When putting your home on the market, you hope for as many showings as possible. The more showings, the more likely you will receive an offer or, in a best-case scenario, multiple offers. In addition, those showings should generate useful feedback regarding the offer price and appeal of the home. To make showings as easy as possible and to elicit feedback from potential buyers, you want to make sure your Realtor is using Centralized Showing Service (CSS), or a company that offers a similar service. What is CSS? Read on to find out.

Centralized Showing Service is a company that coordinates and schedules residential showing appointments. If a buyer agent wants to show a home where the listing agent uses CSS, the buyer agent will call CSS to book the showing. Upon calling CSS, the agent will speak with a representative and ask for a specific showing time. The CSS representative will then check the showing instructions for that listing (provided by the listing agent who also puts the showing times in the Multiple Listing Service) to determine whether that showing time is possible. 

Sellers are typically provided with three showing options if their listing agent uses CSS