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# How to Use AgentFire IDX and RealScout Together

How AgentFire IDX and RealScout work together on your website: what each one does, common setups, and how to add RealScout widgets and search links.

You can use AgentFire IDX and RealScout on the same website. Many agents do, especially when their brokerage provides RealScout. This page explains what each one does and how to set them up together.

## What each one does

**AgentFire IDX** shows listings on your own website: your property search, area guides, listing sliders and saved search pages. Visitors stay on your website, and people who sign up show up in your **Lead Manager**.

**RealScout** is built for working with buyers on their search: listing alerts, collaboration, and tools you use in your RealScout account. On your website, it adds **widgets**, like a search bar, your listings, office listings or a home value form, and **search links** that open a RealScout search.

## Common setups

Choose the one that fits how you work. You can change it later.

* **AgentFire IDX on your website, RealScout for your buyers.** Your website uses AgentFire IDX for search and listings. Once a buyer is working with you, you invite them to RealScout for alerts and collaboration.
* **RealScout as your main search.** Your search bar and search buttons open RealScout, and your area guides and sliders keep showing listings with AgentFire IDX.
* **A mix, button by button.** For example, each area guide button opens a RealScout search for that area, while your home value page stays on RealScout and your property search stays on AgentFire IDX.

## Add a RealScout widget

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### Copy the widget code from RealScout

In RealScout, go to **Marketing > Widgets**, choose the widget and customize it. Copy **both** pieces of code: the one for the head and the one for the body. The widget doesn't work without both.

The code is unique to your RealScout account, so always copy it from your own account. See RealScout's [Using the Customizable Widgets](https://support.realscout.com/en/articles/11954493-using-the-customizable-widgets).
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### Send it to us

Email <support@agentfire.com> with both pieces of code, the page and where on the page you want the widget. Adding it to a page you already have is regular support. A new page for it is an AgentFire Plus service. Send the code, never your RealScout password.
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## Send a button to a RealScout search

In RealScout, go to **Marketing > Shareable Links** and make a link for the search you want, like homes in one neighborhood. See RealScout's [Search Links Guide](https://support.realscout.com/en/articles/11954543-search-links-guide-creating-advanced-and-quick-links).

Then paste the link into the button's **Button Link** on your website. See [How to Add a Call to Action Block to a Page](/spark-editor/spark-editor/articles-2347090-spark-editor-blocks-call-to-action.md). If you'd like us to change the buttons, email us the links and which button each one is for.

## Common Questions

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<summary>Where do RealScout sign-ups go?</summary>

To your RealScout account. A visitor becomes a RealScout contact once they save a search in a RealScout widget. People who sign up through AgentFire IDX go to your Lead Manager.

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<summary>How do I test my RealScout widget?</summary>

Open your website in a private window and try it. Some widgets look blank in the editor but work on the live page. Don't sign up with your own email or a version of it. Use a separate email address if you need to test signing up.

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<summary>A RealScout search shows the wrong area.</summary>

Check the link you used opens the right search when you paste it into a browser. If it does and your website still shows the wrong area, email <support@agentfire.com> with the page and the button.

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<summary>Can I use RealScout instead of AgentFire IDX?</summary>

For your search and alerts, yes: your search bar and search buttons can open RealScout. The listings on your area guides and sliders keep coming from AgentFire IDX or Listings Hub.

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