About RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard)
RETS is a set of conventions (or common language) that allows computers to exchange information about real estate transactions.
CRIS Administrative Services currently provides IDX access to MLS data via Smart Framing and RETS at no extra charge, however reserves the right to begin charging for IDX services at any time.
To obtain an IDX RETS Access account, contact CRIS Membership & IDX Administrator Heather Pyers at 330.376.0015 ext 1 or by email to heather.pyers@crismls.com
Forward all IDX contracts to Heather by email or fax to 800-650-1902 for processing.
Any broker may become an Internet Data Exchange database participant as
long as he/she has an active real estate brokerage license and is
actively engaged in providing services to buyers or sellers in
residential real estate; and is a participant of CRIS.
Participants may
also hire services of a third party vendor (.Vendor.) to provide IDX
Database for use by Participant on Participant's web site (.Service.).
The rights granted under the CRIS IDX Rules and Regulations to Vendor
will only commence upon receipt of a written request from Participant
identifying the Vendor and upon execution of the Internet Data Exchange
Agreement (.IDX Agreement.) by Vendor and acceptance of the IDX
Agreement by an authorized representative of CRIS. In the event of any
difference or ambiguity, the terms of the CRIS IDX Rules and Regulations
shall take precedence and control over the IDX Agreement.