This is the one we’ve been building toward. FeedSync 3.9 is the final release of the legacy self-hosted software, and it exists to do one thing: make moving to the FeedSync Service as easy as pressing a button.

We took a genuinely complex task, moving your entire listing history from a self-hosted install onto a managed service, and turned it into a few simple steps. It’s ready.

The part I’m most excited about: your full history comes with you

Here’s what makes this more than just a migration.

Legacy FeedSync only ever shows you the final state of a listing, what it looks like right now. But every time your CRM sent an update over the years, that data was there. The 3.9 migration pulls all of it across.

That means when you move, you don’t just bring your current listings. You bring the complete history of every listing you have ever listed in FeedSync, and the Service turns it into a full analytical picture of your entire business: days on market, sales, rentals, price changes, everything, going right back.

Most agencies have never seen their own history laid out like this. It’s been sitting in the data the whole time.

The migration builds you a complete picture.

How the migration works

We built the whole thing into this final release, so it’s genuinely a few steps:

1. Login to your FeedSync installation and update to 3.9. Everything below lives in this final release, so make sure you’re on it first.

2. Start the migration from your legacy FeedSync install. You’ll get two options:

• New to the Service? It creates your account for you and migrates all your listings into a fresh feed, ready to go.
• Already set up an account? You’ll be given a spot to enter a migration key. Grab the key from your Service account, choose which feed you want the data to land in, and it migrates straight into your existing setup. No duplicate feeds, no mess, and it slots your full history in behind the listings your CRM is already delivering.

Two paths, both simple, whether you’re brand new or already set up.

3. FeedSync compresses and delivers all your processed data from the legacy install straight into that feed. Every listing, full history.

4. Log in, open Feeds, edit the feed and name it your company name, then select your CRM, and press “Email CRM.” That sends your CRM provider the details to start pushing your listings straight to the Service..

5. Press the Connect Site button to download the FeedSync Companion plugin on your WordPress site, add your site URL and open the magic link to connect your site to the Service.

6.Switch on the bridge so you’re live straight away. This is the bit that means you don’t have to wait on anyone. CRM providers can take a while to switch your feed over to push to the Service directly, and you shouldn’t be stuck in limbo while they do. Turn on the bridge in 3.9 and your legacy install keeps catching your CRM’s listings and forwards them straight into your Service feed automatically. Your site stays live and current the whole time. Connecting it is one click: press “Connect Web Push from FeedSync Service” and 3.9 fetches your API details for you, then test and save. Once your CRM confirms they’ve switched over, the bridge simply becomes a backup you can turn off.

One click. Connect Web Push fills in your details for you.

That’s it. Your listings are flowing to the Service and updating your website from day one, and once your CRM is pushing to us directly, the whole legacy stack falls away.

Then clear out the old machinery

This is the satisfying part, and it’s where the speed comes from. With your listings coming from the Service, the old import stack is just dead weight on your site. Clear it out:

• Deactivate WP All Import Pro and the Easy Property Listings XML/CSV importer add-on. This is the whole reason we built the Service. Those plugins did the heavy lifting before, and they’re what hammered your hosting. You don’t need them anymore.
• Turn on image processing in FeedSync Service → Sites → Enable cron job. This is the one worth doing properly. It runs your image processing on a real schedule. Skip it and the Service falls back to WP Cron, which works fine but only fires when someone visits your site, so on a quiet site it can lag. A proper cron job just runs.
• Remove the old import plugin’s cron jobs from your server if you had any. No more sync firing every ten minutes in the background.

Every one of these takes load off your site, and the difference is immediate.

What you’ve actually gained

We’ve taken a stack of separate moving parts, each with its own point of failure, and turned it into one streamlined system. No more imports running on your site, no cron jobs, no plugin to babysit, no wondering whether the feed ran. Your CRM sends a listing, and it’s on your site.

See how the Service manages your site →

And once you’ve migrated, do one thing for me: open your dashboard. You’ll see a complete snapshot of your entire business, the history, the numbers, the whole picture, for the first time. That’s the moment it clicks.

The full picture: listing growth, status, your sales leaderboard, and days on market against the wider market.

See the full Agency and Office dashboard →

Ready to move?

Two ways to get started:

• Do it yourself: pick your plan and start your migration →. 3.9 makes it a one-click job that brings your full history with it.
• Or let us help: just reply to this email and we’ll sort your plan and move you across. No wrestling with anything, we do the work.

Legacy FeedSync will be supported for the next 60 days, until 5 December 2026, so there’s plenty of time to move across smoothly. But the sooner you move, the sooner you’re on the better system, so don’t leave it to the last week.

Stay tuned. Next week I’ll tell the full story of legacy FeedSync, how it started 15 years ago with one client and one problem, and why we built the service that’s now replacing it. It’s a good one.

— Merv