Use the links below to find help with the various different steps required to advertise your property for sale on this site:

• Purchase screen
• Worldpay system
• Secure payment page
• Confirmation
• Logging in
• Adding your listing
      Location information
      Pricing information
      Property information
      Descriptions
      Images
      Contact information
      Preview your listing
• Finding and viewing your listing on the site
• Editing your listing
• Enquiries page
• Client details page
• Reporting page
• Further queries

The first thing that you have to do is fill out the basic information required in order to progress to the payment page.

This form can be reached by clicking any of the links entitled "CLICK HERE TO BUY A LISTING NOW".

All fields marked with a star are required.

If you do not fill out one or more of the required fields, you will be prompted to enter the missing data and will not be able to proceed until all the required fields are complete.

You are only required to give one phone number.

If you have not previously registered on the site, then when you fill out this form, you will then be a registered user and can make use of any of the other facilities on the site that require registration.

If you are already registered, the quickest way to fill out this form is to log in, using your username and password. Then, when you click through to this form, the details in your stored profile will be used to populate the form.

You can edit the details in this form, so that they are different to those in your stored profile, but the permanent profile will NOT be altered.

Once you have entered your basic details, you will be taken to the Worldpay system introduction page.

This page gives you short description of the item that you are buying and then requires you select your payment method.

At present you can choose from:

• Mastercard
• Visa
• Visa Delta
• Visa Electron
• Visa Purchasing
• JCB
• Solo
• Switch

Once you have chosen your preferred payment method, you will be taken to the Worldpay Secure Payment Page.

Worldpay transactions are protected with 128kb security, meaning that any financially sensitive details you transmit are very tightly protected.

Depending on the type of card you are using, you will need to enter various pieces of information your card number, start date, expiry date, issue number, security code and of course the name of the cardholder.

This page will also include some basic details about the item you are purchasing, as well as carrying across the address, phone number and email that were filled in on the purchase screen. Any of these details can again be edited here, as you may need to update the address to match those associated with the cardholder.

For more information about Worldpay, please visit: http://www.worldpay.com/

Once your payment details have been submitted, they are then processed by Worldpay.

You should only ever click the "MAKE PAYMENT" button once, to prevent repeat billing.

If your transaction is succesful, the screen will change to indicate that fact and you will then be shown a confirmation from us to show that the transaction has been successful.

You will then be sent a receipt from Worldpay and one from us.

You will also be sent a username, password and a link where you can log in to add your listing.

The details sent to you can be used to log in to the Private Listing Administration Area.

If you have a newly purchased listing, that you have not yet added, you will be taken straight to the add property page where you can input the details.

If you have purchased more than 1 listing (for different properties, then you will see a screen like the one to the right, which allows you to choose which of your newly purchased listings you would like to add.

Private listings can only be added to TheMoveChannel.com using the online listings manager.

This page is broken down into a number of different sections, as shown below. If you can prepare this information before you add your listing, it will make the process easier when the time comes.

Private listings are added with the following information:

• House number
• Street name
• Address line 3 - this is an optional field and should only be used when you live in a name district of a larger town or city
• Address line 4 - this is the village, town or city the property is in.
• County / Region - The county or region that the property is in.
• Postcode / Zip code - The postal area that the property is in.

• Pricing structure - this allows you to select how you are pricing your property and you can choose between "offers in the region of" or "offers over".
• Currency
• Price
• Current offer - an optional field that you can keep updated with the most recent offer that you have had on the property

For all of these options, you should choose the closest match:

• Type - Select from semi detached, detached, bungalow, townhouse, flat, garden flat, maisonette, mid terrace, end of terrace, chalet, terraced, penthouse, villa, apartment, commercial, land, mobile home or other.
• Era - Select from modern, 1960's - 1980's, 1940's - 1950's, Pre-war, Edwardian, Georgian, Victorian.
• Land rights - Select from freehold or leasehold.
• Bedrooms - Select from 0 (studio),1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+
• Reception rooms - Select from 0 (studio),1, 2, 3, 4
• Bathrooms - Select from 0 (studio),1, 2, 3, 4
• Kitchen - Select from spacious, L-shaped, dining area, galley, kitchenette, average.
• Condition - Select from excellent condition, well presented, in need of modernisation, no comment.
• Location - Select from residential, lively, quiet, rural, central.
• Garden - Select from none, front + side + rear, front + rear, front + side, side + rear, front, side, rear.
• Parking - Select from none, off street, on street, driveway, carport, single garage, double garage.
• Double glazing - Select from none, partial, mostly, fully, secondary.
• Heating - Select from oil, gas, solid fuel, economy 7, other.
• Checkboxes - These allow you to indicate specifically if your property HAS been rewired, had a full damp-proof course, been recently re-plumbed, recently re-rooved, had new guttering and facia or has many original features.

• Short description - This is the description that is used on the listings pages, either in the browse section, or when a user runs a search and looks at the results. This description is limited to 256 characters.
  
• Full description - This is the description that is used on the full details page. There is a maximum of 8000 characters for this entry. You can use simple HTML editing for bold, italics, or bullet points if you wish to emphasise certain things.
  
• Key selling points - You can list up to 6 Key Selling Points for your property. These are shown on your listing above the description, so are a powerful way of drawing attention to the most important aspects of your property.

• Small image - The small image is on the results page and is required. It will be displayed at 150 pixels in width regardless of the image size, so please ensure that the width of the small image is as close to this as possible.
  
• Full description - The large image is used on the details page. If there is no large image the small image will be used.
  There is no fixed size requirement for the main image, but it should be between 300 and 500 pixels in width or the page formatting will be compromised. If you try and upload an image that is too large, you will not be permitted to by the system.
  
• Additional images - Up to 10 additional images can be shown down the left hand side of the page and will be shown at 250 pixels in width regardless of the size. Please ensure that the width of the additional images are as close to this as possible. The additional images will be shown in the same order as you list them.

You can elect to display a contact name and telephone number with your listing if you wish. If you do not wish to show your contact details with your listing, please leave these fields blank.

All listings pages have a contact form which routes enquiries to your email address, without displaying the email address on the website.

You can preview your listing using the image button down at the bottom of the page. This opens a browser and shows what the listing will look like.

If you try and test the email contact form using the preview page, it will not work, as the listing is not yet live.

To submit your listing for approval, please click the update button.

When you have submitted your site for approval, it is then queued for approval by our admin staff.

They will check and validate the listing, to make sure that it is formatted correctly and to ensure load times for images are acceptable.

This normally takes place within 1 working day of the listing being submitted.

Once the listing has been approved, you will be sent an email to confirm that it is now live on the site.

You will then be able to find the listing either by searching for it using our basic or advanced search, or by browsing to it, using the location hierarchy that you used to input the listing.

At any point, if you wish to change the description, alter the asking price, change the images, or update any of the other information associated with your listing, you can log back in using the same link sent to you in the original email

Once you have logged in, you should click the "MY PROPERTIES" link, which will show a list of the different listings that you have purchased on the site and the date that these were added.

You can also click links to view your listing(s) online, purchase new ones or add any additional listings that you have already purchased.

To edit an existing listing, you should click the edit button next to the listing you wish to update. This will open up a page with the Add property form pre-loaded with the details of your property.

You can change whatever information you want to, then save the listing and the information will be updated immediately.

When you are logged in to the Private Listings Administration area, you also have access to an enquiries page, which shows all of the enquiries you have had from users on the site. These are arranged by property and then by date.

The page shows the date of each enquiry, a flag to represent the country where you property is located, the address of your property, and the name of the person making the enquiry.

You can use this page to manage your enquiries, since you can change the status of the different enquiries, to help you keep track of where you are up to with each one.

The different status fields are live lead, hot lead, viewing arranged, sale agreed, purchase complete, fell through, recontact later.

Further to the right is a checkbox, which is replaced with a date to the right of it, when you check and submit the page. This can be used to record that you have contacted that particular individual.

You can also click a client details page to view contact information for the person making the enquiry

The client details firstly shows the contact information for the person who has made an enquiry about your property, showing their name, address, phone number and email.

Below that, any enquiries about your property or properties that this user has made are shown, along with the date, details of the property, the status of the enquiry and the contacted date / checkbox. These can be udated in the same way as on the enquiry page.

In addition, you can add notes to be associated with a specific enquiry, by clicking the "Add note" next to the Notes: label.

You are able to add an unlimited number of notes next to each enquiry - each of these is stored in chronological order with the individual enquiry.

The final thing that you can do in this section is schedule an email reminder to yourself. Input the comments, set the reminder date using the calendar applet, enter the email address to which you want the reminder sent and then add the reminder.

You can also see a list of any scheduled reminders you have input.

The reporting page is a statistical report that shows the aggregate data for all your listings. To view statistics for an individual property, you can select it from the dropdown menu.

There are three tables, which show the data over different timeframes.

The information shown is:

• Page views – the number of times your detail(s) page(s) have been accessed
• Enquiries – the number of enquiries sent to you via the web form
• Hot leads – the number of leads you have classified as ‘hot’
• Viewing – the number of viewing appointments you have arranged
• Sale agreed – the number of properties for which you have agreed the sale