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Set up listing search and connect your MLS

Connect listing data and turn on IDX property search so visitors can browse live MLS listings on your site.

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IDX property search is what turns your SAMI OS site from a brochure into a lead engine — visitors browse live listings, save favorites, and register to keep looking. This article shows you how to connect your listing data and what visitors get once it's live.

Connect your MLS data provider

Your site pulls listings from whichever provider you connect in the builder's Settings tab. Repliers is the default and works out of the box; if your MLS gives you a RESO Web API feed, you can point the site at that instead.

  1. Open the builder Settings tab

    Head to the website builder and click the Settings icon in the left sidebar. Find the MLS Data Provider card.

  2. Choose your provider

    Under Provider, pick Repliers to use the built-in feed, or RESO Web API to connect your own MLS feed.

  3. Enter your RESO feed details

    If you chose RESO Web API, paste your feed's RESO Web API URL (for example, https://mls.example.com/reso/odata) and your Access Token — the bearer token your MLS issued for the feed.

  4. Save your settings

    Click Save MLS Settings. Your access token is stored securely, so you only re-enter it when you want to replace it.

Stick with Repliers unless your MLS specifically requires its own RESO feed. The RESO option only needs the feed URL and access token — both come straight from your MLS, not from SAMI OS.

What visitors get on your site

Once a provider is connected, listing data flows through every property surface on your site:

  • The search page gives visitors a search bar plus filters for min/max price, bedrooms, bathrooms, and property type, with sorting by newest, price, or recently listed. They can favorite homes and save searches for email alerts.
  • Listing detail pages open when a visitor clicks any property card, showing photos, price, beds, baths, square footage, and similar nearby listings.
  • Listings and Map sections you add to a page pull live properties automatically — a Listings section shows featured or recent property cards, and a Map section drops interactive pins. Add either from the Add Section menu while building a page.

Want to capture every searcher's contact info? Pair listing search with the registration wall so visitors register after a set number of free views.

Feed activity back into your CRM

Search and listing activity isn't just for visitors — it feeds your reporting. Searches, listing views, and SAMI chat conversations on your site are tracked as events that surface in the builder's Analytics tab and your main Analytics. That tells you which neighborhoods and price points are drawing interest, so you can follow up with the right listings.

When a visitor chats with SAMI on your site, those conversations are logged the same way, giving you a clearer picture of lead intent alongside your Contacts and Pipeline.

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Last updated 2026-06-21

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