Today we’re pushing out another highly requested feature from our customers, the new Sources Menu.

Whereas before Landlords and Sources were separate filters, they’ve now been consolidated into one “Sources” filter. Instead of choosing entire categories and having to sift through them, you can now select exactly which Sources and Landlords you’d like to see units from.

As you’ll see in the screenshot below, you can pick and choose which of your specific sources’ units are displayed below. There are even text search boxes at the top to allow you to quickly filter through these potentially huge lists.

(Don’t worry, You can still access all of your landlords directly under the “My Office” section in the Sources menu.)

Filtering Units by Source (Click to Enlarge)

Beginning today, RentJuice customers will be able to customize the columns they use to search their rental database.

To set up your custom filters, just click the Add Column button, pictured below. A menu will open, allowing you to select the different filters that appear at the top of your list of units.

When you’re done, you’ll be able to quickly sort your listings by your new column, as well as have that information available at a glance.

Here’s an example of adding a column to tell you the agent responsible for each listing:

Adding a Custom Column (Click to Enlarge)

Now, you can sort listings by agent. (Click to Enlarge)

Based on customer feedback, we decided to re-organize our Permissions Settings to make it easier to understand.

All of the page’s functions remain the same. However, in presenting the information, we have created a new section for “Listing Restrictions,” which let you block listings from appearing on your own website or that of our syndication partners. This section now sits at the top of the Permissions Settings for each listing.

Listing Permission Settings (Click to Enlarge)

A few months ago, our developers released a feature that allows each listing to have multiple agents assigned to it — one Primary and one or more Secondary Agents. This also tied in quite closely with permissions, allowing Primary Agents the ability to dictate permissions for “other” agents. In this sense, we allowed a listing’s Primary Agent to become the person responsible for a listing.

Our much awaited follow-up to this is Bulk Claiming and Assignment of Listings. As the name implies, this allows an agent to claim or assign many listings at once. In addition, we also implemented Bulk Claim Limits, an optional feature that allows Administrators and Owners to limit the number of listings an agent can claim at once.

Bulk Assignment of Leads (Click to Enlarge)

These settings can be accessed from the permission settings page, located at Account > Settings > Permissions, and the user limit can be set on the Account > Settings > Users > [User ID] page. Administrators have a choice when it comes to how many units an agent can claim. They can either set it to none, unlimited, or a custom amount.

Bulk actions are available on the Units Search page in the…well, in the Bulk Actions drop down menu. If the user is an administrator or has been given permission to assign listings to other agents, the  dropdown will contain the option “Set Primary Agent.” If the user is not allowed to assign listings to other agents, then the option says “Claim as Primary Agent.”

If the agent cannot claim a listing for any reason, a pop-up will deny the user the ability to complete the bulk action and explains why.

An additional option that users will notice in the drop down that there is also a “Remove as Assigned Agent(s)” option. This allows for bulk removal of all agents from specific listings.

Finally, we’ve also added an optional Bulk Claim Time Limit feature that owners and administrators can set. If turned on, agents have a specific number of hours to update a listing in a significant way (ad title, description, photos) or else all agents assigned to that listing are unassigned, leaving the listing wide open to be claimed by someone else who hopefully will put that listing to good use.

As you’ll see in the image above, if the second setting is checked, new agents are sent a condensed email notification informing them of assignment changes as they’re made.

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Today, administrators can customize their available lead sources to their heart’s content in the Account > Customization > Lead Sources tab. One there, the administrator can add and delete Lead Sources at will. Never again will you find yourself saying “Who uses Myspace? Get rid of that!”

Even if you’ve got multiple offices under one account, you can set Lead Source by each individual office’s set of preferences.

Customizable Lead Sources (Click to Enlarge)

Filter by Days on Market - Click to Enlarge

RentJuice will now record the exact date and time that your listing goes on the market, and allow you to filter your properties based on a specific time frame.

If you’re worried about certain units staying on the market too long, just give your availabilities a quick sort before you send your newest prospect their next update.

We’re now recording exactly when listings go on market, and allow you to filter based on that time. The Days On Market filter is available on the Units tab.

In addition, if you find yourself sifting through an unrelated list of available units and are curious how long a specific unit has spent on the market, you can roll over the house-shaped icon on the right hand side of the listing to view how long it has been available.

Days on Market, Hover View (Click to Enlarge)

Some of you will remember the new neighborhood categorization feature that we rolled out for New York City’s rental neighborhoods a couple of weeks ago. Today, it’s available in Boston as well.

On the units page, the dropdown now gives Boston professionals the ability to view a collection of neighborhoods from a general geographic area within the city. Instead of having to sift through a large list of neighborhoods, sporadically checking those that fall within the area your prospect approves of, you can now select “Cambridge” or “Allston/Brighton” among other pre-filtered options. RentJuice will automatically filter those listings that share that overall geographical location. Currently, we’ve got this feature released for the Boston and New York Metropolitan areas, and hope to have it available in other cities soon.

Boston Neighborhood Configurations (Click to Enlarge)