitelist the IP address 2600:3c02::f03c:93ff:fea4:d2ac