Custom Skarabee integration
Skarabee is property software for estate agents, with a CRM for listings, contacts and projects, used mainly in Belgium and also in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Since 2023 it has been part of Zabun, within Mediahuis's Zimmo Group. If you want to show your listings on your own website, portal or app, or use your own system alongside Skarabee, you need an integration. Appfront builds that integration: the listings from Skarabee in your own environment, leads back in the CRM, and your data carried over cleanly if you switch.
What is a Skarabee integration?
A Skarabee integration connects the CRM of your estate agency to the software you use alongside it. Skarabee offers a web service for this, the Weblink, which retrieves the published properties and projects per office, sends contact messages from your site back, and reports which publications are online. The integration retrieves the listings with photos, features and status, places them in your own website or app, and writes every enquiry from a visitor back as a contact on the right property.
Without an integration, listings have to be entered twice: in Skarabee and on the website, or the site only shows what a standard module displays. A property that has been sold still shows as for sale online. A viewing request arrives as an email, gets retyped or is left lying. A property developer with dozens of units in a single project tracks availability in a spreadsheet. For an office with a handful of properties that is manageable; for a group with several branches it is not.
We build custom because your site, your offices and your way of working determine what the integration needs to do. Whether you want your own website with search filters, a portal for buyers in a new-build project, an app for your agents or your own reporting on leads differs from case to case. On top of that, Skarabee has been part of Zabun since the acquisition. If you are considering switching, the integration also ensures that listings, contacts and history can come with you, rather than being entered again.
Enter once
Listings from Skarabee.
Lead back
Contact on the right property.
Switching
Your data comes with you.
How we build your Skarabee integration
We start with your office: which properties and projects you publish, where they are currently online, how leads come in and who follows them up. Then we build the first integration, the listings from Skarabee on your own site or app, because that is where visitors first notice that something is wrong. You work with it for a while. Leads back in the CRM, projects with availability per unit and the report-back of what is online follow once that runs well. After that, we maintain the integration whenever Skarabee, Zabun or your site changes.
Listings, channels, leads.
The first integration.
Expansion.
Go-live, monitoring, and maintenance when things change.
What a Skarabee integration does in practice
The components below feature in almost every Skarabee integration. Which ones you need depends on your offices and on where you want to show the listings.
Listings
Properties with photos and features.
Projects
Units and availability.
Leads
Contact messages back in the CRM.
Synchronisation
Changes and sales passed on immediately.
Search
Filters on your own site.
Switching
Listings, contacts and history come with you.
Who we build a Skarabee integration for
The integration is intended for agencies that want more than the standard website of their package, or that use their own system alongside Skarabee. The more properties, branches and channels, the more it delivers.
Estate agencies
Your own site with your own search filters.
Property groups
Multiple branches, one set of listings.
Property developers
New-build per unit.
Agencies that are switching
Data comes along cleanly.
Technology and integrations
This page is about integrations with Skarabee. If you work with the Dutch package Realworks, see our page on the Realworks integration; for settling commission there is our page on commission settlement for estate agents, and for managing property our page on property software. You can read about our way of working on building custom software.
Why Appfront for your Skarabee integration?
A sold property that stays listed online, a viewing request that sits in a mailbox, or a switch of package where years of relationships have to be re-entered all cost an estate agent clients and time. That is what we build around: enter it once in Skarabee, every lead in the right place, and your data stays yours.
Always accurate online
Listings straight from the source.
No lead lost
Back in the CRM.
Yours
Your data comes with you when you switch.
Security and privacy in a Skarabee integration
The integration works with your office's Skarabee login details and with personal data of searchers and sellers. Login details are stored securely and are not visible to staff or visitors. A contact message goes only to your CRM and is not kept in the integration any longer than needed to deliver it.
The integration runs in a European data centre, with encrypted connections and storage. Every update and every message sent back is logged with time and result. When you switch, a full copy of the transferred data is kept until you have checked that everything has arrived.
Frequently asked questions about a Skarabee integration
Questions that estate agents and office managers ask before getting started.
Property software for estate agents, with a CRM for listings, relationships and projects, and websites for estate agency offices. Skarabee is used mainly in Belgium, and also in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Since 2023 it has been part of Zabun, within Mediahuis's Zimmo Group.
Skarabee offers the Weblink, a web service that retrieves each office's published properties and projects, sends contact messages back and passes on online availability. Access is via your office's login details. We agree exactly which data is available with your account.
Yes. An enquiry on your site is sent back as a contact message against the right property, so the agent sees it in the CRM and can follow it up.
Yes. Projects with their units are retrieved, so a portal or project site shows per unit what is still available.
The Weblink still works, but it is wise to ask Zabun about their plans for your account. If the interface changes, we will adapt the integration. If you switch, the integration can transfer your listings, relationships and history.
Realworks is a different package, used mainly in the Netherlands and closely tied to the NVM (Dutch Association of Real Estate Agents). The approach is similar, but the interface and the data differ. We have a separate page for Realworks.
For offices with their own website or app, multiple branches or new-build projects, and for offices that want to switch. An office that is happy with its package's standard site usually does not need a custom solution.
Skarabee linked to your own site?
Tell us where you want to show your listings and how leads currently reach you. We will show you how an integration with Skarabee can handle that.