“My school is on the Red Line.”  

“I take the commuter rail to work.”  
“I don’t have a car, so at the very least I need to be near a bus stop.”

How often do you you hear remarks like those above?  In a densely-developed market like Boston, access to public transit is a top concern for renters.  Now Kahoots lets you instantly find and deliver listings that match a client’s commute.

From your search screen, use the Near Public Transportation dropdown to find listings near train lines, bus routes, and commuter rail stops. In addition to individual train lines, you can choose Any Train to open your search to all lines, or Any MBTA Stop to include bus routes.

You can decide whether your new searches will default to on-market apartments only, or scan your whole listings database.  In your Preferences screen, toggle the Search on-market by default button to choose settings for any new search you run.

Vanilla offers a simpler alternative to more stylized, colorful templates - in fact, ads made with Vanilla don’t feel like a template at all.  Color-free, with text pared down to only the important facts, Vanilla ads have a more personal, straight-up appeal.  It’s “just the facts,” in black and white.

Just like a basic Craigslist ad, Vanilla ads are rounded out with full-size photographs - except that with Vanilla, you’re not limited to only four pictures per ad.  Use as many as you need to show off your listings.

Now you can brighten your ad campaigns with a vibrant new look and feel. Kahoots unveils the first in our new line of advertisement styles - the bold, stunning Sapphire.

Sapphire ads make special use of color and sizing to highlight your listings. A large photo takes center stage; big, bold headings underscore your contact info and bylines; and clean lines and shadowed edges keep everything neat and organized.

Stay tuned for more ad styles in the coming months. If there’s a particular look and feel you’ve been wanting to use, feel free to contact us and let us know.

When posting to Craigslist and Backpage, Kahoots lets you choose between distinct advertisement styles. From your Advertisement Details screen, select your desired style from the Ad Style dropdown, and then save your ad.

To see how your ad will look with this choice of style, click Preview Ad.

Kahoots supports regional posting to Craigslist, allowing you to match your advertisements more precisely to the right local audiences.

In your Preferences screen, select the Craigslist Region that best describes your place of business - from Boston to the South Shore. Whenever you use Kahoots to advertise on Craigslist, your listings will automatically be delivered to the appropriate region.

With just a single word or image, a well-designed logo can mark a service as truly your own, polished and personal. Now Kahoots can brand your online advertising with company trademarks and logos, joining the distinctive feel of your custom designs with our effortless advertising technology.

To upload your company logo to Kahoots, login with manager or administrator privileges, and enter your Preferences page. Select the Contact Info or Company Info header, and choose the Branch Logo link. From here, you’ll be able to upload a 218×50 logo image for your company or office, and even preview your logo in the context of an online ad.

Once in Kahoots, your logo image will automatically appear in all your Craigslist, Backpage, and Hotpads advertisements. Please drop us a line and let us know where else you’d like to see them!

Shutterbugs rejoice: Kahoots lets you attach pictures to entire buildings and apartment complexes, allowing you to share a single picture among dozens or hundreds of units. This makes it easier than ever to enhance all your listings with exterior photography and neighborhood scenery.

When viewing your listings in “Nested” mode, click the camera button on any building or complex to attach a picture. Your picture will be shared with every apartment in that building (and any new ones you add later), and will appear on your ads and online listings.

Keeping your listings and prices up-to-date is an imperative in a high-volume rental market, and Kahoots helps you meet this challenge no matter the size of your inventory.

Behind the scenes, Kahoots keeps track of when your listings are updated, and will alert you whenever any listing has gone too long without attention. You can even tell Kahoots how long to wait before notifying you.

In your Preferences screen, use the “Stale listings after” dropdown to decide how frequently your listings should be updated.

The Suggestions box on your Dashboard will automatically notify you of listings that have waited too long without an update, and will even link you to them directly for quick editing.

Sometimes mass-emails and phone calls aren’t the best way to communicate. Kahoots Messages give you an online bulletin-board for sharing important announcements with the rest of your office. By posting a message in Kahoots, you can be sure your colleagues will see it as soon as they sign in to work, no matter where they are.

Your dashboard shows the very latest messages from your office and broadcasts from Kahoots. By selecting the “more” button on the Messages box, you can read through your message history in detail and also post new messages.