A real-estate portal in six languages, run from a CRM and updated every morning with no re-typing

Self-hosted Twenty is the single source for properties, contacts and deals. The billing history was moved into it, and a small custom app lets the team sort photos and change a listing’s status there.

Every morning, new listings from a feed are imported with their photos and given an internal reference. Their description is written in the house format, then they wait for a human to approve them.

Every morning, a sync publishes the approved catalogue: optimised photos, translated text, withdrawn listings reported cleanly to search engines. A “Publish to the website” button in the CRM saves waiting for the next day.

Listings are translated by a model chosen for its cost, about six times cheaper than the standard model, and a cache avoids paying twice for the same translation.

Every form is saved to the database before any email is sent, then creates the contact and the deal in the CRM, and notifies the team in its channel.

A report every morning (new properties, approval queue, sync status, backup age), a restore test every month, an alert if a job has not checked in for 30 hours. When the sync fails, a coding agent prepares the fix.