Manage Networks
From this section you can view and manage the networks you created. Each network shows its logo, name, its capabilities, contact email, number of members, and status (published or hidden).
What your network offers today
The console opens with this card, and it's the first thing worth looking at: what your network has, not what you can toggle.
| Layer | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Shared pool | Your members contribute their properties and see their peers' portfolios inside Mapaprop | Always — comes with the network |
| Shared storefront | The pool's properties appear on the network's public portal | Always — comes with the network |
| Own storefront | The network's catalog appears on each Business member's website | On or Off — you turn it on |
| Directory and co-brokering | Your members see every office, branch, and agent in the network, and register shared deals | On or You don't have it — we enable it, and it requires Business Manager |
The first two have no switch: they come with the network and can't be turned off. What changes from one network to another are the bottom two.
💡 The card tells you which network you have. It's the same as the chip at the very top: without the own storefront it's a Publication Network; with it, an MLS Network; and with the directory, an MLS Network with co-brokering. The name is a consequence of what's turned on, not something chosen separately.
And if you have the Business Manager plan, the card adds one more line: the manager console —panel, composition, the period's business, and the drill-down to each office and each agent—. It isn't a layer of the network: it's a tool of yours, and it comes with the plan.
What you can add
Below the settings there's a card with the features that don't turn on by themselves: Mapaprop enables them. You check the ones you're interested in, hit Send request, and we get in touch with you at the network's contact email.
| Feature | Plan |
|---|---|
| Your network's public portal — a site under your brand and domain, with all your members' catalog | — |
| The manager console | Business Manager |
| Network directory and co-brokering | Business Manager |
| White brand — your visual identity inside Mapaprop | Business Manager + additional cost |
| Entity agreement — if your network represents a professional body, chamber, or association | — |
🔑 Only what you don't have yet shows up. Whatever is already active is shown above, under "What your network offers today" — so you don't have to read twice to know where you stand. If you already have everything, the card says so.
⚠️ Don't confuse it with "Request a change". They're two different things: Send request adds a capability you don't have; Request a change —the button on each Mapaprop rule— modifies a rule already in force that reaches your members, and opens a ticket with your network filled in.
Available actions
- Create Network: Opens the form to create a new real estate network (requires the Business or Business Manager plan).
- Publish/Hide from Marketplace: Controls whether your network appears on the Marketplace so other users can connect. If the network is incomplete (missing required fields or plan template), it can't be published.
- Manage: Access the network's detail to edit settings, view members, rules, and properties.
💡 Hiding the network from the Marketplace doesn't remove your members: whoever already joined stays in. It just stops appearing to anyone searching — a hidden network is joined by direct invitation from you.
Creating a new network
Click Create Network and follow the wizard. There are seven steps:
| # | Step | What it defines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're about to create a network | What your network does from day one and what plan your members need |
| 2 | Network identity | Name, and who members contact (name and email) |
| 3 | What your members contribute | How much of their portfolio goes into the pool — see the table below |
| 4 | The own storefront | Whether the network's catalog appears on each member's site |
| 5 | Brand and promotion | Bio, logo, and the URLs shown on the Marketplace |
| 6 | What you can add | You check the features you're interested in and we contact you |
| 7 | Review and confirm | Which network you're creating and what we're asking our team for |
The logo is optional to create the network and you can upload it later. But as long as it doesn't have one, you won't be able to publish it on the Marketplace: it's a requirement to show it.
In step 3 you choose what your members contribute to the network — there are three modes, and this is the only point where you pick:
| Mode | What it means |
|---|---|
| Manual | Each member decides property by property which ones they share with the network |
| Automatic | On joining, all their properties end up shared. Afterwards each one can switch to manual if they'd rather choose |
| Mandatory | Everything a member publishes on their account is shared with the network, and they can't pick and choose |
In step 4 you decide on the own storefront: having the network's catalog appear inside each member's website. Any member who wants to take advantage of it needs the Business plan.
Step 7 is the final review: there you see which network you're about to create, and you confirm.
⚠️ The publication mode is chosen here and you don't change it afterwards. Any change reaches members who already joined and accepted a different rule, in both directions — so the change is requested from Mapaprop and justified. Detail in 3.1 The network's mode.
🔒 The network's directory (offices, branches, and agents + co-brokering) is enabled by Mapaprop, not by self-service: it opens the internal structure of every member. It requires the Business Manager plan. It's what makes your network an MLS Network with co-brokering.
Network detail
Clicking a network or Manage takes you to the administration panel, with several collapsible sections:
Header
Shows the logo, name, which features are turned on, plan template badge, and status (published/hidden). From here you can Publish or Hide from Marketplace directly.
If the network has incomplete fields, a yellow alert appears indicating the missing fields.
Network Configuration
Collapsible section with the network's general data:
| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Network Name | Yes | Name visible in the marketplace |
| Contact Name | Yes | Person responsible for the network |
| Contact Email | Yes | Email for communications |
| Logo | Yes, to publish | You upload the file from your computer (you no longer paste a URL). The network is created without a logo, but it can't be published on the Marketplace until it has one |
| New Customer Signup URL | No | Link for new customers to sign up |
| Help URL | No | Link to the network's help documentation |
| Network Bio | Yes | Description of the network (minimum 50, maximum 1000 characters) |
| Publish on members' websites | - | The network's catalog appears inside each member's website |
| Publish on Marketplace | - | The network is visible so other users can discover it |
| Share with branch identity | - | Each branch appears with its own identity inside the network, instead of the account's. Requires Business Manager |
Also, read-only, What members contribute to the network: the three modes with the active one marked. It's chosen when the network is created; changing it afterwards is requested from Mapaprop (see above).
The toggles (Website, Marketplace) ask for confirmation before changing. Changes are applied by clicking Save Changes.
What Mapaprop configures
Below your options there's a read-only block, labeled What Mapaprop defines, with the rules we turn on. It comes collapsed: click to open it. You don't edit them, but you do have to see them: they're the terms your members accept when they join, and you're the one who explains them.
| Rule | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| How the network's catalog is shown on each member's site | Whether each one decides, whether it's on when they join, or whether it's mandatory |
| Network directory and co-brokering | Whether your network has it on. If not, it says we enable it and that it requires the Business Manager plan |
| When a property leaves the network | The statuses that pull it out on their own (sold, rented, reserved, suspended). If it becomes available again, it goes back in |
Each rule comes with its own help link so you can send it to a member who asks, and a Request a change button that opens a ticket with your network already filled in.
Why the split works that way and how to request each change: The rules of your network.
Plan Template
Configuration that's automatically applied when approving new members:
| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plan Description | Yes | Descriptive name for the plan |
| Max. Listings | Yes | Maximum number of properties (must be greater than 0) |
| Plan Cost | Yes | E.g.: FREE, $5000/month |
| Billing Cycle | Yes | E.g.: monthly, yearly |
| Upgrade URL | No | Link for members to upgrade their plan (must be https) |
| Listing URL | No | Link to the property listing (must be https) |
Important: Without the Plan Template configured, you can't approve members or access the Members, Rules, and Properties sections.
Once the network is complete (settings + plan template), a grid of shortcuts appears in two groups, because they answer different questions:
Managing the network — who's in, what they share, under which rules:
- Members: joining, removals, and requests
- Composition: offices, agents, and geographic presence
- Properties: the network's full pool
- Rules: what your members can do
- Settings: this very screen
This network's data — what happened with the deals. They're the same screens you use for your own account, with your network's filter already applied: Network panel, Business, Operations, Statistics, Gap, and Captures.
Members works on the Business plan. The rest of the shortcuts require Business Manager: if you don't have it, you'll see them with a padlock, and clicking takes you to a plan upgrade offer instead of sending you to a screen that can't load.
Members
From the members section you can:
- View the list of members with filters (all, active, inactive)
- Search by name, email, or ID
- Approve pending members (the network's plan template is applied to them)
- Deactivate active members
- View each member's profile, with their data, active plan, and properties published in the network
Rules
Rules let you control what members of the network can do:
| Type | Effect |
|---|---|
| Hide section | Hides a section of the interface from the member |
| Block action | Prevents the member from performing a specific action |
| Custom | Free key/value rule for custom logic |
You can activate/deactivate rules assigned to your network from this section.
Properties
Shows every property published in the network by every member. Includes filters by transaction type, property type, and sorting. Each property shows its image, code, title, type, transaction, price, member, and date.
What plan you need, and what plan your members need
Yours:
| For | Plan |
|---|---|
| Creating a new network | Business or Business Manager |
| Staying at the head of a network you already have | Any plan in the Business family, entity plans included |
| Offering the directory and co-brokering to your members | Business Manager |
Theirs:
| For a member to… | They need |
|---|---|
| Join your network, contribute to the pool, and appear on the portal | Plus or higher |
| Bring your network's catalog to their own site | Business |
| Use the directory and co-brokering | Business |
Not everyone needs Business. A member on Plus is a full member: they contribute to the pool, appear on the portal, and see their peers' portfolios. The only plan left out is FREE, which can't connect to any network.
💡 Each member's profile shows their active plan, so you can check it before or after approving them. If an approved member tells you they "don't see anything" from the network, the first thing to check is their plan.
If you lose your plan
Your network is hidden, not deleted. It leaves the Marketplace, a 90-day grace period starts, and you're left in read mode: you can see it, but not publish or edit it.
Your members are third parties: deleting the network would destroy the membership of people who did nothing. That's why deletion is never automatic — if it comes to that, we talk it through with you. Reactivate your plan and the network comes back.
Danger Zone
At the end of the network's detail there are advanced options:
- Request deletion: the button works and sends us the request with your network's data. It doesn't delete anything on its own: we review it and get in touch with you.
If what you want is to stop showing the network without losing it, don't request deletion: turn Publish on Marketplace off. The network stops appearing and stays complete, with its members and its properties.
What plan you need, for what.
| For… | Plan |
|---|---|
| Creating a network | Business or Business Manager |
| Staying at the head of a network you already have | Any plan in the Business family |
| Managing its members | Business |
| Composition, Properties, Rules, Business, and the console | Business Manager |
| Offering the directory and co-brokering to your members | Business Manager |
To change plans, go to Settings > Upgrade. !NOTEFound a problem? You can report it from Support > Tickets in the Mapaprop menu.