The estate agent window display that answers even on Sundays

Sunday, 4 pm, outside your property window

A couple stops in front of the two-bedroom flat in the top left corner. The price works for them. They want to know if there is a lift, what the service charge is, whether the parking space comes with it. The office is closed. They take a photo of the listing, promise themselves they will call on Monday, and the week goes by.

With one QR code per listing, the question goes out straight away. The assistant answers in a few seconds with what your property details contain: floor, annual service charge, EPC rating, parking. If the couple want to see the place, they leave their name and phone number. The conversation no longer ends on the pavement.

The same passer-by might be a foreign buyer on holiday or an expat moving back. The assistant answers in their language, from the same information, without you translating a word.

What you load into the assistant, listing by listing

The assistant only knows what you give it. The more precise the details, the fewer questions it passes back to you. For a sale, these are the things passers-by ask most often, and they are worth writing down in black and white:

• The asking price, and whether offers in excess or a guide price apply.
• Floor area, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, the floor and whether there is a lift.
• Tenure: freehold or leasehold, years left on the lease, service charge and ground rent.
• The EPC rating, the heating system and the year of any major works.
• The council tax band.
• What is included: garden, garage, parking space, storage, terrace.
• Availability: chain-free, vacant, tenanted, expected completion date.
• For a let: monthly rent, deposit, availability date and what referencing involves.

From window listing to viewing request

Set-up takes one day. You send a link to your listings or a file, Kiosky creates one page per property and each page gets its QR code, to stick on the paper listing or show on your screen. Property sold on Saturday? You remove its page from your phone.

When a visitor wants to go further, they leave their name and phone number or email. You receive every request each morning, with the question asked and the listing concerned. So you know who to call back first, and about which property.

If the question goes beyond the details, for example "would the seller accept an offer?", the assistant does not answer for you. It tells the visitor so and passes the question on to you.

Which estate agent window screen or stand?

No hardware is required. If you already have a screen behind the glass, you just show the QR codes on it. If your listings are on paper, a QR code printed on each card works too. In that case you only pay the licence: €1,190 excl. VAT a year per window.

To be seen from the street in the evening, the recommended pack is the MacLocks BrandMe backlit window kiosk, at €1,590 excl. VAT for the first year, licence included. The panel carries your branding and stays visible at night, and the tablet sits in an anti-theft enclosure. You supply the tablet, the stand is yours to keep.

If space in front of the glass is tight, the MacLocks Swing wall mount, at €1,490 excl. VAT for the first year, holds the tablet on an articulated arm right up against the window. From the second year, only the licence renews.

What the assistant will not do for you

It does not replace the viewing or your advice. It does not value a property, does not negotiate, and books nothing into your diary: it collects a request that you then handle.

It only knows your property details. If a page still shows the old price, the assistant will give the old price. Keeping it up to date is still your job, even if it takes two minutes from your phone. And for a legal or tax question, it refers the visitor to you rather than improvising.