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Lone Wolf begins zipForm transition to Authentisign e-signature solution

Real estate’s top digital signature solution, Authentisign, coming to Lone Wolf Transactions (zipForm Edition)

“Lone Wolf Technologies (“Lone Wolf”), the leader in North American residential real estate software, announced today the rollout of the company’s highly popular digital signature solution, the all-new Authentisign, to Lone Wolf Transactions (zipForm Edition) customers. This rollout will take place nationwide in a phased market approach starting today. “

When you have bought as many companies as Lone Wolf has, you have a lot to think about regarding integration. Lone Wolf owns two of real estate’s most popular transaction management systems, zipForm, and TransactionDesk. Giving our customers more choices is good but that can also cause support issues; 2 e-signature solutions, 2 UI/UX, and 2 separate forms design teams (to handle new/changes/updates to forms). Over the past year and a half, Lone Wolf has been consolidating key features to streamline the product and to help our support teams.

First off Lone Wolf launched a brand new Authentisign. This new solution has been a hit with its users and has close to a 5-star rating. That new Authentisign was launched to TransactionDesk users only. Now, this new solution is going to start rolling out to zipForm users and I’m positive they are going to appreciate the better UI/UX.

Recently Lone Wolf also revamped the forms editor in zipForm. Customers have well received this. You can read Craig Rowe’s great review at Inman News – “Lone Wolf enhances deal making with digital forms overhaul: Tech Review“. Those changes are also going to be rolling out to TransactionDesk users in the future.

I know the teams are working hard on these improvements and happy to see and share their progress.

Inman News’ Craig Rowe reviews Lone Wolf’s new form editor

Lone Wolf enhances deal making with digital forms overhaul: Tech Review

“The longer a deal takes to get done, the greater the risk of something going wrong. The risk increases when deal data accumulates in unrelated channels, such as email inboxes, text messages or phone call notes scribbled on Post-Its.

Lone Wolf’s new forms editor addresses these challenges by collecting every deal-engagement point into a single interface, called the Workspace. Click the Parties menu to see and contact essential deal stakeholders, review and confirm suggested documents in the Forms tab, verify the Listing information, Offer points and use the Clauses menu to add and edit existing clauses or to create new ones.”

Good review. I have written about this new release and how fast I thought it was, but I think this review emphasizes the “why” of the need for speed (apologies to Maverick).

Lone Wolf announces a new form editor for zipForm

Meet your new forms editor in Transactions

“The new forms editor introduces several intelligent and intuitive features, giving agents and brokers everything they need to prepare and send forms faster than ever. With a new and improved workspace, you can auto-fill out forms, fill out multiple forms at once, mark up documents, add and personalize clauses, and quickly add signers and property information. “

Great update for all those local and state associations that re-signed with zipForm. Internally we have been calling this “Forms 4.0”, but if I got to pick a code name I would call it “Speed Demon”. And I think Dan Fortin and the product team at Lone Wolf have really knocked it out of the park.

“Speed Demon,” you say? Yes, this new updated skeuomorphic design is all about speed. The new workspace allows the user to fill out multiple fields at once and see transaction info, contact details, offer info, and much more—in one place. No more switching back and forth between forms. And leveraging some cool AI tools it auto-populates info from existing parties, listings, and offers forms. It even makes suggestions based on past transactions. All of this will reduce the time agents need to fill out forms.

The new forms editor also works perfectly with Authentisign.

Lone Wolf is rolling this out on a market-by-market basis. Once it is launched in a market agents will be given the choice of using the new editor or the current editor. Over time this option will go away.

So what about TransactionDesk users? Most likely this won’t be available to TD users until next year (I can’t believe it’s June already).

To see the new forms editor in action check out the video at the end of this post from Lone Wolf.

Looking for a new gig?

MLS Integration Specialist – Lone Wolf

“We are looking for a tech-savvy individual who is self-motivated, can work on their own or within a team and is passionate about their work to join our MLS Integration team working on our Transaction Desk product. You’ll work on a small team with a large impact to our customers. The team is responsible for connecting data and programming forms that are used across hundreds of MLSs to make doing business easier for brokerages and agents.”

The find out about this job or post a job, please visit the Vendor Alley Job Board.

State and local associations now provide zipForm as a member benefit to over 665,000 members

Over 665,000 real estate agents in the U.S. get Lone Wolf Transactions as a member benefit

“These incredible associations have stepped up and are supporting their members at a crucial time,” said Lisa Mihelcich, GM of Associations at Lone Wolf. “We’re moving into a post-pandemic world and digital real estate transactions are more important than ever. Transactions is the top transaction management solution in the country, and the only one that can provide a complete and modern real estate experience for agents, brokers, buyers, and sellers. In that way, it’s not only a critical tool for real estate professionals, but for real estate as a whole.”

Great job by Lisa and her team at Lone Wolf and these state and local association leaders. This number is still growing. I think that number will get close to 1 million with the addition of new associations and with the option of a new bundle. As Victor Lund pointed out in a recent WAV Group blog post; Lone Wolf Provides Agent Business Bundle for $199 per year

“This bundle contains the LionDesk CRM – another company acquired by Lone Wolf—as well as the built-in eSignature solution, zipLogix Digital Ink (powered by Authentisign). It is a lot of software for a pretty low price:
-Transaction Management
-Forms Management
-Unlimited Document Storage
-eSignatures
-CRM

Lone Wolf has just recently completed integration work where you can run an ad with Boost, where leads will flow into Lion Desk. Then that lead information is sent to create a Cloud CMA, which can then kick off a listing agreement, and then a purchase agreement in zipForm or TransactionDesk. That property information can be uploaded to create a partial listing on the MLS. After the purchase is complete the agent can order a Home Warranty and then the transaction information is captured by Lone Wolf Back Office so the broker can issue a commission check to the agent. End to end baby.

The dream has always been to reduce or stop double/triple/quadruple entry of data. Lone Wolf customers can live in that world today.

Howard Hanna goes all-in with Lone Wolf

Best-in-class: Howard Hanna partners with Lone Wolf Technologies for brokerage transaction management, digital marketing, and more

“Lone Wolf Technologies (“Lone Wolf”) and Howard Hanna Real Estate Services (“Howard Hanna”) are thrilled to announce an expansion of their partnership that extends the broker version of Lone Wolf Transactions (zipForm Edition), the real estate industry’s most-used transaction management solution, as well as top digital marketing tools, Boost, Connect, and Spacio, plus business intelligence from BrokerMetrics®, to the entire brokerage.”

I love it when a plan comes together…

Texas chooses zipForm

Lone Wolf makes deal with largest Realtor association in Texas

The 145,000-member Texas Realtors has selected Lone Wolf Technologies‘ Transactions software as an option for the digital execution and management of home sales.

Lone Wolf said the organization will use the zipForms edition of its product, an alternative that stems from its 2019 acquisition of the popular e-forms company, zipLogix, according to a statement Wednesday.

The new member benefit is designed to assist agents in making transactions more efficient, a vital competitive need in light of how fast homes are being shown and put under contract. Mobile and online access to critical business forms are becoming standard practice in today’s market.

Huge win for Texas and Lone Wolf.

The results are in…

2021’s Best Practices for CMAs and Listing Presentations Survey

“This year, nearly 5,000 real estate professionals completed the survey—a 49% increase over 2020. We asked questions from how real estate professionals find their comps to putting together a CMA report, to their behaviors at a listing presentation. This year we also asked how the pandemic has changed their business—like if they plan to deliver a virtual listing presentation in the next 6 months.”

This was a big hit back in 2020 and was happy to see us do it again. Lots of great information that will benefit any agent or broker using CMAs in their business. Please share!

Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® to provide zipForm as a member benefit

Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® to offer real estate’s leading member benefit, Transactions (zipForm Edition) PA Association of Realtors® keeps foundational digital transaction management tool in members’ hands at no cost.

“As the industry continues to adapt to working along digital platforms, it’s vital for Realtors® to be equipped with the tools that can develop along with them and help them deliver their clients a seamless experience,” said Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® President, Christopher Raad.

“Transactions is the most used and highly-adopted member benefit in real estate today,” said Jimmy Kelly, CEO of Lone Wolf. “It’s a foundational solution, giving agents leading digital forms and transaction management tools for a complete, simple, and secure transaction. From listing to contract to close, Transactions gives agents everything they need to focus on what’s most important to them: closing deals and amazing their clients.”

Lone Wolf Technologies

Big win for Lone Wolf. If you haven’t been paying attention the Association Team at Lone Wolf headed by Lisa Mihelcich has done a great job working with state and local associations to take over the member benefit previously provided by the National Association of REALTORS.

I’m also looking forward to seeing Lone Wolf’s next generation of form solutions (cool stuff!) rolling out of beta next year. Congrats to Lisa and her team (Ashley, Jim, Michelle, and the amazing Jessica Richardson) for lending a hand.

MichRIC chooses to continue Lone Wolf’s zipForm as a member benefit

MichRIC® selects a suite of Lone Wolf Technologies products as a member benefit.

“With Transactions (zipForm Edition) being retired as a national member benefit at the end of 2021, MichRIC® has agreed to assume access to the Lone Wolf Technologies (“Lone Wolf”) product as a benefit for their subscriber base of around 8,500. The association has also added additional Lone Wolf products—LionDesk, Digital Ink®, MLS-Connect, and zipForm® Mobile—as benefits for their members.”

Lisa Mihelcich’s team at Lone Wolf is doing a great job. They are rapidly moving the needle as more and more state and large local associations are choosing to take over the NAR member benefit with Lone Wolf. I also love seeing LionDesk added to the mix. More and more cool integrations are happening for LionDesk and Cloud CMA. Great for Michigan REALTORS.

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