Setting Availability of listings

There’s been quite a discussion in the forums about the way individual listing availability control should be designed by Niteflirt, and I won’t get into that here. There still seems to be a lot of confusion about how it currently works, and that’s what I would like to clear up.

If you’re still trying to use the listing availability links as before and it’s not working for you, you are fighting the new system. If you are finding it does all kinds of unpredictable things, that’s because they changed it without notifying us or changing the help file. It operates in a completely different manner. It works, but it’s like a new feature which is not equivalent to the old feature it replaced.

The old system was designed to permit someone to change the status of one listing. Either from within your listing or from inside your Listing Details page you could click on the availability status of that one listing, go to another window, and change it. If you only wanted one odd listing on or off on an occasional basis, it worked great with that.

So, things the old system was good at:

• Turning on only one listing;
• Turning off only one listing.

Things it was not so good at:

• Managing multiple listings, rather than just one with a different status – could take a while to change all the ones that needed changing;
• Managing listings in multiple accounts – could take a whole lot of time.

What it couldn’t do at all:

• Save your chosen settings for next time. They were gone every time you changed your account status.

Listing availability is now focused on managing multiple listings and saving your settings, rather than having one listing different from the others.

Changing the availability of a listing within the listing itself or inside your Listing Details page now is changing the preset on it. Listings that are set to Away on the Listing Details page will not go on when the account is turned on. Listings that are set to Available on the Listing Details page will turn on when your account is turned on.

There is no need to make your listings show as Away on the Listing Details page when your master Availability is set to Away.

The settings will stay with your account until the next time you go in there and change them.