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Become a Virtual Tour Vendor

To become a virtual tour vendor you must submit a request via email.

The request must include the URL of a sample virtual tour, along with contact information as follows:

  • name,
  • title,
  • company name,
  • business license number,
  • complete company address,
  • company/direct phone and fax numbers,
  • email address and
  • corporate Website address, if applicable
  • Contact information for the liaison between the vendor and MRIS
     

The applicant must indicate:

  • If they are uploading tour URLs either manually or via an automated process of their own design, or
  • If they intend to market their vending services to our customer base in general or are processing tours for one client (member, broker, company or franchise) exclusively.


The URL for a tour residing on the authorized vendor's dedicated server will be uploaded to MRIS's MLS database directly via an Internet-based, form-submission process utilizing a password-protected Web page.

The tours themselves reside on the respective vendor's server, not on the MRIS Web server, and must be available 24/7.

A virtual tour can only be uploaded to listings Active, Contingent/No Kickout, Contingent/Kickout, Contract or Application Registered status.

The virtual tour will be displayed with the listing in all MRIS products within 20 minutes of the vendor uploading the URL.
• The virtual tour must be World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant (see www.w3.org); and if required to be viewable, have Java applets readily downloadable from the vendor’s site.

Please note that, in accordance with the MRIS Rules and Regulations tours must:

  • be unbranded*, i.e. void of any identification of either the listing agent(s) or the listing broker(s) - visually or audibly - because the focus of a virtual tour should be on the listed real property.
  • MRIS reserves the right to accept or decline all image submissions and may, in its own discretion, remove any image from the system for reasons it deems appropriate. Inappropriate information may include but is not limited to broker or agent information, email addresses, web site URLs, personal property, and obscene or profane material.
  • Images submitted to MRIS must represent depict real property or artists’ representation, sketches, floor plans or plats of the property. The main exterior view of the building or the entrance of the lot, if vacant land, must be included with every listing containing images
  • Note: a "glimpse" of the listing broker's yard sign, with or without the listing agent's rider, in a panoramic tour as long as the camera does not focus so long on it as to seem stationary, is allowed; photos/frames of community recreational facilities are allowed, photos/frames of the views afforded by the subject property are allowed; and the subject property's relationship to its immediate neighborhood is allowed

Request must be sent to the following email address to the Virtual Tour Vendors Service group (virtual.tours@mris.net).

A member of the MRIS Virtual Tour Vendors Service group will review the applicant's work product. If found to comply with MRIS's policies the new vendor's record will be created, security credentials and instructions for accessing the URL of the MRIS Website for the Virtual Tour Control Panel will be emailed to the vendor's contact person.